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My random edit to the misuse of sandbox page...

Hey, I'm sorry I was messing around and was not trying to bother anyone. I'll stop. sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.23.175.139 (talk) 03:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Australia Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

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Wikidata weekly summary #147

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

13:45:45, 1 March 2015 review of submission by Aadhikari1106


Declined because of copyright violation. Aadhikari1106 (talk) 13:45, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

I took some of the information from http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt11.htm and credited the website as one of the reference. I am not sure why the section taken from the website deleted and my article was declined with reason 'Copyright violation.'

Citation

Can you please guide me to the best place for learning how to do proper citation for my wiki article. I tend to get a little lost looking for it and wan to make sure I'm doing it correctly. Any help will greatly be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joseph Jensen (talk • contribs) 20:12, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See WP:REFB for a good guide on how to reference things. Thanks, TheMesquitobuzz 13:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Request on 16:10:13, 2 March 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Cdettman64


RHaworth, I resubmitted my article and it was deleted because of unambiguous copyright infringement of http://aalbc.com/auth/kimberla.htm This is a page dedicated to the author that I believed would give another reliable source to the article. When I asked the previous reviewer how many additional footnotes were needed, they state there is no correct amount, but that it appeared I had improved the quality of the links. Thus, I resubmitted and got your response. I'm not even sure now how to go back and look at the draft, since it's been deleted? Do I need to start entirely over, can't I access my last version? Totally lost and would appreciate your help! Thank you so much, Cdettman64 (talk) 16:10, 2 March 2015 (UTC)cdettman64

22:52, 19 February 2015 RHaworth (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:Kimberla Lawson Roby (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://aalbc.com/authors/kimberla.htm)

Cdettman64 (talk) 16:10, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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

Recent software changes

  • A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [1]
  • You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
  • You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [2] [3]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
  • You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
  • Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [4] [5] [6] [7]
  • The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [8]
  • The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [9]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [10]

Future changes

  • You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [11]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

23:45:34, 2 March 2015 review of submission by Jsmith2122


A letter clarifying copyright ownership and permitting use of the material under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) has been sent to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. The official bio has been used in other places and can be used by others in the future as well. All of the facts and information stated in the general info section was cited and supported. Please let me know if this was an issue as well and we can further clarify all of the information. Jsmith2122 (talk) 23:45, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft: Hollow Fiber Bioreactors

Thank you for looking over my draft submission on Hollow Fiber Bioreactors. I have removed the copyrighted content that was located in the first section. I believe the article is good to go now. HalinaZakowicz (talk) 05:15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Changes in CSR section

Hi would like to remove the CSR section, for which you have raised copywrite issue — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.248.115.84 (talk) 07:17, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #149

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

Request on 11:59:56, 15 March 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Vivere35


I request assistance, since I did not understand the motivation leading to decline the article. I have seen the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule, and I wonder why the information provided is not verifiable. In other words, the editors of the journals and books cited are among the leaders in the field and they constitute also reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject. Could you please kindly tell me with some more detail why my argument is wrong? Could you also please suggest me what else I should do to improve the article? (Notice that there are not only the selected citations, but there is also reference to the personal page of RS for further details). Thank you very much for your patience.

Vivere35 (talk) 11:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

21:45:39, 15 March 2015 review of submission by Dave001dave


Dave001dave (talk) 21:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC) Hi, This band had a large following on the gig circuit around fulham they are a real group but they where very bad they done covers of mainly beatles tracks and there video sold over 10,000 at the gigs they are known for playing the song creep by radiohead 5 times at a gig because it is the only song the singer could sing ok i am not try to say these are legends mearly an example of a pub group check out their video on you tube with over 100,000 hits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhNgdH7xDE is there another category i could put them in? or somthing specific i can change to enter this post? thank you for your time

Tech News: 2015-12

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

Recent changes

  • The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [12]
  • You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [13]
  • It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [14] [15]

Problems

  • Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
  • A puzzle piece icon (icon) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [16] [17]
  • You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [18] [19]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [20] [21]
  • You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [22]
  • The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [23]

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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #150

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

Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
  • The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [24]
  • VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [25] [26] [27]
  • When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [28]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [29]

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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #151

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

Tech News: 2015-14

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

Recent changes

  • You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [30]
  • You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [31] [32] [33]
  • All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [34]
  • You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [35]
  • VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [36]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
  • VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [37]
  • You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [38]
  • You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [39]
  • You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [40]
  • VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [41] [42] [43] [44]

Meetings

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Hild (novel) ready for resubmission

My prior submission of Draft:Hild (novel) contained a publisher's blurb I had quoted in the Novel summary section. I've replaced that with my own text and have made numerous other edits. I'm about to resubmit the page for publication and I wonder if you'd have time to read it before I do and let me know if you see any other problems. Thanks! Juniperpaul (talk) 07:06, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

TTC fleet

Why revert my edit? Those were relevant information. --76.69.101.151 (talk) 01:43, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Because you're a disruptive sock-puppet. Useddenim (talk) 10:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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