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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2015)

Two high divers in mid-air

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High diving

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Previous selections: Plain dress • Historic house

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Tech News: 2015-37

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 now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [1]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [2]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [3]

Problems

There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [4]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [5][6]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [7]
The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [8][9]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [10]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [11][12]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.

About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 00:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

Gallery: Being Welsh

Featured content: Killed by flying debris

Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity

News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article

Traffic report: Mass media production traffic

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2015)

Transection of a human head

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Head

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Previous selections: High diving • Plain dress

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Tech News: 2015-38

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 use the Wikidata query service. [13]
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [14]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [15][16]

Problems

There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [17]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [18]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [19]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [20]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?

In the media: Is there life on Mars?

Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?

Traffic report: Another week

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Bugle: Issue CXIV, September 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors, coordinator elections have begun
Articles: Abbasids to a Yugoslav monitor
Book reviews: Economics of warfare, Japan, and light horse
Op-ed: We can (not) advance
Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 05:08, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2015)

"Boy on white horse" by Theodor Kittelsen

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Scottish mythology

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Previous selections: Head • High diving

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Tech News: 2015-39

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

There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [21][22]
Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [23][24][25][26]
More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [28]

Problems

Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [29]
Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [30][31]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [32]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [33]
You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [34]
Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [35]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2015)

Personal finance – an example image of personal budget planning software

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Personal finance

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Previous selections: Scottish mythology • Head

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Tech News: 2015-40

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

In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [36]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [37]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [38]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [39]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [40]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [41]
MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [42]

Problems

Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [43][44]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [45]
The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [46]

Meetings

You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [47]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

The Center Line: September 2015

Volume 8, Issue S1 • September 2015 • About the Newsletter

Happy 10th Anniversary!

Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

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Speedy deletion nomination of D4nny

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A tag has been placed on D4nny requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania

In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism

Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators

Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?

Tech news: Tech news in brief

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2015)

An example of musical composition – Scherzo in A flat (Borodin) Play

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Musical composition

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Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [48]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [49]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [50]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [51]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [52]

Meetings

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

Future changes

Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption

Traffic report: Reality is for losers

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2015)

Costumed performers from the 2006 Bristol Renaissance Faire

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Costume

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Previous selections: Musical composition • Personal finance

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Tech News: 2015-42

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

The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [53]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [54]
Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [55]

Meetings

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

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16:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)