User talk:Bill william compton/Archive 26

This is an archive of past discussions with User:Bill william compton. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Archive 20

←

Archive 24

→

Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [1] [2]
When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [3] [4]
You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [5] [6]
You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [7] [8]

Future software changes

You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [9] [10]
CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [11]
CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [12]
You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [13] [14]
An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [15]

Problems

On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [16]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan

Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?

Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost

Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

Featured content: Showing our Wörth

WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true

Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects

Tech News: 2014-27

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

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [17] [18]
A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [19] [20]
VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [21] [22] [23] [24]
Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [25] [26]

Future software changes

You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [27] [28]
Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [29]
All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [30] [31]
Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [32]
You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [33] [34]
You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [35]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms

Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.

News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

Featured content: Ship-shape

WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America

Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [36]
It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [37] [38]
You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [39] [40]

VisualEditor news

Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [41] [42]
You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [43] [44] [45]
When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [46] [47] [48]
The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [49]
Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [50] [51] [52]

Future software changes

Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [53]
If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [54] [55]
Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [56] [57]
Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [58] [59]

Problems

Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [60] [61]
For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [62] [63]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis

Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!

News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative

Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [64] [65]
You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [66] [67]
The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [68] [69] [70]
References will now be shown in the default font size again. [71]

Future software changes

CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [72]
The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [73] [74]
It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [75]
Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [76] [77]
Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [78] [79]
Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [80] [81]
Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [82]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Credo

Hello! You have received preliminary approval for access to Credo. Please fill out this short form so that your access can be processed. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:50, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week

Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic

Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles

Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [83] [84] [85]
The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [86]
Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [87] [88]
A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [89]

VisualEditor news

Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [90]
All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [91]
You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [92]
Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98]

Future software changes

It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [99]
You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [100]
An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [101]
A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [102]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Please fill out your JSTOR email

As one of the original 100 JSTOR account recipients, please fill out the very short email form you received just recently in order to renew your access. Even though you signed up before with WMF, we need you to sign up again with The Wikipedia Library for privacy reasons and because your prior access expired on July 15th. We do not have your email addresses now; we just used the Special:EmailUser feature, so if you didn't receive an email just contact me directly at jorlowitzgmail.com. Thanks, and we're working as quickly as possible to get you your new access! Jake (Ocaasi) 19:48, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel

Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it

News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier

Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform

Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

Tech News: 2014-31

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

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [103] [104]
The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [105]
If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [106] [107]
You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [108] [109]

Future software changes

You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [110] [111]
Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [112]
It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [113] [114]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 7

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate

News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World

Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons

Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [115]
You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [116] [117] [118]
You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [119]
New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [120] [121]

VisualEditor news

You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [122] [123]
VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [124]
Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [125] [126] [127] [128]
Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [129] [130] [131] [132]

Future software changes

You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [133] [134]
All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [135]
Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [136]

Problems

Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [137]
Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [138]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

WP:JSTOR access

Hello, WP:The Wikipedia Library has record of you being approved for access to JSTOR through the TWL partnership described at WP:JSTOR . You should have recieved a Wikipedia email User:The Interior sent several weeks ago with instructions for access, including a link to a form collecting information relevant to that access. Please find that email, and follow those instructions. If you were not approved, did not recieve the email, or are having some other concern or question, please respond to this message at Wikipedia talk:JSTOR/Approved. Thanks much, Sadads (talk) 21:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC) Note: You are recieving this message from an semi-automatically generated list. If you think you were incorrectly contacted, make sure to note that at Wikipedia talk:JSTOR/Approved.

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Traffic report: Ebola

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

Tech News: 2014-33

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

Recent software changes

Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [139]
Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [140]

VisualEditor news

Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [141]

Future software changes

Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [142] [143] [144]
If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [145] [146]
You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [147] [148]
An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [149]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

Hi..A user has recently pointed out that the File:Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.jpg uploaded by you is actually of Param Vir Chakra. The source link provided by you, also has another image, which is also there at the Indian Olympic Association site. Please check. Thanks! --Ekabhishek^talk 06:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

I agree that it is a wrong one. File:Param veer chakra.gif is right. Check President conferring the medals. They all are silver colour. But I couldn't find any good image to replace it. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 07:06, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

User:Dharmadhyaksha The image is here (image page), with a ref here. --Ekabhishek^talk 09:55, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Have uploaded the new image. But I don't know how to request deletion of old image in the history. Ekabhishek can do it. But what is the formal way of requesting it? §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 10:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Great, do leave a note regarding the change, on the file talk page. The older version, will get deleted in due course.. --Ekabhishek^talk 14:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week