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58		S.S. Lazio fans (talk)						Cleanup
687		Water polo (talk)						Expand
1,063		Genetically modified crops (talk)						Expand
201		Elections in Uttar Pradesh (talk)						Expand
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743		Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
40		Spermatocytogenesis (talk)						Merge
3,197		Polymerase chain reaction (talk)						Merge
198		Shear thinning (talk)						Merge
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42		The Trash Can Sinatras (talk)						Wikify
752		Knossos (talk)						Wikify
13		RK2 plasmid (talk)						Orphan
2		Jamieson J (talk)						Orphan
0		Castra of Tileagd (talk)						Orphan
4		Helen Morgenthau Fox (talk)						Stub
65		Sibi Malayil (talk)						Stub
53		Ghar Ho To Aisa (talk)						Stub
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Please comment on Talk:Gout

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Reasons my Article was Denied?

T-SUM27 (talk) 04:12, 19 May 2014 (UTC)Hello Herald Can you please tell me why my article about Adam Carter was denied? I am not seeing the reasons anywhere and I would like to make necessary edits. Thanks for your help.

Tech News: 2014-21

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• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1] [2] [3]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [4] [5]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [6] [7]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] [9]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [10] [11]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12] [13]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15] [16]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [17] [18]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [19]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cro-Magnon

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48		Detection of genetically modified organisms (talk)						Add sources
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164		Hindu cosmology (talk)						Cleanup
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17		Vistive Gold (talk)						Expand
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112		Genetically modified bacteria (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
122		Mufaddal Saifuddin (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
385		Craig Venter (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
92		Refined sugar (talk)						Merge
157		History of genetics (talk)						Merge
196		Optical rotation (talk)						Merge
248		Hybridoma technology (talk)						Wikify
5		In vitro recombination (talk)						Wikify
370		Prashanth (actor) (talk)						Wikify
5		CellSqueeze (talk)						Orphan
18		William A. Haseltine (talk)						Orphan
1		Castra of Plosca (talk)						Orphan
82		Selectable marker (talk)						Stub
25		Genetically modified insect (talk)						Stub
79		Gene knockin (talk)						Stub
4		2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams (talk)						Stub
61		Lipofection (talk)						Stub
38		Ahilawati (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2014-22

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

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• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [20] [21] [22] [23]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [24] [25]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [26] [27]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [28]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [29]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [30]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [31] [32]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [33] [34] [35]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [36] [37]

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Please comment on Talk:Cdrtools

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Please comment on Talk:Richard C. Hoagland

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Hi I am just wondering what you are looking for in order for my submission to get accepted. Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Barry_King_(tennis)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Footer44 (talk • contribs) 11:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

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13		Yeast expression platform (talk)						Cleanup
209		Regulation of genetically modified organisms in the European Union (talk)						Expand
172		Medical genetics (talk)						Expand
917		Asian American (talk)						Expand
900		Duryodhana (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,045		Cannabidiol (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
31		Web brigades (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
14		Yāska (talk)						Merge
56		Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (talk)						Merge
2,775		Mitochondrion (talk)						Merge
27		The Battle of Barrington (talk)						Wikify
356		Microsatellite (talk)						Wikify
171		Claire van der Boom (talk)						Wikify
12		Lentiviral vector in gene therapy (talk)						Orphan
1		Media (castra) (talk)						Orphan
4		Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committees (talk)						Orphan
122		Gene knockdown (talk)						Stub
25		DNA construct (talk)						Stub
74		Phagemid (talk)						Stub
63		Dow AgroSciences (talk)						Stub
19		Diose (talk)						Stub
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Tech News: 2014-23

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Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [38]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [39]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [40] [41]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [42]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [43]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [44] [45]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [46] [47]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [48] [49]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [50]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Super-spreader

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