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Invitation

WikiProject Asia Hello MBlaze Lightning. You have been invited to join WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge, a WikiProject dedicated to improving the Asia-related articles on Wikipedia. You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits relating to or within the scope of the project. If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the project page, and add your name to the particpants.

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WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring.

Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now!

If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out.

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Please comment on Talk:National Hockey League

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Reverts

Hi MBlaze, I use the normal rollback button on Twinkle, which allows me to type an explanatory edit summary, and also a warning message or welcome message on their talk page. Without that, they won't know why you reverted and they keep reinstating the edits. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:13, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:2014 Oso mudslide

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Regarding reverts

Please be a bit more careful while restoring an old version, as – with this edit – you restored Dhyan Chand's unsourced caste. - NitinMlk (talk) 20:37, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016

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Tech News: 2016-45

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Recent changes

  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [1]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [2]
  • .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [3]
  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [4]

Changes this week

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Clinton Foundation

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Tech News: 2016-46

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

  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [9]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [10]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Singapore

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Please comment on Talk:Moazzam Begg

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Rollback granted

Hi MBlaze Lightning. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

  • Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
  • Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
  • Rollback should never be used to edit war.
  • If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
  • Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Biblio (talk) Reform project. 20:25, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

November 2016

Hello MBlaze Lightning, I have reviewed the guidelines and the content I have put it seems fine. The page talks about Online Tutoring, the heading under which I put in the content is "Private online tutoring services". There were no examples of Private online tutoring services added under the heading hence, I added a few example so that readers have some reference points. I would really appreciate if you can add them back or let me know and I will add them again. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ektabansal (talk • contribs) 05:35, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

There should never be external links within the body of articles. If the organization is notable enough, it should be simply linked internally. See MOS:LINK for more information. — MBlaze Lightning T 07:48, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [12]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [13]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [14]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [15][16][17]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [18]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [19]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, MBlaze Lightning. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority 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 in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Political positions of Donald Trump

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Reference errors on 23 November

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Please comment on Talk:Collegiate School (New York City)

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My side

Look if I do not intend to come across as rude. But I can print screen the edit history and show to you, that Kautila3 has undone my edits 3 times, he deliberately put I'm undoing your edit "2nd time" in the "view history" section twice. That's a lie. (Wiki id2(talk) 16:08, 25 November 2016 (UTC))

Please be careful with comments like this. Comment on content of the article, not on the contributor. If your edits have been reverted, use the talk page and try to gather consensus for your edits there. If you carry on edit warring, you may be blocked from editing. You might want to have a look at WP:3RR and WP:CON.

— MBlaze Lightning T 16:41, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

it's not a test

1.9.101.240 (talk) 06:29, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you

I'll read rules policies then editAksheKumar (talk) 11:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

A3 CSD of Arabist kurd

A minute after creation is far too early to tag pages for no content. Please read WP:NPP if you haven't done so: "Do not be too hasty to use CSD A1 (no context) and CSD A3 (no content); wait at least 15 minutes to give time to the creator to add content." Valenciano (talk) 16:43, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Since when a birth date should have sources? Duh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.255.56.100 (talk) 18:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cold war (general term)

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Regarding editing about subject hatpipliya

I am PSR1999 tells u that i would provide you source later.Can you tell me which type of source i should provide ;as you can see the given information by me on the sites. PSR1999 (talk) 06:35, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

@PSR1999: Wikipedia requires that information must be verifiable. You must cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. For how to write citations, see citing sources. Don't hesitate to ask me if you have any other questions or issues. happy editing! — MBlaze Lightning T 12:09, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [20]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [21]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [22][23]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Volunteer (Ireland)

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Hi, You did really wrong thing. The paper was cited perversely. I read the cited interview, Dr Geoffrey Davis has not mentioned any number in his interview. Please read the cited interview carefully, he has not mentioned al badar and shams in his interview, also there is no information about 400000 got raped in her interview. Where did you get this information?? While you are writing something in front of international communities you should write something which is factually correct. If you know the ethics you should read the cited interview carefully. He mentioned around 100 women per day were doing abortion in dhaka, may be more numbers in other other places, but he hasn´t mentioned any number. Also he was a doctor, he has no idea about who is al badar and who is al shams, how come he knows about that. He was a good person. He has not mentioned anything which he does not know. If you think you cited in a correct way, please take a screen shot from that interview (original) and add here.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlsson07 (talk • contribs) 16:15, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Johor Bahru

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2016)

Three Martinis
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.

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

Three-martini lunch

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Homework • Sponge (material)

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Please comment on Talk:Fidel Castro

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4th Annual GA Cup - Round 1

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

Greetings, GA Cup competitors!

November 28, 2016 was supposed to mark the end of the first round. However, we needed 16 competitors to move on, and currently only 10 have completed articles. Thus, the judges have come together to let the participants decide what we shall do. Please complete this quick survey to let us know whether you would like a holiday break.

There will be two options for what we will do next in terms of Round 2 depending on the results of this poll.

  • If the survey indicates that the competitors want a break, we will have a 2nd round after the break ends with just the 10 competitors who have reviewed articles, starting in January (with a specific date TBA).
  • If the survey does not indicate that participants want a break, we will extend Round 1 until the end of December.

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Tech News: 2016-49

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

Recent changes

  • You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [24]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [25]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [26]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [27]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016

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Please comment on Talk:Operation Castor

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Please comment on Talk:And you are lynching Negroes

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This Month in GLAM: November 2016



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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2016)

The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf.
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.

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

Hoax

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Three-martini lunch • Homework

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Please comment on Talk:Jollof rice

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Tech News: 2016-50

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

  • Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [28]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [29]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [30]

Problems

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [31]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

  • First place – $200
  • Second & Third place – $50 each
  • Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Goa Opinion Poll

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Please comment on Talk:Korean ethnic nationalism

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Thanks for reverting that edit. It is the third time it has been made, I am wondering if it is the same person each time using different addresses. It might be worth checking out the other pages they have edited. I've reverted what I can. Graham1973 (talk) 15:33, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, My bad

I did not mean to make this change. I was trying to restore it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.176.165.214 (talk) 16:59, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2016)

Hello, MBlaze Lightning.

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

Helena Bergström

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Hoax • Three-martini lunch

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
  • The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [32]
  • Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [33]

Problems

  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [34]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

  • The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:New York

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