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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2017)

The Remorse of Orestes, where he is surrounded by the Erinyes, who were identified as chthonic beings, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1862
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Chthonic

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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
  • Japan 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
  • South Australia Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
  • Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

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

Administrator changes

added KaranacsBerean HunterGoldenRingDlohcierekim
removed GdrTyreniusJYolkowskiLonghairMaster Thief GarrettAaron BrennemanLaser brainJzGDragons flight

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

  • Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

Happy Birthday!

Hello K6ka, wishing you a very Happy Birthday! Regards. TheGeneralUser (talk) 23:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday!

Enjoy the rest of your day! Mz7 (talk) 23:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2017)

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Lars von Trier

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Previous selections: Chthonic • Gerald and Charlene Gallego


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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017

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VisualEditor
Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

Screenshot showing some changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".

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.

Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

Screenshot showing the same changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display.

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. [13]

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. [14]

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. [15]
  • 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. [16]
  • The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [17] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [18]
  • You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [19]
  • Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [20]
  • The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [21]
  • 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. [22]
  • There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K on a PC or Command+K on a Mac. [23]

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. [24]
  • 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=1 to 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. [25]
  • 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. [26]

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Obvious new sock reverted you

A friendly FYI, that Premathoo reverted you with more obvious LTA sock trolling from someone you just blocked. It appears that my AIV report is being declined. Entirely up to you if you want to do anything. Thanks.

Murph9000 (talk) 03:52, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And, taken care of by Mz7 (thanks), so the immediate issue has been resolved. Murph9000 (talk) 04:16, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Murph9000: Sure thing. One thing I noticed: the user has frequently been using File:Windingroad.jpg recently. According to the description page, every time the file is used on the English Wikipedia, except for the user page of Jake Wartenberg, it is used on the user page of a sockpuppet. Mz7 (talk) 04:29, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Mz7: Thanks, an interesting observation. Murph9000 (talk) 04:36, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2017)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Yolanda Saldívar

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Previous selections: Lars von Trier • Chthonic


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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

15:19, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Revert

Why did you revert this edit? It is clearly a blatant attack on White People, and is therefore racist.

If anyone made a series called "dear Black People" there would be mass outrage. I disagree with your revert as I think it is perfectly reasonable and not in any way "politically motivated". Something that aims to demonize white people is racist. There is nothing political about it, it is the definition of racist.

Please consider reversing your revert.

178.38.33.8 (talk) 17:29, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Maybe you should watch the film first before judging it. clpo13(talk) 17:33, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) Wikipedia reports on information, but it does not take sides. Instead, Wikipedia articles should seek to explain the different sides. This is called having a neutral point of view, and it's one of Wikipedia's core policies. To explicitly label something as racist would be to take a side. Note, for example, that the Ku Klux Klan article does not say "The Ku Klux Klan is a racist movement"; it explains what the group does, but does not decide for the reader whether or not such actions are racist. To say that "Some people find the film to be racist", along with reliable sources backing the statement up, is appropriate; to go "Some people find this film to be racist, so it must be racist" is not having a neutral point of view, and is not appropriate here. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:37, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there from Portugal,

regarding your message sent to this talk page (please see here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speyer_Cathedral&diff=780863257&oldid=780863086), all i can offer in my defense is that this edit was not performed by me. I edit almost exclusively in association football, if you check the list of contributions closely (here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/193.137.135.2).

Also, this IP which i wrongly thought as static (first contribution other than those by me) is the one from which i edit in my place of work, and i also have this one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/85.242.133.151) from my home. At 16:56, the IP started with 193 performed that vandalic action, and at that time i was not even at home, of course i cannot offer any evidence to the contrary, you'll just have to believe me :)

This account at the S. Cathedral article, User:MrTS, may very well (i bet it is!) the same "contributor" of the anon edit, as the language is quite vulgar at least in this stuff (check it out here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speyer_Cathedral&diff=next&oldid=780863642"Cona da tua mãe" meaning "Your mother's c*nt" in Portuguese).

Attentively, sorry for any inconvenience and happy editing --85.242.133.151 (talk) 19:00, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rename over 50k

I'm about to email you about a rename over 50k that needs to be processed. If you have time please coordinate with a developer (does this require a phab ticket now?). You can use "[[Special:Diff/nnn|user request]]" as the reason for renaming, referring back to this diff. Thanks, –xenotalk 17:21, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have responded over email. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:22, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2017)

People enjoying some leisure time swimming at an oasis
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Leisure

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Previous selections: Yolanda Saldívar • Lars von Trier


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22:06, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello,
You blocked this user here earlier today. I believe this user may be the same editor from a different IP. Similar edits to the same user TPs today and both locate to the same area. Is there a range block in force? Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 14:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Eagleash: I suspect they're the same user as well. From what I can see there's no rangeblock set (yet). I'm not too good with rangeblocks, though; might be better to ask another administrator that's proficient in that area. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 14:18, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK. No problem. Thanks anyway. Eagleash (talk) 14:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I went to another Admin.'s page and previewed my post there for correctly working links only to discover a block on the second IP in the last few minutes! Eagleash (talk) 14:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2017)

Karl Pearson (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was a statistician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.
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Statistician

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