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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
9	STS-61-G (talk)	Add sources
2	Ishanka De Alwis (talk)	Add sources
117	Miss Global (talk)	Add sources
22	Miss International 2008 (talk)	Add sources
154	Miss International Queen (talk)	Add sources
64	Top Model of the World (talk)	Add sources
14	Gregory J. Harbaugh (talk)	Cleanup
151	Bahniman (talk)	Cleanup
17	STS-57 (talk)	Cleanup
309	STS-107 (talk)	Expand
420	GlobalFoundries (talk)	Expand
54	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software (talk)	Expand
42	Supreme Court of New Jersey (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
19,174	Jill Stein (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
144	Mazars (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
58	Mister Global (talk)	Merge
562	Seagate Technology (talk)	Merge
205	Telecom Italia (talk)	Merge
28	STS-90 (talk)	Wikify
9	Perpetration-induced traumatic stress (talk)	Wikify
18	STS-81 (talk)	Wikify
2	Hosein Rashti Najafi (talk)	Orphan
12	Trauma Systems Therapy (talk)	Orphan
3	Charles A. Morgan, III (talk)	Orphan
17	Charles Smith Olden (talk)	Stub
11	Gayesha Perera (talk)	Stub
15	Santa Fe Grande pepper (talk)	Stub
27	John Franklin Fort (talk)	Stub
18	Kambuzi (talk)	Stub
14	Medusa pepper (talk)	Stub

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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. [1]
Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [2]
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. [3]

Changes this week

You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [4]
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

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 01:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
2,128	Popeye (talk)	Add sources
11,460	Mitch McConnell (talk)	Add sources
39	STS-51-D (talk)	Add sources
1,831	Orrin Hatch (talk)	Add sources
26	STS-36 (talk)	Add sources
24	STS-52 (talk)	Add sources
129	Criticism of Human Rights Watch (talk)	Cleanup
28	STS-91 (talk)	Cleanup
50	Same-sex marriage in New Jersey (talk)	Cleanup
1,262	Micromax Informatics (talk)	Expand
35	STS-98 (talk)	Expand
290	ITS launch vehicle (talk)	Expand
27	Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Ethiopia) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
30	Human rights in Venezuela (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
601	Soviet space program (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
648	Bruce Rauner (talk)	Merge
9	Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation (talk)	Merge
20	HP Atalla (talk)	Merge
1,072	Jason Chaffetz (talk)	Wikify
9	Vinu Udani Siriwardhana (talk)	Wikify
30	STS-101 (talk)	Wikify
2	Amauris Samartino Flores (talk)	Orphan
3	Francisco Usón (talk)	Orphan
9	Reshma Thakkar (talk)	Orphan
4	Miss Earth Trinidad and Tobago (talk)	Stub
10	Joseph D. Bedle (talk)	Stub
100	Madame Jeanette (talk)	Stub
11	Isaac Halstead Williamson (talk)	Stub
43	Adjuma (talk)	Stub
58	Mulato pepper (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2016-50

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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. [5]
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. [6]
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. [7]

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. [8]

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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19:29, 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)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
608	Lava International (talk)	Add sources
2,204	Miss World (talk)	Add sources
376	BMC Software (talk)	Add sources
20	Jock Haston (talk)	Add sources
3	Miss Earth Malaysia (talk)	Add sources
83	Digital China (talk)	Add sources
4	Miss Earth Reunion (talk)	Cleanup
83	Brendan Byrne (talk)	Cleanup
522	NTT DATA (talk)	Cleanup
142	HP Autonomy (talk)	Expand
17,879	Gmail (talk)	Expand
75	STS-118 (talk)	Expand
894	CGI Group (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,937	Booz Allen Hamilton (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,878	Wipro (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4,156	SoftBank Group (talk)	Merge
770	Computer Sciences Corporation (talk)	Merge
997	Stress (biology) (talk)	Merge
105	G. Sudhakaran (talk)	Wikify
102	Vicarious traumatization (talk)	Wikify
281	Mark Hurd (talk)	Wikify
9	Incident stress (talk)	Orphan
3	The Hospital Research Foundation (talk)	Orphan
11	Anxiety buffer disruption theory (talk)	Orphan
20	Servius Sulpicius Galba (praetor) (talk)	Stub
4	Muhammad Qadeer (talk)	Stub
4	Vicksburg, Colorado (talk)	Stub
18	Stephanie Siriwardhana (talk)	Stub
158	Wistron Corporation (talk)	Stub
665	HP Inc. (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2016-51

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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. [9]
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. [10]

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. [11]

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

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

Year in review: Looking back on 2016

News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results

Special report: German ArbCom implodes

In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

Featured content: The Christmas edition

Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

Recent research: One study and several abstracts

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
432	YU Televentures (talk)	Add sources
161	Travelport (talk)	Add sources
1,134	Beauty pageant (talk)	Add sources
166	Karankawa people (talk)	Add sources
259	Ted Strickland (talk)	Add sources
38	Canceled Space Shuttle missions (talk)	Add sources
50	ProCurve (talk)	Cleanup
2,213	Amazon Web Services (talk)	Cleanup
78	Navajo Wars (talk)	Cleanup
10	Miss Monaco (talk)	Expand
77	STS-120 (talk)	Expand
19	Akron Racers (talk)	Expand
283	Brian Sandoval (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
248	Miss Malaysia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
565	Human rights in North Korea (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
543	CA Technologies (talk)	Merge
92	Miss Earth India (talk)	Merge
64	TippingPoint (talk)	Merge
161	Avoidance coping (talk)	Wikify
11	International Publishers Association (talk)	Wikify
239	Tata Teleservices (talk)	Wikify
19	HP Business Service Automation (talk)	Orphan
3	Parayakad, Alappuzha (talk)	Orphan
4	Kevin Gournay (talk)	Orphan
13	Trauma risk management (talk)	Stub
2	J. M. Bonney House (talk)	Stub
802	BBK Electronics (talk)	Stub
8	STS-61-M (talk)	Stub
2	World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention (talk)	Stub
20	Juravinski Hospital (talk)	Stub

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87	Travel technology (talk)	Add sources
328	Harambee (talk)	Add sources
134	Miss Nepal (talk)	Add sources
38	Miss Curaçao (talk)	Add sources
41	NonStop (server computers) (talk)	Add sources
22	Miss International 2009 (talk)	Add sources
60	Saturn-Shuttle (talk)	Cleanup
351	Hot sauce (talk)	Cleanup
803	IT service management (talk)	Cleanup
789	Spacecraft (talk)	Expand
46	Tanoan languages (talk)	Expand
2,293	OPPO Electronics (talk)	Expand
196	Shishito (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
116	Media proprietor (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10	Human rights in Northern Cyprus (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
37	HP Enterprise Business (talk)	Merge
1,483	Capgemini (talk)	Merge
1,045	Northeast India (talk)	Merge
88	HP Cloud (talk)	Wikify
232	Flashback (psychology) (talk)	Wikify
212	Suzlon (talk)	Wikify
10	Overgeneral autobiographical memory (talk)	Orphan
2	Camp Harding, Colorado (talk)	Orphan
6	RTTS (talk)	Orphan
153	Compal Electronics (talk)	Stub
12	Josiah Hardy (talk)	Stub
3	American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption (talk)	Stub
14	Avanti Marianne (talk)	Stub
14	George Sebastian Silzer (talk)	Stub
16	John Hamilton (New Jersey) (talk)	Stub

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