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Editing News #1—2017
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Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [1]
The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [2]
Other changes:
- You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [3]
- The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [4]
- The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the
icon) for quicker access. [5] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [6] - You can now create
<chem>tags (sometimes used as<ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [7] - Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [8]
- The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [9]
- A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [10]
- There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control+Shift+Kon a PC, orCommand+Shift+Kon a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which isControl+Kon a PC orCommand+Kon a Mac. [11]
Future changes
- The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
<ref>tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [12] - The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13] - The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]
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- This is really cool Whatamidoing, thank you! Harej (talk) 20:22, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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June 2017 offerings @ WikiProject Women in Red
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Ways of finding new articles that are to be created
I looked at your new WikiProject design at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Technology . Currently, it lists Frédérique Lisacek (Q28609783) and (Q16081668) as possible new articles. In both cases, I think it's questionable whether the created articles would reach Wikipedia's notability standards. I would suggest that the relevant script focuses on Wikidata items with English labels and where there are already existing articles about the woman on other Wikipedias. ChristianKl (talk) 17:07, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- ChristianKl, I certainly agree and will apply those constraints as soon as I get the chance to. Harej (talk) 07:19, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
- I thought a bit more about it and might make sense to always take the item that has the highest number of Wikipedia links.
- Another idea for WikiProject improvement would be to have as part of a WikiProject a list of the "PingProject" mentions of the WikiProject. ChristianKl (talk) 12:58, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
WikiProject
Oh great. Thank you for making the joining work ! I'll get back to you if needed. But I think I should be ok. Anthere (talk) 19:08, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
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Old bot accounts
Hello Harej, I'm doing an audit/cleanup of old bot accounts that may no longer need the bot flag. It looks like the following bots of yours(?) have had their tasks transferred to another bot account, do you still need the bot flag on these accounts?
- User:One bot , last edit: 20100102225021
- User:GA bot , last edit: 20100102094726
- User:RFC bot , last edit: 20070112024643
- I checked with Legoktm who owns the bot they userpages are redirected to and he said they are not his.
- (Please use ping if replying here) Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 17:40, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hello Xaosflux, yes you can remove the bot flags. Harej (talk) 18:02, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you, happy editing. — xaosflux Talk 18:25, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hello Xaosflux, yes you can remove the bot flags. Harej (talk) 18:02, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: May 2017
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Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017
Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017
This newsletter starts with the motto "common endeavour for 21st century content". To unpack that slogan somewhat, we are particularly interested in the new, post-Wikidata collection of techniques that are flourishing under the Wikimedia collaborative umbrella. To linked data, SPARQL queries and WikiCite, add gamified participation, text mining and new holding areas, with bots, tech and humans working harmoniously. Scientists, librarians and Wikimedians are coming together and providing a more unified view of an emerging area. Further integration of both its community and its technical aspects can be anticipated. While Wikipedia will remain the discursive heart of Wikimedia, data-rich and semantic content will support it. We'll aim to be both broad and selective in our coverage. This publication Facto Post (the very opposite of retroactive) and call to action are brought to you monthly by ContentMine.
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recent test edits
Thank you for reverting your own tests here. But in future, you can make tests on User:Harej/Sandbox or anothe sandbox or userspace page, without cluttering the revision history of a public and widely used page. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 19:16, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Crashing the request page
I am using [this] to request a new page, but I made the whole thing crash. I put information in all of the fields, but it said the not null constraint failed when I hit the button. Sepideh (talk) 03:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- Sepideh, thank you for the report. Do you remember what you entered into the fields? Harej (talk) 03:08, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- Harej, I started with the page title "Adele Mildred Koss."
- Summary: Create new article
- Add a note: She won the Ada Lovelace Award but has no page.
- Categories: Category: Women computer scientists
- WikiProjects: WikiProject Women scientists
Sepideh (talk) 03:58, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you Sepideh (and sorry for the delay in getting back to you). I would remove the space between "Category:" and "Women computer scientists". Yes, the system shouldn't be that fragile; it's something I need to fix it. Hope that helps. Harej (talk) 04:54, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks. That worked for me. Sepideh (talk) 20:09, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you Sepideh (and sorry for the delay in getting back to you). I would remove the space between "Category:" and "Women computer scientists". Yes, the system shouldn't be that fragile; it's something I need to fix it. Hope that helps. Harej (talk) 04:54, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Reports bot update
Hi James, I wonder when will the Reports bot update the report of WikiProject by changes? Or is there any way that I can obtain the most updated list? Thanks! Bobo.03 (talk) 19:26, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Greetings
I saw your request for an article on Occupational Lyme disease prevention from March 2016(!). I inserted a paragraph into the Lyme disease article and created a whole new article here - Occupational exposure to Lyme disease. Edit it as you will. I can even change the title if you would lilke. I hope you like it. I don't know how well the article request system is going, but if you need any other articles created, contact me on my talk page. It doesn't take that much effort to create NIOSH and CDC-based articles since the content is in the public domain. Since this is true, I am able to literally cut and paste with attribution any content that I insert into the encyclopedia. Pretty simple.
- Best Regards,
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Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017
Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017
Wikimania reportInterviewed by Facto Post at the hackathon, Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing.  Impressive development work on Internet-in-a-Box featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is Raspberry Pi, running Linux and the Kiwix browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Wikipedia medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages. Yesterday Katherine Maher unveiled the draft Wikimedia 2030 strategy, featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example. "Bridging the gap" explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to WikiFactMine at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for Bassel Khartabil; come hear T Arrow talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3. Link
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Revival of a WikiProject
Hello.
A few weeks ago, with the guidance of Northamerica 1000 (noping), WP:WikiProject Organized crime was re-activated. Since last few days, I have been tagging talkpages of relevant articles with the banner of project. So far around 4000 articles have been tagged. I was wondering what would we need to do, to get a directory/report report page similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Espionage. There are thousands of more articles that need to be tagged, we are currently preparing a list for a bot to do it. But if we have this report, it would become easy to contact editors who are active in the project area. Would you please kindly let me know how to do it? Also, if you have any tips regarding the project, it would be more than welcome. Kindly ping me while replying. Regards, —usernamekiran(talk) 06:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017
Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017
Editorial: Conservation dataThe IUCN Red List update of 14 September led with a threat to North American ash trees. The International Union for Conservation of Nature produces authoritative species listings that are peer-reviewed. Examples used as metonyms for loss of species and biodiversity, and discussion of extinction rates, are the usual topics covered in the media to inform us about this area. But actual data matters.  Clearly, conservation work depends on decisions about what should be done, and where. While animals, particularly mammals, are photogenic, species numbers run into millions. Plant species lie at the base of typical land-based food chains, and vegetation is key to the habitats of most animals. ContentMine dictionaries, for example as tabulated at d:Wikidata:WikiFactMine/Dictionary list, enable detailed control of queries about endangered species, in their taxonomic context. To target conservation measures properly, species listings running into the thousands are not what is needed: range maps showing current distribution are. Between the will to act, and effective steps taken, the services of data handling are required. There is now no reason at all why Wikidata should not take up the burden. Links
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Facto Post – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017
Facto Post – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017
Editorial: AnnotationsAnnotation is nothing new. The glossators of medieval Europe annotated between the lines, or in the margins of legal manuscripts of texts going back to Roman times, and created a new discipline. In the form of web annotation, the idea is back, with texts being marked up inline, or with a stand-off system. Where could it lead?  ContentMine operates in the field of text and data mining (TDM), where annotation, simply put, can add value to mined text. It now sees annotation as a possible advance in semi-automation, the use of human judgement assisted by bot editing, which now plays a large part in Wikidata tools. While a human judgement call of yes/no, on the addition of a statement to Wikidata, is usually taken as decisive, it need not be. The human assent may be passed into an annotation system, and stored: this idea is standard on Wikisource, for example, where text is considered "validated" only when two different accounts have stated that the proof-reading is correct. A typical application would be to require more than one person to agree that what is said in the reference translates correctly into the formal Wikidata statement. Rejections are also potentially useful to record, for machine learning. As a contribution to data integrity on Wikidata, annotation has much to offer. Some "hard cases" on importing data are much more difficult than average. There are for example biographical puzzles: whether person A in one context is really identical with person B, of the same name, in another context. In science, clinical medicine require special attention to sourcing (WP:MEDRS), and is challenging in terms of connecting findings with the methodology employed. Currently decisions in areas such as these, on Wikipedia and Wikidata, are often made ad hoc. In particular there may be no audit trail for those who want to check what is decided. Annotations are subject to a World Wide Web Consortium standard, and behind the terminology constitute a simple JSON data structure. What WikiFactMine proposes to do with them is to implement the MEDRS guideline, as a formal algorithm, on bibliographical and methodological data. The structure will integrate with those inputs the human decisions on the interpretation of scientific papers that underlie claims on Wikidata. What is added to Wikidata will therefore be supported by a transparent and rigorous system that documents decisions. An example of the possible future scope of annotation, for medical content, is in the first link below. That sort of detailed abstract of a publication can be a target for TDM, adds great value, and could be presented in machine-readable form. You are invited to discuss the detailed proposal on Wikidata, via its talk page. Links
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Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017
Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017
WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017 Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries.  And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there. Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands. Links
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Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
A new bibliographical landscapeAt the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident. Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up.  The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations. But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers. More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Wikipedia referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space. And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!  Links
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WikiProject X
Any chance of providing some real documentation? Even things like Template:WPX list start don't have any, so their use is just a mystery. E.g., at WP:WikiProject English, I see that this is used to create (or at least lay out) a related-projects list, but these are not (all of) the projects I would include, and its maintenance by bot seems to have terminated four months ago. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
Metadata on the MarchFrom the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing. Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by sadads, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.   Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata. For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met. Links
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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.
Wikidata as HubOne way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.  Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8. Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL. Links
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This Month in GLAM: January 2018
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!
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Editing News #1—2018
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Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
- The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [15]
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [16]
- The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up. Other wikis can have this service, too. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.
Let's work together
- The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
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<references />block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either<references />or the plain (no parameters){{reflist}}template. If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki. [17] - If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!
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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Milestone for mix'n'matchAround the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal. Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders. These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more. For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading. Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite! Links
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Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
The 100 Skins of the OnionOpen Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that. Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron. Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.  From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart. Links
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Election results missing
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This Month in GLAM: March 2018
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Wiki Loves Food
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 09:07, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2018
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Enabling reportbot on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Parenting
Hi @Harej:, I was wondering if you could help with enabling WikiProject X on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Parenting. I've gotten someone to enable the interface message for the join button, but I also need @Reports bot: enabled on it to add the cards to the page. There also may be other things to do that I'm not aware of. Thanks! Mvolz (talk) 10:23, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
ScienceSource fundedThe Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen. The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm. Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help. Links
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Prince Henry of Wales listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Prince Henry of Wales. Since you had some involvement with the Prince Henry of Wales redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:28, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Learning Quarterly: June 2018
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This Month in GLAM: May 2018
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Legobot indexing feature
Are you in charge of User:Legobot? It stopped indexing my talk page a year ago. See the time stamp at User talk:Tyw7/Archive index --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk to me • ✍️ Contributions) 21:14, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Tyw7: Why on earth would Harej be "in charge" of a bot operated by Legoktm (talk · contribs)? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:41, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
- Because at the bottom of the page it mentions that he's in charge of one of Lego bot's task. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk to me • ✍️ Contributions) 11:06, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
- It says nothing of the sort. The box at the bottom of User:Legobot is intended to be read that some of the tasks formerly performed by Harej bot (talk · contribs) have been taken up by Legobot. Not the other way around. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:08, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
- Whoops. My bad. I thought he was in charge of some of the bot's task.
- It says nothing of the sort. The box at the bottom of User:Legobot is intended to be read that some of the tasks formerly performed by Harej bot (talk · contribs) have been taken up by Legobot. Not the other way around. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:08, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
- Because at the bottom of the page it mentions that he's in charge of one of Lego bot's task. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk to me • ✍️ Contributions) 11:06, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
On a side note do you know of other bots that also do the indexing? --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk to me • ✍️ Contributions) 19:18, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in study
Hello,
I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.
Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 20:22, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Template:Women in Red worklists
Hi! I found a template you made over a year ago, {{Women in Red worklists}}. There’s only one project page that uses it, and one in a sandbox. I’m guessing it never caught on with the project? I’m sort of on a self-assigned mission to tidy and organize the WiR pages as much as is possible, and I wondered if you are attached to that template or plan to revive it. NotARabbit (talk) 02:28, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
July 2018 at Women in Red
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Hi @Harej: I run into problems trying to use the WikiProjectCard and Template:WPX member box templates. I want to list members on Wikipedia:WikiProject Corruption but unfortunately no one is actually able to join when they click on "Join WikiProject". The daialogeu box just hangs. -Masssly (talk) 21:31, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions. Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter. This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog. 
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.  Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume. If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online". 
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August 2018 at Women in Red
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Report bot
Hi. The pages of WP:ESPIONAGE were moved a few times in recent past (around Oct-Nov 2017). I think, since then the Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Espionage is not being updated properly. And I am not sure about the reason, but I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Organized crime is not being updated properly either. Kindly let me know what can/should I do? I will try my best. Thanks. —usernamekiran(talk) 23:19, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
- I think it is working properly now, not sure though. I removed DNAU tag, I will ask you if any furher doubts arise in future. Thanks. —usernamekiran(talk) 03:52, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Adding a message here because I think I'm seeing a similar issue, but I think I know the reason. I was looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Rhode Island and wondering why it said there were no participants, when I know that at very least I would be in there. I suspect it's because {{WikiProject Rhode Island}} has been deprecated in favor if parameters of {{WikiProject United States}}, and that Reports bot looks for the former? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:10, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
- Actually, since "Active Subject-Area Editors" is populated, that likely dashes my theory. In short, why would the second section include names that are listed as members of the wikiproject but omitted from the first section? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:12, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!
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Greetings!
You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.
This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.
Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!
If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!
Greetings!
The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.
On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:
- Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
- Country Winners
- Diversity winner
- High quality contributors
- Gender-gap fillers
- Page improvers
- Wikidata Translators
For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)
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Reports bot WikiProject directory descriptions
Hello Harej. I noticed that Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Skepticism hasn't been updated in a while (11 July, the same for Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/All) and wondered if this was expected. If so, is there a new replacement page? I also noticed that it currently updates some discussions and user statistics for some WikiProjects, so wondered if I could enable that for WP:SKEPTIC (I didn't find the docs on where to list it, but found Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Dashboard). I'm also unsure if I want to sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots, as it could require extensive changes to the WP? Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 22:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- PaleoNeonate, regarding the directory, I noticed that a script was stuck running. I stopped the script; hopefully it should be fixed on next run. For the reports, I made the update to my bot (the documentation is abysmal, I agree). The reports once produced should show up at these pages:
- (The new discussions report updates quite frequently but the assessment and not tagged ones run every 24 hours.) As for the WikiProject X pilots, it's mostly meant for those projects that do want to make extensive changes to their WikiProject pages. If that's not what you're interested in, that's okay.
- You also mentioned a user statistics report; I'm not sure what you mean?
- Cheers, Harej (talk) 19:41, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
You seriously need to provide more info about a bot of yours
How do you sign up a WikiProject for the updates Reports bot regularly does? Is it some top secret? I've been trying to figure it out for probably a year now. I doubt I'm the only one. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 14:54, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [18]
Let's work together
- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!
— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Myspa listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspa. Since you had some involvement with the Myspa redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 05:01, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
- Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
- I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
- If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
- Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Medicine/Discussions
Hi Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Discussions has stopped working apparently, any help is appreciated--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:21, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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An invitation to discussion
I kindly invited you to the discussion on Template talk:Infobox election#The Bolding issue to decide whether to bold the winner in the election infobox. Lmmnhn (talk) 19:04, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Wot! No WiR metrics update today?
Hi Harej. WiR didn't get a Reports Bot update today - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/January_2019&action=history - ... should we be concerned? thx. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:26, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Reports bot: project participant lists
Hello! What triggers the Reports bot to update Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Example participant lists? I didn't see it mentioned on its userpage. Great tool—thank you! czar 16:51, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
- On a related point: Thanks for making User:Reports bot. It's good to see the numbers in the database reports get updated. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:41, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Module:Wikipedia Requests
Module:Wikipedia Requests 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) 02:45, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom 2019 special circular
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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia Requests is having an error
As part of a revamp of WP:BIOL, I was making a sandbox draft of a Requests subpage. Just as a test, I tried submitting an old request on one of our pages, and I kept getting a 404 error saying that the URI I was requesting was not available. However, I checked, and actually... it DID work. I don't know why it was saying it wasn't working, but the core functionality is there. Still, I think you ought to take a look at this. Thanks for this tool--it will be an amazing resource for our Wikiproject! Prometheus720 (talk) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
WP:X WikiProject Modules
Hi Harej! I'm using {{Load WikiProject Modules}} to format up a test combined WP:WikiProject Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology (see discussion) and it brought up a few ideas for tweaks to improve it:
- Can the menu icons be wrapped under the intro text, rather than under the image? I think it would look tidier.
- Is there any way to add a compressed version of #Discussions to the wikiproject's talkpage, or vice versa?
- Could Article alerts be added to the #Discussions section?
Overall though, the modules system is very good. Sadly I can't speak LUA, otherwise I'd love to help out in it. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 03:55, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
- Also copied to User talk: Isarra for record. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 13:28, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
- A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
- We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
- Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
- WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
I could really use your help re:Reports Bot and other WPX features
User:Evolution and evolvability and I have been redesigning WP:BIOL and WP:MOLBIO, and we really need help. We want to use several features of Reports Bot and the Wikipedia Requests system, and it is very difficult to understand how these things work. Could you answer these questions? We may have more but this is enough to start.
1. WP:Women in Red uses Reports Bot to come up with a list of articles which exist in other languages, but not English. They use a SPARQL search to do this, but when I looked at it, it didn't deal with languages at all. Does your Reports Bot handle the languages part?
2. Would you mind responding to this diff regarding Wikipedia Requests?
3. If you are not going to actively develop these systems, would you mind passing them off onto someone else (not me) and/or writing some documentation?
Thanks, Prometheus720 (talk) 15:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Archiving members of a welcoming committee...
Hi J, re: this discussion, I was wondering if you might be able to help as your name was specifically mentioned. 
Short story: At Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/members there are tons of people listed, but in these edits I did a purge of some sockpuppets and some indeffed users and a few people who hadn't been active in ages. Do you have a tool that can prune that list down further? It's sort of a problem with these kinds of "I'm a n00b and am totally volunteering for ___" lists. I think there's another one at Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Subtle Vandalism Taskforce. Also, this is obviously a low priority, but I appreciate your help. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:14, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon 
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Generating reports for WikiProject Socialism
Hi James! I'm working on a new page for WikiProject Socialism, currently at Wikipedia:WikiProject Socialism/sandbox. Would it be possible to get Reports bot to generate reports for it (e.g. membership, discussions, tasks, updated related projects)? Thank you. --MarioGom (talk) 18:30, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
- MarioGom, I actually believe that you can do this yourself if you want to mess with it. I've been looking to do the same for WP:BIOL. I did some digging in Harej's contribs and I found this page, which seems to hold settings for Reports bot and probably other features. If you are interested in any other WPX features, User:Evolution and evolvability and I might be able to answer them as we have been working with some of them. Prometheus720 (talk) 15:08, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
- Prometheus720, thank you! Unfortunately, I don't have privileges to edit Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/wikiproject.json directly. So I would need someone else to apply the change for me. I think the JSON entry would be:
{
"name": "Wikipedia:WikiProject Socialism", "source": "WikiProject_Socialism_articles", "type": "Category", "new_discussions": true, "suggestbot": true, "assessment_tools": true, "at_category": "Category-Class socialism articles", "at_unknown_quality": "Unassessed socialism articles", "at_unknown_priority": "Unknown-importance socialism articles" }, ::
- I'm not so sure about
sourceandtypeparameters though. Best, --MarioGom (talk) 16:55, 17 July 2019 (UTC)- MarioGom, If you attempt to edit, you will see a button to submit an edit request. It looks to me like you have it right--just post it in there. I was also confused by source and type at first, but I believe you have it right. Good luck!
- I'm not so sure about
Steve Harvet listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Steve Harvet. Since you had some involvement with the Steve Harvet redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. O.N.R. (talk) 01:56, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X form wizard for WikiProject Socialism
I have just realized that I need to create MediaWiki:Gadget-formWizard/WikiProject Socialism/Join for the form wizard to work properly at WP:SOCIALISM. Could you create it or should I request it at some noticeboard? Also tagging Prometheus720 just in case he has additional advice. Thank you! --MarioGom (talk) 16:55, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Reports bot: bug when multiple discussions have the same timestamp
When multiple discussions have the same timestamp, Reports bot updates the discussion page repeatedly even if there are no changes. I guess sorting discussions would need to sort with a second field and not just timestamp, so that it does not detect a change here. Example: [20], [21]. --MarioGom (talk) 22:33, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
Deleted WikiProjects?
Any ideas on this, since the page was recreated by Reports Bot: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Directory#Deleted WikiProjects? PC78 (talk) 11:07, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Happy Adminship anniversary!
A barnstar for you!
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Question about Reports bot
Hi Harej, I noticed that the WikiProject Directory hasn't been updated in about six weeks, which seems anomalous given the frequency of update until then. Just thought I'd let you know in case there's an underlying problem. Thanks, Enwebb (talk) 20:09, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!
Greetings!
After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.
The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.
On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:
- Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
- Diversity winner
- Gender-gap fillers
For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
New articles on women scientists
Hi there, Harej. Could you tidy up the list of articles to be created on women scientists at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists/Worklist#Articles_to_be_created. Half of them have now been created. Maybe MarioGom could help with this too.--Ipigott (talk) 09:51, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- Ipigott: Reports bot did not run this task since 1 July 2017. I cannot assist directly with Reports bot, but I have applied a semi-automated update to the list. The problem is that many of the articles in the requests tool are not marked as complete even if the articles were already created, so the requests need to be marked as complete in the requests tool ([22]). I can update again on-demand. --MarioGom (talk) 09:36, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
search_type = 'wikiproject'
search_term = 'WikiProject Women scientists'
lang = 'en'
k = 10
wpx_url = 'https://tools.wmflabs.org/wprequests/en/search?searchtype=%s&searchterm=%s&language=%s' % (
search_type,
'+'.join(search_term.split(' ')),
lang,
)
data = str(urlopen(wpx_url).read())
open_req = re.findall(r'<b>(\d+)</b> open requests', data)[0]
complete_req = re.findall(r'<b>(\d+)</b> complete requests', data)[0]
matches = re.findall(r'<a[^>]*?href="([^"]*)">([^<:]*): ([^<]*)', data)
print("'''%s''' total open requests • '''%s''' total completed requests" % (
open_req,
complete_req,
))
for m in matches[:10]:
print('* [[%s]]: %s ([%s view request details])' % (
m[1],
m[2],
'https://tools.wmflabs.org' + m[0],
))
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Ignosticism
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Ignosticism, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Ignosticism and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Ignosticism 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:50, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Brahmoism
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Brahmoism, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Brahmoism and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Brahmoism 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:51, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Mind-Body
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Mind-Body, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Mind-Body and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Mind-Body 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:51, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Orthodox Judaism
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Orthodox Judaism, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Orthodox Judaism and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Orthodox Judaism 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:52, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Prem Rawat
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Prem Rawat, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Prem Rawat and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Prem Rawat 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:53, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Progressive Judaism, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Progressive Judaism and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Progressive Judaism 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:53, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Quran
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Quran, 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/Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Quran and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Quran 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. Editor2020 (talk) 23:54, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Reports Bot Task 2?
Hi there. It looks like Reports bot may have stopped updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/All in July? I don't see updates to that page since then (seems like they were pretty frequent before). I clicked through some subpages at random and didn't see any updates in the last two months. Is this the intentional end to Reports bot supporting that page system, or do you think it can (/should) be revived? Thanks a million for your time!! Hope all is well. Ajpolino (talk) 19:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Active WikiProject editors
It looks like the Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Biography series of pages showing "Active WikiProject Editors" hasn't updated across the board in four months. Are you still maintaining the task for Reports bot (talk · contribs)? I found this list super helpful when it was running (and I think WikiProject participation would greatly benefit from other generated lists, e.g., new articles, recognized content). czar 22:18, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
Have a very happy birthday on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 05:39, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Report bot
Where do I report bugs for Report bot? —¿philoserf? (talk) 07:56, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch 
these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Members lists for WikiProjects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Video games hasn't been updated in a while (and isn't the only one; I was prompted about Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject India elsewhere).
Can you check to see why? --Izno (talk) 21:28, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Izno, as a heads up, I asked a similar question in December but didn't hear back czar 21:53, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
WikiProject member lists have stopped updating
@Harej: Your User:Reports bot stopped updating the WikiProject Directory member listings in late February 2020 (4 months ago). Why is this? — Goszei (talk) 04:17, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Your advice
Last week, I started a draft article on Subject-Verb Agreement in English (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Subject-Verb_Agreement_in_English#Always_Plural) on finding no site completely explaining the topic. Today, it has been declined and someone has suggested merging it with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_(linguistics). I did so but it looks sort of out-of-place here. As a member of Wikiproject English, what do you think about it?
Shubhrajit Sadhukhan (talk) 14:43, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #3
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
- The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Reports bot
Hi there, Reports bot's Task 2 seems to have fallen dormant again (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/All and Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject History haven't been updated since February). Any chance you could get it up and running? Alternatively, if something is more deeply wrong with it and you don't have the time to give to the task any more, we could ask for help at WP:BOTREQ, and maybe someone would be willing to take over the task. Thanks again for all your work on this! I hope all is well during these strange times! Ajpolino (talk) 15:47, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Report bot - Woman in Red metrics
Hi Harej - I'm wondering if redirect pages could be excluded from WiR metrics such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics/December 2016? Examples on that page would include #13, 20, 27-9,31 &c &c. So two questions and NOT yet a request for action: 1) can that change be made 2) if so, might you be willing & able to make it? If yes & yes I'll run the idea across talk:WiR and see if there's consensus to make the change. I'll look for your response here. thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 06:27, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[23]
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signatures
- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 19:33, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Category:Space WikiProjects has been nominated for renaming
Category:Space WikiProjects has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 14:18, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
removal of sysop bit
I saw you requested it. I hope everything is okay with you. Best wishes, —usernamekiran (talk) 04:50, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
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Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.
It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.
Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap filler - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!
Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)
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