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AWB

Hello, wish you in good health , can you give a look here. --Alaa :)..! 08:29, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@علاء: I do not use AWB on this wiki and am not experienced in this field, so I will leave the reviewing and handling of your request to another admin. Be patient :) —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:30, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks I hope it won't take much time. I'll wait --Alaa :)..! 13:54, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Since 7 days almost, no replay until now, and some request that follow my request was assessted! I'll be patient --Alaa :)..! 19:12, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Done, so thanks --Alaa :)..! 22:13, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Primefac: Thanks for processing that request! This is علاء, a fellow colleague of mine over at Meta. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2017)

Ultraviolet photography is one of the many visual technologies. This image of the rings of Saturn is an example of the application of ultraviolet photography in astronomy.
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Visual technology

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Tech News: 2017-27

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

  • There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [1]

Changes this week

  • Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
  • EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [2]

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15:31, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you!

Amezarashi97 (talk) 12:18, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

added Happyme22 • Dragons flight
removed Zad68

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

  • A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
  • A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
  • Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.
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Revisiting IP's actions

Looks like 108.35.90.117 is at it again with random removal of maintenance templates. Notifying you since you blocked this IP the last time around. Thanks. --GoneIn60 (talk) 10:20, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GoneIn60: I gave them a 72 hour block. Thanks for letting me know. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:15, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2017

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 10, No. 1 — 2nd Quarter, 2017
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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2017)

Chickens at a market in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Chicken as food

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Previous selections: Visual technology • Deadpan

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Tech News: 2017-28

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

  • There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [3]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [4]
  • We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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15:07, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 July 2017

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2017)

The room of the editor-in-chief for the Seattle Daily Times in 1900
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Editor-in-chief

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Previous selections: Chicken as food • Visual technology

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Tech News: 2017-29

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

  • "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [5]

Problems

  • On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [6]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [7] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [8]

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22:59, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2017)

Illustration of Dijkstra's algorithm search, a search algorithm for finding path from a start node (lower left, red) to a goal node (upper right, green) in a robot motion planning problem.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Search algorithm

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Previous selections: Editor-in-chief • Chicken as food

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RfA

Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:19, 24 July 2017 (UTC) [reply]

RfA Cullen328

My opposing !vote is in certainly no way opposing "civility", it is based on a higher level of sensitivity than the admin to be -hopefully by just casually tripping, and not commenting himself- demonstrated by using the ambiguous phrase "take care" as a reply in an environment full of allusions to admins behaving brusque, if not threatening. In spite of opposing to all the PC-derived crap of urbanity, civility, safety of spaces, ... I still try to adhere to a higher level of sensitivity, more fully de rigeur, than what I perceived here. Purgy (talk) 10:50, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2017-30

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

  • CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [9][10][11]
  • .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [12]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
  • It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [13]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

  • New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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15:58, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-07

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The team is currently working on three main goals, which we expect to complete this summer or in September:

  1. Graduate New Filters for Edit Review core features out of beta:
    • The core New Filters features slated to become standard parts of Recent Changes are the ones that have been out in beta for a while and fully road-tested by the community.
    • These include the new filtering interface, the machine-learning filter groups “User Intent Predictions” and “Quality Predictions,” the highlighting tools, the ability to save your filter settings for later use, and the new filter groups: “Watchlisted pages,” “Last revision” and "User registration and experience."
    • There’s a list of “blocker” tasks we need to complete before these features are ready to graduate out of beta.
    • We expect to release those features by default in September. A more precise message will be sent to communities. If you have questions about it, you can write a message on Mediawiki.org, in any language.
  2. Extend the New Filters to Watchlist: The Watchlists of very active editors can include thousands of pages. To help these busy folks keep up with their work, we’re adding the New Filters UX and tools to Watchlist. The Watchlist and Recent Changes pages are similar, but there is some work involved in adapting the tools to their new setting. That work should be ready some time in late summer or early fall. Stay tuned for an announcement!
  3. Continuing work on “Integrated Filters”:
    • While the New Filters for Edit Review beta brought probably 70% of the old-style Recent Changes features into the new user interface, it left some behind—like the Tag and Namespace filters and the controls for the number of days searched and number of results presented. As the name is meant to suggest, “Integrated filters” integrates those old-style tools into the new UI.
    • It also adds some new tools users have asked for, such as:
      • “Live updates” which provides a near real-time automatic refresh of the Recent Changes page.
      • Category filters, which enable users to search by category.
      • User filters, which let you define searches that include or exclude edits by particular users.
    • We will put the community-defined related links that cluster at the top of most Recent Changes pages into a collapsible panel, in order to clarify the Recent Changes page.

We should note that it’s not certain these last two additions will make the cut for inclusion this year. If you want a make the case for either one, we want to hear from you.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Some styling adjustments are ongoing on the filters for recent changes. [14]
  • RecentChanges with the Beta feature were very slow to load on Wikidata. It is now fixed. [15]
  • In the Beta feature, you can try the Live Updates feature. Just add &liveupdate=1 at the end of the URL in Recent Changes page. [16]

Future changes

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • It is now possible to display the number of unread notifications in the browser title bar, using a gadget. [19]

Future changes

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16:43, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Vandal IP report

Hello, I am asking you for administrator intervention against vandalism of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/109.183.157.199 . Almost every his edit can be marked as vandalism. If you can help, thanks you very much. --ThecentreCZ (talk) 23:31, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ThecentreCZ: There are two things I'd like to point out:
  1. Vandalism reports should be made at WP:AIV.
  2. The user you reported is not a vandal and the edits they're making is not vandalism. This is a content dispute; please try dispute resolution. This is not sufficient and is not an adequate means of resolving a content dispute; you merely slapped a templated warning on their talk page without encouraging discussion or explaining why you feel their edits are problematic.
—k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:58, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John Daly Article

is it really poorly referenced if it is John himself saying it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CuckMaster (talk • contribs) 23:18, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@CuckMaster: I'd encourage you to read WP:YOUTUBE and Wikipedia:Video links. Note that YouTube generally isn't considered a reliable source, although exceptions can be made. Also note that content uploaded on YouTube may be in violation of copyright laws, and if they are, they shouldn't be used on Wikipedia. I don't quite see evidence that the uploader owns the rights to that video. (Note that I have no real interest in the subject in question, just saw the edit while patrolling) —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:54, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]


@K6ka: If you have no interest in the subject, perhaps we should leave it to someone WHO does in fact have an interest in John Charles Daly. I believe that many of the episodes now are in public domain, and the episode I have linked is in fact from 1960 which means it is certainly in the public domain. This is certainly a case where an exception can be made considering it is from an episode of the show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CuckMaster (talk • contribs) 00:05, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2017)

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Pictured is an image denoting global participation in the Genocide Convention in 2008.
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Genocide Convention

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Previous selections: Search algorithm • Editor-in-chief

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Tech News: 2017-31

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

Problems

  • Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [21]
  • Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

  • Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [22]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [23]

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21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

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