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Free Speech Flag

Hi there Davidwr, I hope you are doing well. :)

A few years ago you requested to the Wikipedia community, that someone create an article on the Free Speech Flag.

Just wanted to let you know I've gone ahead and created the article.

Now at: Free Speech Flag.

Enjoy,

— Cirt (talk) 18:12, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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. [1]
  • UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [2]
  • You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [3]
  • When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [4]
  • You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [5]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [6]
  • 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. [7]

Problems

  • Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [8][9]

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. [10]
  • 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. [11]

Meetings

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)

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. [13]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [14]

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. [15]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [16]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [17]

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

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Gabor B. Racz

Hi David - I'm in transit and limited to a cell phone. Regarding the Racz image, I asked for a local copy to be kept because of overzealous commons volunteers who keep trying to delete it. It doesn't hurt anything to keep a local copy so can't we just leave it as? Atsme📞📧 06:19, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 October 2#File:Gabor B. Racz.jpg for my reply to your comment there. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 19:13, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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Recent changes

  • The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [18]

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. [19]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [20]

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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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Picture for "Up Out My Face"

Please elucidate upon your comments that the single artwork serves better than the picture I uploaded? The single artwork just shows a repeated image of Carey standing in a box. It does not show her and Minaj breaking out of their packaging, as my file did, explaining the critical commentary.  — Calvin999 18:29, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Actually, for the purpose which you uploaded the image, the now-deleted file File:Up Out My Face Screenshot.png does a slightly better job than the artwork for the single, File:Up Out My Face Mariah Carey.png, for the very reason you state.
However, since File:Up Out My Face Mariah Carey.png is on the page already there is only a very small "value-add" by having both images on the page. This small "value-add" is not enough to allow the 2nd image to qualify as a non-free image in that article.
If I were forced to choose between having File:Up Out My Face Mariah Carey.png and the now-deleted file File:Up Out My Face Screenshot.png on the page, it's a no-brainer to go with the cover art for the single. Why? Because that image fits well within Wikipedia's longstanding practice of allowing official cover art for music singles and albums, and readers of the section about the music video who do not know what a "Barbie Doll box" looks like will be enlightened. If there was no official cover art for the single but the image File:Up Out My Face Mariah Carey.png was loosely associated with the single, I would seriously consider keeping the image that just got deleted and deleting File:Up Out My Face Mariah Carey.png. But as far as I know, that's not the case here.
For those talk-page stalkers out there, see Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 October 2#File:Up Out My Face Screenshot.png and this old version of Up Out My Face#Music video for context. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 04:30, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
What? Artwork is artwork. We aren't here to discuss which image we would choose for the single artwork, that is superfluous to conversation. Only artwork can go in the info box, and if there is artwork, we have to add it. I uploaded a file from the music video to give an image to support the critical commentary of them breaking free of their constraints, which is not the same as the artwork. Why did you vote to delete the music video shot from "H.A.T.E.U." when that has no artwork then?  — Calvin999 11:23, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
1) "If there is artwork, we have to add it" - no, we may add it. Unlike removing blatant copyright violations or other violations of Wikipedia policies, we as a community are under no obligation to add artwork to an infobox.
2) As to the artwork you uploaded, the text in the article already says "Carey and Minaj play different characters, include Barbie dolls who escape from their boxes". As I said in my since-struck remarks in the file's deletion discussion, I basically agree with both you and the editor who nominated the file for deletion: I agree with the nominator when I said "if this were an encyclopedia only an audience that knew what this packaging looked like then I would be saying 'delete.'" I agree with you when I said "While the segment is already described in the prose, I would argue that it is not adequately described to people who are unfamiliar with what 'Barbie-doll' packaging looks like, and 'adequately describing it' would take so many words that it would weaken the article as a whole." After making that remark, I realized there was already another image in the article that showed what a Barbie-Doll box looked like (that image also happened to be the cover art for the single), so the combination of that image and the text meant that item 3.a. of the Non-free content policy, which reads "Minimal number of items," would be violated if both non-free images and the sentence "Carey and Minaj play different characters, include Barbie dolls who escape from their boxes" all appeared on the page, since the single-cover (not free) plus the sentence (free) serves the same useful purpose as the deleted non-free image.
3) If I recall correctly, Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 October 2#File:H.A.T.E.U. Screenshot.png was a clip from a video in which the two artists were playing the piano. I saw no evidence that this particular clip (out of the many possible clips) would be identified by your average listener who was aware of the artists and aware of the existence of the video as being uniquely associated with that video. Therefore, it was a poor choice if it was to be used as cover art. In short - even if Wikipedia allowed non-free art without any restrictions, editorially I would have either tried to determine which image, if any, was strongly associated with the single (not the video) in the public mind. If there was no such image, or if that image didn't have anything to do with the video, then I would have repeated the process with the video. For the video, I would probably have settled on one of the 2 or 3 images I saw the publisher using in online promotional videos. But since Wikipedia has strong rules regarding non-free content, and since we are under no obligation to use non-free images even if they exist, I would be very hesitant to allow a non-free image for a video unless it was either clearly the official cover art for the video or it otherwise clearly satisfied Wikipedia's policies, in particular, "contextual significance," "no free equivalent" (in other words, if text you write yourself could, in principle, serve the same purpose, then don't use the image), and "minimal usage" (if another non-free image on the page serves the same purpose OR could serve the same purpose in conjunction with "free" content, then don't use the image). davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:35, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
No, the image for "H.A.T.E.U." was an inscription in the sand... I think you meant to say "Angels Cry".  — Calvin999 21:14, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

I no longer remember my entire thought process. Your best bet would be to start a discussion on the article's talk page, with a link to an off-Wiki copy of the image AND a link to the AFD, then make a very strong case why the AFD should be overturned. This will mean making a convincing argument that:

  • it does not "[fail] WP:NFCC#8 since the image is easily describable by words [part of the nominator's rationale for deletion]
  • removal is not detrimental for the article. [part of the nominator's rationale for deletion]
  • that the use of the image in the article will meet all of Wikipedia's non-free image use criteria [my comment saying I would conditionally support un-deletion]

If you can make compelling arguments and they are accepted by other editors including all participants of the deletion discussion, then a WP:Deletion review has a decent chance of being successful. However, other editors will wonder why you were not able to make the same arguments during the course of the AFD. One answer that will probably be accepted is "I didn't realize the burden of proof was on (or had shifted to) me." davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:47, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

  • Aren't all images describable by words? It's a wonder than any article even has an image. Preferably, we are to illustrate an article with media and I tried doing that with images with critical commentary. You voted to delete, so I am asking you. What I'm saying to you is what I said in the AFD's, but you nor anyone else replied. I actually replied to you directly in one of them, and you did not reply.  — Calvin999 08:48, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
    • Sorry it's taken time to get back to here - I read this earlier and didn't have time to reply then, and it got "marked as read" on my watchlist. Where is "mark as unread" when you need it :). Re: all images describable as words: Sometimes the relevant elements of an image can be described in a few words. Sometimes, it would take the full proverbial "thousand words" to do the image justice. Sometimes even that isn't enough. Can you provide a link back to the question in the AFD that I missed? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 04:00, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
      • It was the one for "H.A.T.E.U." that you provided a link to above.  — Calvin999 09:59, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
        • This one? Ah, I (mistakenly?) assumed the question was rhetorical. But honestly, there are many reasons, including perhaps being in a hurry or not having ready access to it as you are editing, that you might, for a period of time, not include cover art even if the artwork exists. So the literal answer to the question "If it had artwork, don't you think I would have included it?" is "not necessarily." Your very next sentence, "It was an airplay single, so it never got artwork," explained why you did not, so I assumed the question was rhetorical and didn't need a reply. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 00:11, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
          • The song was released 6 years ago. If there was artwork, I'm sure someone would have found it by now. Fact is, it never had one. We aren't getting anywhere here. You're not really listening to what I'm saying and I still think the reasoning you gave for the image for "Up Out My Face" is not valid and you still haven't answered what I asked about it being different to the artwork and worthy of inclusion.  — Calvin999 08:19, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
            • On the question of "what is different": Official cover art, if it exists, is more likely to be considered an "acceptable fair use image" than other images associated with a song or video. As to the difference of opinion regarding my comments on Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 October 2#File:Up Out My Face Screenshot.png, can we agree to disagree? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 14:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
              • That doesn't mean that images from music videos can't be uploaded. The artwork does not reflect the critical commentary given by critics saying that them breaking out of their packaging is a symbol of emancipation and freedom.  — Calvin999 08:21, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
                • Sometimes - as was the case with at least one of the recent AFDs, the combination of the cover art plus a small amount of text is sufficient to get the point across, and adding another image, while somewhat helpful, would not add sufficient value to overcome the minimal use rule regarding the use of non-free images. In cases where there is no cover art (and no freely-licensed art) it will be a bit easier to make the "critical commentary" claim but it's still going to be a burden if the artwork doesn't really add much information beyond what can be explained in just words. In any case, once the AFD on a particular image is closed, it's not really helpful to keep beating that dead horse. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 15:28, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Atlantic International University removal from Diploma Mill List and List for unaccredited colleges

Hello davidwr

We noticed you are reverting edits as to Atlantic International University. The Links you have listed for the sources from Mexico is outdated and its not a reliable source. It's from a website archive. Also, you are declining to remove Atlantic International University from List of unaccredited institutions of higher education. Is there a reason? You do know that they are now accredited right? The information wikipedia has on Atlantic International University is inaccurate. You may contact their Legal Council directly, if you need more clarity on this-->3060 Ualena St Ste A Honolulu, HI, 96819-1971 Office (808) 285-8484

We are asking kindly to reconsider and have Atlantic International University from this list mentioned. Please take into consideration that actual human beings such as its students, grads or staff at this University is directly harmed if unfair and unsupported defamatory allegations are made.

Thank again for your prompt attention in this matter as we don't want to make a big issue out of this. All we are asking is to remove the information, since AIU accredited. 2605:E000:6009:9700:B115:6497:6203:C5F8 (talk) 05:44, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Please keep comments related to List of unaccredited institutions of higher education on Talk:List of unaccredited institutions of higher education where all editors can discuss your List of unaccredited institutions of higher education-related comments in a single location. As for the rest, if there is an out-of-date reference being used in an article, put a note on that article's talk page so all editors can talk about those requests in the appropriate location. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 06:03, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I thanked you, but

it was more of an apology. Sorry for undoing your removal. Philmonte101 (talk) 01:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Good suggestion

Coexist (bumper sticker) In ictu oculi (talk) 12:56, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Logo design

Hey Davidwr how does this look [21]? That link can also be used as the URL if you want to test the logo with your CSS. Let me know what you think. --Stabila711 (talk) 06:21, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

@Stabila711: Nice. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:05, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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Recent changes

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Recurrent item icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The For technical readers icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [22]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [23]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [24]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [25]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [26]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [27][28][29][30]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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Changes this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [31]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [32][33]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [34][35]
  • Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [36]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Complaint about your edits at WP:AN3

Please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Davidwr reported by User:2605:E000:6009:9700:6959:2801:24B5:F443 (Result: ). You may respond there if you wish. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 03:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

How many Speakers?

PS: If the numbering by individual scheme is used for the Speakers? it would be strange, as the tenure of office scheme is used for the President & Vice President. I dare not ask what the numbering scheme is for the Senate's Presidents pro tempore. GoodDay (talk) 23:14, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

ping test

@7&6=thirteen: Did you get notified of this? You should have, I entered it as {{ping|1=7&6=thirteen}}. (see Template:Reply_to#Error_messages for details).

I'm testing this because of a note I saw on your talk page earlier today. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:39, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I got it. When I clicked on the message it brought me here. Yippee!. I do know that I had problems a long time ago as the format of my user name was prohibited, and I was grandfathered in. Thanks for your concern. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [37]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [38]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [39]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [40]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [41]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [42]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Current monarchies

I have not deleted the Category. I have simply diffused some content to the lowest applicable in the tree structure. As it happens, most of the ones that I diffused were Constitutional Monarchies, which is a lower and more accurate description of the content. In the event that, say, Papua New Guinea, ceases to be part of the Commonwealth, this category can be simple overwritten with the category Former Monarchies. The "by continent" articles were likewise properly diffused to their parent "by continent" parents; this category was entirely redundant in their case. Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:38, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

@Laurel Lodged: For every existing monarchy that is not in Category:Current monarchies, I should be able to follow a "chain of categories" and wind up in Category:Current monarchies. If any of the sub-categories that you diffused articles to, such as Category:Constitutional monarchies, are true sub-categories of Category:Current monarchies (that is, by definition every member of that category or any of its sub-categories is a current monarchy) then please add those categories to Category:Constitutional monarchies. If you diffused articles into categories that are not true sub-categories, please either re-add them to Category:Current monarchies or add them to a sub-category (or sub-sub, or sub-sub-sub, etc.) of Category:Current monarchies so that people looking at Category:Current monarchies can find them. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:05, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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Recent changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [43]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [44]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [45]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [46]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [47]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Happy Diwali!!!

Sky full of fireworks,
 Mouth full of sweets,
 Home full of lamps,
 And festival full of sweet memories...

Wishing You a Very Happy and Prosperous Diwali.
 §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 04:24, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Send Diwali wishings by adding {{subst:Happy Diwali}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.

Orphaned non-free image File:Zee Entertainment Enterprises.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Zee Entertainment Enterprises.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 04:33, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Rollback

I noticed at WP:PERM/R you mentioned rollback was too easy to hit on your touchscreen device? This should not happen as there is a default-enabled gadget that requires confirmation with rollback in mobile browsers. If you still don't want rollback that's of course okay, but would you mind sharing which device/browser you are using so that I can update the gadget? Thank you! — MusikAnimal talk 18:07, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Safari/iPhone. I don't know that I have ever used it on a mobile device, it's just that avoiding it requires extra care. The mis-use was an intentional use where I had a good-faith reason to thing rollback was appropriate but a second look convinced me that I jumped the gun. Pedro already changed the user-rights and I already thanked him for it. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Got it. Mobile Safari should be covered, for what it's worth, so you wouldn't need to worry about accidentally hitting it :) Additionally there's scripts like User:MusikAnimal/rollbackTouch that will hide the link altogether on mobile. If you ever would like rollback reinstated don't hesitate to ask. Cheers — MusikAnimal talk 20:26, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Obviously if you ever want the user right added back in just let me know, no problem. Pedro :  Chat  13:51, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [50]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [51]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [52]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [53][54]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Notifying you of a Dispute Regarding article

See here. Thanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:List_of_unaccredited_institutions_of_higher_education LRappaport (talk) 04:19, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Coexist (image)

Hello! Your submission of Coexist (image) 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! BlueMoonset (talk) 00:33, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:34, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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Recent changes

  • A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [55]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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