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Hello, Gluons12! I'd like to invite you to join the new Rick Riordan Task Force (formerly the "Percy Jackson" Task Force), which works to improve articles related to Rick Riordan and his books. Check out our project page or contact me to learn more! -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 02:02, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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Welcome!

Hi User:Gluons12! Welcome to Wikipedia!! I noticed your recent move request at Talk:West_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic. These kinds of things can be a bit rocky, and sometimes more seasoned editors can be a bit harsh with their knee-jerk reactions, but I hope you don't take it too hard. I'm very glad to see another editor joining the ranks who is interested in microbiology/virology/public health, and I hope you decide to stick around! There's so much to do, and we could really use all the help we can get! As you get more involved in the project, if any questions arise, feel free to shoot me a message at my talk page, and I'll be happy to help however I can. Also, you can ask the good folks at Wikipedia:Teahouse (as I see another editor mentioned above). Also I hope you'll consider joining one of the WikiProjects to which you recently posted the notices of the move request. It can be hard to figure out what needs doing around here, and so a WikiProject is a nice way to find a to-do list. Anyway, I hope all is well and that I'll see you around the project more often. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 01:54, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks...

Thanks so much for your work here. It seems to me that you are off to a good start! One day you will be old and jaded like me, so I hope you understand my initial eye-rolling to your Ebola edit. I really do appreciate that you have been willing to continue with your suggestions for change of the article. Best, Gandy Gandydancer (talk) 19:20, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Stella argent

Hello Gluons12,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Stella argent for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Trivialist (talk) 00:02, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Not a problem at all. The page history makes it look like I wrote the page, but it really was written already and I moved it to Stella Argent which is now a redirect to the TV series... Gluons12 talk 02:02, 9 July 2016 (UTC).

Categories

Hey Gluons, it does not take much more time or effort to do this instead of just this. I know there's some people that value things being added to the uncategorized category, but I'm not one of them, and for the article writer it must seem very dismissive. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 02:05, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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I have replied

Hi, I have replied back on that page, see [1]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.186.110 (talk) 16:01, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

I was referring to how you didn't respond to an attempt by Mar4d to resolve the edit warring going on on the page: see the talk page. Also, as a courtesy to other editors, please be sure to sign your posts on talk pages with your signature (~~~~). In addition, that diff that you showed me was done after I posted the report, not to the talk page or at any other relevant thread. Thanks, Gluons12 talk 16:20, 24 September 2016 (UTC).

Mfboom

@Mfboom: First of all, please refrain from deleting the thread of another conversation on someone else's userpage in order to post your own, as you did here. Also, if you read the note I left, you will see that it says "In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary." In the first edit, you gave no edit summary, so what I posted was just a general note requesting that you better explain your edits in the future. Although I think that the application of a {{citation-needed}} tag would suffice, I have no intention to edit war, so I will not revert. However, to quote WP:CRV (I am aware that it isn't a policy, but it is still good advice, in my opinion):

When removing a section of an article, it is necessary that it at least be explained, and in some cases, discussed. Unexplained content removal is when the reason for the removal is not obvious, and is open to being promptly reverted.

If you would like to post what you tried to post earlier again, feel free to do it above (in this section). Thanks, Gluons12 talk 02:32, 25 September 2016 (UTC).

Reinstated content to Clemenza page

Hello,

I received your message regarding my deletion of content from the Clemenza Character (Godfather) page without citing my reasons. First I'll admit I'm not ordinarily an editor of Wikipedia so the protocol is foreign to me. The content in question seemed so outlandish and out of place I assumed anyone reading what was removed would quickly understand why I deleted it.

My first red flag was a reference to the Virtual Boy video game, which most consider to be a failure game system. The suggestion that there was a Godfather 2 virtual boy video game sounded even less likely and from there the content tied the fictional character to a real person (albeit semi-public personality) in Miami performing criminal actions in the context of the game's story.

The content also lacked any citation and my own investigations quickly proved the paragraph was likely a prank and/or possibly libelous to a real person. No other sources online seem to validate any of the claims of the paragraph. Since you reinstated the statements I'll defer to your standing that the content is appropriate for the page and you might also have information which could validate the paragraph in question. Possibly add your own citation so the mistake doesn't happen again.

Also if I'm incorrectly using the user talk section of wikipedia, forgive my ignorance as this would be my first use of a talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.38.225.245 (talk) 23:36, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about your concerns about this. After closer examination, it is possible that you are right about it being a hoax/prank, so I placed a tag in that section to that effect. The reason that I reverted is that the removal of an entire paragraph without explanation normally constitutes vandalism, although not always, as your edit wasn't. In the future though, when removing information from articles, be sure to give an edit summary. PS: If you want to sign your edits on talk pages, you can type ~~~~. Thanks, Gluons12 talk 23:55, 25 September 2016 (UTC).

Rollback granted

Hi Gluons12. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

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On Derpwhales

Hi there,

You recently reverted one of my edits to the article "spectacled porpoise", in which I describe them as "derpwhales". This is indeed an accepted term for them. Source: [1]

This source is not reliable, and even if it was, porpoise is definitely the common name. Gluons12 talk 01:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC).

References

  1. ^ Epps, Tauheed. "Porpoises: Biology, habitat, and conservation". Current cetacean research.

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GOCE blitz

Thank you for adding your name to the GOCE's blitz page. It looks like, in your enthusiasm, you may have missed part of the blitz instructions. This blitz is for Requests only. You are welcome to copy-edit other tagged articles, but they will not count for the blitz. Thanks, and happy editing! – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Sorry about that, I thought that Requests were just the focus, not the only allowable articles. I might suggest that you adjust the instructions at the blitz page which states that "This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag OR listed on the GOCE Requests page," in order to prevent other people from making the same mistake. Thanks for letting me know, Gluons12 ☢|☕ 14:41, 18 October 2016 (UTC).
Very good, thanks for pointing that out. I have adjusted it and added a comment to our boilerplate text to remind editors who create future blitzes that they should adjust that text as appropriate, depending on the blitz's focus. Happy editing! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:03, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Aam Sutra

Hello Gluons12. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Aam Sutra, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Content had been added, the article was tagged to quickly, please don't tag within minutes of creation. Thank you. -- GB fan 00:27, 21 October 2016 (UTC)


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Speedy deletion

Thanks for flagging Skin Pigmentaion supremacy as "This page is redundant to Racism, so it isn't necessary, as it adds no valuable content." - in a case where an article literally adds nothing to the article it's duplicating (and doesn't have a title that's worth redirecting), you can flag it for speedy deletion per WP:A10. --McGeddon (talk) 16:07, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

@McGeddon: Thanks. I wasn't sure if WP:A10 would apply because I thought that it might be worth preserving as a redirect. In any case, thanks. Gluons12 ☢|☕ 16:11, 21 October 2016 (UTC).

Tech News: 2016-43

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  • The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
  • The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [3]
  • About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [4]
  • Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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Citations

What can be more accurate than the remarks of a person who has known the subject personally? Phillip Medhurst (talk) 22:06, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

@Phillip Medhurst: If you are saying that these are your remarks, then this edit constitutes original research, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. If you are quoting someone else, you need to be able to provide reliable sources, and identify it as a quote. Furthermore, the statement you introduced is not written from the neutral point of view, which is required on Wikipedia. I have removed it again, and please do not add it back unless you back it up with reliable sources, or unless you gain consensus on the talk page. Thanks, Gluons12 ☢|☕ 22:26, 25 October 2016 (UTC).

Beth Teper

I deleted a lot of incorrect information. If you take a look, there are a lot of impossible things listed as accomplishments, including that she wrote the college blue book during WWII.... example: "only national, network of people who stand up for traditional marriage". The College blue book was written by Teper while she was studying in Paris, during World War II. Teper is an author, actress, singer and public figure in Europe and the Middle East.

Teper is also the former executive director of COLAGE which is the exact opposite of NOM. Here are additional troll like edits that were made at some point prior to my attempt at removing them: 

A Hong Kong native and Oakland resident, Teper attended private girl schools in Boca Raton and Yuma, she graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in Law, astrology and Modern Dance.[1] - even the source is incorrect.

She joined The People's Army in October 1906 and has been an active participant and leader in the LGBT movement ever since.[1][3][4][5]

Prior to being COLAGE's Executive Director, she served as a dance coach for the Oakland Raider cheerleaders and as chair of the Hormel Board of Directors for almost twenty years.[6]

In 2005 she led Planned Parenthood's Hurricane Andrew relief efforts to support Asian families and groups

In 2010 Teper and COLAGE along with The Progressive Project filed amicus curiae brief in support of the plaintiffs in Shriver v. Schwarzenegger (Proposition 8).[12] The brief focuses on "the harm that occurs to pets of same-sex couples when marriage equality is banned".[12]

And the sources listed don't support any of this...

These are all ridiculous edits that should be reversed at the very least. --Chrissymad (talk) 14:48, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

@Chrissymad: First, I would like to admit that I am not an expert on the subject. It is possible that you are right, and if you feel that the edit you made should be kept, then you can revert me, as like I said above, I am not very familiar with the subject. However, if you are reverted again, then you should probably start a discussion on the talk page to determine consensus. Thanks, Gluons12 ☢|☕ 17:59, 27 October 2016 (UTC).

Tech News: 2016-44

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Recent changes

  • Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [5]
  • Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [6]
  • The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [7]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
  • Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [8]
  • Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [9]

Future changes

  • New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [10]

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2016-45

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Recent changes

  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [11]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [12]
  • .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [13]
  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [14]

Changes this week

Meetings

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Tech News: 2016-46

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Recent changes

  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [19]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

For all your anti-vandalism work.

Jiklo1569 (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Re:

I'm sorry, that wasn't nice. B Earley =) (talk)

No problem. Even so, in the future, please sign your posts with by typing ~~~~. Thanks, Gluons12 ☢|☕ 17:56, 18 November 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #236

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
    • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
    • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
    • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
    • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
    • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
    • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
    • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
    • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
    • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
    • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

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Tech News: 2016-47

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Recent changes

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [22]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [23]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [24]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [25][26][27]

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

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [28]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [29]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Lemonade lemonade

I want admins to delete 'Iran and state sponsored terrorism article'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lemonade lemonade (talk • contribs) 19:39, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

@Lemonade lemonade: Hello. As I mentioned on your talk page, you need to understand the content policies on Wikipedia. On Wikipedia, material is included based on its Verifiability and Notability. All relevant points of view must be included on Wikipedia, and material cannot be deleted simply because some people believe it isn't true. If you want the article to be deleted, follow the procedure outlined at Articles for deletion. In the future, please create a new discussion thread instead of writing inside other ones. Also, please sign your post by typing ~~~~ at the end. Thanks, Gluons12 ☢|☕ 19:46, 22 November 2016 (UTC).

New Page Reviewer - RfC

Hi Gluons12. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:46, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [30]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [31]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [32][33]

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

Future changes

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs

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A cup of coffee for you!

I would like to give you a cup of coffee for you work in helping me set up my archiving on my talk page. Jiklo1569talk 22:11, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
No problem and always happy to help. Gluons12 ☢|☕ 22:12, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #238

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
    • RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
    • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
    • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
    • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
    • Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
    • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2016-49

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

  • You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [34]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [35]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [36]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [37]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful!

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Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating!

September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words).

October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page.

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Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

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Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

  1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
  2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
  3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
  4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
  5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.


  • Events/Press/Blogs
    • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
    • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
    • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-50

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

  • Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [38]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [39]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [40]

Problems

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [41]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #240

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-51

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 9 January 2017.
  • The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [42]
  • Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [43]

Problems

  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [44]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

  • The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

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Wikidata weekly summary #241

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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