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Meghan Markle

Hello, I added that Meghan Markle is currently Prince Harry's girlfriend to her introductory bio, which was deleted because I didn't provide a source. However, sources to this fact are provided further down her page. She is in fact the only girlfriend confirmed by the Palace Prince Harry has ever had. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.164.202 (talk) 20:29, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Willie and Joe

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Willie and Joe. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Respected Sir! I removed the Taliban headquarter content because I am very very well aware about the situation in this region and I have researched Taliban and all other factions very well because it was my Ph.D thesis. So I can claim with highest responsibility that Quetta and Peshawar are not headquarters and never have been at any step. I invite you to research it, I think the headquarter thing is a deliberate vandalism instead. Being a true wikipedians I think its our responsibility to remove any such content that is not based on facts and figures and add that is based on facts not on hypothesis. 

CR Guru PK (talk) 10:19, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2017)

Växjö surrounded by lakes, as seen from an airplane
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.

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

Växjö

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Astronomical object • Secondary school

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

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the February 2017 GOCE newsletter. The Guild has been busy since the last time your coordinators sent out a newsletter!

>>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<<

December blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 December; the themes were Requests and eliminating the November 2015 backlog. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine editors completed 29 articles. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all who took part.

January drive: The January drive was a great success. We set out to remove December 2015 and January and February 2016 from our backlog (195 articles), and by 22 January we had cleared those and had to add a third month (March 2016). At the end of the month we had almost cleared out that last month as well, for a total of 180 old articles removed from the backlog! We reduced our overall backlog by 337 articles, to a low of 1,465 articles, our second-lowest month-end total ever. We also handled all of the remaining requests from December 2016. Officially, 19 editors recorded 337 copy edits (over 679,000 words).

February blitz: The one-week February blitz, focusing on the remaining March 2016 backlog and January 2017 requests, ran from 12 to 18 February. Seven editors reduced the total in those two backlog segments from 32 to 10 articles, leaving us in good shape going in to the March drive.

Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 stepped aside as lead coordinator, remaining as coordinator and allowing Miniapolis to be the lead, and Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators. Thanks to all who participated!

Speaking of coordinators, congratulations to Jonesey95 on their well-deserved induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame. The plaque reads: "For dedicated service as lead coordinator (2014, 1 July – 31 December 2015 and all of 2016) and coordinator (1 January – 30 June 2015 and 1 January – 30 June 2017); exceptional template-creation work (considerably streamlining project administration), and their emphasis on keeping the GOCE a drama-free zone."

Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

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Wikidata weekly summary #248

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
    • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
    • Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
    • Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2017-08

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

Changes this week

  • Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [2]
  • There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [3]
  • OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [4]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:26, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Battle of France

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Battle of France. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Sirius

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William Peter Blatty

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article William Peter Blatty has been completed.

You will notice that I archived a number of the article’s citations (#1-#3). You might want to archive the rest of the article’s URLs as time allows. This ensures that the article's references are available "forever" and that it doesn’t develop "dead links" over time. The site I use is https://archive.org/web/. Simply copy the URL in the citation and paste it in the "Save Page Now" box on the site and click "Save". This creates a copy of the original page and provides you with a new URL to add to the original citation. If you look at the URLs I've archived you'll see the syntax. You add the new URL to the end of the original citation like this: |archiveurl=http etc|archivedate= February 23, 2017}}. Not all websites allow archiving. There's not much you can do about that unless there is an alternate citation you can use.

Good luck with your GAN request.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:37, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/young-womans-body-found-in-southern-alberta-is-sister-of-calgary-mla-deborah-drever

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/young-womans-body-found-in-southern-alberta-is-sister-of-calgary-mla-deborah-drever — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.112.49.130 (talk) 20:08, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

March Madness 2017

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

  • tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
  • updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
  • creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of INSV Tarini

Hello! Your submission of INSV Tarini at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 00:00, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2017)

Parallel goods traders queuing outside Sheung Shui Station in Hong Kong
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.

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

Grey market

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Växjö • Astronomical object

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #249

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
    • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. These other tasks need a volunteer.

Tech News: 2017-09

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

  • On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [5]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [6]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [7]
  • The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [8][9]

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19:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Please comment on Talk:Winter War

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Winter War. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
  • European Union Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
  • Japan 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
  • South Australia Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. 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 a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything 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 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Alex Young (footballer, born 1937)

On 2 March 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alex Young (footballer, born 1937), 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 01:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

The WikiCup

I notice you have claimed for three recent ITN items in the WikiCup. The rule about ITN states "Articles appearing on recent deaths are eligible for in the news points, subject to the normal requirement for substantial work by the nominator." Of course, "substantial work" is difficult to quantify, but as ITN receives 10 points while a short DYK receives 5, I think at least an equivalent amount of effort should be required as writing a DYK, (1500 B). On this basis, Alex Young (footballer, born 1937) qualifies to score but Steve Hewlett (journalist) probably does not, and Dan Vickerman is a bit "iffy". I was proposing to allow all of them, but in fact the last two do not qualify for Round 2 because they appeared at ITN on February 21st and should have been submitted for Round 1. Sorry to be a bit pernickety! On behalf of the WikiCup judges. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Taiwan

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Taiwan. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Exercise TROPEX

On 3 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Exercise TROPEX, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that TROPEX 2017 witnessed participation of forty-five major surface combatants, five submarines, and 50 aircraft from the Indian Navy's Western and Eastern Naval Command? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Exercise TROPEX. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Exercise TROPEX), 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.

Mifter (talk) 12:03, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations. I'm happy to see an Indian naval exercise make the front page! I think that's a first in my experience. - Brianhe (talk) 16:46, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Tommy Gemmell

On 3 March 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tommy Gemmell, 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 22:05, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for John Hampshire

On 4 March 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article John Hampshire, 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 07:27, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2017)

Hello, MBlaze Lightning.

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

Plastic explosive

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Grey market • Växjö

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

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Please comment on Talk:Cold War II

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Cold War II. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #250

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

4th GA Cup - The Final

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Final

Hello, GA Cup competitors!

Sunday, February 26 saw the end of Round 3. Shearonink finished in first with 616 points, which is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 152 points, followed by Sturmvogel_66 in third with 111 points. Chris troutman and Kees08 each received a wild-card and were able to advance to the Final Round. There was a major error on the part of the judges, and initially, 8 users were advanced instead of 5. This has been corrected, and we sincerely apologize for this confusion.

In Round 3, 71 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait is still holding steady at a little over 6 months, the same as for the previous round. By the end of all three Rounds, the total number of nominations increased slightly - this suggests that users are more willing to nominate, knowing that their articles will be reviewed. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Final so we can keep tackling the backlog.

In the Final Round, the user with the highest score will be the winner. The Final has already started and will end on March 31st at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Finals and the pools can be found here.

Good luck and have fun!

Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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 search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [10]
  • When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [11]

Problems

  • Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [12]
  • Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [13]

Changes this week

  • The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [14]
  • The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [15]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Sebastian Gorka

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Sebastian Gorka. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Ron Bass (wrestler)

On 9 March 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ron Bass (wrestler), 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 23:54, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Howard Hodgkin

On 10 March 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Howard Hodgkin, 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 06:48, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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