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Tech News: 2016-17

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

Problems

  • Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [1]
  • When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
  • Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [3]
  • It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [4]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [5]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-18

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

  • The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [6]

Problems

  • There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [7]

Changes this week

Meetings

Future changes

  • Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [9]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Apologies, and please

If we reverted any substantive edits of yours, please re-introduce, and I apologize.

Otherwise, policy allows for the in-markup notes, and there is nothing wrong with the edits, turning the one section into mixed prose and lists, and allowing the other lists to stand. There is insufficient content in the list entry bullets to justify their being turned into sentences. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 14:40, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

This belongs in the article's talk. There is a reason for the prose tags and that is discussed there. As for the in-markup notes, they are not professional in tone and could be reduced. I don't think they need to be there at all, but I will compromise a bit. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:55, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-19

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

  • Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [10]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [11]
  • Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [12][13]
  • You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [14]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [15]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [16]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [17]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [18]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [19]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [20]

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23:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Help!

Nathaniel G. S. Hart, an article I created, received a re-assessment from another WikiProject and, because of technical issues, they changed the assessments for all the other Projects (see Talk:Nathaniel G. S. Hart#Suggestions for Improvements). Anyway, so now the article needs to be re-assessed for WikiProject Kentucky. If you could maybe re-assess it now I would really appreciate it. I tried to figure out where to post a request for a reassessment on the WikiProject but I gave up - it looks like maybe some of the sections seem to have been stale I think... Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 05:55, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Plagiarism detection

Hi! You voted for improving plagiarism detection as an important suggestions in the community wishlist survey last year. I'm pinging people who showed interest in that task to tell them we have some suggestions for how things could look, if you'd like to glance at them and give us some feedback. They're available here: phab:T120435#2266283. It's easiest if comments are left in Phabricator, since that's where much of the development is happening, but they can be left on Meta too, of course. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 17:16, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

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

  • Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [21]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [22]

Changes this week

  • Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [23]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [24]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [25]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [26]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Cross-wiki watchlist

Hi again! You also voted for the cross-wiki watchlist as an important suggestions in the community wishlist survey last year. I'm pinging editors who showed interest in that task to tell them we have some suggestions for how things could look, if you'd like to glance at them and give us some feedback. You can find them on the project page on Meta. If you'd like to share any comments, you're very welcome to do so on the talk page. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Bybee, Kentucky

Are we 100% sure it is only in Madison County? I'm asking because it was entered in the template for Clark County communities also till I removed it....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 18:17, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [28]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [29]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to join soon to be formed Kentucky Wikimedians User Group

Hello Steve,

Kentucky Wikimedian User Group, an independent affiliate of Wikimedia Foundation, is being formed to provide outreach and assistance to individuals and organizations in Kentucky who want to create and improve Wikipedia content.

User groups are an easy way for Wikipedians to better organize in order to collaborate with other local Wikipedians or local institutions. The requirements for establishing and running them are quite simple. The main requirement is to have 3 people agree to join and share their contact information with Wikimedia Foundation.

As one of the most active Wikipedians from Kentucky, I would be pleased to have you be one of the founding members of the user group.

To join the group, sign on meta here. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 20:44, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-22

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

  • There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [30]

Problems

  • A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [31][32]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [33]

Changes this week

  • When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [34]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [35]
  • A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [36][37]
  • Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [38]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Note

Buggs helping out at AN/I.

Regarding this, you may not have noticed that the user is indef'd and has had his talk page privilege taken away, hence he cannot respond. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:00, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Maybe the editor will read it, though, and that's good enough for me. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:03, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
I see. He has a number of sockpuppets, as it turns out, but there's always the chance he'll read the note on this particular one. Whether he'll heed it is another question. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:05, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Here is a good starting point. 50.253.212.229 (talk) 02:05, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
I appreciate your bringing that up, for a good laugh, as the notion of my being a sock was laughed out of the room. The case to which I referred earlier is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Who R U?. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:46, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Well, lets just say there wasn't enough evidence to convict you. Best bet is for you to stick to your chat groups and do your occasional Court Jester routine at the admin boards. 50.253.212.229 (talk) 10:50, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Zero evidence certainly qualifies as "not enough" evidence. As for the request for pictures, I don't recall ever seeing or using that page, but since you know my history so well, maybe you could refresh my memory. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:27, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-23

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

Changes this week

  • The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [41]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Muhammad Ali

What do you mean it's not done in other bios? See Margaret Thatcher, Babe Ruth, John Lennon, and Albert Einstein for examples. It may not be universal (see Dwight Eisenhower), but if you're going to include a mention of his birth, you might as well also include a mention of his death. Esszet (talk) 22:09, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Birth and death dates are already in the lead. There's no need to mention it a second time. The article is mostly about his life, not his death. Also, I meant it's not common to do this, not that it never occurs. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:11, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Louisville articles -> need updated pictures

Most of the photos on various Louisville area articles are from 2008 or earlier, many of them I took. I'm thinking about going around and taking some new photos for various Wikipedia pages. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Censusdata (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:20, 9 June 2016‎

Disruptive reverting

I made a series of improvements to Louisville, Kentucky, explaining what I was doing in edit summaries. You reverted all of my changes with the utterly uninformative summary of Please discuss changes like this in talk. I am under no obligation to seek prior approval for my edits. However, you are obliged to explain yourself if you undo them. So, please explain what exactly you object to, with reference to the appropriate policies and guidelines. 83.51.157.166 (talk) 13:42, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

You made a lot of major changes to a stable article. It is reasonable to need to discuss them in Talk:Louisville, Kentucky. I will not discuss them here. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:44, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
The changes are not major. You may discuss them on the talk page. Reverting without explanation is not acceptable. 83.51.157.166 (talk) 13:46, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Not acceptable to you, you mean. The changes are basically your opinion about a number of them, and that's why you need to explain them. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:49, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

OK, I have made changes to the changes that I think were overwrought. As for the changes in total, it would been better to discuss them in the article's talk beforehand, because it's a somewhat stable article, and the opinions of other editors should be taken into account. For instance, the changes about the pronunciations, if they were discussed, might have turned up useful citations to back up what was there. But I went ahead and left your updates for now, because what was there wasn't properly cited anyway. Also, what is "original research" to one person may be obvious straightforward calculation to another. These are things that can be discussed and hopefully resolved in talk. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:18, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Temporarily LIVE

Hi. Could you leave the LIVE Muhammad Ali Funeral Procession and Memorial Service in Louisville, Kentucky Temporarily until it is finished. I don't think Wikipedia mind such a thing. Thanks. Kfaani (talk) 20:05, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

No. We do mind such a thing. See WP:NOTNEWS. Please honor Ali by not disrupting his article. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:08, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

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

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [47]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [48]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [49]

Changes this week

  • The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [50][51]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [52]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [53]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9

Newsletter • May / June 2016

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Kentucky courthouses

Below is a message I left at Acdixon's talk page. Nyttend (talk) 17:33, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps you remember User:W.marsh from years ago; before he retired in 2008, he was active in writing about Kentucky topics. One of the pages he created was a chart of courthouses statewide, an attempt to find an image of each courthouse that was acceptable under our licensing terms, but since he retired several years ago, I ultimately moved it to my userspace.

Two recent trips to the Purchase allowed me to get photos for previously unillustrated courthouses in Carlisle, Crittenden, and Livingston counties, and with that, we have photos for all 120 courthouses. Do you know of any solid sources that provide information about all 120 courthouses? I recently created List of county courthouses in Illinois, and it would be nice to do the same thing for Kentucky, especially as Kentucky, unlike Illinois, has photos for all of them. However, while I own books from scholarly publishers that discuss all the courthouses for Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, I've never seen such a thing for Kentucky (the only such book I've encountered, from 1988, is self-published), so I don't know where/how I'd get good sourcing, especially with all of the new justice centers being built in the 1990s and 2000s that obviously wouldn't appear in the 1988 book.

Tech News: 2016-26

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

  • The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [54]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [55]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [56]

Problems

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [59]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [60]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [61]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [62][63][64]
  • From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [65]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [66]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-27

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

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [67]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [68]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

River categories

I'm startubg a new discussion at WP:CFD about the naming of river categories. Since you have participated in t least one of the recent discussions in the matterm you nay want to express your opinion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 July 11#Rivers. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:40, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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

  • A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [69][70][71]
  • Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [72][73][74]
  • Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [75][76][77]

Problems

  • On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [78]
  • Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

Problems

  • On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [82][83]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [84]
  • The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [85]

Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [86][87]
  • Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [88]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [90]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
  • It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [91]
  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [92]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [93]

Future changes

  • The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [94]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [95]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Loretta Lynn

There is no actual reference stating Loretta Lynn is the most awarded female country artist. Please cite a reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VirginValleyTV (talk • contribs) 21:10, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

@VirginValleyTV: It's in the body of the article. Please discuss further at Talk:Loretta Lynn since it's about the article and not my general editing. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:12, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

FWIW

Thanks for your vandal patrolling. I suspect that this vandal was originally this vandal because of their penchant for editing similar articles with similar vandalism. I think we need to keep our eyes open for this one to reappear, I'm kind of wondering if this could even be a sockpuppet of some other previous trouble editors. Montanabw(talk) 21:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Per [96] I think that we probably need to just do a WP:DFTT and wait for the talk page to be blocked too. Montanabw(talk) 19:48, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
Seems to be heading that way. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:03, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Robert Fox

Thanks for keeping an eye on the Robert Fox article. I stumbled across it when doing research on other streetcar integration cases, and decided to fix it up. I am working my way through a copyvio rewrite and adding new info and refs so haven't done the last section yet, but will get to it in the next few days. ABF99 (talk) 15:05, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

I think the copyvio and ref tags can probably be removed now. ABF99 (talk) 15:21, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

@ABF99: Thank you for your great work on this article. For future reference, you can always remove tags in good faith if you think you have satisfied their respective requests. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 18:03, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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Recent changes

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [97]
  • The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [98]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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Recent changes

  • In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [99]

Problems

  • If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [100]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [101]
  • On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [102]
  • When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [103]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [104]
  • When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [105]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [106]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

In Appreciation

The Special Barnstar
In appreciation of your important contributions to Wikipedia. You are an asset to this website. And Adoil Descended (talk) 17:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Ali Marciano Superfight

Hi,

Just to say I appreciate your removal of my latest addition to Muhammad Ali's page on the Superfight with Rocky Marciano, however I have re-pasted the sentences with better links. I don't believe this to be trivial and Ali's feedback should be posted.

I left the 'removal of repeated words,' alone.

Please discuss with me before removing the addition. Please allow 1 day for me to respond as I may not see it immediately.

Thanks

ToonIsALoon (talk) 17:23, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Your edit to Stephen Foster

I am discouraged to find that you don't believe that supplying more information on the Stephen Foster Archives in a template format is something that makes the article better. There is a section in the article itself that describes the collection and including a template that links to other possible sources of information is entirely appropriate. Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 21:04, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
@Barbara (WVS): There are plenty of linkages to the archives in the article. The navigation template applies to the archives, not Stephen Foster. In other words, Stephen Foster doesn't appear in that template. There's a guideline somewhere about that. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:16, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
See WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:24, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Edward William Cornelius Humphrey nominated for deletion

Please take a look at the possible deletion of the article on Edward William Cornelius Humphrey and read my comments.Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 16:05, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

As per your suggestion that I should contact the admin who deleted the article on Edward Cornelius Humphrey, probably confusing it with the Edward William Cornelius Humphrey article, I will do that today.Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 15:04, 14 August 2016 (UTC).... Now I have written another request section to the talk page of the deletor, who I had not realized had already replied to my earlier request section for his/her reversion of his/her deletion of Edward Cornelius Humphrey. It appears that I am partly responsible for the confusion, and so far the deletor has not complied with the request.Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 16:59, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


Extensive corrections and reference additions have been made since the first deletion discussion for Edward William Cornelius Humphrey. Many of the changes answer questions about the notability of E.W.C. which arose during the original deletion discussion.Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 15:04, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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Problems

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [107]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [108]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [109][110]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [111]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [112]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [113][114]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [115]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [116]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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Recent changes

  • The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [117]
  • The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [118]
  • The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [119]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [120]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [121]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [122][123]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [124]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Jim Cornette World Championship Wrestling 1993

Hi, I am the one who made the World Championship Wrestling 1993 article on Jim Cornette. First I would like to say thank you for correcting my writing errors. About your template: It said there were no sources, but it did have one source, and I have now left five new sources. Also I realize it was very long, But I don't know how else I could have done it, since it needs to be described in detail. A long article isn't necessarily a bad thing. How long are you going to keep your template above it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidgoodheart (talk • contribs) 00:30, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Jim Cornette World Championship Wrestling 1993

Hi, Now that I have removed a fair amount of excessive information from Jim Cornette World Championship Wrestling 1993 article, I would like to remove the template about it. Please let me know what you think. Davidgoodheart 00:48, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

@Davidgoodheart: I think the section is still too meticulous (I see more recent copyediting than content reduction), but I have also noticed other sections of the article are too, so I moved the tag to the top. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 11:42, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Citation Barnstar
Thank you. Here's a barnstar for your citation cleanups and also for the much-needed images you added to Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 13:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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Recent changes

  • Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [125]
  • When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [126]

Changes this week

  • The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [127][128]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

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16:03, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Jamie Eads - Notability Issues

Steve, I am new to Wiki and want to understand how I can make my page (Jamie Eads) better. I believe that I meet the notability guidelines, but don't quite know how to make it all work. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Speady1 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

@Speady1: First of all, creating and editing one's own article is generally frowned upon, per WP:COI. Beyond that, notability is generally established by weighty coverage by secondary, reliable sources, per WP:N. Are there any news/magazine articles for instance, that provide a significant discussion about Jamie Eads? At this point, I am unsure the article will pass an Articles for Deletion review. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [129]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [130]
  • When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [131]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [132][133]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [134][135]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi, will you please connect the youtube links to articles on Paul Heyman, and wrestling tag team the Shadows, the shadows is references 3, and Paul Heyman's is reference 24. I do not yet know how to link Youtube links to articles, will you please do that for me, after all you are the man! DavidgoodheartDavidgoodheart (talk) 20:47, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Please sign posts only once with ~~~~
As for the request, I will look at it in the near future. Note that making updates to user's talk pages can disrupt processes they are running, so it's best to try to do it all in one shot. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:52, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Kevin Richardson

I don't understand why everything that i wrote on Kevin Richardson (musician) got erased. Those were good information facts. i even found the resources to prove them. Risingsinger (talk) 22:17, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

@Risingsinger: Because as I stated in the edit summary, too much of the material was not cited. Based on previous edits you have made, other editors have drawn the same conclusion, and you have been blocked for such. Any addition of material needs to be fully sourced. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:24, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37

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Changes this week

  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [140]
  • A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [141][142]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

John Mayoue

Please revise the page for John Mayoue. He passed away on August 2, 2016. Thank you. FFinley (talk) 18:50, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

1800s heading (vs 19th century)

Could you please explain why "this is incorrect - we do not present centuries in this manner"? Thanks. -- M2545 (talk) 14:06, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

"1900s" for instance, can lead to confusion with the 1900s decade. At any rate, I have just adjusted the years to the correct centuries. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:10, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
But according to Wikipedia, 19th century ended 31 December 1900. So "1800s" heading is more accurate and consistent. -- M2545 (talk) 14:20, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Again, there is potential for confusion between that presentation and a decade. I have adjusted the years to fit into their correct centuries. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:23, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Since we disagree at present, why not put the matter up for wider debate before continuing your edits? -- M2545 (talk) 14:31, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Also, the revised, accurate, heading could be "1800-1899" and subheadings "1800-1850" and so forth. -- M2545 (talk) 14:34, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
There is no disagreement that I can tell. I already knew the fact that the 19th century ended 31 December 1900, and so forth. So, I have made adjustments to particular years to correct that. I see no hard reason to change it away from its established headings. "1800-1899" is an editorialized period rather than an actual named century. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:37, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
I think it is more confusing to readers to have the year 1900 in the "19th century". We do disagree. Please stop editing until more opinions are gathered. -- M2545 (talk) 14:41, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
The original headings were changed by yourself, so I would ask you to not change them again until "more opinions are gathered". Please do gather more opinions, although this seems a bit ridiculous to pursue as the article is now correct. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:44, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Requests for wider discussion are now posted on talk pages of Project Time and Timeline of Louisville. -- M2545 (talk) 16:28, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
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