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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Belarus Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to United States Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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 · logs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #183

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

Tech News: 2015-46

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

  • Superprotect has been removed. [1]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [2]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [3]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [4]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [5]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for catching the dead external link from Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution. A lot of effort has gone into enhancing the quality of the page; your assistance in this is greatly appreciated. As it's currently a Featured List Candidate, any input on how to enhance the article, and any support for its candidacy that you may be inclined to offer, would be welcomed. Cheers. Drdpw (talk) 18:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 10 November

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:20, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

The Great Bank Robbery (1913 film)

No objection to speedy deleting this redirect (as creator). I planned to create the article but couldn't find reliable sources in English. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #184

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

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [8]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [9]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [10]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [11][12]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Edward Orlando Kellett

Josve05a, I noticed your recent edit to Edward Orlando Kellett where you dabbed Nottinghamshire Yeomanry to Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. Can you tell me where you got the information from to say that the correct regiment was the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and not the South Nottinghamshire Hussars? The cited London Gazette does not distinguish. Hamish59 (talk) 14:18, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

@Hamish59: I know this is circular referencing, but it is the information I had while I did the dabbing. On Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Edward Orlando Kellett is listed in the infobox under "|notable_commanders=" (3rd name). (Plus the tool I use displayed 0 bars for it being South and a circular link-icon for this. See User:Dispenser/Dab solver.) So, by using simple backlinking, more article links pointed for it to be Sherwood than South. Feel free to revert my dabbing if you disagree that this is sufficient. (t) Josve05a (c) 14:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that, Josve05a. I have done some searching around and found him on this as Sherwood Rangers. I will cite this and remove the clarify template. Cheers. Hamish59 (talk) 14:35, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Great work, glad I could help out. (t) Josve05a (c) 14:37, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Technical question

Josve05a, you may be able to answer a technical question that I have regarding links, or perhaps point me in the right direction.

I am currently working on M Battery Royal Horse Artillery and I want to see "What links here". Problem is, this article is included on a template Template:Royal Horse Artillery so when I hit the "What links here" I get links to all the other articles on the template. I only want to see which articles link explicitly to M Battery Royal Horse Artillery rather than through the template. Is there a technique to do this? A "What links here, but not through a template" function?

Thank you very much for your help in this matter. Hamish59 (talk) 09:05, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Hamish59, yes there is. If you press "Hide transclusion" under Filters on Special:WhatLinksHere/M_Battery_Royal_Horse_Artillery, (which will show you this page: [13]) you will not see template-linked articels. (t) Josve05a (c) 09:10, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much for getting back to me so quickly, Josve05a. I tried what you suggested, but it does not appear to make any difference. I still get all the template-linked articles. Hamish59 (talk) 09:31, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
@Hamish59: Ah, I see what you mean, I misunderstood earlier. Sorry for not responding earlier. I don't know a way currently, but I have a person I will ask later today who I think can help out. (t) Josve05a (c) 20:30, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
@Hamish59: The great user Dispenser did an SQL-query which resulted in this:
mysql> SELECT page_title
    -> FROM pagelinks
    -> JOIN page ON page_id=pl_from
    -> LEFT JOIN templatelinks ON tl_from=pl_from
    ->       AND tl_namespace=10 AND tl_title="Royal_Horse_Artillery"
    -> WHERE pl_namespace=0 AND pl_title="M_Battery_Royal_Horse_Artillery"
    -> AND tl_from IS NULL AND page_namespace=0
    -> GROUP BY page_id
    -> LIMIT 10;
+-----------------------------------+
| page_title                        |
+-----------------------------------+
| Anglo-Egyptian_War                |
| List_of_Royal_Artillery_Batteries |
| 1st_(Peshawar)_Division           |
| 1st_(Risalpur)_Cavalry_Brigade    |
| M_Battery,_Royal_Horse_Artillery  |
| 10th_Indian_Cavalry_Brigade       |
+-----------------------------------+
6 rows in set (0.06 sec)
Unfortunatly, there is no tool currently which does this, which is sad. (t) Josve05a (c) 20:47, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Absolutely no need to apologise!
Looking at the results above, this seems a partial solution; it seems to be a list of linked articles that are not in the template. However, it misses a class of articles that are in the template AND explicitly linked. For example, I Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery is in the Template:Royal Horse Artillery and also links to M Battery Royal Horse Artillery.
Not to worry. I do not want to waste anyone's time on this, just thought there might be a standard way of doing this. Thank you very much for your help. Hamish59 (talk) 20:56, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 November 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

Tech News: 2015-48

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [14]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [15]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [16]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [17][18]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [19]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [20]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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