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The Signpost: 22 December 2016
- Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016
- Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role
- Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
- Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition
- Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
- Recent research: One study and several abstracts
Please comment on Template talk:Cold War
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Mirage IIIs numbers in PAF
I updated current serving mirages IIIs to roughly 46. You undid that back to 75. I understand that PAFs acquisition of Mirages and subsequent fleet numbers is hard to estimate because of multiple acquisitions over multiple decades with some purchases of aircraft meant only for spares cannibalization but please realize this is not possible, I would refer you to:
1. Scroll down to Post# 170: http://defence.pk/threads/capabilities-of-paf-dassault-mirage-iii-v.44991/page-12 This is by far the post detailed and succinct summary of PAF Mirages, and you will realize with the information there that only 3 Mirage III squadrons with diminished strength are currently active: No.7 at Masroor, No. 22 OCU and Skybolts at Combat Commanders School.
2. No. 5 squadron has retired its original 1970s purchase of Mirage IIIs and is now equipped with f 16 block 52s. So it is not possible for PAF to have 75 Mirage IIIs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markers Elite (talk • contribs) 16:42, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Nobel Oil Group
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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2016)
World plate tectonics (click on map for more details)
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Hello MBlaze Lightning: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Doug Weller talk 19:37, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
- Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message
- @Doug Weller: Thanks! —MBlaze Lightning T 13:43, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Sea of Japan
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Please comment on Talk:Sharon Tate
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See my reply at my user talk page. --George Ho (talk) 06:30, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Sati (practice)
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4th GA Cup - Round 2
Greetings, GA Cup competitors! December 29th marked the end of the first round, after it was extended from its previously scheduled conclusion at the end of November. Because of the smaller pool of contestants this year, it was decided to keep sign-ups open throughout the month of December. This extension proved to be very helpful as we saw that more users signed up and completed many reviews. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 402 points, followed by Cartoon network freak with a close 338 points. Shearonink who signed up after our extension was in third with 170 points. We had a rule clarification in Round 1 which was that many articles were being passed with blatant copyright violations and plagarism occurring in the articles. Thus, the judges have concluded that if an article is passed even if it has a copyright violation/plagarism, we will not provide points for that article as it wouldn't be considered a "complete review" under the scoring rules. In the end, 94 articles were reviewed by 14 users who will all advance to Round 2. The judges had planned on having 16 contestants advance but since only 14 did, we are changing the pools in this round. We will be having 2 pools of 3 and 2 pools of 4 in Round 2, with the top 2 in each pool advancing to Round 3 as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 will begin on January 1 at 00:00:00 UTC and will end on January 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase! To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2017)
Some of the Aeolian Islands
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Wikidata weekly summary #242
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
- Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
- Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
- Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese
- Development
- When a
{{#statements:…}}
property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799) - Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
- Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)
- When a
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Please comment on Talk:Battle of Aleppo (2012–16)
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Please comment on Talk:List of earthquakes in 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017
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Please comment on Talk:Casey Affleck
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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2017)
Professional audio – pictured is a portable setup of various live audio production and recording equipment
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Wikidata weekly summary #242
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
- Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
- Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
- Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
- Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
- Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
- How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
- Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
- Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)
- Development
- Log of our last IRC office hour
- This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
- Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
- Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
- We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Add statements to items without
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Question
Hi
Why is it when I google 'Pakistan Navy SSP programme' the page Pakistan Navy SSP programme does not show up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan Guy (talk • contribs) 14:29, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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 now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
- There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
- When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
- The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
- MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
- The
live
option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]
Problems
- Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter
about:config
in the address bar and setnetwork.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]
Changes this week
- There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.
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This Month in GLAM: December 2016
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ITN recognition for Peter Sarstedt
On 10 January 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Peter Sarstedt, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Betsy DeVos
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Greetings
May I know why you averted my change regarding Pakistan nuclear delivery methods? Is it not a triad now that they have nuclear missiles launched from submarines?
Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by King256sa (talk • contribs) 20:09, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Anthony King (professor)
On 13 January 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Anthony King (professor), which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 14:22, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
ITN recognition for William Peter Blatty
On 14 January 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article William Peter Blatty, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 21:05, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Albert Cashier
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The unnecessary deletion of data on ins khanderi(ss51)
I don't know why you deleted edit made by me on the above page. Please provide a reason as I had given proper citations and the data was correct. The page should be informative. There is no data except status and general detail not even a pic. Let editors like me make Wikipedia informative and credible. Please don't do this. It takes time and energy to make ediys AnadiDoD (talk) 14:00, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
DYK for DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon
On 16 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that India's first fully indigenous anti-airfield weapon was tested in 2016? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Schwede66 00:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2017)
Some of the human organs
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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 now upload WebP files to Commons. [6]
Problems
- video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]
Changes this week
- There is a new magic word called
{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8] - When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
- You will be able to use
<chem>
to write chemical formulas. Before you could use<ce>
.<ce>
should be replaced by<chem>
. [10] - You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
- The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS:
#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number50
to make it look like you want to. [12] - Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
- When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Please comment on Talk:William McKinley
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The Signpost: 17 January 2017
- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
- News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
- In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
- Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
- Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
- Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
- Technology report: Tech present, past, and future
Wikidata weekly summary #243
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
- EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
- Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
- Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: lighthouses at night
- Development
- Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
- Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help fixing the most important constraint violations
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Books and Bytes - Issue 20
Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)
- Partner resource expansions
- New search tool for finding TWL resources
- #1lib1ref 2017
- Wikidata Visiting Scholar
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Disruptive edits
Hi, Please stop reverting all my edits which have been properly sourced according to guidelines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan Guy (talk • contribs) 18:56, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Where is my Article
I have create an article Hanummanthappa Koppad. you proposed this article for speedy deletion due some violation of policy (reference related). After that i have remove that content from the page. Now I can not find this article on wikipedia. IT IS DELETED ????? It was under discussion process. The Link redirecting to other article. If its deleted then why not notified to me. WHERE IS DISCUSSION PAGE FOR DELETION NOMINATION. WHAT IS THE PROPER REASON FOR DELETION. Please clear me. सुमित सिंह (talk) 03:44, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- सुमित सिंह— Hanumanthappa Koppad is now a redirect to 2016 Siachen Glacier avalanche#Rescue operation, and was made so in this edit. You can find your article by picking the link where it says
Redirected from
Hanumanthappa Koppad or click here. Please do not just restore your version, but rather discuss with Primefac whether it merits a separate article or not. —MBlaze Lightning T 06:18, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Philip J. Cohen
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we rise by lifting others
Thanks for helping me. सुमित सिंह (talk) 09:26, 20 January 2017 (UTC) |
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2017)
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.
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Please comment on Talk:Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
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