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Teahouse Question

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Jain literature

'Jain Agamas' and 'Jain literature' shouldn't be merged. As per my understanding,

• Jain literature = Jain Agamas + Commentaries + Books written on Jainism
• Jain Agamas = Sacred texts of the Jains Nimit 23:27, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

It would be good to create these three sections in jain literature itself. I got confused because it wasnt mentioned in the article. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 23:30, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Jain monarchs and such

Hi, you appear to have been overzealous in your recent categorisations of monarchs and dynasties as being Jain. Please ensure that their articles actually state that they are Jain by religion (and also not simply patrons of Jainism as well as other religions). If they do state that they are Jain, please ensure that such claims are referenced before tagging them and their entire dynasties as being Jain. I have reversed a number of your recent edits as a result. Please look through your other edits as well.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 20:35, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Jain dating

Listen, according to genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago. You can't write dates for the jinas as if they are factually accurate statements, it's nuts to write Naminatha lived from 584,979-574,979 BCE. We can't even securely date Mahavira or Gautama Buddha, nevermind someone half a million years ago. Ogress _smash! 08:16, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

September 2015

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Nanda Empire. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. As with many of your other recent edits, the article does not support anything about the Nandas being Jains. If you believe this to be true, then please add supporting sources and then classify them as being a Jain Dynasty. Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 12:25, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Cpt.a.haddock Nandas were Jains - https://books.google.co.in/books?id=8UhvGRoyAqMC - page 113 -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 12:32, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm rather sceptical of this source. However, please incorporate Sangave's contentions into the body of the article along with the reference as it directly contradicts the usual tale of the Nandas being of shudra heritage (which, incidentally, is also recounted by later Jain sources where Chanakya is the one who is a Jain). The religions section of the infobox technically only lists the major religions of the empire, not necessarily of its rulers. Thanks.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 16:45, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Dear both, please note that the sources must be WP:HISTRS for this subject. This source doesn't appear to be. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 17:38, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Can you please go slow?

It appears that you are very eager to contribute, but then you are using sources that definitely don't qualify per our standards and are therefore introducing errors or complexities that should be avoided. e.g. Categories such as Category:Chakravartin Jain etc don't belong as these are not how historians classify things. Please have a read through of our reliable sources guideline and in particular WP:HISTRS. If you can, please tag Category:Chakravartin Jain with {{db-g7}} and remove any articles categorized in it as this would avoid spending time on a CfD.—SpacemanSpiff 18:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

SpacemanSpiff Cat chakravartin included many rulers who as per Jain texts are not chakravartis. As described in Salakapurusa there are only 12 Jain Chakravartin. So I created this category. Can you please elaborate on unreliable source thing? Recently someone said on bot request page that even some blogs are reliable. At least WP admins should not make conflicting remarks. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:41, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Context matters, not all blogs are reliable, not all blogs are unreliable. This is not conflicting information. This is the English language Wikipedia and there's already an emperor category, there's no reason to create categories for traditional names; traditional names should be used when they are used regularly, as such in scholarly literature and an equivalent English term isn't common, e.g. Tirthankaras or Nayanmars etc. Finally, the term "Chakravartin Jain" itself is ambiguous as it doesn't mean anything without the necessary context and as such shouldn't be a category. Kautilya3 has already evaluated one source above, and these are things you shouldn't be using in history articles here and I'm sure he'll be able to evaluate other sources too. —SpacemanSpiff 18:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

OK if you think so chakravartin and chakravartin jain can be done away with. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:55, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Chakravartin is an old category, so it can not be deleted by me just like that and I had already nominated it for deletion a few days back. It is only because of that I saw the new one. —SpacemanSpiff 18:57, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

You are adding so many unreliable sources and claiming everyone who ever lived in India was a Jain. Please, check WP:RS. Today I have seen you use a source that was Wikipedia pages printed into a book, a self-pub paper by a man in South Florida who writes about aliens and claims Semiramis invaded the Indus Valley, and blogs. Please. I severely dislike reverting your edits and I dislike even more when you return with the same claim by an equally dubious source. Ogress _smash! 19:30, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

SpacemanSpiff Ogress Kautilya3 please comment on this source https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZgNHE-48jNcC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=jainism+nanda+dynasty&source=bl&ots=xR-f3Kpf39&sig=1pFIm-qBdJUQE90MCs94WXSXZOc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEUQ6AEwB2oVChMIoPGQlMrWxwIVVwaOCh1hOwBH#v=onepage&q=jainism%20nanda%20dynasty&f=false -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I cannot access it. Ogress _smash! 19:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Gimme your mail address, I will send you a screenshot. Its a google book, for god's sake :P -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

A HISTRS source (please see the guidelines) must be written by scholars trained in historical scholarship. If they are academics of history employed at reputable Universities, they would qualify. If not, you would need scholarly reviews published in journals that certify their scholarship in history. This book is at best good for writing about general facts about Jain religion. It is not reliable for historical information. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 19:47, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

It also says if available, can you please refer me to a scholarly source describing the religion of Nanda Empire clearly. If there's no such source, the link you referred also states that other sources can be considered. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:52, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I used google books, including .com and trying my own search: it's not available to me. I'm not an idiot. My Wikipedia email is enabled. Ogress _smash! 19:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Please try https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZgNHE-48jNcC and let me know. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:52, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Global Vision Publishing House does not seem to have a reputation for fact checking etc. Please see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks and [1]. JimRenge (talk) 20:06, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Encyclopaedia of Oriental Philosophy and Religion is not a reliable source, let alone a WP:HISTRS source. It is essentially self-published (N.K Singh, the editor, founded the publishing company) by an author/publisher on no scholarly repute; held by a miniscule number of libraries; and I haven't seen any scholarly reviews. Also the word "oriental" in the title for a work published so recently is not a promising sign. As a general rule: such multi-volume reference works produced by no-name publishers (and often purportedly written by 1-2 persons) are almost always plagiarized from wikipedia, century old public-domain works, primary sources etc; Gyan publishers is notorious for churning out such volumes, and Global Vision Pub House seems to be of its ilk. In future, if you have questions about a particular source just ask here or at WP:RSN and over time you'll develop a better idea of what type of sources are acceptable.

Another unrelated issue: Articles such as Pleistocene, Upper Paleolithic, 23rd century BC should not be tagged with {{WP Jainism}} template. Only pages significantly and directly linked with a topic, where project members can help with overall article content, formatting and sourcing, should be classed as under the project's purview. Just being able to imagine a link is not sufficient. :)

Btw, I second the recommendation above to slow down a bit. Your enthusiasm, good-will, and willingness to listen is indeed appreciated. But you are making some (understandable) newbie errors, and because of your high editing volume, it is making editors cleaning up after them more grumpy than we would like to be. Abecedare (talk) 20:09, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Here are some authentic sources that talk about Jainism-Nandas connection, found by googling "Nandas Jain": [2], [3], [4]. - Kautilya3 (talk) 20:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying the picture Abecedare. The link you gave would be helpful (hopefully) for knowing the reliability (Wikipedia criteria) of sources. Talk pages thing noted. I would also like to know that if there's a vacuum as in this case (Nanda Empire article doesn't mention a word about religion), would filling that gap be a mistake? Those who revert changes (in this case ogress), shouldn't they cite sources (scholarly) denying the fact or at least claiming otherwise (in this case other religion) -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 20:26, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

You are suggesting I need to cite that we can't see they had a specific religion? Also, I too appreciate you are willing to listen and I like that you are working so hard on Jain issues, it's just a few snags we need to sort out. I also double-down on the tagging ancient centuries: AFAIK there is suggestion Parshvanatha could have been a real person but no evidence and certainly no specific dating. We can't even firmly date Mahavira and Buddha. Ogress _smash! 20:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, please see WP:BURDEN. JimRenge (talk) 20:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Ogress first of all, you should not revert any changes because of your POV without talking about it. Secondly, yes I am saying that you should tell the sources from where you have decided that Nandas were of no religion or of some other religion. I have seen on your talk page, that you love engaging in edit wars. Further, also please refer me to the sources, which prove to you that Tirthankara were not rulers. Rishabha was the founder of biggest and most ancient ruling dynasty (Ikshvaku) of India. He was the one, who taught how to rule and his son was the first chakravartin ruler. All those who followed ruled for a pretty long period and were all Kshatriyas except from Mahavira, who took diksha at the age of 30. You just keep reverting the tag jain monarchs on tirthankara without even talking about it. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 20:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the sources Kautilya3. You are great! Please go through these sources now, Ogress and add them and Jainism on Nanda Empire, if you are not on Wikipedia just for reverting contributions of others.

"I have seen on your talk page, that you love engaging in edit wars." Where on Earth did you see that? "Secondly, yes I am saying that you should tell the sources from where you have decided that Nandas were of no religion or of some other religion." I'm not claiming anything of the sort, what POV? Risabha is a mythological figure. You keep claiming these figures lived at specific times and were regents when they are not accepted by scholars. This isn't Jainopedia, we don't accept scripture at face value. Ogress _smash! 21:30, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Canpankajsmilyo, please calm down. Many of us have a number of pages on our watch lists, which we try to protect from vandalism or corruption by unsourced edits etc. We might not have any interest in editing those articles ourselves. So, you shouldn't go around demanding that other people should edit articles. (They might, but it is their wish and interest.) When you add content, you have to provide reliable sources as per WP:RS policy. If you don't give sources or if your sources are no good, we would revert those edits. Please don't be offended by it. You can fix whatever problems we point out when we revert the edits, and reinstate the edits (assuming that they are valid edits). If we don't point out particular problems (some of us are lazy), then please feel free to ask why a revert was made. That is how it works. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 21:59, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I would echo what Abecedare says above, the publication is clearly problematic, the author doesn't have any known credentials, the publishing house is unknown in the scholarly publications area, the author has published such encylopaedias on topics ranging from death to sin and Qur'an to Jainism, which is unimaginable by any standards. Such references should never be used. And then there's another problem here, you shouldn't be conflating mythology with history.—SpacemanSpiff 04:04, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Kalpavtiksha

See the tslk page of this article. All the opinion is for not merging. Pl remove the merger tag so that article can be posted for DYK before due date.--Nvvchar. 11:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Please stop

This is again a poor quality source. You really should not be using devotional books as sources. You've been alerted to this before in the above thread when I asked you to go slow, but you're not listening, and you're making way too many edits for other editors to fix. —SpacemanSpiff 19:14, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

This is also not reliable? I'll find another and get it confirmed from you first now. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:16, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

You really have to go slow, you're creating a lot of work for other editors now. First you went ahead and created a content fork in the form of Bharata Chakravartin, then you added similar content to Bharata (emperor) and Jadabharata. Please stop treating these articles as sandboxes. With this, you're causing a lot of other editors to scratch their head and figure out what needs to be done. I know you're operating out of good faith, but I suggest you focus on an area that is more related to your expertise, and get an understanding of Wikipedia policies before delving into these spaces. —SpacemanSpiff 19:19, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Ohk -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:22, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

But please give me bharata chakravarti in my special page. I have spent hours developing that page. Few other editors have also made significant contribution to that article. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to add that your insistence on adding religious material as fact is highly problematic, such as insisting that the Indian epics are all verifiable historical fact and adding "Ikshvaku dynasty" as a cat for like every Indian historical figure you can find, adding specific dates for the jinas half a million years ago and putting them on those wiki date range pages, and other problematic issues such as adding cite after cite after cite for the Nanda dynasty being Jain and each and every one not reliable, or, in the most recent case, doesn't claim they were Jain despite your apparent good citing. You've added epic tons of material and now it's evident it all needs to be evaluated for verity, reliability, factualness, and truth. Ogress _smash! 19:25, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

I did not added anything to jadabharata. Also not any new content to bharata (emperor) except infobox sons. I did most of my editing in Bharata Chakravarti as earlier, I was not aware that both personalities were some. When through talks, discussions and research it seemed they both are same I added merge tags. I will slow down now but please restore bharata chakravarti. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:30, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

I now understand what you mean Ogress. History and mythology are separate on Wikipedia. I did not add Ikshvaku to any new article. I just shifted the content of a sub cat (Ikshvaku clan ramayana) to its main cat. The Parshva thing you are talking about regarding historical dates, I have not reverted your revert. You can check on 870s BC page. Nanda refs were also given by Kautilya3. I am not able to get this reliable concept due it being highly subjective in nature and trying my best to find WP level sources. I have done 80-90% edits on Jainism related pages only, that to mostly stubs. I won't do any substantial edit without discussing it on talk page, but please give Bharata Chakravarti page back. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:38, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)::::I don't know what you want me to restore, but I have not deleted any article related to your editing. I'm not involved in the specific content either and I have no opinion on that, but I'm focusing more on your editing behavior which is to randomly add these poor quality sources and a word or two here and there. As I said before, I understand that you're operating out of good faith and have an interest in these topics, but you'll need to follow policies and these edits are definitely problematic. e.g. This edit is problematic for a variety of reasons: you're conflating history and mythology, you've copied over from another article without attributing, you haven't even checked if the content your adding is verifiable material etc. And this is just one example, and it is a drain on the time of other editors. I strongly suggest that you stop editing in this area for a while, focus on editing in some areas where you have expertise, learn our policies, find out about encyclopaedia writing and then handle these sort of subjects. —SpacemanSpiff 19:40, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Sure -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:43, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Again, please slow down

Pankaj, as you ere advised above, can you please slow down, because your activities are getting disruptive. Exampl of some issues:

1. This is not a reliable source.
2. This is at best a borderline source, and should not be cited widely, and replaced with more scholarly works instead
3. Surya should not have a filmography (we can talk about depiction of Surya in literature, film, thaeter, but that should be based on scholarly secondary soources and not as a list of trivia)
4. Surya may be the son of Bharata in some legends, but afaik that is not the common mythology, and should not be presented w/o context
5. Ditto for Chandra and Bahubali
6. You shouldn't be mixing up mythology and history as you did here (I am assuming for the moment that Andhra Ikshvaku are historically attested)

I would have explained the above points and other issues with your editing in greater detail, except that your fast pace editing doesn't allow others to respond adequately. Please read up on WP:RS, WP:NPOV (and especially WP:RPOV) before continuing at a much slower and deliberate pace. Abecedare (talk) 19:34, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

PS: Just saw Spaceman and Ogress' message in the section above. I second what they said. Abecedare (talk) 19:36, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Sure -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:39, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Can you please elaborate on filmography thing? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Firstly filmography is not the correct word for referring to films and television programs in which Surya has been depicted. But more importantly, as I said in the parenthetical note, wikipedia articles can talk about how Surya has been portrayed in literature, film, theater, art, dance etc but that should be based on scholarly secondary sources. So find some sources that discuss such depictions and analyze, say, the iconography, artistic intent, reception etc. That is encyclopedic. Just a list of modern TV series in which a single actor played Surya in a relatively minor role, is mere trivia, bordering on promotionalism (even though that may not be your intent). Abecedare (talk) 20:03, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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Over the past few days many editors have tried to reason with you and I have also asked you as one not involved in the specific content issues. You said you'll stop this, but you don't seem to show any intent to listen to feedback. This behavior is now crossing into the realm of being disruptive. —SpacemanSpiff 07:09, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Which page did I edit now? I was just doing talk pages. Can I not even talk on wikipedia -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:13, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

This is one example. Just a few hours ago Ogress brought this specific example to your talk page, and you respond with another merger proposal.—SpacemanSpiff 07:15, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

I checked on my, Rishabha as well as Rishabha (Hinuism) talk page for any previous oppose. Unable to find, I added it. I havent added any new source, and only commented sources on talk pages since our lat discussion. Will not to that as well now. Ogress have u opposed that merger? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:23, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

It wasn't me, no. Must have been someone else. Ogress _smash! 07:25, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

SpacemanSpiff Ogress did not, please see his reply -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:33, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

See this note specifically asking you to stop categorizing everything under the dynasty. And then you go on to tag more articles for merging into that page. All this without giving any proper explanation as to why these pages should be merged. You can not expect other editors to do your work for you, or to refute this every time you catch a fancy to something. —SpacemanSpiff 07:36, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

I gave an explaination, see Talk:Ikshvaku dynasty#Merger and Talk:Ikshvaku, and also I did not do any more categorization. Not asking anyone to do any work. I was previously stopped from doing edits, so not doing anything myself and asking for discussions in talk pages. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Template:Authority control

Why are you removing those templates? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:08, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Weird: apparently you didn't, but it's look like in the "Difference between revisions", for example here. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:12, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Because it was appearing twice on page frontend -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:12, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I see. The "Difference between revisions" was misleading in this respect. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 10:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

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JimRenge Discussing the Jainism and Buddhism in reference to Gautama Buddha only. Because the article doesn't talk about that aspect -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 13:04, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Sleep

Do you ever sleep? Best regards (or sleep tight ;), Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 20:33, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Lol, thanks for the concern -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 20:35, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

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Notes

Instead of simply adding a naked url as "Suggested sources" as you did here, here, here etc, please spell out what the source is (title, author, publisher etc) and what exactly you want to cite it for. As you have been told before, fewer considered edits are more valuable than dozens of edits that need to be reverted/cleaned-up or (as in this case) are simply cryptic.

Also, I am not clear why you are tagging some pages with {{WP Jainism}} (for example Rohtak, which does not currently even mention Jain/Jainism)? Abecedare (talk) 16:50, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Sure. I tagged rohtak based on a source I found which talks about Jainism in Haryana (rohtak in specific). I will soon start my work on such an article. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:17, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Please see my earlier note to you, about when wikiproject tags are appropriate. Abecedare (talk) 19:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

This time it wasn't imagination but source. Are you saying that info must first be added before WP tag? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 20:20, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Here is the source Udayana] by Abhay Kumar Singh, Udai Prakash Arora (Anamika Pub & Distributors, 01-Jan-2007) -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 20:25, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Pankaj, I am surprised you are reading, "Only pages significantly and directly linked with a topic, where project members can help with overall article content, formatting and sourcing, should be classed as under the project's purview. Just being able to imagine a link is not sufficient." so literally by focusing on "imagined".

To spell it out: even a real sourced link, does not mean that an article falls under the purview of the project. For example, scores of countries have embassies in New Delhi. That does not mean the article should be tagged with all those wikiproject templates. The question to ask is which wikiprojects an editor looking for help with the overall article (ie,not just a detail in the article), should be guided towards. And conversely,if the article subject would be a separate entry if one were writing an encyclopedia about the wikiproject's domain. There is no firm rule, but unless the domain is mentioned in the lede sentence(s) of the article, the wikiproject is unlikely to be worth including. This certainly requires some editorial judgment and wiki-experience, and perhaps you should just hold off on tagging pages with wikiproject tags for now. Abecedare (talk) 20:45, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Context matters

Hi Pankaj, Regarding this comment [5], please note that we have told you to follow WP:HISTRS for historical information. A reliable source for religious matters may not be reliable for historical information. WP:CONTEXTMATTERS. - Kautilya3 (talk) 21:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Harivamsa

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as Category:Harivamsa, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kautilya3 (talk) 10:11, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Category:Harivamsa

Category:Harivamsa, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Kautilya3 (talk) 00:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Your Teahouse question

Your question was archived without an answer. I would suggest asking at WP:VPR. I was gone last week or would have posted that on The Teahouse.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:47, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Kalpavriksha

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:21, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

September 2015

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Sagara (Vedic king) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge.

In this case you should start a move discussion so that consensus can be reached as to whether the article should be renamed, and if so, what the alternate title should be. Abecedare (talk) 22:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for informing. The move tab was hidden in more, so couldn't find it. I have used the tab now. I will keep this in mind in future. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:32, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Panjak, you seem to have missed the last paragraph of my note above. Please discuss the propose move, since "King Sagara" is unlikely to be the best title for the article, even if the move is itself thought to be desirable. Also note that the Arun Kumar Jain book is very poorly written and by an author/publisher of no known academic repute. Also the content you added does not seem to be supported by even that book; where did you get it from? Please update the reference and content to comply with WP:V and WP:RS. Abecedare (talk) 17:29, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Royal Jains

Template:Royal Jains has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Abecedare (talk) 17:59, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Template:Royal Jains

Dear Pankaj, Are you sure that you have HISTRS sources for all the entries in this new template? - Kautilya3 (talk) 09:50, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

This template might require some cleanup. Most of the links are certain. Few links dont cite religion on their pages. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 09:53, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, you haven't answered my question. HISTRS sources? Whenever you add a "religion" entry in the infobox, you should provide a reliable source with page number. - Kautilya3 (talk) 09:58, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not able to understand your question. I haven't added religion in infobox, instead added links to pages stating Jainism (already) to this template. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:00, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

If the information is already there in the pages, then we depend on you to check its sourcing before you add the pages to the template. This is a highly visible template! You can't add pages willy nilly. - Kautilya3 (talk) 10:07, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Please elaborate what you mean by highly visible as this template has just been created and added to 10-12 pages only. Can you please cite a few examples to clarify on willy nilly links. Also if there are some issues in this template, please help me improve it. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:11, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

"Highly visible" because people can scan it at one go and find all the people that Wikipedia is claiming to be royal Jains. You shouldn't add pages to it unless it is authentic information. Frankly you are playing with fire here. Please tread cautiously. - Kautilya3 (talk) 10:15, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

If you can cite atleast one example, that would be helpful in understanding what you mean. Are you talking about Royal or Jains? By HISTRS, you mean historical/traditional or something else? I have created the template sensing the need for such as it was very difficult to trace royal jains through any existing list or category. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Several of us have explained the idea of WP:HISTRS on your archived talk page. If you still don't know what it means, it is a serious problem. I am pinging Abecedare and SpacemanSpiff to advise you. - Kautilya3 (talk) 10:32, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

I know HISTRS, I am getting confused about what you mean by your statement. Let me try to put my doubt this way. All the links I listed are royal figures (undoubtedly). Some of them are tradition while most are historical (I hope you are not talking about it). Their respective pages state them to be Jains or there is no reference on the page regarding religion at all. I have removed those which had a conflict regarding religion (If you are talking about this). Please help me restructure the template to improve its authenticity. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:41, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

To make it authentic, you need to go to each page listed there, check if the page mentions that the king was a Jain, and check if the information is supported by a HISTRS. You need to remove any page that doesn't satisfy these criteria. I have randomly checked a few pages, and here is what I found:

• Pushyamitra: The page doesn't say he was a Jain.
• Pulakeshin I: The word "Jain" doesn't occur anywhere on the page.
• Kirtivarman I: The word "Jain" doesn't occur anywhere on the page.
• Dantidurga: The word "Jain" doesn't occur anywhere on the page.
• Bhimdev I: The word "Jain" doesn't occur anywhere on the page.
• Samprati: The page says Religion is "Jainism", but it is marked as "citation needed."

So, pretty much nothing is checking out. I have no idea how you listed these people as Royal Jains. - Kautilya3 (talk) 11:12, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Removed Links -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:50, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

There are so many problems with the template!

• Includes historical figures, without justification. As was discussed at Talk:Ashoka/Archive1#Religion, we should not be assigning religion to historical figures w/o proper context. For example, Jain sources claim Chandragupta to be a Jain, which is not the same as his being one (the page itself needs clean up). This is in addition to the WP:HISTRS issue.
• Similar issue with some of the mythological figures (why are they labelled "traditional" in any case?); how is Hanuman a royal?
• More basically: the template introduces a new classification scheme for this collection of historical and mythological figures. Is there a single reliable source that discusses all these figures collectively as royals?

Pinging User:SpacemanSpiff, who is more familiar with the TfD process, to see if the template should be simply removed from the pages or deleted.

And @Capankajsmilyo: your sub-par and POV editing in the area is really getting disruptive. For example, despite my advice earlier about moving pages, you moved Rama in Jainism tp Jain Ramayana without any discussion. And you have still not removed the non-RS book by Arun Kumar Jain from Sagara (Vedic king), or corrected the content to match what the sources actually say! If you continue in this vein, I think you are likely to be topic banned from Indian religion and history based articles. Abecedare (talk) 14:32, 23 September 2015 (UTC) fixed some grammatical and punctuation error. Abecedare (talk) 18:11, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Ashoka was deleted hours ago. I know there is difference between historical and traditional. What is the difference between traditional and mythical? Moved Rama in Jainism giving a reason as per the bold move given in Wikipedia instructions. Removed Sagara book and added reliable sources. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 14:44, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Pankaj, I can make a suggestion that will keep you out of trouble. Create a list article with a title like "List of kings that sponsored Jainism". You can include there all the kings that your sources say supported Jainism, and include citations. Once the information is settled and verified, we can think about other formats. List articles are safe things to make. They can be edited by anybody or challenged by anybody. Categories and templates are only meant for impeccable information. - Kautilya3 (talk) 15:32, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

That's a good suggestion but only if some WP:HISTRS sources can be found discussing the topic of royal patronage of Jainism (I would expcet such sources to exist). Else it would be a recipe for on-wiki synthesis and reification. Abecedare (talk) 17:41, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)The same logic at CfD or AfD would be applicable here -- conflating history and mythology. Pankaj, you have to stop this crusade or it's not going to work out well for you. Please listen to what everyone is saying.—SpacemanSpiff 17:43, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

aviod

Please avoid this web page (www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/article/south.htm) which appears to have numerous inaccuracies. Tukol claims the Kadambas and Chalukyas were Jains and that the Gangas conquered Nepal. There may be many more of such absurd claims. Please try to use real book sources written by reputed historians.Holenarasipura (talk) 20:25, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Further, the web page calls all Hoysala kings as Jains though the dynasty of kings took to Hinduism from the time of Vishnuvardhana, and all the Rashtrakutas as Jains just because Amoghavarsha came under the influence of Jain Acharyas. Clearly, this article is not of high quality.Holenarasipura (talk) 20:47, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

You have been topic banned for three months from now from editing all pages about Indian religions, broadly construed, including edits about Indian religions and about people belonging to any of those religions. Also from talking about those religions in any discussions. This ban applies to all kinds of pages (articles, talkpages, noticeboards, templates, etc) and to all types of editing, such as article edits, page moves, page creations, etc.

You have been sanctioned for persistent disruptive editing on subjects related to Indian religions. When I look at your talkpage and its archive, I see a lot of good advice and many warnings from quite a few editors, especially to do with using reliable historical sources. Experienced editors seem to have explained the sourcing problems patiently, and really tried to help you edit better. This is probably because they like your enthusiasm and good faith; I do, too. But it has come to a point where other editors seem to be describing the problems with your sources over and over, to no avail. What struck me especially was that you were asked three weeks ago repeatedly, and with much explanation, to "please go slow"[6][7] and to make yourself master of HISTRS before adding so much material, and creating and moving pages, etc, at such speed. And yet, after a day of slowing down slightly, asking a question at the Teahouse, etc, you accelerated again, and have been editing at breakneck speed ever since. Yesterday (23 September per UTC) you made 340 edits! Sometimes there were three edits to three different pages in the same minute. How could you possibly make considered, thoughtful edits at such a rate? You'd have to be a well-programmed robot — a human can't do it. And considering your rate of editing, I'm not sure when you would find the time to study HISTRS as it deserves to be studied, either, or to mull over what people tell you. And this means that other people have to use a lot of time to clean up after you and explain to you. That's unacceptable. When I first looked at your contributions, I considered giving you a strong warning to slow down, but after noticing other editors doing just that, without effect, I see no other recourse than to topic ban you. Three months is a rather short topic ban, and the reason I've kept it short is because you're still rather new. If you were a more experienced editor I'd have banned you for six months or a year. Please make sure you understand what a topic ban is: read WP:TBAN. That is a policy you can't afford to speedread, because if you violate this topic ban, it will be enforced with blocks.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. Bishonen | talk 15:44, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Warning

Edits like this and that and the other 30 odd edits you've done since Bishonen's sanction above are a violation of your topic ban. Any further edits and you will be blocked for violating the topic ban. It is especially important that you adhere to the ban as it's now presenting more evidence that you are either not willing to work in a collaborative project or you are not able to comprehend what's expected, both of which are highly disruptive and will likely result in being indefinitely blocked, not just the minor sanction imposed above. —SpacemanSpiff 07:10, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

This is in reponse to your message on my talk page as I don't want to fragment the discussion. The problems have been with respect to your edits on religion, they were most visible on the pages of historical figures, but as Talk:Ikshvaku dynasty shows, it was not the only case. Given that the problems were so wide in reach covering the gamut of Indian religions I don't see how anything else would be sufficient. That a few edits may not in and of themselves be problematic isn't the question here, the point of the topic ban is to avoid others having to sift through edits to figure out which ones are good. As I had suggested to you over a month ago, it is perhaps best for you to edit areas where you have some expertise in and understand Wikipedia policies including WP:RS, WP:POV, WP:OR and others before you contribute to these areas where you have a hobbyist interest in. Sadly, you did not listen to that and it has now come to this point. This is still a very limited topic ban, both in scope and duration and I will encourage you to get a better grasp of encyclopaedic writing while this is in force and contribute effectively after that. —SpacemanSpiff 08:19, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

I too will reply here to your message on my talk page; let's keep it all on your page for convenience. I don't understand how you can think your ban was "regarding HISTRS", if you read what I said in my ban notice above: "You have been topic banned from editing all pages about Indian religions, broadly construed, including edits about Indian religions and about people belonging to any of those religions. Also from talking about those religions in any discussions." That's what it said, and that's what it meant: you can't edit any page that has to do with Indian religions. Can't edit it at all. Obviously Jainism, for example, is an Indian religion. I'm afraid it's not for you to decide to respect some parts of the ban and not others. If you edit those articles or their talkpages again, you will be blocked. Please re-read my ban notice. Carefully. In that notice, I also urged you to read the policy WP:TBAN, to get a grasp of what a topic ban is. It frankly doesn't look like you did. Bishonen | talk 08:56, 26 September 2015 (UTC).

But none of my previous edits related to Indian Religions was opposed. The edits opposed were Indian kings and royal people, you can check my talk pages. My contributions related to religion (I only edit Jainism pages) was sometimes even thanked and I received a barnstar as well. And why talk pages? Why are they included in ban? Please reconsider my ban. I have never done anything conflicting on religion pages. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 09:16, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

The thing which I am not getting is RS related to history, it being highly subjective in nature. The religion pages iv recently edited are not related to history. I won't edit any of the history pages, but please reconsider my religion ban, only Jainism. I have no issues being banned on all other religions be it Sikh Hindu or Christianity. You can check my past contributions in Jainism pages. I have helped expanding the stubs. And even nominated article Mahavira for Peer Review to raise it to GA level. I have added many pics via Wikipedia commons and have been engaged in positive debates (not conflicting) regarding Jainism. The only conflict was with the Kings and historical dynasties and empires. Ban me for lifetime on that. But please reconsider my ban on just Jainism pages. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 09:22, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Here are the last few edits that have been considered as wrong. Please check if anything was wrong in the last edits after ban.

1. Digambara - Added the actual words
2. Digambara - Links were wrong, is it good to let wrong links stay on wikipedia?
3. Manatunga - Again wrong links (disambig)
4. Jainism - Rephrased to make better presentation. The content which could be assimilated in a single line was spread over three lines. Consolidated that.
5. [8] - Spell and links. You can verify that I did nothing wrong here as well.

I even got Sallekhana protected by an administrator due to constant vandalism. I am just trying to help here. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 09:49, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Nobody doubts you're trying to help, but I'm afraid I won't reconsider. As SpacemanSpiff says above, a) it's a pretty limited ban, both in scope and length, and b) the big point of the ban is to rescue other people from ongoingly having to sift through your (very numerous and fast) edits to figure out which ones are good. Please see here how you can now appeal the ban. You have already tried appealing to the enforcing administrator (=me) to reconsider, and I have declined, so you are left with alternatives 2 (appealing at WP:AE or WP:AN) and 3 (appealing at WP:ARCA, which means you'd appeal to the Arbitration committee). Think about it, check out those noticeboards, and pick one. I remind you that even if you appeal the ban, you remain bound by it until you are notified that your appeal has been successful. Bishonen | talk 10:12, 26 September 2015 (UTC).

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vishuddhasagar (October 2)

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Ramdev

You made some highly inappropriate edits at Ramdev, which I was going to leave a warning about, but then I noticed that you are under a topic ban that applies to the article. I've left a message with Bishonen (talk · contribs), who had discussed the topic ban with you previously. --Ronz (talk) 23:40, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

You were topic banned "from editing all pages about Indian religions, broadly construed, including edits about Indian religions and about people belonging to any of those religions", and yet you have made a series of edits to Ramdev, an article about an Indian spritual leader. I don't see how you could have thought that page wasn't connected with an Indian religion. You have been blocked for 24 hours, see below. Please stay away from these topics; the next block will be longer. Bishonen | talk 01:35, 4 October 2015 (UTC).

October 2015

To enforce an arbitration decision you have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block or other sanctions.

If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Please copy my appeal to the [[WP:AE|arbitration enforcement noticeboard]] or [[WP:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Your reason here OR place the reason below this template. ~~~~}}. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard I suggest you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template on your talk page so it can be copied over easily. You may also appeal directly to me (by email), before or instead of appealing on your talk page. Bishonen | talk 01:34, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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Ramdev too Bishonen? There's no mention of religion on his page except infobox. He is a yoga guru and political activist. How could one possibly know that he is covered in ban? I wouldn't have edited the page if it was of religious guru. Does this mean that I can't edit pages for even Narendra Modi or Ravi Shankar Prasad, them being of Indian religion? In fact more than 99% of Indians will be of a Indian religion be it Hindu, Sikh or Muslim. Does this mean I can't edit any Indian? Not even Mahatma Gandhi or Subhas Chandra Bose. I thought the ban was related to Indian religions. Please clarify what all is banned or is it a blanket ban? I am a simple and local resident of India, so its obv. that I can't make edits to US people :p -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:12, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Ronz you even reinstated some of my edits. I removed the content following the deadlinks tag which were dated more than a year ago. What is it I did wrong? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:24, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi, Yoga is one of 6 schools of Orthodox Vedic religion. Anyway, it is matter of just 24 hours, it will not make much difference. And I think that Narendra Modi is not covered by your topic ban. I think you can edit articles of politicians of all religions. You can edit Ravi Shankar Prasad but not Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Regards. --Human3015^TALK  04:29, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Human3015 thanks for clarification, I hope I won't be banned from editing some xyz Indian again saying that he is of Indian religion. Although I am still confused after your comments about International Yoga Day. Is it related to religion? Yoga is related to fitness as far as I know, this is the first time I am hearing about it being associated with religion. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:46, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Pankaj, Ramdev is classified under "Hindu religious leaders", that's as close to the topic of Indian religions as you are going to get. On others like Narendra Modi, Human3015 is only partly correct. In such pages, context also matters. If you edit about his actions against corruption as Prime Minister it is ok, but if you write about his diet during the Navratri visit to the US and the dinner with Barack Obama, that is a violation of your topic ban. In effect, pages that are directly linked to Indian religions are covered under the ban, but in addition edits that are linked to Indian religions but on pages that aren't directly linked are also covered under the ban. Also, this is not just on article space but all name spaces, your edits to Draft:Vishuddhasagar are also a violation of the topic ban. I think you said that you are a Chartered Accountant, but I could be mistaken. But if that's the case why don't you focus your efforts on cleaning up something like Taxation in India and related topics? Those are obviously topics that could use an expert who knows the literature in that area. Try cleaning up that article for a start, add good quality sources, remove all the directly listings and make it readable for someone who is trying to get an understanding of the subject. —SpacemanSpiff 04:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

SpacemanSpiff I am not a Chartered Accountant but a student of CA course. Ramdev is not a religious leader at all, let alone Hindu leader. If anyone has classified him such, it is wrong. You can check his page if it mentions anything about any of his religious leader activity. He talks about yoga, fitness, nationalism, economy, corruption and has started interest in politics recently. I doubt even the word religious is mentioned on his page, let alone religious leader. As Regards Modi, as you said that I can't edit his religious activity, is the same principle not applicable for Ramdev? I edited the political and corruption text. It was in no way related to religion, still I am blocked. It's getting oppressive and harrasing now. If you think, I am a vandalised and edit war person say so. Most of the pages I edited were in very bad conditions. They were unsourced, uncited (by this I mean without a single source or citation) and contained template tags since 2007-08. I think now I understand, why Wikipedia is in such a bad condition. I guess, I should leave Wikipedia editing altogether. Do what you want and demolish this beautiful creation of some genius. I don't care, I have 5 of my own websites, and leaving Wikipedia will give me more time for my own websites. Have fun, demolishing interest of editors who want to help. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:46, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, I tried helping you out, but it seems that the effort was unwarranted. If you do decide to continue editing here, the conditions of the topic ban are what they are and will be enforced. —SpacemanSpiff 05:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

• Capankajsmilyo, SpacemanSpiff and Human3015 have answered your questions clearly in my opinion, so I won't repeat what they said. Also do please read WP:TBAN, as you have been asked to. Your question "Does this mean I can't edit any Indian? Not even Mahatma Gandhi or Subhas Chandra Bose?" is answered there. If you remain in any doubt whether your topic ban covers some particular edit or article, feel free to ask me before making them. Bishonen | talk 10:17, 4 October 2015 (UTC).

Proposed deletion of List of slogans by Narendra Modi

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Religion edits

Hi Pankaj, please note that your topic ban prohibits you from editing or participating on all Indian religion topics. So, please refrain from making edits however small. You might ask an admin for permission to put in edit requests. But, without permission, you shouldn't do it. - Kautilya3 (talk) 12:14, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm really surprised you seem incapable of abiding by your topic ban, Capankajsmilyo, so many times as it has been explained to you, such as here, here, and here, that you're not allowed to edit articles about Indian religion or religious figures at all. Not minor edits, not uncontroversial edits: no edits. Nevertheless you made 21 edits about Jain religious figures today in the space of 10 minutes. (Your typical speed, which you have also been warned about). You also edited Template:Infobox Jain temple a few hours earlier, and Ahinsa Sthal. My personal theory is that you simply don't read the explanations of what the ban means, but I suppose you could also be testing its (already well-explained) limits. People shouldn't have to keep checking your speed-editing, and that's the reason you were topic banned: to stop the wear and tear on other users. This is a positively last warning: one more edit, however small, in violation of your topic ban, and you will get a lengthy block. Bishonen | talk 14:07, 25 October 2015 (UTC).

October 2015

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Why do you finish comment with Pankaj Jain when you can put it as signature itself -- curious.

Good day! --AmritasyaPutra^T 18:38, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't, Its in signature ;) -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:40, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Ah --AmritasyaPutra^T 18:45, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for showing concern :) -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:47, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Warning

It appears that you are continuing your POV editing elsewhere now as is shown by this set of edits where you added cn tags when cites are clearly provided and removal of sourced contextual content. If you continue this behavior, your topic ban is likely to be expanded or your editing privileges completely revoked. —SpacemanSpiff 16:42, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, you complained of this warning on my page, but I agree completely with it and have explained why here. You're very close to being either blocked or topic banned from Indian articles altogether. Most probably blocked, since the experience of your current topic ban from religious articles has been that you keep testing its boundaries, and now have also simply moved your tendentious editing to another field. Bishonen | talk 21:01, 31 October 2015 (UTC).

November 2015

Hello, I'm Shrikanthv. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Robert Vadra, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Shrikanthv (talk) 12:47, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

@Shrikanthv: Can you provide a link to the problem edit? - Kautilya3 (talk) 20:42, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Kautilya3 I guess he is referring to some edit on Robert Vadra. However I just used a tool checklinks and made some improvements in infobox. I did not made any addition or deletion. Do let me know about the conflict edit if any. Thanks!

I also could not see any such edit there; just tagging of dead links and filling up of reference and mentioning Priyanka's name in infobox as spouse. Whats wrong here @Shrikanthv:? You are placing template notices on experienced editors and also "possibly" accusing them of COI over here. (Note: "Possibly" because your that statement is making no sense to me.) §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 11:13, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Your edits to Gangadhar Nehru

Capankajsmilyo, that's not asking "beforehand", I don't know why you call it that. It's asking afterwards. I do have a good mind to topic ban you from Indian subjects, both because the edits show incompetence with regard to reliable sources, and because you went ahead and made them, then asked. But the one saving grace is that you did ask, so I (for my part) won't ban you at this time. Next time, ask first, and please take on board what SpacemanSpiff tells you about what's wrong with your source, and try to follow WP:HISTRS going forward. Please revert your edits to Gangadhar Nehru right away next time you're online. Bishonen | talk 10:13, 7 November 2015 (UTC).

Sure, thanks. It has already been reverted by Kautilya3. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

That is the easy way out, Pankaj. I am not convinced that you understand what was wrong with the edit. If you do, please state it.

This edit [9] to Kalinga (India) is again problematic. You don't state the source for the rulers you added. On the surface, this just appears to be a random collection of names of rulers over a period of 700 years! I think it is best to leave this out. What you get to see on Google Books is a badly truncated version of the book, and what you are presenting is a distorted picture as a result. - Kautilya3 (talk) 09:14, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello Kautilya3, I added the book along with rulers. Truncated version? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 09:32, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

You might have. But how will anybody know that this where the material comes from? It is truncated because only 6 pages appear on Google Books. You have no idea what is in the rest of the book. - Kautilya3 (talk) 09:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

So should I revert it? They were kings of Kalinga, book states. But they were not the only ones. Book doesn't talk about others in the pages available. What to do in such a case? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 09:47, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, this list is no good. For a country that existed for about a 1000 years, we need highlights, not a list of rulers. - Kautilya3 (talk) 14:35, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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OK

OK Pankaj, I'm lifting your topic ban on condition that you edit much less fast than you did before the ban. If I deem it necessary, I'll come back and limit you to a maximum number of edits per day, but that's a pretty blunt instrument which I'd rather not use. Please listen to what experienced and knowledgeable editors tell you. I also strongly advise you to abide by WP:BRD and use WP:RSN and WP:DRN etc rather than repetitive arguing on talk pages. To speak more personally, I think you know that I topic banned you because you exhausted other volunteers. Please try to be aware of the need to avoid that. As soon as you have responded positively here, you can regard yourself as unbanned. Happy editing. Bishonen | talk 20:08, 10 December 2015 (UTC).

Thanks a lot! I'll try my best to abide by all the guidelines. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:30, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

That's good. I've logged the lifting of the ban here, so you can refer to that link if somebody should complain between now and Christmas. Enjoy. Bishonen | talk 11:30, 11 December 2015 (UTC).

Hi Pankaj, Welcome back to the full-fledged Wikipedia. I would suggest you be cautious in your edits, especially when concerning religions, and make sure you clearly distinguish religions and history. Only the material sourced to WP:HISTRS sources should be called history. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 13:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Sure, will keep it in mind. Thanks a lot -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:44, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Prevent disruption of content in the article

Hi Capankajsmilyo,

This is regarding the article National Herald Case, here the duplicate content has been added , old content deleted without any proper reason, and adding words which are taking the article to the biased way(like using 'fraud' and 'criminal' for the article subjects), thus destroying the neutrality of the article. It seems that the media highlight of the case makes it bit sensitive. I have been able to restore the content as much as possible. My request is that please look into the edits ASAP and if possible add to it "semi-protected" sort of mode for a particular time to prevent it from vandalism.

Work2win (talk) 21:10, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Appropriate level of detail

Hi, thank you for adding info to Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. IMHO, some of it was too detailed, and I have removed the full list of Presidents. Please have a look at WP:What Wikipedia is not for some guidance as to what is/isn't good content for the encyclopedia.

I hope this does not discourage you from continuing to contribute here. Beyond question, many pages on Indian topics still need improvement! – Fayenatic London 22:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Haryana

Don't think I can follow up right now, but take a look at MrsJespersen's edits. Doug Weller talk 19:15, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

December 2015

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Images

Hi Pankaj, I am not sure why you are removing the size parameters from images. - Kautilya3 (talk) 15:19, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

It has been used even where its not required. Image has a default size parameter so why define it again? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 15:23, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't know about the default size parameter, but your removal of the size on Nehru-Gandhi family was a disaster. On other images, a preferred size might have been indicated for readability or for formatting purposes. Please don't fix if it isn't broken, and make sure you don't break it anew. - Kautilya3 (talk) 16:29, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out. Will keep it in mind. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:33, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Redirect of Jyotigram Yojana

I see in this edit you redirected Jyotigram Yojana to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana. I want to clear you few things. If two schemes are related to same thing then it doesn't mean that we should merge it. Specially these 2 schemes are not of "same" government. Jyotigram Yojana is of Government of Gujarat and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana is of Government of India. At most we can merge various schemes initiated by same government related to same thing, but here governments are different. Also read federalism or federalism in India. India is a federal country. India is Union of States. Each state has its own government and own initiatives. --Human3015^TALK  09:11, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

There's not enough content on either of the articles and both are stubs. That is why attempted a merge. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:21, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Indian English

I noticed you have been adding [Use Indian English] to certain articles. So what exactly are the differences between British English and Indian English? --Kansas Bear (talk) 19:29, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

There isn't much major differences between the two that I know of, hence adding such a tag. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:20, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

However, I added such tag only to the articles related to India. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Kansas Bear: There are some minor differences. For example, 100,000 is known as Hundred thousands in British English but knwon as 1 Lakh in Indian English. Same way 1,00,00,000 is known as 1 crore instead of 10 million.--Human3015^TALK  06:12, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Capankajsmilyo!

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Wikiproject assessment

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Category:Jainism of the Middle Ages has been nominated for discussion

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February 2016

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Ok, will keep it in mind for future. Thanks! -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:22, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Your Teahouse question

I'm sorry to see no one answered your Teahouse question before it was archived. I don't know how to answer the question but they might know at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:24, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the information Vchimpanzee -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:24, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Jainism

Heyo Capankajsmilyo. Great work on the article. Sorry, I don't have enough time on my hands to do a full review but a quick look tells me that the lead is too short and doesn't cover all the topics in the article yet. There are still a few unreferenced facts there. Other than that, the article is in need of some copy-edits and might need a bit of neutralization. Overall, in a much better state and close to getting to the GA status. I suggest you make a request at GOCE, expand the lead and make sure that every fact has a citation, and it is good to be nominated. Best, Yash! 17:00, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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Jainism II

Hello, Capankajsmilyo -- I'm almost finished copy-editing Jainism. I'll read it through again tomorrow and I may have a few questions or comments for you. I'm tired now and will take a break until tomorrow. Corinne (talk) 02:21, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thankyou! I see that you have added a few clarify tags. Will try and resolve them. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 02:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

I've noticed that, generally, discussions are kept off the actual Requests page. There is always the Requests talk page, but it would be best to conduct discussions on the article's talk page, the requester's talk page, or the copy-editor's talk page.

I think the article is almost ready for a GA review, but let's take care of a few things first. I think the appearance of two of the tables could be improved. See the details of my suggestions at User talk:Corinne#Jainism. I'm not very good at tables and right now don't have the patience to read up on how to change the width of columns or the color of header rows. It looks like you know more than I do. If you could read my suggestions and make any changes that you agree with, I think that would be something that could improve the article.

The other thing is that, in the section Jainism#Statues and sculptures, that looks like a gallery, and usually sections do not start with a gallery. I'm wondering if Checkingfax has any suggestions regarding the placement of those three images. I also think they could be slightly larger than they are. Also, I think the dimensions of each sculpture or statue should be left out of the caption (I believe the dimensions are in the text of the article, aren't they?). In the middle image, what does "initiative of" mean? I mean, I know what "built upon the initiative of" kind of means, but could you be more specific and tell me what it really means? Corinne (talk) 15:59, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Corinne. If you go to edit-source while wikEd is toggled on, wikEd will show you the heading color. Right now the heading is background=#9c0 which is that deep puce green.

That is a 3-place hexadecimal number for that particular shade of green. You can replace it with a different hex number or you can use a named color from the named web color list. You can then clone that line of wikicode to the other tables (including the background= part). You can also use 6-place hex numbers if you wish. You just put a pound sign in front of the hex number, be it 3 or 6 places long.

What size is your computer screen? What magnification do you run it at? On my screen at 100% the table lines of text are on one line per cell with no wrapping. In fact there is whitespace between the right margin of the table and the right margin of my screen. Wikitables automatically adjust to their contents and to your screen unless they are hardsized in some fashion (by pixels or by screen width percentage). So there are no hanging indents to create. And if they were created they would not be universal to all screen sizes and screen magnifications.

Forcing image sizes can become a MOS:ACCESSIBILITY issue. I will have a look at the gallery and the image sizing. I already converted an infobox that just contained two images into two separate images because the infobox was too unwieldy by comparison to other images in the article, and it had a heading about God, when God is already the section title so it was redundant. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 16:37, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

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Statue of Ahimsa

Thank you for ur suggestions. I just wanted to add the references for the Guinness World Record Certificate. Should I add it under notes or references? Thanks once again. ErASethi (talk) 17:07, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Please continue further on your talk page where I posted comment. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 17:09, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I have added the reference. Can you please see whether it is fine? Thanks once again ErASethi (talk) 17:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Umaswati

In case you wish to nominate the article, please do so. However there is one refrence tag for which I could not locate an alternate reference.--Nvvchar. 07:43, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar Nominate for? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:52, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

For DYK.--Nvvchar. 12:53, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar done. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 14:52, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Thhere could be a problem with your name as author as your edit, before I started on 24 February, was on 5th February and the article has be posted ob DYK as per rules within 7 days of starting of the expansion. Pl see if you can rectify it. Otherwise it will not go through.Nvvchar. 02:05, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

This was my first DYK. I don't know much. Can you please guide me on what to do. I read the policies and instructions before nominating, though I found it quite confusing. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 03:02, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Please change the sequence of names, putting my name first, in the posting and also in credits below that. QPQ is essential as all other contributing to the articles have more than 5 DKYs to their credit. Nvvchar. 09:33, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar done. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

• Capankajsmilyo Issue raised by Ms Saraha Welch needs to be addressed for the DYK to move.Nvvchar. 04:52, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Isn't it already resolved? Ms Sarah Welch wrote "per consensus" on nomination page in last comment. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:59, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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Namaskar Pankaj Ji!

I am sorry to crowd your talk space, but I would like to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Narendra Modi as I now feel more confident in my ability to properly vet sources as well as ensure the provision, for those readers so interested, in a neutral and objective source of information of Pradhan Mantri Narendro Modi Ji's administration.

I am particularly interested in establishing a "uniformity of standards for information" to accompany our contributions; I hope to see the day when the quality and standards of Wikipedia Hindi and Wikipedia Telugu (as well as all other Indian-language Wikpedias) that exist to educate and motivate our people) are able to convey the complexity of this world we share with the same standards of ethics, neutrality, presentation and fidelity as Wikipedia English (we have our work cut out for us).

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Mahavira

Thanks a lot @Baffle gab1978 -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:33, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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Jain monasticism

Thanks a lot @Miniapolis -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:14, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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To sum up, all content you add to this wiki (other than brief quotations, where absolutely necessary) should be written in your own words. Capankajsmilyo, please read WP:copyrights and WP:plagiarism and let us know when you have done so. Please don't edit any more until you do this. Any further copyright violations will result in you being blocked from editing. — Diannaa (talk) 15:42, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the links. They were really helpful. The plagiarism one was nice and elaborate with illustration. However, I could not understand the relevance of WP:copyrights in relation to my edits. How to proceed further? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:07, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

@Capankajsmilyo: You can begin by self-reverting, or rewriting, any and all instances you remember of copy-pasting in recent months, including those links identified in ANI complaint against you. Look at your entire edit history, check what you added (in green), and begin the clean up. @Diannaa may have more suggestions. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 16:47, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

The main thing you need to do is stop adding copyright violations. All prose you add to this wiki has to be written in your own words. As far as helping with clean-up, I've prepared a contribution survey and put it in User:Diannaa/sandbox. Please copy this into your own sandbox. This is the same report we use at WP:CCI. The diffs in bold are the ones most likely to have copyright violations. The articles are sorted with big edits at the top and small edits at the bottom. The ones at the top are the articles most likely to contain copyright violations. There's a hundred articles on the list altogether. Please go through all these diffs in bold and look for and remove copyright violations wherever you find them. I know this task is very time consuming and difficult, because I do it all the time when trying to clear cases at WP:CCI, so that is why it is vitally important that you do this task yourself and not burden the community with the clean-up. Please make this a priority over creating new content. The clean-up may take you several weeks. — Diannaa (talk) 11:38, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the report. However, if there is a better one, can you please refer me that. I copied this report to my sandbox and checked more than 20 articles. It has taken into consideration, template additions, infobox additions and even books added as reference. Few edits were in which only a book was added in reference column. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:33, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

The list also contains some intra-wiki copies. What can I do for them? In the new intra-wiki copies I mention that the content is copied from another article in comments. But the ones I did earlier, I did not do that. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:36, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@Capankajsmilyo: Frankly, @Diannaa list is already a lot of help and you shouldn't be asking for "better one" already. Just look at the bolded numbers, where you added a lot of content. Go through line by line, source by source, and start deleting or 'rewriting in your own words' any and all copyvio you discover. To show progress, you can use <s></s>, like this:

Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat: (15 edits, 1 major, +10081) (+8)(+70)(+135)(+18)(-66)(+7)(-3)(-175)(-74)(-25)(+35)(+10081)(-3)(-32)(-49), once you have throughly checked and updated the edit related to 10081 link, in your sandbox.

Addressing Copyvio charges against you should be your only priority right now in wikipedia. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 13:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, just go through all the diffs in bold. There is no easy way to do this; there's no shortcuts. You can use the tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ to compare wiki pages with web pages to help you find copyright violations. For intra-wiki copies, go back and make a tiny edit to add the attribution. Here is an example of how to do it. — Diannaa (talk) 13:53, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

GA nomination for Jain monasticism removed

@Capankajsmilyo: I have removed your GA nomination for Jain monasticism article, till the above copyvio case is duly addressed and cleared. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 13:12, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Ms Sarah Welch, GA nominations may not be removed once the review is actually is under way. The only options are to pass or to fail said nomination. Under the circumstances, and especially as the article has had persistent copyvio issues, it would almost certainly have to be failed, and I will be doing so after I post this. However, the reviewer of this nomination has the final say, so I am pinging Sainsf, who may decide to restore and resume the nomination after reviewing the material above. (The copyvios issue came up at WP:AN#Repeated Copyright Violations that spans 100s of pages, and has continued above.)

Capankajsmilyo, the article can be nominated again once all of the copyvio issues have been cleared and the other issues raised in the GA review have been addressed. I suggest you get a peer review before then, to get independent eyes on it who can tell you whether it is ready for nomination. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:40, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: Understood. For some reason, I missed that the review was already in progress. After your note, I see it is. I just wanted a reviewer to avoid starting the GA review process, since every review is so much work, and @Capankajsmilyo needs to help address this issue. FWIW, the wiki article Mahavira, which recently got GA and is now a DYK nomination seems to have the same issue. Thanks for the note and taking care of this. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 16:01, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset and Ms Sarah Welch: Posting my view on this issue here as well. I have no objection to the failing of this nomination, in fact it appears the best solution at the moment given the issues we have yet to fix and the long time the review has already had to wait. Please note that this editor has two nominations in the queue even now, we might need to check them. Sainsf <^>_{Feel at home} 16:21, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@Sainsf: Thanks for the alert. Indeed, the two articles are Rishabhanatha and Bahubali. I will let BlueMoonset check and if appropriate, do the honors. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 16:31, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@Ms Sarah Welch @BlueMoonset Kindly correct me if I am wrong, but Rishabhanatha and Bahubali doesn't appear on User:Capankajsmilyo/sandbox. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 17:33, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, you are the one who nominated these two articles for GA, which is what counts: we need to be sure that the articles do not have copyvio and other issues. I have checked the nominations for both Rishabhanatha and Bahubali, and had to remove them both. For Rishabhanatha, I did so after finding a clear example of the sort of copyvio that has been described above, and for Bahubali, the entire Statues section of the article is completely unreferenced except for one paragraph, rendering the article completely ineligible for GA, and also making it impossible to check for copying in the bulk of that Section. Note that the various copyvio tools do not work when the copied texts are only available via Google books, since the tools cannot check the actual contents of those books; this is the sort of check that has to be done manually. Courtesy pinging Sainsf and Ms Sarah Welch to inform them of the results. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, I believe you should take a break from beginning work on articles for at least a week and try to repair the damages. This will help you learn new things and write better articles on the future. Sainsf <^>_{Feel at home} 17:49, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) *@Capankajsmilyo: I concur with @BlueMoonset. @Dianna's list in your sandbox is your top 100 list to work on. You have over 150 edits in Rishabhanatha, and over 50 in Bahubali. It would be better if you relooked at these articles, line by line, reference and reference, clean it up or assure that there is no copyvio no matter who did it, and check everything is supported. Once you are at that stage, nominate it. You must do so because reviewing is a lot of work, and not a cat and mouse game. GA review is not about fixing major problems such as copyvio or unsourced sections as @BlueMoonset notes, but should be about fine tuning a "close to good article". You also need time to clean up the articles with copyvio problems, which ought to be your highest priority in wikipedia till @Dianna is satisfied with your efforts. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 17:53, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

• Diffs for Rishabhanatha
• Diffs for Bahubali

These two articles do not appear on the script-generated report I provided. I'm not sure why. — Diannaa (talk)

@Capankajsmilyo: For every Jainism/Indic/etc article where you have substantial edits, please use this copyvio check tool that @Diannaa mentioned above. The bolded numbers are only starting point, and do not mean they completely identify that there may be a copyvio issue. For example, the bolded 10081 of Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat you struck off here, is flagged with copyvio problems if you run copyvio check tool on the article. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 21:01, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

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Status

I see that Diannaa has asked you to clean up the copyvios from your contributions but I'm unable to see any work on that while you are still going on with new content additions and nominations for GA/Peer review etc. Can you please let us know what efforts you have taken towards cleaning up past copyvio? —SpacemanSpiff 04:25, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

I am trying to clean the articles. I have struck User:Capankajsmilyo/sandbox as told by Ms Sarah Welch. I have also tried and cleaned Digambara, Jain literature, Bahubali, Bharata Chakravartin, Tarunsagar and few other pages besides those whom I've struck in sandbox. Will try to clean more. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:38, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Ok, that's good then. But on Bharata Chakravartin, that was a problem from the start as it was a duplicate article. I brought it up when you created it but then it seems to have slipped my mind, I'm going to ask Diannaa (gratuitous ping) to see what should be done there with that article along with Bharata (emperor) and Jadabharata. I remember there being a detailed discussion among some editors regarding this but can't find that discussion now. The Bharata Chakravartin article is problematic as it started out as some form of copy paste. —SpacemanSpiff 04:47, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

I was new then and din know much of Wikipedia policies. But now, it doesn't seem to be a copy at all. You can verify. Besides that, from what I could find out, both the characters seem to be different having a common name. Just like Bharata (Ramayana). -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:54, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

There is only one common thing between the three Bharatas that India got its name Bharata from them. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:56, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

You were new then, agreed, and I'm not holding this against you now but the mess still needs to be fixed. What's the difference between Jadabharata and Bharata Chakravartin? You have essentially used content from the others to start this one when it is just the same. I'm not here to argue about the different streams of thought, I'm only looking at the Wikipedia process. —SpacemanSpiff 05:13, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Jadabharata is a Hindu scripture that talks about Bharata (emperor), a Hindu character. The Wikipedia page is entirely unreferenced having information about Bharata Chakravartin (Jainism) which is not there in Jadabharata scripture at all. That is why it's confusing. I would like to recommend merging Jadabharata into Bharata (emperor) (hinduism) and Bharata Chakravartin (Jainism). -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

@Capankajsmilyo: what you call "cleaned" so far is predominantly cosmetic changes, such as adding PD-notice templates, such as here and here. What we really need is edits of the type @जैन has recently made in terms of WP:Copyvio and WP:Plag compliance, such as this and this. The Copyvio 1-100 check list, created by @Diannaa, and in your sandbox, is largely unaddressed. @SpacemanSpiff: I suggest we request @Capankajsmilyo to not worry about merging articles, fixing new articles, adding or deleting large scale templates such as "Authority control" from articles, nominating new peer review, or for GA, or for DYK or adding any new content; rather, he should focus his time, checking line by line, ref by ref, anything he added, so as to clean out that 1-100 list first, because there are substantial allegations, as well as evidence, of Copyvio problems created by him. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 12:12, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

I am trying to do both PD and edits of kind you mentioned. Few examples are [10], [11], [12]. I have done line by line edits only, you can check by edit pattern or you can verify the article and sources. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:33, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

I have not seen much happening so far in the way of copyright clean-up but at least you have stopped adding more copyright violations. I am checking your contribs daily. I agree that copyright clean-up should be your priority right now. Sorry but I don't have time to help; I am very busy checking the bot reports at User:EranBot/Copyright/rc and have time for little else. — Diannaa (talk) 13:00, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

• I've just now removed large chunks of copyvio text from Digital India. Please go through other articles in the sandbox and do the same. The Masked Man of Mega Might (talk) 14:17, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

I'd suggest cutting the guy a little slack. Editing wikipedia isn't a paid job, and no one is obliged to spend hours checking articles line by line, even if they were responsible for copyvio issues. If he is willing to spend some time addressing the issues, then great, if he would rather be adding content to wikipedia then that is something he is entitled to do. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 07:38, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

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Girnar Jain temples

An IP added large amounts of text without refs. Then after repeated warnings to add refs, removed a large amount of text from Girnar Jain temples here with dubious ES. Then, the IP was blocked, and started socking on another IP. I restored the content to Girnar Jain temples having to manually replace your changes. The citation you removed was referenced by this content and replacement of your edits 'broke' the ref. I replaced these with CN. As I am unfamiliar with the topic, would you please see what needs fixing? Or, if you feel that text should not be there, please, by all means, remove it! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 18:06, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

I've tried to cleanup with what was available on article. Thanks for informing. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:32, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

IVC

Any chance of you actually trying to source any of your about 15 cn tags? I removed the article tag you shouldn't do both. Doug Weller talk 05:26, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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I understand that you reverted the likely-vandal user. But your revert was not to the best possible version. You removed sourced sentences in your revert. Please be careful next time. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 06:15, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 13:56, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

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Tag bombing

Hi Pankaj, this constitutes WP:Tag bombing. Please don't do it. It looks like you need to take a few days off and cool down. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:22, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

You need to genuinely make an effort to verify the content before you decide that a citation is needed. Since the material has links to full articles, you need to check them first. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:24, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

That was not cited, nor did the article contain any source which listed all (or any) of the points I added tags to. But if you say so, I won't add cn tags to it. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:27, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Removal of large sections in numerous articles

Wikipedia:Verifiability requires only "any material challenged or likely to be challenged (NOT all material) must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation." Please adhere to "When tagging or removing material for lacking an inline citation, please state your concern that it may not be possible to find a published reliable source for the content, and therefore it may not be verifiable." References for the deleted part of Sita can be easily found and tagging would have been better option. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

This is the second comment iv got on Verification thing. Please note that I deleted as a part of WP:UNSOURCED not on verifiability accounts. Please guide me to the Wikipedia policy which allows us to add content without source (whether verifiable or not). If you are talking about Sita particularly, I won't remove the content again if you want. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:24, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Mandodari: WP:V also suggests one to "check to see whether the material is sourced to a citation elsewhere on the page." The opening statement of "Mother of Sita?" is a summary of the section ahead and backed by the completely referenced section ahead. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:28, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out on Mandodari. That was helpful. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:38, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, WP:UNSOURCED doesn't say that unsourced material must be removed. In fact, what it says is "When tagging or removing material for lacking an inline citation, please state your concern that it may not be possible to find a published reliable source for the content, and therefore it may not be verifiable" and then goes on to say, in a note, that "it is advisable to communicate clearly that you have a considered reason to believe that the material in question cannot be verified". None of this, of course, prevents you from going around deleting stuff but removing material that is generally uncontested (like the stuff you removed from Laksmana and earlier from Indian rebellion of 1857) without first trying to find a source, and doing so on a large scale, gives the impression that you're on some sort of mission. Especially when it is clear that you've made no attempt to try to find a source. That's never desirable on Wikipedia.--regentspark (comment) 16:36, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I'm not on any mission. Further, I read "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material" and "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." If it suits you to, I would not delete any unsourced info, although I would encourage you to check among hundreds of unsourced articles and scrutinise them as per "your opinion" which you consider as verifiable or sourced. At last I also read "Do not leave unsourced or poorly sourced material in an article if it might damage the reputation of living people[5] or existing groups, and do not move it to the talk page. You should also be aware of how the BLP policy applies to groups." Please consider WP:BURDEN before accusing me of anything. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:45, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Also please provide cites for Lakshmana and Rebellion page. I won't remove anything of them. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:53, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Modi

Capankajsmilyo, you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. It's not a question of praising or criticizing Modi but rather one of presenting substantive content on his tenure as prime minister. If you read the section as it is now, it consists almost entirely of one line sentences, sort of bullet points, on his initiatives and plans. That's not enough. The section should contain fewer specific initiatives and focus only on those ones whose outcomes have been analyzed in academic sources (unlikely because of the short time) or in the media (more likely). The way it is written now, it looks like fancruft and won't be taken seriously by the reader. Our article is actually doing a disservice to Modi because of the shallowness of the content. --regentspark (comment) 17:21, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

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Edits to Kannada poets

I noticed you have been adding templates to various Kannada poet articles. While often templates help bring value to an article, just throwing info that makes no sense into it only spoils the effort. For instance, can you prove that Raghavanka was not born in the 12th century? You claim Naraharitirtha was from the 13th century, but his compositions are from the 14th century. Practically every article you have touched has such mistakes. I suggest you make changes from "born" and "died" to "lived" and just put in the century when he wrote the classic/poems. This way there is no guess work. Often there can be disagreement among historians whether a classic was written in a century or the previous or the next. Just indicate that with "12th or 13th century". Also you are throwing in multile templates into each article throwing off the alignment. This is an eye sore. Please rectify your mistakes.Pied Hornbill (talk) 15:03, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Done -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:12, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi. As far as possible, use earliest year of publication when providing citations from ref books. Please don't create hanging uncited sentences when you create a "biography" section, which appears to be a repeat sentence from the lead. The hanging sentences tempts other users to drop "citation needed" tags that spoils the article.Pied Hornbill (talk) 01:45, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Seems like you are not aware of WP:Lede. Please have a look. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 02:31, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

I am aware of it. Just that your section on "biography" was redundant and also repetitive word to word. If you have new info about the poets biography, it makes sense to add a new section with fresh content. All you did was copy the same sentence with the original citation. Also, going from standard citation format to Stanford format did not improve the article. You are just creating edits with real no progress and opening up the article for tag from hasty users who don't know about WP:Lede. In wiki, it helps to take precautions.Pied Hornbill (talk) 03:03, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

WP:Lede: As a general rule of thumb, a lead section should contain no more than four well-composed paragraphs and be carefully sourced as appropriate.Pied Hornbill (talk) 03:10, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

WP:Lede: Because the lead will usually repeat information that is in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:28, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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Again, kudos for your work, do not be discouraged, please just familiarized yourself with how having very precise categories makes your articles even easier to find and more useful, and avoids cluttering the very general categories. With just a little study, this will become very second nature to you and make each new article you create stronger and more integrated into the system. Again kudos for your enthusiasm! MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:15, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for informing MatthewVanitas, will keep it in mind. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:48, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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Template:Current MPs of India

Pankaj, I noticed that you recently created this template. While the enthusiasm is appreciated, there are some issues here. According to WP:NPOL, every one of the 750+ Indian MPs are notable. A large number, if not all, have articles. Given that, the template you created is totally impractical. The topic is much better served by a category, or at most by a list. Vanamonde (talk) 04:12, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Why is it impractical? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:16, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Because, as I just said, it would need to have 788 entries, which is far too many to be useful. Vanamonde (talk) 04:57, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Converted (y) -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 06:52, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, but I don't understand your fascination with navboxes. Please, explain to me why this is not better handled as a sortable list, which can contain a lot more information: party, state, constituency, tenure, etc, etc. Vanamonde (talk) 08:05, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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Could you please help me with Draft:Nageshwar Parshwanath Tirth

Hello Pankaj Jain, Firstly, thank you for inviting me for WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge. I would like to ask you if you could help me with Draft:Nageshwar Parshwanath Tirth article that I am trying to start. That would be quite helpful.

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I have seen the article. You haven't added any WP:RS. Do you have any news report link or any book mentioning about the temple? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 14:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

I couldn't find many reliable sources for this article. There are some sites that suggest this temple for tourism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pratyk321 (talk • contribs) 15:14, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Moderation is quite strict here. I'm afraid without RS, you won't be able to get your article published. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 15:24, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

PageViews template

Hi Pankaj, I am not sure why you are putting the PageViews templates on the talk pages. It will only end up inciting all the POV pushers. Has this been discussed anywhere? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 18:55, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Should I not do it? Is this against some WP:POLICY? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count)

Not everything is against policy, some things are against common sense. You have, of your own volition, decided without any community input or attempt to discuss, that scores of talk pages require pageview graphs, when millions of talk pages don't have them. Why? You should revert these and seek consensus at each page you wish to modify, or in some central location, although where that might be, I'm not quite certain. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:19, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

I will be happy to initiate a discussion, any idea where to do it? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:20, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Since you are mostly addressing India pages, WikiProject India noticeboard would be the best place to discuss. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 20:01, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

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Pankaj, you were just asked to use edit-summaries, and here I find you editing on Template:Narendra Modi, again without using them. So let me ask you again. Please use an edit summary for each and every edit. The only obvious exceptions I can think of are when you use rollback, and when you are in your own userspace. Anywhere else, best practice is to use an edit-summary every time. This is especially true when making changes that could be disputed, because not leaving an explanation is a recipe for your intentions being misunderstood. Vanamonde (talk) 14:39, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Indeed Vanamonde93 it surprises me, after 7 years editing WP, that some editors blithely refuse to even acknowledge such simple requests. 220 of ^Borg 10:07, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Edit summaries that are misleading are possibly worse than none at all. I AGF, but could you please explain why your edit summary here, reads "Cleanup", possibly unnecessary, but fails to mention the addition of the {{Narendra Modi}} template? 220 of ^Borg 12:09, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

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What is this message about? Am I banned? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 15:21, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

No. Just a warning that you may end up topic banned. Now that I think about it, you do have an obsession with Modi and with templating in general. If you continue adding templates willy nilly, you will end up with some sort of ban - either a Modi specific one, or a template addition one, or both. Just be careful. --regentspark (comment) 15:59, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

I see I am not the only one who has noticed this. I mentioned the 'Modi templating' too, above, regarding failure to mention it in edit summaries. 220 of ^Borg 03:39, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Pankaj, I think I have said this before, but I will say it again. Even setting aside any obsession with Modi, you have a tendency to make vast numbers of gnomish edits, often without obvious purpose. These include creating impractical templates, and adding graphs to talk pages (both of which are issues that have been brought up above). Now they may not indvidually be against policy, but you need to remember that we are here to build an encyclopedia, and fundamentally that means writing content. There is, of course, a place for edits that organize and maintain that content, but frequently your efforts in this direction are misguided. You have the ability to write content; why not get back to that? Vanamonde (talk) 16:28, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

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Foreign policy of the Narendra Modi government

Hello again, Pankaj. I noticed that you've nominated Foreign policy of the Narendra Modi government for GA status. No I'm glad you're interested in improving that article, because it's an important topic. As of now, though, the article is liable to be quick-failed as soon as somebody opens the review. It is very far from meeting GA criteria 2 & 4, and the prose has issues, too. It has a notice about a lack of sources and that notice is unquestionably still valid. I would strongly suggest that you withdraw the nomination, and do the grunt work of preparing the article. It cannot have unsourced paragraphs, and it needs to be based on sources analyzing the substance of the policies. If you are interested, there are some sources in my sandbox. Vanamonde (talk) 04:15, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Vallabhbhai Patel

Thanks a lot Corinne -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 01:08, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

This cite does not exist. 200,000 is never mentioned in article

Failed link at Burhan wani page. The orginal article does not mention any number except tens of thousands. That cannot translate into two lakhs. Please file WP:ANI against @Kautilya3 who has been persistently trying to whitewash information on this page. Other include at @Mar4d. Military titles not allowed for militants and insurgents.Thank you.2602:30A:C7D7:E590:A4A2:9805:63B8:6794 (talk) 14:37, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Modi and sources

Pankaj, you need to carefully read WP:DUE before adding more content to the Modi page. It is not enough for a particular fact to be mentioned by a newspaper: if we added every such, the article would be enormous. The content currently in the article is not perfect. If you look at it carefully, though, you will notice that most things are cited to scholarly sources, which are of higher quality than the news media, and to international sources, which will (naturally) be better at judging the big picture because they are further removed. Indian media sources are generally used as supporting sources, or for details that incontrovertibly belong in the article, such as details of his early life or dates of specific events (like his inauguration). And I hope I don't need to remind you about BRD. Vanamonde (talk) 07:13, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Stop unhelpful edits, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball

Stop you edits, of redirects of and consider reading the issues, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, Wikipedia:CRYSTALBALL Junosoon (talk) 03:24, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bahubali

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I hope you don't mind me grabbing Bahubali as well. It's very close to GA-status. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:04, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bahubali

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Your GA nomination of Jainism

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Good work so far! Just let me know when the tags are dealt with, and I'll give it another go-over. As I said, we should probably accept this'll take a bit; it's a big, detailed article - but I'm here for as long as it takes to get it to GA, and a decent ways towards FA. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the support n help Adam Cuerden -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 03:27, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Let me know when you're ready forr the next part of the review. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:35, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Just 2-3 cn tags left. Will try n resolve asap. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 02:38, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Rishabhanatha

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Part two of the review is up. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:26, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jainism

The article Jainism you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Jainism for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:20, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

I suspect we'll go way over 7 days; honestly, so long as you're willing to put the work in, I'm happy to shepherd this through. I've done a few featured articles, so I think I can push this to the point where it can get to that state; it doesn't seem that far off, but, as tends to happen in long articles, the last few sections get neglected. I can probably help with this, if you want me to? I can summarise, but you'll need to provide citations and correct any mistakes by me or the articles I'm summarising. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:43, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

That would be great. Will provide citations for sure. Please go ahead. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 02:40, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Roshen Dalal

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hi

Hi, I saw you are in the wikiprojects indian television and was wondering what you could do with this hot mess of an article: Hare Kkaanch Ki Choodiyaan - thanks. EDIT: Somebody has already gotten to it. Sorry! --Jennica✿ / ^talk 23:56, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

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Shiva GAR

G'day, if you get a free moment, would you mind returning to the Good Article Re-assessment for the Shiva article, and stating whether you are happy for the review to be closed? Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:23, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Vishuddhasagar

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Your GA nomination of Sallekhana

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Happy New Year Capankajsmilyo!

Happy New Year!

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Wikipedia:WikiCup

Hi! Am not sure if you have notice it or not, but the annual editing competition Wikipedia:WikiCup has started and the signup is open till 5 February 2017. The cup encourages content improvement and tries to make editing on Wikipedia more fun; and it did that for me last year. I have hence decided to drop this friendly note hoping that you would take part. Although the signup ends on 5th Feb, the earlier you sign in the earlier you start scoring. Happy New Year and Happy Editing! §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 08:30, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate

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Your GA nomination of Sallekhana

The article Sallekhana you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Sallekhana for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dharmadhyaksha -- Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 10:40, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Reminder. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 05:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Preceding name before signature

Hi,I have noticed that you are preceding a text -- Pankaj Jain, before your signature, during talk pages. Kindly refrain from adding text on wikipedia, which cannot be verified or are ambiguous, in nature, !. I donot know what, -- Pankaj Jain means?, because that is not your user name , if it something related to you, then please donot write any promotional content about your self on talk pages, thanks?Junosoon (talk) 05:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

It is not promotional to add your real name in front of your signature: a large number of people do so, or have done so, including several administrators. If Capankajsmilyo used this real life identity to claim any expertise on Wikipedia, it may become an issue: but I see no evidence that they have done that. Vanamonde (talk) 06:53, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93:, @Capankajsmilyo:, I did not say, that text content -- Pankaj Jain, was real name, but ambiguous text, used, which cannot be verified?, and why is it being used?, if the text is used as something promotional, is still a question?. I think the User:Capankajsmilyo will clarify better. Thanks.Junosoon (talk) 07:33, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

It is my real name. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 08:02, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Capankajsmilyo: If that is your real name, I will advice you to use, it only on your user page, not not in related articles which you have created [13],[14], also it is giving impression of two signatures, which is confusing and not advisable.Thanks. Junosoon (talk) 09:50, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) As some part of your signature; whether it be your real name or my grandfather's name, is unlinked, it might be creating confusion to Junosoon and he might be getting impression that these are two signatures. But I do not see anywhere in WP:SIG that all parts of signature have to be wikilinked. Also, I do not see where Capankajsmilyo has used his signature on a non-talk page; whoever is the creator of that non-talk page is immaterial. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 11:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

• Drive-by comment: I don't think there's anything wrong in adding your real name (or any pseudonym)to your signature but as DD says above the form of your signature, especially with the length is quite distracting as it occupies almost an entire line and the unlinked part splits off when there's insufficient space. I would suggest getting rid of the unnecceary contribs/count links and keep it simple like "Pankaj Jain (Capankajsmilyo) -- (talk)" or some such thing, linking Pankaj Jain to your user page so that it doesn't cause any confusion if the signature splits. The contribs and counts don't serve any purpose as anyone can find it out by just hovering over your signature. Shorter signatures make it easier for people to figure out who it is, especially on mobile screens where your current signature is more than one line! cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 14:02, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Additional customs duty listed at Redirects for discussion

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DYK nomination of Bahubali

Hello! Your submission of Bahubali 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) 13:29, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Bahubali

On 6 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bahubali, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jain figure Bahubali is said to have meditated motionless in a standing posture for a year, during which time climbing plants grew around his legs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bahubali. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bahubali), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Category:Indian monks by century has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Indian Jain monks by century has been nominated for discussion

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Syed Aman Mian Shrma

I need an explanation as to why you created Syed Aman Mian Shrma. Nick (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello Nick, I just created the page because he is one of the actors of a TV series. Anything wrong? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 23:57, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, the sources are unacceptable, the page title was wrong (the correct page title was protected to prevent re-creation) and you ignored consensus of the AfD by creating the page. You should also be aware that every single iteration of the article has been created by someone who has been paid (using the same sources you used) and that vast numbers of paid editors have pushed this page at a variety of titles (including this title, as late as yesterday). So yes, there's lots that is wrong, and at present, the concern is that you're involved in the undisclosed paid editing which has tried to force this article on Wikipedia. If you have been paid, you need to declare it, if you've been asked by another editor to create the page on their behalf, you must tell us, otherwise you're in danger of being blocked for undisclosed paid editing, undisclosed conflicts of interest and possibly meat/sock puppetry. Nick (talk) 00:09, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I haven't been paid by anybody. But, yes the person asked me once. I googled and found a few sources, so I initiated the page. I wasn't aware of all this, nor could I find any discussion about it. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 00:40, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

If you have a username of the person who contacted you, we will need to know it. The original article was at Syed Aman Mian Sharma and the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Aman Mian Sharma. The sockpuppetry pages (where you should divulge all that you know about this article) are at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theactingeeker and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theactingeeker/Archive. Nick (talk) 00:53, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I was not contacted on Wikipedia, so won't be able to help you with username. I'll go through all the discussions, thanks for sharing. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 00:55, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Categories

Please don't add non-existent categories as you did eg here. Categories are not like articles, they should not be created as red links, per WP:NOTRED. To see the result, why not try helping to reduce the backlog at Special:WantedCategories? You might want to have a read of WP:Overcategorization - in general we want categories of 30-50 articles rather than 3-5, so it is often better to have an article in separate, more general categories such as Category:Jain monks and Category:12th-century monks and then use a WP:Category intersection tool to find 12th-century Jain monks. Le Deluge (talk) 17:15, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
• Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
• 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
• Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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Deletion of tagged content

Hi Pankaj, I think we have been through this before, but you might have forgotten. Do not delete content tagged for citations unless you have good reason to believe that it is not verifiable. Have you spent any effort to find the citations for the content you deleted at Bharata (emperor)? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 00:46, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

WP:BURDEN? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 00:52, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Jainism/GA5

Capankajsmilyo, reviewer User:Adam Cuerden has not posted to this review since last year, and this is the second-oldest nomination out there. If you'd like, I can put the nomination back into the pool of nomination awaiting reviewers. Since this is such an old nomination, given that the GA Cup is in its final two weeks, it seems likely that a reviewer will pick this one because it comes with extra bonus points for being so old. I'm happy to do this if you'd like me to. Please let me know your preference. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:28, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Please add it to the pool, thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:45, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Rishabhanatha/GA1

Capankajsmilyo, normally I'd offer to do the same with this nomination, but you haven't indicated whether you've addressed the majority of the issues raised in Adam Cuerden's original review. If you still haven't, then probably the best thing to do is close it. If you have, we should probably put it back into the pool of nominations waiting for a reviewer. Please let me know how this one stands. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:32, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Please it back to the pool, the last time I checked, issues were all addressed -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 04:46, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Indian Jain monks by century

Following the decision at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_24, please would you help to implement the decision? I have done some of the categories, and listed the remainder at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Working/Manual#Multiple_merge_targets. – Fayenatic London 22:47, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Never mind, I finished it. – Fayenatic London 22:16, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Symbols

Re: this and similar edits. The AAP "broom" symbol was deemed to be unacceptable per policy at various discussions a couple of years ago. I doubt that the BJP symbol is any different because it has the same ECI origin. You'd probably be best reverting. In fact, an awful lot of your recent edits to political articles are dubious per past consensus etc. - Sitush (talk) 01:13, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Would you please refer me to those consensus discussions? And BJP symbol is the one I have used as per commons and Election commission of India. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 01:49, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Re-initiating INCOTM

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Re-initiating INCOTM

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Wiki Loves Indian defence services

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March 2017

Your addition to Faridabad has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:14, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I see that last year you were asked by Diannaa to clear up your copyright violations. What point is that at? Because whatever has been done, it's not yet enough, as is shown by the amount of copied text added by you to Faridabad and not until now removed. I see that you've had plenty of time for other edits. I think the copyright clean-up should take precedence over those. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:05, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

I had tried and cleaned it up. I don't know how this one was left. Is there a way to get a list of copyrighted items left? I am sure there won't be much. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 00:38, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

FYI

Hi there, re: this edit, Template:Infobox actor is an alias for Template:Infobox person. There's no actual benefit to making this change, since it requires the Wikipedia servers to redirect to Template:Infobox person anyway. This may even cause page rendering delays, if even for a fraction of a second. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:01, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Question

Eagle2468 (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2017 (UTC) Jai Matha Bhavani! wat do u think of wikipedia? pls let me know ASAP on my talk page! thank u.

Discussion to restart Indian collaborations of the month.

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Your GA nomination of Rishabhanatha

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Rishabhanatha you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ThatGirlTayler -- ThatGirlTayler (talk) 00:40, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination

@Capankajsmilyo: I have completed the first section of the checklist for the article Rishabhanatha please correct any errors that I listed, so we can move on to the next section and get through the process in a fast and timely manner. ThatGirlTayler (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Rishabhanatha

The article Rishabhanatha you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Rishabhanatha for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ThatGirlTayler -- ThatGirlTayler (talk) 00:20, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of World Sufi Forum for deletion

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Your GA nomination of Rishabhanatha

The article Rishabhanatha you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Rishabhanatha for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ThatGirlTayler -- ThatGirlTayler (talk) 22:22, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Chaulukya to Solanki

Respected sir

I want to you to change the article heading Chaulukya back to Solanki as very few people are familiar with the word Chaulukya and even Google results for Chaulukya describe 'did you mean Chalukya' it is an NRI who had edited the prestigious history of history converting Solanki to Chaulukya ; please read about this topic and see to new changes ; actually I'm a new user and I'm not familiar with wikipedia features but I know alot about history and I even find you also a knowledgeable person , please help.
Your thankful  Kunal Singh Solanki Nathawat (talk) 07:10, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jainism

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jainism you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Shaded0 -- Shaded0 (talk) 15:40, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi talk:Capankajsmilyo, please respond to my comments regarding unresolved cleanup and maintenance tags per Talk:Jainism/GA6 and let me know your availability to review this. Since there are previous reviews, I mainly wanted to discuss and see if issues on Talk:Jainism/GA5 have been resolved. Please let me know and I will continue on reviewing this article. Thanks. Shaded0 (talk) 17:46, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [15]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [16]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [17]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (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 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Jainism

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Jainism has been completed.

I took the liberty of removing the update tags in several sections. It seems to me that they already include enough general information that is an appropriate for the article. Others may not agree,

In the "Community" section some interesting data is included from a 2001 Indian census. This should certainly be updated with the latest figures.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Good luck with the GA nomination.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:11, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Twofingered Typist. I guess you are referring to literacy data in community section. Unfortunately GOI did not publish religious literacy data in 2011 census. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 02:36, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo I was. I thought it was interesting, but I can see why any government today might decide that gathering this sort of information might potentially be more trouble than it's worth. I added a little clarification to explain the age of the data. Regards. Twofingered Typist (talk) 11:44, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Rishabhanatha

Hello! Your submission of Rishabhanatha 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) 23:19, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sallekhana

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sallekhana you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Aircorn -- Aircorn (talk) 02:00, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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 add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [19]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [20]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [21]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 18 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [22]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [23][24]

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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Jain philosophy

Hi, I noticed you made some edits to the article after I did the review. Please feel free to nominate articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests before placing them back on the GA nomination list. This will help improve the articles you nominate to GA tremendously, as they will conform with our Wikipedia:Manual of Style. The biggest issues I see are unsourced paragraphs/sections and very short paragraphs. Bullets in introductions aren't standard either. I usually try to use Featured Article styles as reference to how GA articles should "look". Let me know if you have any questions. ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 02:10, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Revert vandalism first

Hi Pankaj, when you see an article having been vandalised, like Hizbul Mujahideen today, please revert it first before doing further edits. I have had do a big revert to an old version, because your edits interfered with a plain undo. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 16:41, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Will try and keep that in mind. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:52, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

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

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [25]
• When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [26]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [27]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [28]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [29]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (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 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Rishabhanatha

On 25 April 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rishabhanatha, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rishabhanatha (statue pictured), the traditional founder of Jainism, was said to be born in the age when there was happiness all around with no work for men to do? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rishabhanatha. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rishabhanatha), 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) 00:04, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Please remove wikidata linking and addition of undiscussed fields in all templates

I strongly recommend that you self revert all your template changes that link wikidata or add new undiscussed fields into infoboxes. If you get community consensus, after due invitation, affected projects notifications and participation, then such changes to the infoboxes may be appropriate. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 13:16, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Gaurav Bhatia for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gaurav Bhatia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaurav Bhatia until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Uncletomwood (talk) 18:13, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Jainism GA Review

Hi, I have place the GA review on hold pending a few outstanding issue with prose and a few sections for expansion or other issues. If you have any comments please feel free to post any updates to the review page. Thanks again for taking the time on this, I believe it is pretty close and should be addressable. Let me know any clarifications if you need. Shaded0 (talk) 16:26, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jainism

The article Jainism you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Jainism for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Shaded0 -- Shaded0 (talk) 16:40, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jainism

The article Jainism you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Jainism for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Shaded0 -- Shaded0 (talk) 15:03, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
• 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
• Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
• Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [30]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [31][32]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [33]
• The Publish changes, Show preview and Show changes buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [34]

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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sallekhana

The article Sallekhana you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sallekhana for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Aircorn -- Aircorn (talk) 22:41, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Capankajsmilyo. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 18:10, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

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

Problems

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Hide categorization of pages in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [35]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [36]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [37]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 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 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [38][39]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [40][41]

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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Sita

Hi. Can you please explain why are you removing category Indian people from the article? Thanks. - Ind akash (talk) 10:26, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

No historic proof. She is a character in Ramayana. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 10:51, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much for explanation. Can you please also explain why have you removed WikiProject Jainism from the article's talk page. Thanks - Ind akash (talk) 12:02, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Not a primary topic of Jainism. Plus, not much stated in article about Jainism. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 12:03, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much. It was nice to talk to you. Ind akash (talk) 12:07, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20

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

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [42]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [43]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [44]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [45]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [46][47]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [48][49]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [50][51]

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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sallekhana

Hello! Your submission of Sallekhana 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) 21:52, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Desingh

Thanks for editing this article. You added a link to Swarup Singh however that was a different king. I'll try and create a stub though there is not much info about Swarup Singh of GingeeSupcmd (talk) 00:47, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Shri Shantinath Temple and Seva Sansthan, Sangamner.

I had earlier CSDed the article for A7, and it was deleted then. The user went back to create it at AfC where it was rejected again. She then bypassed AfC and had it created, with the same problems as before. I am no authority on Jain Mandirs, and I don't want to seem bitey on the newbie. You seem to be the person knowledgeable in this field. Please take a look at the article, and see if it can be salvaged. If not have it deleted, and reason it with her as I feel she desperately wants this article on Wikipedia. Jupitus Smart 03:48, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

So what do you suggest. Is the mandir notable enough to merit an article? Jupitus Smart 05:33, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Can't justify the notability without reference. Ask her to add sources verifying notability, else go for deletion. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 06:03, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll ask her, and see what she has to say. Jupitus Smart 06:24, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Happy to help. :D -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 06:25, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [52]

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22:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Sallekhana

On 27 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sallekhana, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sallekhana is a religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sallekhana. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sallekhana), 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.

Mifter (talk) 00:02, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Leetul Gogoi

The article Leetul Gogoi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A case of WP:BLP1E

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gbawden (talk) 08:06, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

To be quite honest, this is probably better off as an article about the incident. The officer himself is not likely to be notable without it, and so this is a case of BLP1E. Vanamonde (talk) 08:01, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

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

Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [53]

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 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [54]

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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Template:Infobox person/Wikidata

With this series of edits, you changed the infobox from opt-in to opt-out. There is no consenus for that sort of dramatic change. The only way in which we are ever likely to gain consensus for infoboxes fetching Wikidata is if we can show that the infobox can be implemented on articles without changing anything in the article in the first instance. That is hugely important for infoboxes that could potentially be used in a large number of articles, but it does mean that an editor at each article has to take responsibility for activating the fetching of Wikidata by the positive action of supplying the |fetchwikidata= parameter and giving it a value. I hope you understand. --RexxS (talk) 15:09, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

AAP government advertisement controversy

Pankaj, an article of this sort is a very questionable standalone piece. What we really need is an article about the AAP government, of which this can be a part. Lacking that, this article just looks like muckraking. Vanamonde (talk) 11:01, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Leetul Gogoi for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Leetul Gogoi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leetul Gogoi until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Gbawden (talk) 09:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [55]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [56]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [57]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [58]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [59]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [60]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [61]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [62]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [63]

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 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [64][65]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [66]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:05, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [67]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [68]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (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 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [69]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [70]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [71][72]

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15:30, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Your question about bots on the Teahouse

I am way behind on the archives, but you never got a response to your question over a month ago about bots. I think that type of question can be answered at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:39, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata infobox makes article worse

Please don't replace standard infoboxes with Wikidata infoboxes if they are less complete or sourced than the original version, as you are thereby making the article actievly worse. You have been reverted twice at Prachi Desai, and you have done the same at e.g. Sidharth Malhotra or Evelyn Sharma. Using Wikidat to make enwiki better may be defensible (though never necessary), but using it to make enwiki worse is not really acceptable. Fram (talk) 06:45, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Mewar I

Template:Mewar I has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 06:14, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata infoboxes

Hi Capankajsmilyo. The WD infoboxes you've recently made are mostly wrappers for the standard template. The end goal is to have Wikidata in the main template, not as a side template. Just a heads up – it's easier to copy the template, change it, then move that code back to the main one, instead of making a wrapper. Thanks, Laurdecl ^talk 06:34, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

According to the discussions going on at present, it seems unlikely that the objective will be achieved anytime soon. Till that time it's better to have wrappers, since the changes in main template gets incorporated automatically. Thanks for informing though. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 08:44, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

What I mean is that we have Wikidata in the main infobox as opt-in, so articles won't be changed unless fetchwikidata=ALL is specified. The goal is to have all infoboxes with the ability to fetch from Wikidata and automatically, without the editor using a special template. Laurdecl ^talk 07:28, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

That's working in wrapper as well. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 14:03, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [73]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [74]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [75]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (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 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata infoboxes

Hi there, re: this edit, would you please be so kind as to edify me on where consensus was established to replace infoboxes with Wikidata infoboxes? I'd like to read up on the rationale, since I can imagine problems arising with referencing, since it's often useful to have references in infoboxes. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:23, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

@Cyphoidbomb: There isn't. There was an RfC that found consensus to modify infoboxes to use Wikidata (Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikidata Phase 2), but not to actually replace infoboxes in articles. We are working on importing references from Wikidata at Template:Infobox person/Wikidata. Eventually this template will be merged with Template:Infobox person (Wikidata usage will remain optional, of course). Thanks, Laurdecl ^talk 07:37, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

I asked Capankajsmilyo above already not to replace a standard infobox with a /Wikidata one unless it clearly made the article (well, the infobox) better, but they haven't responded. They are introducing the infobox on other articles for no good reason at all though (e.g. here and the similar edits they made around the same time. Capankajsmilyo, please stop making these replacements, there is no consensus for them and they don't improve the article one bit (while adding to the risk of undetected vandalism). Fram (talk) 09:38, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Pankaj, you've been warned about being insufficiently communicative before. The chance that you have actually not seen these messages is nonexistent. Please make it a point to respond; it is common courtesy, if nothing else. Vanamonde (talk) 12:31, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

• It slipped somehow from my list. It could be a good idea to start a discussion on replacing infoboxes in that case. First thing could be to replace image with Wikidata image, since Nikki is opposing on adding anything and everything on Wikidata template. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 14:07, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
  • And why would we replace an image decided locally with an image decided on another website, where it would supposedly apply to all wikilanguages? What's the actual benefit of doing this? If we already have an image in the infobox, there is no reason to replace it with whatever is the Wikidata image by default. Fram (talk) 14:21, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
• It would be good to discuss this on {{Infobox person/Wikidata}}. You can raise your issues there, so that everyone can share theirs. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 14:26, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
  • No, this is not about whether that template should have the possibility to fetch the image from Wikidata, but whether you should be changing articles which already have an image in the local infobox, to the Wikidata infobox and to get the image from there (or the thing you are already doing, replacing the local title of the article in the infobox with the Wikidata label, prviding no benefit and added vandalism risk). It is not about what the template can do, but about how you apply it. Fram (talk) 14:30, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

That is why I said that it would be a good idea to start discussion on whether infoboxes should be replaced, if yes, how. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 15:04, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Well, that's not really what you said, but anyway, that's not a discussion for the /Wikidata subpage, but for at least the main infobox person page, and preferably a page like WP:VPPR, to ensure general participation, not just the people most interested in Wikidata. Fram (talk) 15:11, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

• Please stop. All you are doing is giving Fram more possible material for the next TfD; I can imagine it now – "This infobox is being added all over random articles, here are seven examples of minor typos that I've spent nine and a half hours looking for!" (with pictures). Once this template is merged with infobox person, the ability to fetch from Wikidata will be on millions of articles (opt-in, presumably). This is the point I'm making about wrappers: having a separate /Wikidata template is only intended for testing, the end goal is to incorporate it into the main infobox. You will end up being blocked, and making more people hostile to a reasonable inclusion of Wikidata in articles that can benefit from it. Help us improve the infobox to the point where it is production-quality. There is a lot of work to do. Laurdecl ^talk 06:46, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

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 <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [76]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [77]

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 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [78]

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15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Meat in India

The article Meat in India has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Reads like an essay. WP:NOTESSAY

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gbawden (talk) 10:11, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27

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

• There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [79]

Changes this week

• Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [80]

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15:32, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Request for openion

Article Legitimacy (criminal law) has been requested to be moved to Legitimacy (law) requesting your openion at Talk:Legitimacy_(criminal_law)

Thanks and regards

Mahitgar (talk) 05:43, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28

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

• There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [81]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (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 11 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [82]
• We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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15:07, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

DIPP

Pankaj, can you please explain why you created a redirect from Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (India) to DIPP, a page about a Nigerian musician? Vanamonde (talk) 13:41, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I was going to create DIPP (disambiguation) and the mentioned page. But got stuck in some work. Please delete that for now...will need some more time. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 03:34, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I've deleted it. Vanamonde (talk) 05:31, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-29

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

• "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [83]

Problems

• On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [84]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (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 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [85] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [86]

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23:00, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

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

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [87][88][89]
• .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [90]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
• It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [91]

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 25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

• New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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15:58, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31

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

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [92]
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [93]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 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 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [94]

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21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Syama Prasad Mukherjee you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Haxwell -- Haxwell (talk) 20:40, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32

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

• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [95]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [96]

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [97]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [98]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [99]
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [100][101]
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [102][103]

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21:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Chandragupta Maurya

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Chandragupta Maurya you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ssriram mt -- Ssriram mt (talk) 18:00, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

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

• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [104]

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [105][106]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Chandragupta Maurya

The article Chandragupta Maurya you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Chandragupta Maurya for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ssriram mt -- Ssriram mt (talk) 02:41, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34

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

Recent changes

• You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [107][108]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [109]
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [110]
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [111]
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [112]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 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 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Investment

Hey there! I just re-launched the WikiProject Investment.

The site has been fully revamped and updated and I would like to invite you the project.

Feel free to check out the project and ping me if you have any questions.

I'd like to invite you to join the Investment WikiProject. There are a lot of Investment related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help get this project off the ground and a few Investment pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks!

Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 10:52, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

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

• Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [113][114]
• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [115]

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [116]

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications. [117]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 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 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [118]
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [119]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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22:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-36

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

Tech News

• We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.

Recent changes

• The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [120][121]

Problems

• Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps. [122]

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [123]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (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 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [124]

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22:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Do not delete content and cite unsourced as the reason

There's a better way, Add a citation needed tag. ShotgunMavericks (talk) 10:03, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37

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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [125]
• The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [126]
• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [127]

Problems

• Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [128]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [129]

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19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-38

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 contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [130][131]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [132]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (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 19 September 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 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Infoboxes

You have been trying to change the basic parameters in an Infobox. This article may be of use to you: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 14:50, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2017

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Tech News: 2017-39

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

• Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [133][134]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [135]

Changes later this week

• You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [136]
• Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [137]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (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 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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16:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election

Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:16, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Vyaghra

Hello Sir, Can you review my article Vyaghra Gotra. its pending for approval. please help me. Kshatriya1995 (talk) 11:16, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40

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 use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [138]

Changes later this week

• If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [139]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [140]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [141]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (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 3 October at 19:00 (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 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [142]
• The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Mahavira

Hello, Capankajsmilyo. You'll have seen that I have completed the copy-edit you requested at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests for Mahavira. I'm sorry it took me so long. The weather has been great, and I've been enjoying being outdoors and have been busy. I left a number of "clarification needed" tags with accompanying hidden notes to editors (i.e., you), which you can remove when you've resolved the issues. Let me know if you have any further questions or need help formulating a sentence. I just have one thing I want to mention: normally, in articles other than those on technical or mathematics topics, I write out numbers below a hundred in full ("twenty-four" instead of "24"), but since this article contains so many ordinal numbers ("22nd", "23rd", 24th"), I thought it would be more consistent if I used the number instead of the word for cardinal numbers also (22, 23, 24). Miniapolis, do you concur, or would you write out the words for the numbers in full – and, if so, cardinal only, or both cardinal and ordinal? I changed one short list to paragraph form; the MoS discourages lists unless absolutely necessary and appropriate.  – Corinne (talk) 17:33, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Corinne. Yes, I agree; according to MOS:NUMERAL they can be written either way, and consistency is best. Miniapolis 00:55, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Corinne. The article is looking much better now. I'll try n resolve the tags asap and will try to renominate it when the cooling period ends. Thanks for such a great work once again. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 00:26, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

You are welcome. Glad to help.  – Corinne (talk) 16:08, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I cannot stop you from nominating the article again. If you want it to pass, though, you should probably be addressing the major issues raised in previous FACs; depth of coverage, prose written from the perspective of a believer, and image licensing. Copy-editing is helpful but is not going to fix those things. Vanamonde (talk) 04:09, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Syama Prasad Mukherjee you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Daniel Case -- Daniel Case (talk) 06:20, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41

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 number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [143]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [144]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [145]

Changes later this week

• The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [146]
• If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (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 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Syama Prasad Mukherjee

The article Syama Prasad Mukherjee you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Syama Prasad Mukherjee for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Daniel Case -- Daniel Case (talk) 20:40, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

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

• When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [147][148]
• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

• There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [149]
• Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [150]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [151]

Changes later this week

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [152]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (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 17 October at 19:00 (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 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 24

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
• Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
• Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

• Humour: Guys named Ralph

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

• In the media: Facebook and poetry

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

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Your GA nomination of Syama Prasad Mukherjee

The article Syama Prasad Mukherjee you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Syama Prasad Mukherjee for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Daniel Case -- Daniel Case (talk) 04:02, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43

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 use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [153]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [154]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (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 24 October 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 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [155]

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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [156]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (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 31 October 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 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

List of Jains/wikidata

I have moved List of Jains/wikidata to User:Capankajsmilyo/List of Jains/wikidata for two reasons: subpages are not allowed in the mainspace, and literiabot pages are not allowed in the mainspace. Fram (talk) 09:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Adityavagarwal (submissions)
• Second Place - Vanamonde (submissions)
• Third Place - Cas Liber (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
• Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
• Featured List – Bloom6132 (submissions) and 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
• Featured Topic – MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
• Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
• Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
• In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
• Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [157]

Changes later this week

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (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 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [158][159]

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18:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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 diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [160]
• A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [161]
• Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [162]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (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 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [163]

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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Digambara

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Digambara you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Redtigerxyz -- Redtigerxyz (talk) 18:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Digambara

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WikiCup 2018

So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

• If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [164]
• The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [165][166][167]

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 21 November at 19:30 (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 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [168][169]

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19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 November 2017

• News and notes: Cons, cons, cons

• Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

• Technology report: Searching and surveying

• Interview: A featured article centurion

• WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects

• In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution

• Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate

• Featured content: We will remember them

• Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text

• Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)

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Tech News: 2017-48

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 test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [170]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [171]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [172]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (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 November at 19:30 (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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Train-the-Trainer 2018: Invitation to participate

Hello, it gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 26–28 January 2018.

• What is TTT?

Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

• Who should join?

An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.

Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project is eligible to apply.

An editor must have 500+ edits.

Anyone who have already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not apply.

Please see more about this program at: CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2018. Please fill this form to show your interest to join. The last date of signing up is 7 December 2017. If you have any question, please let us know.

On behalf of Titodutta. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 11:25, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Capankajsmilyo. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [173]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [174]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [175]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [176]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [177][178]

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 5 December at 19:30 (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 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [179]

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17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jainism

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jainism you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Katolophyromai -- Katolophyromai (talk) 01:20, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-50

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

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [180]
• A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [181]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [182]
• Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [183]
• Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [184]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (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 12 December at 19:30 (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 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 25

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017

• OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Korean and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jainism

The article Jainism you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Jainism for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Katolophyromai -- Katolophyromai (talk) 21:42, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (National Skill Development Corporation) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating National Skill Development Corporation, Capankajsmilyo!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

More independant refrences are needed for this article to support the organisations notability.

To reply, leave a comment on Nick Moyes's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

Nick Moyes (talk) 16:55, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 December 2017

• Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up

• Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind

• Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017

• In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more

• Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors

• Gallery: Wiki loving

• Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures

• Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"

• Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech

• Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys

• Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator

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Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [185]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

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 19 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2018!

Hello Capankajsmilyo, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2018. Happy editing, —MBL Talk 05:54, 25 December 2017 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Tech News: 2018-02

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

• On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [186][187]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [188]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [189]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [190][191]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [192]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [193]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [194]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [195]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [196]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [197][198]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [199]

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 9 January at 19:30 (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 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)

Greetings,

It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [200]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [201]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [202][203]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [204][205]

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The Signpost: 16 January 2018

• News and notes: Communication is key

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Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [206][207]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [208]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [209]

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Tech News: 2018-05

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

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [210]

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 26

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
• Bytes in brief

Arabic and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:36, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Chyavana (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on Chyavana (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
• disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. feminist (talk) 06:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [211]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [212]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [213]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [214]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [215]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [216]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [217]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [218]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

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 6 February at 19:30 (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 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [219][220]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Supporting Indian Wikipedia Program resource distribution

In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:

(a) Support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and

(b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.

If you're an active Wikimedian, and interested to receive support from this project, please apply. It will take around 10 minutes of your time, and will ask descriptive questions about your contribution to Indic Wikimedia projects.

• Apply at: Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program#Apply for support
• Last date for submitting applications is 11th February 2018, 11:59 IST.

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Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [221][222][223]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [224]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [225]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [226]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

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 13 February 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 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [227]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Parshvanatha

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Parshvanatha you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Farang Rak Tham -- Farang Rak Tham (talk) 17:40, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Please let me know as soon as you are ready for this, so I can start the detailed review.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 13:08, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for starting the review Farang Rak Tham. I have started addressing the issues raised by you. Kindly start with the detailed review as soon as you like. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 18:55, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay, perfect.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 19:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

The detailed review has started some days ago. Will you be available to respond?--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 09:06, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Parshvanatha

The article Parshvanatha you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Parshvanatha for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Farang Rak Tham -- Farang Rak Tham (talk) 18:02, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [228][229]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [230]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [231]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [232][233]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

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 20 February at 19:30 (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 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [234]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Action needed :)

Hello! I am writing to you because your name is on the Tech Ambassadors list.

Per my previous message on your talk page on Meta, we're making some progress over getting a Phabricator workboard through which we can coordinate communal work. Please confirm that https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Capankajsmilyo is your account there, by adding it to the table on Meta. (Documentation is available if you want to create a new account.)

Finally, a friendly reminder to keep an eye on both your talk page on Meta and m:Talk:Tech/Ambassadors/List! Your voice matters and I want to make sure that we don't miss it. Thanks! Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:20, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Tech News: 2018-09

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

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [235]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [236][237]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [238]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [239][240][241]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [242]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [243][244]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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

Recent changes

• You can now make longer edit summaries. [245]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [246]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [247][248]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [249]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

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 6 March at 19:30 (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 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

Recent changes

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [250]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [251]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [252]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [253]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [254]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [255]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [256][257]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [258][259][260]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 13 March at 19:30 (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 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:43, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [261]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [262][263]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Start-Up India

Hi Capankajsmilyo, Appreciate your recent edits, however I would ask that you work with the content that I have already added, rather than deleting and re-writing over the top. If there was anything in there that you disagree with, then lets discuss it first please? Trent Roller 20:57, 21 March 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trent Roller (talk • contribs)

Project Tiger Writing Contest

In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:

• Sign up at: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Participants
• List of the articles can be referred at: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Topics
• Submit/report your articles/contributions at: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/project-tiger-2018-en
• For more details, rules, FAQ etc. kindly refer: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest

Looking forward your participation, all the best. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) at 22:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC).

Tech News: 2018-13

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Changes later this week

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [264] [265]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [266]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [267]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

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• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [268]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:03, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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Removal of sourced information in Digambara Terapanth

Dear Pankaj Ji, I note that you has removed information based on the article by Prof. Cort

John E. Cort "A Tale of Two Cities: On the Origins of Digambara Sectarianism in North India." L. A. Babb, V. Joshi, and M. W. Meister (eds.), Multiple Histories: Culture and Society in the Study of Rajasthan, 39-83. Jaipur: Rawat, 2002

You claims that that the text is unsourced. I should mention that Prof. Cort is among the best known scholars of Jainism. One of his sources was Buddhivilas, a widely used source on the subject, which was also cited.

Bakhtram Sah Krit Buddhivilas, Rajsthan Oriental Research Institute, Ed. Padma Dhar Pathak, 1964

What he has written is also supported by what Dr. Kasturchand Kasliwal, a distinguished author, write in his

"Khandelvaal Jain Samaj Ka Brihad Itihas", 1989, Ch 9, Samajik Itihas.

I have seen all of these personally. I have all of them. Malaiya (talk) 23:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Then you should add them as reference. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 02:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Pankaj ji: Why did you remove the text? It had cited the paper by Prof. Cort, and the Buddhivilas? Malaiya (talk) 02:32, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Restored, but try using better refs and writing style. Creating bullet points is not a good idea. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 02:43, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [269][270][271]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [272]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [273]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [274][275][276]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [277] [278]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [279]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [280]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [281]

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 3 April 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 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [282][283]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Jainsim

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Jainism has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:52, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Twofingered Typist. Will propose for GA soon. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 12:42, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Pankaj, the copy edit has addressed issues with grammar and spelling [284] but not the issues with clarity and neutrality that previous reviews have brought up. That is not what the GOCE works on; it is work the nominator is supposed to do. I am unable to understand why you cannot understand, after 3 (4?) failed reviews, that you need to fundamentally rewrite several pieces of the article, so that it is clear to a reader not well-versed in Jain philosophy, and is written from a point of view that is independent of Jain philosophy. What you really need to do is find a bunch of scholarly sources, read them, and rewrite the page based on what they say. I can't stop you from renominating the article; but if you do so without actually rewriting the problematic bits, the review will face the same issues as before. Vanamonde (talk) 12:47, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Vanamonde93 would you like to help in identifying such parts via tags? Capankajsmilyo (talk) 13:30, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

I haven't the time for a full review. Here's some examples: "connoting the path of victory in crossing over life's stream of rebirths through an ethical and spiritual life." This is in Wikipedia's voice, and it shouldn't be. "Rishabhanatha, who is believed to have lived millions of years ago" implies historians/scholars believe him to have lived that long ago; obviously untrue. That's a Jain belief. "The Jain Agamas suggest that Mahāvīra's approach to answering all metaphysical philosophical questions was a "qualified yes" (syāt)." This is incomprehensible to someone without a background knowledge of the subject. "Jainism also prescribes seven supplementary vows which include three guņa vratas ("merit vows") and four śikşā vratas." Again, very difficult to understand, and definitely needs further context.

After skimming the article again, I have to amend part of what I said earlier; there are enough good sources already in the article. They just need to be used, or others found, for sections such as the "reception" section (which is at this moment just a list of quotes) and the "Jains in the modern era" section, which is once again a collection of somewhat arbitrary facts, without secondary sources tying them together or attesting to their significance. Vanamonde (talk) 13:46, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hello, Thanks for adding the elevation info to the infobox in Template:Infobox Province of China (PRC). I added the highest elevation in Hubei, Henan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui and Hunan provinces to the infobox on those pages. My only question is, is there a way to add the name of the highest point to the infobox? Thanks again for your time! No one else knew how to help me! Thanks!! Geographyinitiative (talk) 05:16, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Everything can be done. But I won't recommend adding what's not in {{Infobox settlement}} Capankajsmilyo (talk) 05:59, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I have now added the highest point in every province in China to the infobox of the page for each province. But now there's the question of adding the name of the highest point to the infobox. If I add this "| elevation_max_point =" will it add the name of the highest point? I have no clue. Furthermore, I just tried to edit Ningxia, but failed- Ningxia is not a province, it's an autonomous region. Not sure why it failed. Geographyinitiative (talk) 09:40, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

You have been adding code along with text, I would suggest to remove that. Just value like "3556" is sufficient. Regarding name, I doubt {{Infobox settlement}} supports it. You can post a query on its talk page. If enough people support adding such a parameter, I would be happy to help. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 10:05, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: Your edit at Ningxia failed because you accidentally inserted parameter "elevation_max_m" into the text of parameter "area_footnotes". It has been fixed. --Neo-Jay (talk) 10:13, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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 pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [285]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [286]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [287]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [288]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [289]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [290]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [291]

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 10 April 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 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

給您的星章！

	原星章
	Thanks for adding max/min elevation parameters to the PRC Provinces Infobox template! Geographyinitiative (talk) 05:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome Capankajsmilyo (talk) 05:09, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-16

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

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [292]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [293][294]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [295]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [296]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Module:DigitLocalizer

Module:DigitLocalizer has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 17:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 27

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Chinese and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:50, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [297]
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [298]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (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 24 April 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 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [299]
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Merged and moved Khatushyam and the Khatushyam Temple Please take a look and feel free to update and improve. thanks. DBigXray 22:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again

• Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

• News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

• In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

• In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

• Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

• Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

• Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

• Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

• Discussion report: The future of portals

• Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

• Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

• Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

• Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

• Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

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Discretionary sanctions alert: discussions about the integration of Wikidata on the English Wikipedia

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding discussions about the integration of Wikidata on the English Wikipedia, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Alsee (talk) 01:32, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Regardless of your intent, concerns have been raised that posting Wikidata RFC link to Wikidata:Project_chat[300] was a de facto off-wiki advertizement to an audience with predictable partisan position on the issue. Please review the Canvass guidelines, with special attention to the Votestacking section. Please use more care in the future to avoid advertizing an RFC or other consensus process in a way which may be interpreted as an attempt stack the !voting in your favor. Alsee (talk) 01:36, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

What is this? Am I being blocked? Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 01:38, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

No. A notice does not imply not imply misconduct. Any editor can inform any other editor that discretionary sanctions exist in relation to a topic, for any reason or for no reason at all. Once an editor has been notified that discretionary sanctions exist in relation to a topic, administrators may impose sanctions if they view any future behavior as disruptive

Below the notice I explained my concerns, however my concerns carry no more weight than any concerns raised by any random editor. Alsee (talk) 01:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

What is your concern regarding my edits? That I informed Wikidata people that you think that their policies have loopholes? Or that I compared the several hundreds of votes on Portal RFC with a little above 50 votes on Wikidata RFC? As far as I remember, I suggested to advertise on Infobox and signpost. Are you suggesting that they will invite Wikidata supporters and hence my action is inappropriate just because you want to decide the vote (which applies to whole of English Wikipedia) without even informing whole of English Wikipedia? Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 02:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

The concern is that advertizing the RFC at Wikidata project chat falls under the Votestacking section of the Canvassing guidelines. It has the obviously predicable effect of summoning allies to stack the !voting. The canvassing guidelines explain what is appropriate advertizement, and what is not. Alsee (talk) 02:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [301]

Problems

• We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [302]

Changes later this week

• You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [303]
• When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [304]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [305]
• There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (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 1 May 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 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [306][307][308]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-19

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

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [309]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [310]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [311]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (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 8 May 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 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [312][313]

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16:27, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Acharya Vidyasagar

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Acharya Vidyasagar you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Barkeep49 -- Barkeep49 (talk) 16:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Acharya Vidyasagar

The article Acharya Vidyasagar you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Acharya Vidyasagar for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Barkeep49 -- Barkeep49 (talk) 17:01, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [314]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (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 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [315]

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22:22, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (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 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 May 2018

• From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

• Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

• Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

• Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

• News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

• Traffic report: We love our superheroes

• Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

• Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

• Humour: Play with your food

• Gallery: Wine not?

• From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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Delete

Could you nominate this page for deletion? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoj_Kumar_Chauhan_(Indian_civil_servant)

Don't think this lower service officer makes the cut for WP:Bio (2402:3A80:823:7C38:FFC7:DCB0:7F60:7EF6 (talk) 13:27, 26 May 2018 (UTC))

Tech News: 2018-22

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

• You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [316][317]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [318]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [319]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [320]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [321]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [322]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [323]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [324]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [325]

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 29 May 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 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [326]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [327]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [328][329]

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Wanderings of Acharya Shantisagar

His wanderings are very significant, and very well documented in detail in Diwakar's Charitra Chakravarti book. They had a significant impact on the practice of Jainism in the regions he visited. People remember his visit to their region. His arrival marked the return of the Digambar monks in the region after the gap of about 7-8 centuries. During this period, only the Bhattarakas headed the Jain institutions in much of India.

In Delhi's Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir, there exists a marble memorial commemorating his arrival in Delhi, the very first after a gap of several centuries. Please visit the memorial when you are in Delhi.Malaiya (talk) 00:18, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

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

• The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [330]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [331][332]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [333]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [334]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (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 5 June 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 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [335][336]

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [337]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [338]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [339]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [340][341]

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

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 12 June 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 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [342]

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 19 June 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 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [343][344]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [345][346]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [347]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 28

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018

• #1Bib1Ref
• New partners
  • Rock's Backpages
  • Invaluable
  • Termsoup
• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
• Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:33, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Vallabhbhai Patel

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Vallabhbhai Patel you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Carabinieri -- Carabinieri (talk) 17:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [348][349]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [350]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (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 26 June 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 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 June 2018

• From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking

• Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?

• Op-ed: What do admins do?

• Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania

• In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress

• Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page

• Featured content: New promotions

• Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed

• Traffic report: Endgame

• Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa

• Blog: Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey

• Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry

• Humour: Television plot lines

• Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors

• From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [351]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [352]

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 3 July 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 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [353]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [354]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [355]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [356]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [357]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [358][359]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [360]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [361]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [362]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [363]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (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 10 July 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 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [364]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [365]

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23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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

• You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [366]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [367]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [368]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [369]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (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 July 17 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 July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:00, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Vallabhbhai Patel/GA1

Hi, You nominated the article Vallabhbhai Patel for Good Article status. I have the started the review and raised a few issues, you have not replied. Are you still interested in pursuing this?--Carabinieri (talk) 22:25, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [370]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [371]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [372]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (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 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Vallabhbhai Patel

The article Vallabhbhai Patel you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Vallabhbhai Patel for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Carabinieri -- Carabinieri (talk) 16:21, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [373]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [374][375]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [376][377]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 31 July 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 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

• From the editor: If only if

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

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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. [378]

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. [379][380]

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)

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. [381]

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. [382]

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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. [383]

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 29

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018

• New partners
  • Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
• Wikimania
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

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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. [384]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [385]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [386]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [387]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [388]
• 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. [389]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [390]
• 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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The Signpost: 30 August 2018

• From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

• In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

• Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Special report: Wikimania 2018

• Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits

• Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work

• Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat

• Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies

• Humour: Signpost editor censors herself

• Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment

• From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words

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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

• Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
• Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
• Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
• Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Nova Crystallis, Iazyges, SounderBruce, Kosack and Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to 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, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [391][392]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [393][394]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [395]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [396]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [397]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [398]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [399]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [400]

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [401]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [402]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [403]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [404]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [405]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [406]

Changes later this week

• 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.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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 11 Septmber 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 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [407]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [408]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [409]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [410]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (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 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21:57, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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 preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [411]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (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 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox officeholder/party

Template:Infobox officeholder/party has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 11:55, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

• From the editor: Is this the new normal?

• News and notes: European copyright law moves forward

• In the media: Knowledge under fire

• Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom

• Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low

• Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile

• Gallery: A pat on the back

• Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains

• Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?

• Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle

• Essay: Expressing thanks

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Tech News: 2018-40

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

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [412][413]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [414][415]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (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 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

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 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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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [416]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [417]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 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.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:37, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [418]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [419]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [420]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [421]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Indian military history task force

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Indian military history task force created

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Tech News: 2018-43

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 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (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 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 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.

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 30

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

• Library Card translation
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

• Technology report: Bots galore!

• Special report: NPP needs you

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

• In focus: Alexa

• Gallery: Out of this world!

• Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

• Humour: Talk page humour

• Opinion: Strickland incident

• From the archives: The Gardner Interview

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Tech News: 2018-44

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [422]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [423]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [424][425]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2018-45

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 use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [426]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [427]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (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 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Mahavira

I see nobody replied to your request for a mentor. You might try looking through the list of mentors and finding someone on that list whose area of interest is not too far from your own, and asking on their talk page. Not everyone on that list necessarily watches the FAC talk page, so they may not have seen your post. Failing that, you can also look for people not on that list who have successfully taken similar articles through FAC, and see if they would be willing to advise you. Best of luck with the article. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:22, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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Recent changes

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [428]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [429][430][431]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (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 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [432]

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19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-47

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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [433]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [434]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [435]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [436]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [437]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [438]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (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 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [439]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

• From the editor: Time for a truce

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

• News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

• Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

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Tech News: 2018-49

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

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [440]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [441]
• You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [442]
• When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [443][444]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Train 18

On 9 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Train 18, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that India's newest train has no engine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Train 18. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Train 18), 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.

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Tech News: 2018-50

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 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (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 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [445][446]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [447]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Mahavira copyedit

Thanks a lot, Miniapolis Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 11:25, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Template:Wikidata Infobox

Please check the usage of Template:Wikidata Infobox in Helena Zeťová‎‎: I see some red ink (the word "Wikipedia" right under the photo, with text "⧼lang⧽:Helena Zeťová" in the hoverbox under the cursor pointing at this word), and even more when article is being edited. Staszek Lem (talk) 22:58, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [448][449]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [450]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [451]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (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 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [452]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Neminatha

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Neminatha you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Display name 99 -- Display name 99 (talk) 00:40, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

The Wikipedia Library

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• OAWiki
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Your GA nomination of Neminatha

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The Signpost: 24 December 2018

• From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

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• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

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• Essay: Requests for medication

• From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

FAC

Heartfelt apologies for taking so long to come back to you on the request you put on my talk page. I am finally free to follow it up, unless of course you have despaired of waiting and found another editor to discuss it with instead. Let me know here if you would still like my detailed comments and suggestions. Tim riley talk 19:10, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

I would definitely like that Tim riley Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 00:14, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Comments

At last I have studied the text of the Mahavira article. The length, and the proportions of the article seem to me well judged. Indeed I wonder how much use I can be in suggesting how to improve the article, because it seems to me not far off FA quality.

One point is about the lead. It is a cardinal rule in Wikipedia that the lead should (i) summarise all important points in the main text and (ii) contain nothing that isn't in the main text. As far as I can see you have satisfied both of those requirements, and so the three citations you have in the present lead can be removed, as the main text expands on the two points with due citations.

A second point is that an article will not survive FAC if there are query tags left undealt with. I have no idea whether the "contradictory" tag in the Nirvana and moksha is justified, but you need to deal with it. Likewise the "clarification needed" tags in Texts and Teachings.

A minor point is the ordering of the citations in the text. It is generally, though not unanimously, held that multiple citations should appear in numerical order. See the second paragraph of Historical Mahavira, where you have [21][2] and the third para of Birth – [45][4].

And that really is all I can find to suggest. I think it is a fine article and I hope you can steer it through FAC at a second attempt. I see that it was peer reviewed in 2015, and as it has changed a good deal since then, I think if I were you I'd put it up for peer review again. If you do, I'll lean on a few of my regular WP collaborators to look in and give you their comments. Please keep me informed of developments. Tim riley talk 16:40, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Tim riley. I have resolved the issues highlighted by you and proposed the article for peer review. Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 00:32, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [453]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [454]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [455]
• On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [456]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [457][458]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [459][460]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [461]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [462]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [463]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox character/Wikidata

Template:Infobox character/Wikidata has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:49, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Rajnath Singh

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Rajnath Singh you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Buidhe -- Buidhe (talk) 11:00, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Rajnath Singh

The article Rajnath Singh you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Rajnath Singh for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Buidhe -- Buidhe (talk) 11:22, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

• Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [464]

Recent changes

• The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
• https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

• When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [465]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [466][467]
• Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [468]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [469]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Prabalsagar

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A tag has been placed on Prabalsagar, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Tech News: 2019-05

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 Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

• When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [470]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

• Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

• In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

• News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

• In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

• Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

• Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

• Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

• Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

• Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

• Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

• News from the WMF: News from WMF

• Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

• Essay: How

• Humour: Village pump

• From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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Tech News: 2019-06

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

• It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [471]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (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 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:11, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

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 use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (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 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Parshvanatha copyedit

Thanks a lot Miniapolis Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 01:12, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

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

• When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [472]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (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 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [473]

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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09

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 a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [474]

Changes later this week

• When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [475]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (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 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• New and expanded partners
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2019

• From the editors: Help wanted (still)

• News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

• In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

• Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

• Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Binge-watching

• Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

• Gallery: Signed with pride

• Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

• Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

• From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

• Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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Tech News: 2019-10

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 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (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 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
• The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [476][477]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11

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

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

• Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
• Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [478]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [479][480]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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

• When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [481][482]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (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 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [483]
• Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:43, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [484]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [485]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [486]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [487]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (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 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

• From the editors: Getting serious about humor

• News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

• In the media: Women's history month

• Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding

• Featured content: Out of this world

• Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM

• Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations

• Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles

• News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive

• Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention

• From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

• Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37

• Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?

• In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch

• Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

• Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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Tech News: 2019-14

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

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [488]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (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 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Chandragupta Maurya

Thanks a lot Baffle gab1978 Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 17:16, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [489][490]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [491]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [492]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [493]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [494]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [495]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [496]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [497][498]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Mahavira

Did you still want to take this to FAC? I'm currently working on a few other article projects, but I have some time to help review if you were still looking to take it back to FAC soon. ceranthor 17:14, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

That would be great. Thanks a lot Ceranthor Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 17:16, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

No problem! Just a reminder - I can absolutely help with writing the content, but I know next to nothing about the topic material, and it looks like you've had some trouble at previous FACs with comprehensiveness concerns. Have you thought about ways to address that? ceranthor 15:53, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [499][500]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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

Recent changes

• The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [501][502][503]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [504]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [505][506]

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19:07, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [507][508]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [509]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [510]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [511]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [512]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [513]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

• News and notes: An Action Packed April

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

• Technology report: A new special page, and other news

• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

• Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

• From the archives: Portals revisited

• Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

• Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

• Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

• Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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MfD nomination of Portal:Narendra Modi

Portal:Narendra Modi, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Narendra Modi and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Narendra Modi during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

• Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
• Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
• Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
• Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, Ceranthor, Lee Vilenski, and Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:45, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [514]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (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 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ashwin Porwal

The article Ashwin Porwal has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article appears to be an attempted promotion created by an editor that has done the same for other individual doctors in India. See also WP:EXIST and WP:NOTDIRECTORY.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 17:40, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ashwin Porwal

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Tech News: 2019-20

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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

• The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [515][516]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [517][518]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (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 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [519]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [520]

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13:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 33

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
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Tech News: 2019-22

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

Changes later this week

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [521][522]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

• From the editors: Picture that

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• In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

• Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

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Ways to improve Ministry of Planning (India)

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Ways to improve Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

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Tech News: 2019-23

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

• You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [523]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [524]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [525][526]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [527]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [528]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of AirSwap for deletion

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Acharya Vidyasagar

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Acharya Vidyasagar has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I do not know enough about the subject to understand why the GA reviewer feels there are POV issues.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:35, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Twofingered Typist Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 04:45, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-24

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

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [529][530]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [531]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [532]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [533]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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