User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2013/11

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Hi King of Hearts,

Many thanks for your work to add my contributed image File:Burj Khalifa.jpg to Wikipedia article Burj Khalifa. Donaldtong (talk) 07:43, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

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Possibly unfree File:Burj Khalifa.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Burj Khalifa.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:52, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2013-44

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

New features

The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [1]

VisualEditor news

You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [2]

Problems

There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future

Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers

Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [3]
Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [4]

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10:32, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks much

Thank you for your BLP help with page Steven G. Kaplan, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 01:56, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2013-45

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

New features

You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [5]

Problems

There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [6]

Future

The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [7]
MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [8]
The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [9]
The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [10]
You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [11]
In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [12]

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13:03, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2013-46

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

Problems

There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [13]

Future

MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [14]
The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [15]

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08:49, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Energizer NiMH.JPG listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Energizer NiMH.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 00:17, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

chess championship 2013

please look at the Hebrew version (even if you are not fluent...) and look at the beautiful way we are showing games. --Yoavd (talk) 06:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's really nice. Thanks for the tip. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:31, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Arbitration report: WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators

Tech News: 2013-47

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

New features

The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [16]
Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [17]

Problems

Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future

There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [18]

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06:46, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Blacklist request

Hi KoH. Would you mind doing me a small favour and adding any titles including the string "Sunil Kumar Pathela" (wildcarded to allow for slight misspellings) to the title blacklist, please? We've got a fairly prolific sock (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sunil Kumarr Pathela, though there are four or five more which aren't listed there) who's spent the last month or two slapping his mug all over Wikipedia with articles like Sunil Kumarr Pathela (S.K.P), Sunil Kumar Pathela (Love), Sunil Kumar Pathela (Model) and many more. Every time one title gets deleted and salted, he creates a new account and recreates it with a slightly different text string. I'd do it myself, but what I know about regex could be written on the back of a small spoon. In APL. Cheers. Yunshui 雲‍水 14:20, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:43, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, thanks. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:01, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive

Hello! A GAN Backlog Drive will begin in less than 4 days!

In past Backlog Drives, the goal was to reduce the backlog of Good article nominations. In the upcoming drive, another goal will be added - raising as much money as we can for the Wikimedia Foundation. How will this work? Well, its pretty simple. Any user interested in donating can submit a pledge at the Backlog Drive page (linked above). The pledge should mention the amount of money the user is willing to donate per review. For example, if a user pledges 5 cents per review and 100 nominations are reviewed, the total donation amount is $5.00.

At the time this message was sent out, two users have submitted pledges for a total of 8 cents per review. All pledges, no matter how much money, are greatly appreciated. Also, in no way is this saying you must make a pledge.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or leave a message on the Backlog Drive talk page. And remember, there are less than 4 days before the drive starts!--EdwardsBot (talk) 03:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]