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Vandalism on a certain page you created
DeWanda Wise page has an IP address and EdenaMatthews keep vandalizing my sources repeatedly. I even clarified that several times that my sources are reliable. Please User:Edwardx look in to it for good faith. She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2006 (the fourth link is the source), NOT in 2012 and she was not born in 1990. In addition, her legal name is actually DeWanda Jackson and Dewanda Wise is her professional name. Same source as the fourth link.EdenaMatthews keep removing my reliable sources. None of the references said DeWanda Wise graduated in 2012 at NYU. A reliable source said she graduated in 2006 at NYU. People are using her character, Nola Darling from She's Gotta Have It (TV series) as her age (ex. 1990) to determine when she graduated at NYU and her birth year. In my reliable source, Wise already said she was not Nola Darling's age.Lbtocth (talk) 20:55, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. Have added DeWanda Jackson to the article, and will keep an eye on things. I do not see a source given for the date of birth - is there a reliable source for it? Edwardx (talk) 22:16, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
I just added the source. According to Reddit, it is a reliable source on birthdays of famous people. Just not popularity.Lbtocth (talk) 23:47, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Alas, the clear consensus is that famousbirthdays.com is NOT a reliable source for our purposes. Please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_224#Why_famousbirthdays.com_is_a_reliable_source_for_birth_dates. Searching the archives at WP:RSN normally finds that a source has been discussed before. Edwardx (talk) 00:55, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
If that is the case, please remove her birthdate all together because there wasn't a single reliable source to verify her birthdate. I did not put May 30. I do not know who put it, but there weren't any sources next to it at all. I think it would be wise to leave her birthdate out of her page.Lbtocth (talk) 01:11, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
She never announced her birthdate anywhere. The only way to fully confirmed is that she confirmed directly or someone have access to her public record.Lbtocth (talk) 01:38, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Lbtocth and Edwardx. I've removed the famousbirthdays reference as unreliable. I've been looking for a reliable source and haven't found anything yet. https://www.facebook.com/pg/DeWandaWise/ looks like it may be her official Facebook page. There may be info there. --Ronz (talk) 02:59, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Ronz, Thank you for keeping us updated.Lbtocth (talk) 05:58, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- I have deleted her DOB. From the Baltimore Sun (and there is something similar in the LA Times), " Age: She doesn't share her age. "It’s because last year … I was on three shows. Claire is 20, Nola is 26, and Shameeka is 34. I am none of those ages, and you know, Hollywood likes to box you very quickly. And the longer I can go unboxed, the longer I can continue to do the kind of work I want to do," Wise, said. " Nonetheless, if it were to be reported in a reliable source, we could too - Wikipedia is not censored. Edwardx (talk) 10:07, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
If anyone tried to put her birthdate WITHOUT a reliable source, I think we should remove it.Lbtocth (talk) 18:34, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 26
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DYK for Swan with Two Necks, London
On 2 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Swan with Two Necks, London, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Swan with Two Necks was one of the principal departure points for coach travel to the north of England from London? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Swan with Two Necks, London. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Swan with Two Necks, London), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of Russia Row for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Russia Row is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [1]
- The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [2]
- Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [3]
Problems
- Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [4]
Changes later this week
- When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [5]
- When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like
gallery widths="150px". You could useemor%instead ofpxbut it would make no difference. You can now only use150pxor nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it likepx, it will not work. [6] - The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of
YesorNoit will sayThankandCancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [7] - Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).
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- The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [9][10]
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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi
Good morning I would like to ask for your help in editing the draft: Israel lucas Gois, the article is very good, could you help me put it on the air? I waited for return
André Luiz nogari (talk) 13:20, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Help
Good morning I would like to ask for your help in editing the draft: Israel lucas Gois, the article is very good, could you help me put it on the air? I waited for return
André Luiz nogari (talk) 13:24, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [11][12][13]
- Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.
Changes later this week
- You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [14]
- The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like
{{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [15] - The abuse filter extension has a new feature
contains_allthat you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [16] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).
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- The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [17]
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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on this, particularly with overlinking - some useful changes that had missed my proofing! Have changed a tense back to present as it deals with current endeavours - I'd forgotten to add reason for the removal of the tags - I believe my edit dealt with the issues presented by them, hence removal. Happy to talk more about the article to improve it. Beckettnoti (talk) 16:45, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
- I have copied your message to Talk:Yana Peel where it is more appropriate, and have replied there. Edwardx (talk) 18:05, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Topical links
Here's some links from today, FYI.
- Cha siu bao
- Cheung Fun
- Chicken's feet
- Congee
- Har gow
- Lo mai gai
- Shumai
- List of public art in Hyde Park, London
- Thanks. You're making me hungry. Time for a walk to Waitrose (other supermarkets do of course exist). Edwardx (talk) 18:06, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [18][19]
- You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [20]
Problems
- Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [21]
- Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like
{{sfn}}are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [22][23]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).
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- The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [24]
- Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.
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Recent changes
- Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [25]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [26][27]
- Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [28]
- Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [29][30][31]
Changes later this week
- Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [32]
- The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [33][34]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).
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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Innocent Victims
On 2 March 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Innocent Victims, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Innocent Victims (pictured) is a memorial sculpture to Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Innocent Victims. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Innocent Victims), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
About changing color on episodes section for a TV series
Hi Edwardx! Is there a rule about changing colors on episodes section such as the background and line color? Can someone change the colors of the background and line color for a TV series just because he or she wants to change it? I am asking you because you seemed to know about the most updated rules on Wikipedia.Lbtocth (talk) 02:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Laid to Rest: Exhumed
Hello, Edwardx. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Laid to Rest: Exhumed".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 22:49, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Legacypac. Probably best to delete the draft, as the principal photography scheduled for December 2017 never happened. I have redirected Laid to Rest: Exhumed to our article about the original film. Edwardx (talk) 23:21, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now make longer edit summaries. [35]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [36]
- On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [37][38]
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [39]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).
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- In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
- You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.
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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Said Baaghil
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Nomination of Bethany Ashton Wolf for deletion
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Christian Boros has been nominated for Did You Know
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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Milestone for mix'n'matchAround the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal. Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders. These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more. For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading. Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite! Links
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A goat for you!
ive never sent anyone a goat before.
Stiger87 (talk) 14:32, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
- The goat looks like an adult, so I can see you're not kidding (terrible joke). This is my first ever Wikipedia goat - thank you. Edwardx (talk) 14:48, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [40]
- Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [41]
- Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [42]
- Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [43]
Problems
- The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [44]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [45]
- It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [46][47]
- A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [48][49][50]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).
Meetings
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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Anne Finucane draft
Hello, Edwardx. Not sure if you saw my message on the Anne Finucane talk page, but I wanted to reach out since you created the article to see if you'd be willing to review an expanded draft. I've built upon the information you included and have used secondary sourcing to add more details about her background and career. As I've written the new draft on behalf of Bank of America via their PR agency, I won't take it live myself and am hoping editors like yourself would like to review. You can view my full request here. Would you be interested in taking a look at the draft? Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:00, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Draft:F. Scott Frazier concern
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Your draft article, Draft:In Fabric
Hello, Edwardx. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "In Fabric".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. — JJMC89 (T·C) 20:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, JJMC89. Film looks to be happening, so have expanded it, and removed the tag. Edwardx (talk) 21:11, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
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