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DYK nomination of Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán

Hello! Your submission of Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 00:35, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [1]

Problems

The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [2][3]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you + invitation

Thank you for your contributions to women's football/soccer articles. I thought I'd let you know about the Women's Football/Soccer Task Force (WP:WOSO), a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women's football/soccer. If you would like to participate, join by visiting the Members page. Thanks!

Hmlarson (talk) 00:55, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Paddy Steinfort

Hello, I'm connected to the subject, Paddy Steinfort and I want to remove the UPE template. It requires clean up. How can I do that? Thank you. Bradgd (talk) 13:50, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

You can't clean it up, because it was you and your company that have been editing it and causing the issues. Once an independent, uninvolved editor has checked it and cleaned it up then the tag can be removed. There's not a timeline on how long that'll take as we're all volunteers here. Joseph2302 (talk) 14:09, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I don't work for a company and I don't know who crated it in the first place. Is there some kind of request that I can file for it to be cleaned up? Bradgd (talk) 14:18, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán

On 11 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008, a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán), 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, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [4]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [5]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Why Do We Get Banned

I'm sorry I made a mistake but I'm quitting Wikipedia. Goodbye 68.103.78.155 (talk) 19:55, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:22, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, but I've been here almost 3 years. Joseph2302 (talk) 06:59, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, but sorry, I noticed your preciousness only two years ago, - follow the llink. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:01, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [6]

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

September 2018 at Women in Red

September is an exciting new month for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons!

New: Women currently in academics Women + Law Geofocus: Hispanic countries

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

Check it out: Monthly achievement initiative

All creators of new biographies can keep track of their progress and earn virtual awards.
It can be used in conjunction with the above editathons or for any women's biography created in September.
Try it out when you create your first biography of the month.

Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!):

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 01:55, 26 August 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2018-35

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 see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [7]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [8]

Problems

Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [9]

Changes later this week

The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [10]
AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [11]
Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [12]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [13]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Liberation Day (United Kingdom) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Liberation Day (United Kingdom). Since you had some involvement with the Liberation Day (United Kingdom) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD (talk) 16:20, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Aplogize to you

I'm sorry for saying that I Promise that I won't say that again. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 23:22, 31 August 2018 (UTC)