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Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

Hello MusikAnimal:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – North America1000 14:22, 25 October 2017 (UTC)



Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.
I came here to greet you, but NorthAmerica1000 beat me to it. :D
Happy halloween by the way ;) —usernamekiran(talk) 21:04, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Smashing Pumpkins disruption

Thanks for this. If it wouldn't prove too controversial, would you mind doing the same at The Smashing Pumpkins discography? I've been reverting continuing unsourced additions to that page from IPs and newly-created accounts for a month at this stage. Cheers. Homeostasis07 (talk) 21:43, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. I have left a note on the talk pages of Dhabonit and Pumpkinsdumplings, which I would recommend moving forward. It's a bit different for the logged out users because they keep IP-hopping (I think they might all be the same person), but ideally we would warn them as well — MusikAnimal talk 18:58, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2017)

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Choreography

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Response Helper

Hi Musik, any chance you could expand User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js into Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Requests? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

I will look into this! I'm also in the middle of trying to get responseHelper to work with the new wikitext editor. Hopefully I can get that done and add support for the proxy request venue as well. Best — MusikAnimal talk 17:37, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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Recent changes

  • You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

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00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Question

MusikBot applies protection templates on the pages, right? but then why it hasn't applied one to Zaid Ali because it's semi-protected. I found no such template on it's page 🤔. Thanks. 182.182.117.232 (talk) 07:00, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

No, it only removes protection templates when needed. TheMagikBOT is tasked with adding the templates, but it looks like it hasn't ran since October 26. Pinging TheMagikCow who is the operator — MusikAnimal talk 18:39, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry I have not run the bot in a while; I have been really busy off-wiki and have had to update the platform I run the bot on and do all of the reconfig that comes with that. It is working and running again - sorry for the inconvenience! TheMagikCow (T) (C) 19:34, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
No worries. Thanks for firing it back up! — MusikAnimal talk 19:40, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)

Sunday November 19, 10:30 am - 4:00pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second edit-a-thon, hosted on Sunday November 19, 2017 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Following the first Met edit-a-thon in May 2017, the museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely.

10:30 am - 4:00 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education
81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue

Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided.

We also welcome remote participation for the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30.

Thanks, and hope to see you at the museum, and/or as part of the online Wikipedia Asian Month contest!--Pharos (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

added Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
removed Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

Arbitration

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  • The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
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Musikbot

Hi.
Musikbot is not clerking at WP:PERM currently. I dont know if this is intentional, or if you know about this. Thought I should notify you. —usernamekiran(talk) 23:52, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: Everything looks in order to me. Is there a particular page or request it is ignoring? — MusikAnimal talk 03:25, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
There was something which gave me the doubt. I cant remember it now. Musikbot is working properly on PERM. (Maybe it stopped working for a limited time period?) Apologies for the false alarm. —usernamekiran(talk) 23:10, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
I still cant remember what made suspicious in first place, but here is a sort of recent edit special:diff/808405406, musikbot archived an open request. —usernamekiran(talk) 21:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm going to guess that's because of this, which I should definitely fix. Thanks for letting me know — MusikAnimal talk 22:36, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2017)

"Pay no more than Ceiling Prices", WWII U.S. poster
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Price ceiling

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Previous selections: Choreography • Little John

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Tech News: 2017-45

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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [2]

Changes later this week

  • The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings

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18:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

XTools question

I see you've been involved in the tools setup a bit, so I figured I'd check with you on this and see if there's someone else it should be forwarded to. When looking at my monthly contributions, it's difficult to see the totality of my edits because I had two months with a lot of semi-automated edits fixing templates on talk pages. Having the option to put the chart on a log-scale would clear that up. It's an extremely minor thing in the scheme of it all, but would that be a simple addition to make? Probably one for the "whenever we get around to it" pile of requests. Thanks! Kingofaces43 (talk) 23:56, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

@Kingofaces43: It's on the radar! See phab:T177658. I can't say for sure when this will happen, probably not terribly soon. In the meantime, try toggling off the Talk namespace. To do this, under "Namespace Totals", hover over Talk and click on the X. This will then hide that namespace from all the charts. Hope this helps! — MusikAnimal talk 00:51, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, and whoa that's cool! I didn't realize you could toggle those. Kingofaces43 (talk) 01:02, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Edit filter

Hey MA, could this/this be added to one of the existing filters? While it typically gets added on within the edit, the crap sometimes gets added on via edit summary too. THis is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LanguageXpert. It typically is at talk pages or as reverts of edits of those involved at Talk:Saraiki language and me (as the admin who blocks this sock farm). Cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:06, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

I'm on the case! Email me if you want to chat more :) — MusikAnimal talk 06:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
@SpacemanSpiff: This deserves a ping — MusikAnimal talk 06:55, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017)

An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.)
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Illusion

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Tech News: 2017-46

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

Changes later this week

  • The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [5]
  • A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [6]
  • Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [7]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for assisting Oshwah and I with those meatbots! You saved the day! Nihlus 03:01, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
My pleasure. Thanks for the WikiLove! — MusikAnimal talk 17:18, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Bot messages

It doesn't really matter, but there doesn't seem to be much point in verifying the permissions of banned users, like what happened with this edit. 134.223.230.154 (talk) 19:03, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

That would require the bot to check if the user is blocked. While it can be done, the fact that non-banned users cannot edit the page makes me think that such a change would be rather unnecessary, though obviously I'll leave it up to MusikAnimal to determine. Primefac (talk) 19:12, 17 November 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
Perhaps for indef'd users it could always archive as not done, but in general I don't think it should be making assumptions. Some users may be temporarily blocked, for instance. The issue basically is that the bot doesn't know where it should archive the request. Here you said it was  Done, but they don't have the permission. So is it supposed to be  Not done, or did you forget to add the permission? You can override the behaviour with {{User:MusikBot/override|d}} to force to archive as done, and nd for not done. Full documentation is at User:MusikBot/PermClerk, and also in the admin instructions — MusikAnimal talk 20:30, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
In this particular instance, the user was granted rollback, but in between that time and the time that the bot came back around it had been removed. So the initial tag was correct. Primefac (talk) 21:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

A copy of a deleted page.

Hi, I'm back here but this time there's no problem with the user rights.I actually needed a copy of a deleted page Confident Airlines as it had been deleted due to promotional content and I would be interested in re developing it in my sandbox according to policies.Just for info my first article Supreme Airlines was also a previously deleted page due to promotional only content.Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 13:31, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Not much to show here. The content was (slightly modified):

Confident Group has an Airline arm named Confident Airline. They provide charter service under Air-Taxi Banner.[1]

References

  1. ^ Michael, Saneesh. "India's First Air Taxi Service". Oneindia. Archived from the original on 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2017-11-17. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
In my opinion this isn't really that promotional, and I wouldn't have deleted it — MusikAnimal talk 17:28, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 07:42, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017)

Hello, MusikAnimal.

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

Recipe

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Illusion • Price ceiling

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You've got mail

Hello, MusikAnimal. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Gary "Roach" Sanderson (talk) 00:55, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

  • If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [9]
  • The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [10][11][12]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [13][14]

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19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here have this and have a great Thanksgiving! User:Felicia777 (talk) 16:50, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 November 2017

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Happy turkey day

Northamerica1000 is wishing you a happy Thanksgiving. If you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, don't forget that "Any time is turkey time" (see image). North America1000 06:44, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Xtools gadget question

Hi there,

The XTools gadget is incredibly useful. Just a quick question to see why clicking the page creator's edit count has, since a few months ago I think, pointed to the contribs page rather than the xtools page?

Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:47, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Good call! I've updated the code and will get it deployed soon. Best — MusikAnimal talk 02:04, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Excellent. Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 03:41, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

November 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

Wednesday November 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor) at 721 Broadway in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor), 721 Broadway
(note that we are not at Babycastles this month)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

P.S. You are also invited to Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday November 19!

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Bump, message was undated — MusikAnimal talk 05:33, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 03:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice - something to keep in mind for next time. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:35, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
No problem. For the record I love the Women In Red effort and hope the contest proves to be a success like previous events! Maybe one day I will finally return to content building and help out myself :/ — MusikAnimal talk 06:44, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Filter 602

I think you recently changed filter 602, and for some reason it isn't logging discretionary sanctions alerts. If you take a look at User talk:Anythingyouwant, I tried it twice and it didn't warn or tag. Anyway, hope your Thanksgiving was fun :) TonyBallioni (talk) 07:51, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

My mistake. It should work now. Thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal talk 18:39, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017)

A student performing schoolwork
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Schoolwork

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Total number of drafts?

Hello MusikAnimal. Over at VPP User:BD2412 has asked what is the total number of drafts in the draft space. I have noticed User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report so my guess is that you know the answer to his question. Incidentally the 'stale drafts' that I checked in your list are only recently stale. (They all seem to have been edited between six and seven months ago). So is that really the list of 'expiring' drafts? Thanks for any info, EdJohnston (talk) 23:38, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: The total number of drafts is currently at 67,514. The stale drafts report should be accurate. The people who work off of that (Legacypac, namely) tend to be very on top of it, so that's probably why you don't see really old drafts -- because they've either been rescued or deleted under G13. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal talk 03:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Please set Siroch Chatthong page to protected page

Please set Siroch Chatthong page to protected page because Indonesia fan try to break down this page by remove a big amount of infomation to unsource information. I try to make this page back to the same. Please set to protected page. please 203.131.208.141 (talk) 05:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

DS alert edit filter

Hi Musik, I've reverted your changes to the discretionary sanctions edit filter as the filter wasn't triggering. See history of User talk:Callanecc (alt) for an example. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@Callanecc: Okay, but we need to figure something out. It is too inefficient and is slowing down editing for some. It sometimes takes up to two seconds to run, e.g. [18][19] (requires logstash access). TonyBalloni reported that it wasn't working above, and I fixed it. Are you sure you tested it since that fix? — MusikAnimal talk 16:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@Callanecc: Sorry to ping again. So using the debugging tools, I tested the revised version of the filter against your account, and this edit did show up. See [20] and click on "Test filter". I do see however that edit was not tagged... I'm guessing this is yet another instance of AbuseFilter not working when it should (more at phab:T175933). Since November 26, has anyone else mentioned that the filter wasn't working? I'm wondering if your test was a one-off failure. — MusikAnimal talk 21:51, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

See the log of Filter 602 for the period after 18:38 on 26 November when MusikAnimal changed the filter code. There are no intentional valid hits on the filter until Callanecc did his revert on the 28th. (Semmendinger managed to give himself an alert on 27 November by copying a previous alert into an archive file). I can think of some optimizations for the filter if that's the issue. EdJohnston (talk) 04:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
@EdJohnston: Are we sure there were valid hits during that time? I guess given the history, there had to have been :/ The issue is indeed performance, specifically the pst variables, if I'm not mistaken. Those variables tend to be slow. Let me make sure I've got the intent of the filter right: All it does is see if someone added the DS alert, making sure it wasn't already there. If that's the case, the normal added_lines and removed_lines should suffice, no? Again, I used the debugging tools to compare my revised version with Callanecc's tests and TonyBalloni's edit (that was made when it was still broken), and it matched. Also, why do we need to check for {{Z33}}?

I've booted up Special:AbuseFilter/637 in log-only with what I think will work (feel free to edit). I'll monitor both filters and make sure the revised one is working as expected. Best — MusikAnimal talk 05:50, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I've no idea why the Z template and the commented out text were included. I guess it just ensures that it doesn't trigger if some one puts the commented out text onto a page. Could it be something to do with the edit filter not detecting commented out text or a template properly in the 'post' save version? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:50, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
637 didn't detect this alert but the original 602 did. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:54, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
According to the documentation of Template:Z33, the Z-templates provide a way of tracking where other templates are used: "The z number templates, starting at and ascending (, {{z3}}, etc.) are blank, never substituted templates, whose only purpose is to provide a tracking mechanism in other templates that are substituted." The person who would know the original background is User:AGK. EdJohnston (talk) 15:18, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
I can see why you'd want z33 in the substituted text, but I don't know why we need to check for it in the filter, is what I mean. It would seem the text "Derived from Template:Ds/alert" is unique enough. 637 should have tripped Callanecc's last test edit. Here again, I can run it in the debugging tools, and see that it matches. Manually reviewing the variables, you can see the conditions are met. I believe what we have here is another bug with AbuseFilter. — MusikAnimal talk 15:24, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I've moved my code to Special:AbuseFilter/1, to see if it matters if it's further up the chain. — MusikAnimal talk 15:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I figured it out. Stupid mistake... we do need added_lines_pst because we're substituting the template. Despite what the debugging tools say after the edit, when the edit is first made the added_lines are {{subst:Ds/alert}}, where added_lines_pst is the result after the substitution. I've again updated Special:AbuseFilter/602, and tested it to be working (see Special:AbuseLog/19868998).

I'll continue to monitor performance. If it's still slow, I might recommend using added_lines and checking for {{subst:Ds/alert. This won't work if someone copies/pastes the notice, but in such a case I wonder if they would think to copy the "Derived from Template:Ds/alert" bit anyway.

Thank you both for your help with this! — MusikAnimal talk 16:04, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

A message from Stvbastian

Hi MusikAnimal, can you help me to move 2014 BWF Super Series Masters Finals page to 2014 BWF Super Series Finals. It was the correct name for the page. The word masters only used for 2007-2009 tournament. See: BWF Super Series Finals. Thank you Stvbastian (talk) 09:11, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

@Stvbastian: It's been over two years since the move war, so I've unprotected it. I'll let you do the honours :) Best, — MusikAnimal talk 15:58, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you..Stvbastian (talk) 16:49, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you on behalf of the Support & Safety and Anti-Harassment Tools Teams, Patrick Earley (WMF) talk 18:24, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, MusikAnimal. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Please protect (sub)module

Hi MusikAnimal. I've created a new (sub)module at Module:Wd/aliasesP; could you please add edit protection to it as you did with Module:Wd and Module:Wd/i18n? Thanks! Thayts ••• 17:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Done! Thanks for letting someone know :) — MusikAnimal talk 22:31, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Agriculture in Saudi Arabia: Agricultural fields in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia. Taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
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  • Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [24]
  • Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [25][26]

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A message from Devid1224

why you detected sachin g lokapure plz its my humbal request see notability granted patents having its industries and notable in social worker NGO SAGLO research foundation we i want creat this article which is blocked by u as administrator plz publish Devid1224 (talk) 11:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

OTRS request

Would you be willing to take a look at ticket:2017120510008296, If no one else has taken it up? I think our advice is that creating a stronger password is a good response but there is nothing else that will be done. However, I don't have strong enough technical knowledge to know whether the responses that we literally don't have any tools to look into it or that we just don't believe it is worth the time and effort to investigate, and I don't want to say the first if it is not technically true.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:09, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Replied! :) — MusikAnimal talk 03:56, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

hi

I know your busy but I was wondering if there's been progress on [28] thank you(please let me know if I can help in any way)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:08, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I hope to get to that before too long, but first we'll be improving the revert detection in the Pages Created (aka ArticleInfo) tool. TopEdits is not nearly as popular, so it is lower priority. I will comment on the Phabricator task with updates as they happen. Best — MusikAnimal talk 04:01, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:53, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

filter 892

I saw you turned it back from added_links to added_lines. Unfortunately that results in 100% of the (3) caught edits being false positives (the 2 it caught while checking added_links were both proper positives, before that it had added_lines as well and most hits were false positives) ... The aim of the filter is not monitoring, the aim is to warn (which I would have set now, if I had a clean set of hits). I've returned parsing added_links .. but it is heavy

I do agree that added_links, for some reason, is too heavy .. added_links is generated anyway during a parse, why does that increase the load so much more? This is the very problem of using the filter for certain blacklist replacements. Maybe a phab ticket to get this resolved ASAP is needed? --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:44, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

@Beetstra: I added added_lines contains "http", which basically makes sure they are attempting to add a link before checking added_links. Moving forward try to do something like this, the idea being to cancel out as many edits as possible before using expensive variables like added_links. Runtime average is now around 2 ms, down from 5.5 ms. Notice most other filters are under 1 ms runtime! So there's still room for improvement.

Those average run times by the way can be a bit misleading... the average might be really low, but in the case of 892, every other minute the filter was taking over a second to run for a particular edit. This information is currently only available on the Slow Abuse Filter dashboard which requires logstash access, but the Anti-Harassment Tools team hopes to eventually expose this in the Special:AbuseFilter interface. Until then, we have to go by a rough guideline, maybe no more than 3ms average runtime. I'm going to write at WP:EFN about this.

I have no idea why added_links is so slow. This is one of the many mysteries around the AbuseFilter extension. To make matters worse, there isn't an official owner of the extension, so bug reports can linger for months before someone does anything about it. The Anti-Harassment Tools team as I said is doing some work, but they are not by any means responsible for the extension as a whole. — MusikAnimal talk 21:13, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

We could then take it a step further and check the added lines first for the proxies, and then double check if they really added it. —Dirk Beetstra T C 01:57, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Excellent idea! I added that and we're now averaging at around ~0.15ms, which is about as fast as a filter can get! Woot woot :) People who match the added_lines clause might still have their edit slowed down by a second or two, but the important thing is we've done our job of ensuring added_links is only ran when it has to be. There a few other filters I can think of that could benefit from this same optimization. Thanks for the fine idea! — MusikAnimal talk 03:36, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.
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Cover page of the Wikimedia Deutschland 2015 Impact Report
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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

December 13: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday December 13, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

P.S. You are also invited to AfroCROWD Street Culture Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Year End Celebration on Saturday December 16!

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello MusikAnimal, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
  • Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

  • If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

  • A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
  • Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
  • The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
  • To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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Maureen Wroblewitz

Help for improvement this article. Thank you!Ngochue456 (talk) 02:38, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Contents of deleted files

Hoi!

Can you get the deleted file description (not the image itself) of File:Opera - Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma (From Puccini's Turandot).ogg and mail me? I was reviewing the same file ko:File:Carreras.Domingo.Pavarotti-Nessun Dorma.ogg (which goes by the .ogg but MIME with audio/mp3) and want to check what enwiki descriptions say about this file. Thanks! — regards, Revi 12:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2017)

A mechanic at steam pump in an electric power house, 1920, (from a photo study for the WPA).
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Tech News: 2017-51

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 8 January 2018.

Problems

  • When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [34]
  • Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

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

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15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/852

I noticed the IP vandal is back. Is this filter still working? Cheers, Number 57 17:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2018!
Thank you for all the hard work and effort you put into Wikipedia. God bless! Onel5969 TT me 02:43, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

No fancy template...

It's that time of the year, Leon. No fancy template, but just wishing you all the best for the holidays and the new year, and thanking you specially for all that you do. It's probably a lot warmer where I am than where you are 😎 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Thanks for the very kind message! I'm actually in Indonesia for the holidays, so indeed much (much) warmer than New York! ;) Or at least I hope it's not a lot warmer in Thailand, because we're burning up here in the Gilies =P Hope all is well and happy holidays — MusikAnimal talk 16:06, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas MusikAnimal!!


Hi MusikAnimal, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,
   –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Can you help

Please as senior check validity of changes made to page Julie Hesmondhalgh Crackanory (talk) 17:11, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas !!!

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Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays
From Stave one of Dickens A Christmas Carol

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

So you see even Charles was looking for a reliable source :-) Thank you for your contributions to the 'pedia. ~ MarnetteD|Talk 23:30, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2017)

A nutrient is a component in foods that an organism uses to survive and grow.
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Hello MusikAnimal: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —MRD2014 Merry Christmas! 01:52, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference

Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC 2018

You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2018, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with keynotes, plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions.

And there will be cake.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:41, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive

Hello MusikAnimal, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

  • The total number of reviews completed for the month.
  • The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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Economic recovery – a "Project funded by The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" project sign.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

added Muboshgu
readded Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned
removed None

Bureaucrat changes

readded Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

Arbitration

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user:Illlllllllll

user:Illlllllllll and user:ThePigInUseOf are probably sock puppets. Please do a user check on them. 99.53.112.186 (talk) 22:49, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

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There are about 260 known living species of monkeys. Pictured is a common squirrel monkey.
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Tech News: 2018-02

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

  • On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [35][36]
  • Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [37]
  • Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [38]
  • Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [39][40]

Problems

  • Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [41]
  • With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [42]
  • The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [43]
  • Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [44]

Changes later this week

  • Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [45]
  • The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [46][47]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
  • WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [48]

Meetings

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

This Sunday! Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference (updated speakers + schedule)

Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC 2018

Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community.

See Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 speakers + schedule

And there will be cake.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 02:23, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

List request

Would you mind creating a list of all templates that are transcluded on 250-1000 pages please? We got another high-value template vandalized this morning and I'm going the IAR route of just semi-protecting the list without waiting for approval. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 16:41, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

On it! — MusikAnimal talk 17:10, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Please ping and recruit me if any assistance is needed to go through the list and make sure that necessary template protection is applied where it should be. I'll be happy to participate :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 00:48, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
We did another round of protections, and at this point I think we probably need more discussion before protecting templates with an even lower transclusion count — MusikAnimal talk 18:13, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

CheckUser inquiry

Hello MusikAnimal, excuse me for disturbing you. I'm writing to you because I see that you're a checkuser, currently active, and so I thought that perhaps you may be able to help me. I opened last tuesday a checkuser request on meta.wikimedia because it's about a cross-wiki vandal using proxies and socks. Nobody has done anything yet, after 5 days... This is the request: [49]. Have you got any kind of advice to give me? Maybe I've done something wrong in the request, I don't know. May you suggest me somebody to call on? Let me know, please, everything you can tell me would be precious. Thank you! 151.64.180.18 (talk) 18:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

That's definitely the right place to report it, but indeed it seems stewards are slow to respond. I would try asking for help on IRC at #wikimedia-stewards connect — MusikAnimal talk 18:41, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Okay, if it's just a matter of time I'll wait, I was afraid I hadn't done the right things... Thanks :-) 151.64.180.18 (talk) 18:49, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2018)

Culture of Asia – an East Asian cultural region representation
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Tech News: 2018-3

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

  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [50]
  • There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [51]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [52][53]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

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Future changes

  • A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [54][55]

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Bot errors?

Hi! This user was removed AWB access, but why does the bot say he is approved[56]? Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 14:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

It's saying the request is approved. BTW, may I suggest you request you change your username?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Cyberpower678 I am consider my username, thanks! But MusikAnimal remove this user access at that time, please see [57], thanks! Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 14:48, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Yes, they asked to be removed and were removed. I'm not sure where the issue lies. Primefac (talk) 14:51, 16 January 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
When MusikBot archived request, the request was archived to the approved list. I think the approved list should show users getting accesses. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 15:09, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
But the request itself, to be removed, was approved. Thus, it's in the right place. The log is not "allowed access", but "approved requests". Primefac (talk) 15:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Oh! I know now, thanks a lot. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 15:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, the edit summary saying "1 approved" might be misleading, perhaps instead it should say "request approved". Note however in these cases admins must mark the request as {{revoked}} instead of {{done}}. If you don't, you need to use {{User:MusikBot/override|d}} to force it to archive as "done", otherwise it will complain thinking you forgot to add them. As you can see that code was used here. — MusikAnimal talk 15:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
But why did you {{done}} mark on request page at that time as you remove this user AWB access? Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
For the reasons explained above. The request was "done". Basically the user said "Can you remove me from the CheckPage?" and the admin replied " Done". Hopefully it makes sense now :) — MusikAnimal talk 15:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Because the request was to be removed, and that request was {{done}}, and thus the template was used. Primefac (talk) 15:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Oh! I know now, thanks a lot. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 15:46, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Trial permissions

Now that the wiki has the option to grant permissions on a temporary or trial basis, and we have (in the nicest possible way) a guinea pig in ErgoSum who was granted TE by Primefac, and a method for requesting it be made permanent outlined by Xaosflux would it be feasible, useful, desirable to semi-automate the review and renewal process?

Some permissions, such as ACC may be temporarily granted for a particular event, and therefore may not need review/renewal. Others such as NPR are pretty much on perpetual review (enough mistakes or carelessness and it'll be stripped). But I can see a use for assistance in diarising and reviewing the use of permissions granted on a trial basis.

Building on the way the requests are archived at the moment, which includes the link that Xaosflux requested, writing a version of the record to say, Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Permission review, with a note of the expiry date, would provide the reviewing admin with a quick route to the actions needing review

  • TE - user's contributions in Template: & Template talk:
  • ACC - User creation log
  • PM - Special:Log/move

Then, 2-3 days before the permission's expiry the record could be copied back to the relevant PERM page for action saving the need for grantor or grantee to keep an eye on the calendar.

Pinging the other admins recently active on PERMs, Alex Shih, clpo13, DoRD, Kudpung, Mz7, Nakon, TonyBallioni.

Your thoughts please, Cabayi (talk) 16:02, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

@Cabayi: I think that if the applicant wants to renew, they need to take action. One area for improvement would be in the bot clerking code, to list that the applicant had a previous "expired" right as opposed to a "revoked" one, a link to their last approval should be ok, but in best cases admins should include that link in the rights log already. — xaosflux Talk 16:15, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
I agree with xaosflux: requesting it again should go through the normal PERM process. I've talked about this concept a bit with Primefac offline, and I really like it for rollback: we get a lot of newer users there who are borderline, and this would be easy to grant for a month, see if they misuse Huggle (which is the typical claimed reason for applying), and then grant again if they apply and there are no glaring issues. Not too keen on doing temps for NPR yet, because the way the logs are set up makes it harder to review use of that tool. Still, kudos to Primefac for innovating in this area. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
The onus should be on the requester to re-apply. If we automatically review every short-term application we might as well just make it permanent and have a mandatory review after a certain period. Primefac (talk) 16:49, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Fair enough, perhaps I was aiming a bit too high in the labour-saving. I still think however that requiring the user to hunt out the permalink to the grant 1 or 3 months down the line is a waste of time, especially when MusikBot already logs it in the RFP archives. Would an amendment to {{Template editor granted}} (& other grant notifications) for trial permissions, and having MusikBot deliver that template to the user's talk page along with the permalink be more in line with your needs?
Apologies to Ergo Sum for mislinking the username earlier - I should have learnt by now to spell every username as Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. Cabayi (talk) 17:24, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
I agree with the above that requests should be made manually, on the users own accord. But also I just don't want to write all that code =p Xaosflux's recommendation should be easy to implement -- where the bot will check if the right expired, rather than having been revoked, and comment with a link to the PERM request (if there was one). I can put that on the todo's. We could make the amendments to the grant notification templates as you suggest, but I think we may have the same issue where the admin needs to go hunting for it. — MusikAnimal talk 02:32, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Kevin Stephens

I get the impression the article Kevin Stephens was vandalised just before you removed the protection mark? Dan Koehl (talk) 17:40, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Indeed it looks like vandalism, so I have undone it. I don't think there is a software bug here, if that's what you were curious about. The protection expired and the vandal edited before the bot made it's rounds to remove the template. — MusikAnimal talk 02:36, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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Scarab bearing the name of the Hyksos King Apepi
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Recent changes

Problems

  • With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [60]

Changes later this week

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Meetings

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  • irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [61]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Template question

Hello M. I hope that you are well. The Subaru article that you protected is now in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. Looking at the edit where you added the template I think it might be the wrong one. It looks like you added a "pending changes" protection but a regular protection template. I could be missing something so I wanted to check with you. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 22:54, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Update. While I was typing this your bot removed that template. MarnetteD|Talk 22:56, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Yeah the pending-changes preset didn't show up in Twinkle for some reason... something I'll have to fix. I tried to manually change the options and picked the wrong template. Thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal talk 23:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
You are welcome. I'm glad that things got fixed. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 23:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

error

Hi. MusikBot made this this edit: special:diff/822112411. —usernamekiran(talk) 03:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal talk 05:24, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

An old idea made new

Hello MusikAnimal; given the recent resurgence of a recurring dork, I'd like if you would reconsider an old idea about an edit filter. Khruner (talk) 17:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

I've re-enabled it and will monitor it. Thanks — MusikAnimal talk 00:03, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Help needed about PageView data of Wikipedia from Simon

Hi, MusikAnimal, I'm Simon, a student at Southeast University. Now I'm on a research about scheduling, which is using wikipedia's pageview data as source data for a simulator. I'v found the the open data from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/, but they are lack of request timestamp, page size and so on. The resulting format on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view is an ideal one. At the same time, I found your gorgeous work, the pageview tool. So could you please help me with getting the data?

I'm looking forward to your response. Thank you!

Simon 2018.01.16


Simonjoylet (talk) 08:52, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

@Simonjoylet: Hi! Do you need an entire dump of data, or just specific pages over specific time periods? Pageviews Analysis has a download option. You need to download as JSON if you want all the data, including page size, etc. Does this suit your needs? — MusikAnimal talk 00:08, 27 January 2018 (UTC)


@MusikAnimal: Thank you for your rely, but it's not what I need. I need the request logs with timestamp(accurately to seconds) and target page size, instead of page-view counts of days. Maybe I need to set up a formal collaboration with WMF research team in order to get that data. Thank you all the same!


Some suggested minor edits for RH

Fairly uncontroversial, but since it's in your space and many folks use it, figured I'd suggest 'em here first:

  • Change AIV 4im summary from "user inappropriate warned" to "user inappropriately warned" (matches ns warning)
  • Change AIV ns summary from "User has been insufficiently warned" to "User insufficiently warned" (matches 4im warning)
  • Change RFPP aiv summary to wikilink AIV
  • Remove extraneous periods in UAA warning summaries without "prompt" (matches most other summaries)
  • Capitalize start of all edit summary texts (inconsistent throughout)

~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: First off, good to see you're active again! As the admin who granted me rollbacker and pending changes reviewer, I occasionally find myself checking your userpage. Anyhoo, I think I've made all the suggested changes. Moving forward you should definitely feel free to make simple copy edits like this :) — MusikAnimal talk 23:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
It's been so long, oh my how you've grown! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 01:56, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2018)

"Welcome to Virginia" sign along northbound Interstate 81 entering Washington County, Virginia from Bristol, Tennessee
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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

MusikBot glitch

Special:Diff/823106079. Protection has yet to expire. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 13:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

I was going to say that too. I think it's because the page move caused the article to get added to Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates for some reason. Not sure how though. —MRD2014 Talk 14:38, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello MA and PinkAmpersand and MRD2014. From my experience of working with Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates moves of protected pages do cause the page to be put into that category. A couple of years ago a page move caused the protection to be dropped from an article. That was fixed at some point. Now the page stays protected but the protection template might be removed by a bot. That can be fixed by applying a WP:NULL edit. I don't know if the current situation can be improved. Maybe MA will be able to tell us when he sees this. Regards to all. MarnetteD|Talk 16:08, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Sorry about that! Indeed this may be a server-side issue rather than an issue with the bot, but I can probably implement some sort of workaround. I'll put it on the to-dos. Thanks — MusikAnimal talk 23:27, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Nearly similar usernames editing one article

Hi again. I notice a lot of similar usernames, according to this history log of one article. Both accounts are blocked as sockpuppets at Wikimedia Commons: Ukrainkaworld2 and Ukrainkaworld23. I looked at en.WP contributions of Ukrainkaworld, Ukrainkaworld2 and Ukrainkaworld23. They edit the same article. I'm unsure why Ukrainkaworld's Commons contributions weren't checked. Nevertheless, their talk pages at Commons were filled with deletion notifications. George Ho (talk) 09:29, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't think it takes a CheckUser to say those are socks :) but it looks like Materialscientist already took care of it. Best, — MusikAnimal talk 23:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

A message from Antony Listerrin

Hi MusikAnimal, how're you doing?

May I ask how long you've been volunteering at Wiki and what your interests on here are?

Best,

AL, Antony Listerrin (talk) 15:08, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Doing fine, thank you :) You can find out more about me on my user page. Good day — MusikAnimal talk 17:59, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Yugoslavia or Serbia

Yugoslavia or Serbia - FIBA Basketball World Cup and Eurobasket forum wikipédia [[63]] Yugoslavia [[ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//tid/390/_//teams.html ]] Serbia [[ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//tid/96799/_//teams.html ]] Serbia Nationalista User:Bozalegenda promotes war pro editions Serbia. Yugoslavia only ceased to exist in 2003. User talk:74Account) 2 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm guessing you're messaging me because MusikBot removed a protection template. This is a bot edit (not mine), and it only removed the template because the protection had expired. I see that FIBA Basketball World Cup and EuroBasket have been re-protected due to edit warring. If you want to make any changes to those articles, please use talk page. Hope this helps! — MusikAnimal talk 17:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


THANK YOU If you want help look at FIBA ARCHIVE [[64]] THANK YOU User talk:74Account) —Preceding undated comment added 18:03, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
  • Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

  • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2018)

A selection of internal organs in human anatomy
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Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [65]
  • The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [66]
  • Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [67]

Problems

  • Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [68]

Changes later this week

  • When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [69]
  • When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [70]
  • The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [71]
  • Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [72]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello MusikAnimal, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!
The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
  • We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

  • We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
  • Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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Typo in responseHelper

First off, thanks a million for making responseHelper. It's extremely useful. I just wanted to point out a typo in User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js. Where it says "Not voi, COI" in the UAA section, I assume it should actually be "Not vio, COI", similar to the other responses. clpo13(talk) 00:02, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Yup, that's a typo! Fixed. Thanks :) — MusikAnimal talk 00:11, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2018)

Shredded beef is common in South American cuisine and in Latin American cuisine, and is served with a variety of foods.
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Bill Belichick and MusikBot

I may be horribly mistaken, but I thought bot edits were automatically reviewed? Especially for something as straight-forward as removing a protection template? There's no issue here (yet), just me being curious. I understand curiosity killed the cat, but this isn't too much to ask is it? :) Zyc1174 chat? what I did 08:06, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I think here it wasn't automatically accepted because the previous edit had not been reviewed yet. If it had been reviewed, then this is probably a software bug. — MusikAnimal talk 00:57, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Unexpected removal of a protection template from Romelu Lukaku

Hello MusikAnimal. User:MusikBot removed the pp-semi-protected template from this article unexpectedly at 20:00 as 'page is not protected' when an administrator had just finished imposing semiprotection per RFPP (at 19:53 on 10 February). Puzzling. Maybe the bot was not prepared to deal with two protection changes in less than a minute (removal of PC1 followed immediately by application of semi). Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 21:44, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi EdJohnston As I read the log it looks like a full protection was applied rather than a semi. The template that you added is the correct one. Now I could be wrong and - if so - my apologies for cluttering up this thread. MarnetteD|Talk 22:52, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Yeah that's weird... looks like it was semi that was added, so {{pp-semi-protected}} would be valid. I just fixed a bug that I think is related. I'll keep a close eye on the bot. Thanks for letting me know — MusikAnimal talk 03:05, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Notice on MusikBot

TonyBallioni recommended I inform you about this; that MusikBot did not fill in that information, so I did two days after the right was granted. Vermont | reply here 20:54, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! Thanks for the heads up — MusikAnimal talk 03:26, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [75][76][77]
  • Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

  • You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [78]
  • The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [79]
  • The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [80]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Moves done by MusikBot

Hello,
A few days ago, I have made edits on the Wikidata item d:Q5673742 (about Ana Estefanía Lago). I have noticed that the sitelink for the English Wikipedia leads to the deleted page Ana Estefanía Lago, where I have seen a move done by MusikBot towards Draft:Ana Estefanía Lago. The final target is a draft (and has been deleted too) but the Wikidata item has not been updated during the move.
I think that the moves done by MusikBot are not automatically applied into Wikidata because the account MusikBot has never logged into Wikidata. The consequences are: outdated sitelinks (in Wikidata) and isolated pages (without their interlanguage and interproject links) here.
Could you use your account MusikBot and open one page of Wikidata ? If you do that, Wikidata should appear in meta:Special:CentralAuth/MusikBot and I suppose that the next moves will be automatically applied into Wikidata.
Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 17:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Done! The bot is done with moving pages, though, so I'm guessing we're too late :/ Thanks for the heads up — MusikAnimal talk 17:12, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

MusikBot

Hi! This user Tatyana Malaysian (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs (blocks · rights · moves) · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te) has "autoconfirmed" right after his request but why the bot didn't mark this request as  Already done after user gained "autoconfirmed" right? Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 18:09, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

On WP:PERM/C Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 18:20, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
I think it only checks if they already have the right at the time they made the request, or checks if an admin granted it (in which case it will wait for a few hours before marking it as already done). For Confirmed it should probably check every time and not just the first, though — MusikAnimal talk 18:54, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
I agree with you. So, I think the bot should place the notice if the user gained "autoconfirmed" right. So I think the bot should update the code, thanks. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 03:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

February 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday February 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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Jaiswal

Hi MusikAnimal I humble request to you. can you check the data in article Jaiswal Brahmin. There is whole data without reference. Can you please remove unsourced data. Atrisomkshraj (talk) 10:52, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I don't have time to work on this, sorry :/ But fortunately you can edit it, too! So be bold, and feel free to make any improvements yourself :) You can learn how to add references at WP:INTREF. Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal talk 20:02, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2018)

A SWOT analysis, with its four elements in a 2×2 matrix
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SWOT analysis

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Tech News: 2018-08

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

  • The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [82][83]
  • You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [84]

Problems

  • Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [85]
  • Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [86][87]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Pending Changes Protection

Can you add the tag as per https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&action=view&page=Bahrain&type=protect @MusikAnimal AyaanLamar (talk) 15:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@AyaanLamar: You cannot add protection simply by adding the template. You must request protection at WP:RFPP. Best — MusikAnimal talk 18:32, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
It is already protected please refer here AyaanLamar (talk) 18:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
@AyaanLamar: That is the log of previous protections. I'm not actually sure what it doesn't say the expiry, but anyway I can assure you the page is not protected. WP:RFPP is the place to request it. Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal talk 20:02, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
For what it's worth, it doesn't show the expiry because technically there wasn't one - when PC changes were implemented it looks like the semiprot was turned off (whether accidental or otherwise is above my pay grade). Primefac (talk) 02:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2018)

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Green bean

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Tech News: 2018-09

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

Recent changes

  • Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [89]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [90][91]
  • Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [92]
  • Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [93][94][95]

Changes later this week

  • Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [96]
  • Advanced item The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [97][98]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

TKWWBK.

The Kid who would be King isnt unlocked. Can you unlock it please? 86.177.80.181 (talk) 11:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

NinjaRobotPirate is the protecting admin. Please contact them — MusikAnimal talk 20:56, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Screenshot showing some changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Screenshot showing the same changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

  • The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
  • The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [99]
  • Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [100]
  • The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up. Other wikis can have this service, too. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

  • The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
  • Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
  • The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references /> or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}} template. If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki. [101]
  • If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

added Lourdes†
removed AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
BAG
BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things
Upcoming

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2018)

Medieval world religions
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History of religions

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Tech News: 2018-10

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 make longer edit summaries. [102]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [103]
  • On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [104][105]
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [106]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Help

Hi MusikAnimal I needed a userscript that works like refill for Marathi Wikipedia (mr.wikipedia.org). Could you please help in this? --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०†ลℓк †๏ мэ 05:30, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

@Tiven2240: I'm not a maintainer so I'm not sure what I can do :/ It looks like you can request that your wiki be supported at User talk:Zhaofeng Li/reFill, though unfortunately the maintainer isn't too active these days, so you may have to wait a while. Note that VisualEditor is capable of expanding bare URLs too, but you'll ahve to go through them one by one. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal talk 20:46, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Hmm?

I guess this is a thing to keep in mind? GMGtalk 19:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: Yes :) Actually @wikimedia.org should go to Gmail, so probably not necessary here since Gmail has some pretty powerful anti-spam machine learning. But in general using {{no spam}} is a good practice, especially if you link to a mailing list (which uses Mailman). I help maintain the edit filter mailing list for instance, and spam has been a big problem. Bots scrape Wikipedia all the time, across all namespaces, and evidently take any email as a target for their Ray-Ban sales and other clickbait =p — MusikAnimal talk 20:40, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Not all @wm.o goes to gmail, because poor OTRS. :-p — regards, Revi 00:49, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2018)

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Ted Gärdestad

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Tech News: 2018-11

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

  • 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [107]
  • Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [108]
  • Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [109]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [110]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [111]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [112]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [113][114]
  • Advanced item A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [115][116][117]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

ACTRIAL - next steps for the Future of AfC & NPP

Hello MusikAnimal, thank you for your efforts reviewing New Page and AfC submissions and your support for the ACTRIAL initiative.

The conclusion to the ACTRIAL report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation strongly reiterates our long-time on going requirements for the NPP and AfC processes to be improved. Within minutes of the trial being switched off, the feed was swamped with inappropriate creations and users are being blocked already.
This is now the moment to continue to collaborate with the WMF and their developers to bring the entire Curation system up to date by making a firm commitment to addressing the list of requirements to the excellent suite of tools the WMF developed for Curation. Some of these are already listed at Phabricator but may need a boost.
The conclusions also make some recommendations for AfC.
A place to discuss these issues initially is here where you are already a task force member.

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Question about AdminStats

Am I correct that the AdminStats XTool lists only users who are currently sysops? I ask because I've been mucking through the history of JamesR's AdminStats lately for a pet project, and it seems that before March 11th, 2014, that had the opposite problem and only counted users who were sysops at the time. The fact that the XTools page gives seemingly accurate data from way back (e.g., january 2007: you and I are both there with goose eggs, but I checked Wizardman's logs and they're accurate) would lead me to believe that, theoretically anyway, one could query the database for any set of ser's with logged actions at any time. Is that absurd? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:45, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: I just checked the code, and it should be including former admins. It is also merging in current admins though, hence the goose eggs. I don't remember why we did this. Yes, it'd be easy to only show users who made relevant logged actions during the time period, as you suggest. I suppose that's probably what we should be doing. Maybe people like to see the zeros, but indeed that's misleading when looking at older data. — MusikAnimal talk 17:28, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Okay, good to know I can get it if I want! I might bug you about this in the future.
Are you sure about the former sysops, though? There are some notable names missing, and even checking just the Zs there are a few that don't show up. The XTool page has 1267 users, just over the 1225 we have currently; Wikipedia:Former_administrators/full lists over 900 former admins. I should add that I'm really just curious and not criticizing, just trying to figure out what is possible. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:49, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
@Amorymeltzer: Looking at the query (that 'delete' > 0 doesn't do anything, I think), it should be including former admins. I'm guessing the ones that aren't showing up hadn't made any actions in the time period? It's entirely possible there's a bug, though :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:55, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Article Review

I made a new article called Proper Einstein (musician), and I was wondering if someone could review it for me. There was a "refimprove" tag placed on it but I went back and made the necessary changes. If you can point me in the right direction, it would be great and also encourage me to create even more. Thanks. The Newbie06 (talk) 06:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

I see this article was previously deleted at Proper Einstein. At cursory glance, it looks like Proper Einstein (musician) is much more well sourced and maybe now meets the notability guideline, but it's a tough call. I'm going to ping Bearcat for input, as someone who participated in the deletion discussion. It looks like you've also started a thread at WT:MUSIC#Article Review. Maybe we should continue discussing there. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal talk 18:47, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
For the record, no, this version isn't cutting it any better than the first one did. The sources aren't reliable ones for the purposes of establishing that a person passes a Wikipedia inclusion criterion — of the 18 footnotes here, 14 of them are complete non-starters as notability cannot be supported by MusicBrainz, Facebook, Discogs.com, Spotify, IMDb, Amazon, blogs or his own self-published PR. Literally the only footnotes here that I can actually even begin to count as potentially valid support for notability at all are the four AllMusic citations — but none of them actually help in this instance either. AllMusic only counts as support for notability if the site publishes a review of the album by one of its professional staff, and not if the album just has a purely WP:ROUTINE track listing — but all of the AllMusic citations here are of the latter type, not the former. All of which means that literally none of the sources are demonstrating that he passes WP:NMUSIC any better than the first version did. I'm willing to move the page back into TheNewbie's sandbox so that the work isn't lost entirely, but no, it still hasn't been improved enough to overturn the first AFD discussion. Bearcat (talk) 19:08, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, glad I pinged you :) I admittedly did not do any sort of thorough review. Re: AllMusic, I also tend to use that as a gauge for notability if there are written reviews, and I did notice that was lacking here. The other thing that stood out was the "European Indie Music chart" listing, but I question how legitimate that chart is (I can't find an article for it, for instance).

@The Newbie06: Sorry this got moved out of the mainspace, but hopefully you understand why, and that this won't deter you from creating more articles :) I do appreciate you coming forth asking for help. For future reference, you can optionally submit a draft article to be reviewed before publishing it. To do this, use the article wizard. But moreover, I'd pay close mind to the notability criteria before creating articles. In this case, the items at WP:BAND are things you should look for. Best — MusikAnimal talk 19:30, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeah I understand and thank you guys for your help. At least it wasn't deleted. I'll do more research and reading.The Newbie06 (talk) 19:37, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

About my request for pending changes reviewer

How do I endorse the request Aghachi7 (talk) 23:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

This comment counts! But I would say something at WP:PERM/PCR#User:Aghachi7 for all to see. Sorry for the nitpick, just good to know that you actually want the right :) — MusikAnimal talk 23:49, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2018)

A composite satellite image of the contiguous United States and surrounding areas
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Environment of the United States

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Tech News: 2018-12

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Problems

  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [118]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

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  • Recurrent item There is no Editing team meeting this week.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [119][120]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Does not have anthing to say, anyways, want a cookie? Thewinrat (talk) 01:49, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2018)

The Grand Bazaar, held in Istanbul, is one of the oldest existing examples of a bazaar.
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Bazaar

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Tech News: 2018-13

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 later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [121] [122]
  • Advanced item The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [123]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [124]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [125]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Statistics of Page Views of visitors

Thanks for your activities concerning the Page view statistics; it give me much more motivation to continue with placing quotes of famous artists on Wikiquote - all the best FotoDutch (talk) 11:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

My pleasure, and thank you for the praise — MusikAnimal talk 19:46, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Edit filter problems

Here are three problems with filters (891, 80 and 249, respectively):

  • Bots and talk page archives should be exempt from Filter 891 (Predatory open access journals). as it stopped (by warning) talk page archiving bots (mostly Lowercase sigmabot III, example from today) from archiving posts that link to predatory open access journals.
  • Filter 80 (link spam) does not count HTTPS links. Please add the HTTPS link count to the HTTP link count.
  • Filter 249 does not catch edits where the revert was made by the same user as the restored revision and the edit summary is of the form "Reverted edits by [someone else] to revision ######### by [large-scale reverter]". These edits are not self-reverts.

Could you fix these problems? Thanks. Luis150902 (talk | contribs) 20:44, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Done, done and done! Thank you :) For future reference, WP:EFN is probably the better place to make these requests (unless maybe if the filter is exclusively authored by myself). Meanwhile, if you want to request a new filter altogether, WP:EF/R is the correct venue. Just lettin' ya know :) Cheers — MusikAnimal talk 19:57, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Real Life Barnstar
You are the creator of the requestion for rollback. Thewinrat (talk) 23:11, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! I guess. The "Real Life" barnstar, by the way, is intended for people who run events, or someone whom you met in real life. — MusikAnimal talk 19:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello MusikAnimal, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

ACTRIAL:

  • ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

  • Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

  • While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

  • The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2018)

Camp Ciara is a military base and home to the Irish battalion in the UN Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, MINURCAT.
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Military base

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

added 331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG
removed Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
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Precious four years!

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I much appreciate these annual reminders, and your continued effort to reward hard working Wikipedians :) — MusikAnimal talk 01:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

User:Username Needed/Requests for adminship/ClueBot NG

Thanks for removing the successful RfA category from User:Username Needed/Requests for adminship/ClueBot NG. My apologies that I didn't catch that one sooner. I have gone ahead and removed it on User:CamelCase/Requests for adminship/Easter Bunny as well. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

No problem :) — MusikAnimal talk 05:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

  • Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

  • MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [126][127][128]
  • The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [129]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
  • Advanced item User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [130]
  • Advanced item Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [131][132][133]
  • Advanced item AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [134] [135]
  • In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [136]
  • You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [137]
  • You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [138]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
  • Advanced item On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [139][140]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

A message from 1997kB

Hey, this message is regarding that new dashboard button in script User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper, well most of time it works perfect, but sometimes when I click on dashboard it takes me to same page on which I clicked. For eg. If I am on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:1997kB and click dashboard it takes me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:1997kB# with an extra # in link. But strange is it happens sometimes and happens not only on talk but on all pages. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 06:00, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@1997kB: Sounds like a race condition. I'm not able to reproduce it, though :( May I ask what browser you're using? Also, does it matter if you wait a little bit before clicking the link? My guess is the "listener" on the link isn't getting added before you click. My computer is pretty fast, so maybe that's why I can't reproduce the issue. — MusikAnimal talk 01:20, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Well I am using Firefox latest version and after closing and reopening the browser when I click on link it happens (not always, I am not getting the order). But when I click on dashboard link and open it in new tab it always happens. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:25, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
@1997kB: Aha, I can say for sure that opening the link in a new tab will not work. This is because it runs some JavaScript when you click on it, and opening in a new tab bypasses the JavaScript. What it does is check if you have a custom dashboard at Special:MyPage/Dashboard, and will go to that if it exists, otherwise Template:Admin dashboard. I could make it do this check as soon as you load the page, and fix the URL of the link, but that means we have to run a query on every page load (not ideal), even though you may not click on the DASHBOARD link. Hopefully that makes sense, sorry for the tech jargon =p Maybe what I could do is have the link always point to Template:Dashboard, unless you click on it directly. That way opening it in a new tab will at least go somewhere, but it still won't go to Special:MyPage/Dashboard if that page exists. — MusikAnimal talk 03:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Well then it is ok as it is :p. Thank you. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:12, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2018)

Natural sponges for sale at a market in Crete
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Sponge (material)

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Template:For loop

Would you consider reducing Template:for loop to semi-protection, given that the module it uses is only semi-protected. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Module:ForLoop is now template-protected, and in my opinion it should stay that way, as should Template:for loop. They have some 32,000+ transclusions. This is just too many. Sorry! — MusikAnimal talk 03:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [141]
  • You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [142]
  • The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [143]
  • Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [144]

Problems

  • The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [145]
  • For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [146]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
  • Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [147]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

A message from Daimona Eaytoy

Hey :-) I'm writing to you since I noticed this amazing feature of your bot and I was wondering whether we may use it on itwiki as well. I know the source is published on GitHub, but yet I'd like to have a confirm. Many thanks, Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 08:42, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

@Daimona Eaytoy: Yes, I can set that up on itwiki. This same bot task runs on Porteguese and and French Wikipedias. I can also set up User:MusikBot/FilterMonitor, if you'd like. Is there a bot approval process on itwiki that we need to follow? I don't think this bot task needs the "bot" flag, but you may want to add it (so you can hide the bot edits at it:Special:RecentChanges, for instance). Note also the bot only edits in the userspace. On English Wikipedia, that means it does not need approval. I'm not sure if the same is true on itwiki.

The other thing we need is the Italian translations. If you are familiar with git, you can create a pull request on GitHub to add the translations. If not, that is okay, you can just manually give me the translations and I'll add them. The English messages can be viewed here. Some things in locale.yml may not need translations, like the "number" formats. Best — MusikAnimal talk 18:37, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

And I just realized you're that super awesome AbuseFilter developer I've been working with! :D (So obviously you're familiar with git :) One day we might try to get these features into the extension itself, but I know it's a ton of work. FilterMonitor especially (basically a watchlist), will be quite challenging, require DBA approval, and probably security review. Anyway, the bot tasks work well, and they're not hard to set up, so I'm happy to do it. — MusikAnimal talk 18:42, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Unrelated, at User:Daimona Eaytoy I think you can safely change your Babel template to be {{User en-3}}, if not en-4 :) Just my opinion. You're certainly above en-2! — MusikAnimal talk 18:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, that's me :D I didn't know that this task is also performed on other wikis; actually, I asked other bot owners if they could run it, but if you can do it yourself it'd be even better. Given that the bot only touches a couple of pages, twice per day, I don't think it needs any approval, but I'll ask and will let you know. Tomorrow I'll also provide translations on git. As for FilterMonitor, that's something a bit more fragile, and I think it would need an extra approval, so I think for the moment we're fine with StaleFilters. And yeah, it would be great to have this and other features as built in. We may implement it after phabricator:T191428 will be resolved. Finally, I was unsure about en- level, but if you say so I really cannot think not to trust you. Many, many thanks, --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 20:57, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
BTW, I don't know whether you spend some time on IRC, but we have a tiny channel for AF development. I'd be happy if you want to join us, since we may use it to easily discuss some pending changes (as far as time zones will make it possible :-) --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 08:06, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
There we go with the translation. I also confirm that no bot flag is required :-) Thanks again, --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 13:39, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
@Daimona Eaytoy: Sure! What's the IRC channel? I will get the bot setup tonight. Thanks for the translations :) — MusikAnimal talk 20:00, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I got the bot working, and just when it was about to make the first report, the AbuseFilter blocked it! Ha! The block only lasts for 4 hours, but I assume you probably want to "confirm" the bot account, or something? Once things are up and running, indeed it won't edit but a few times a day at most.

I'll go ahead and explain everything else you need to know...

I don't know if you also want to create a page at it:Utente:MusikBot, just so people know it's a legit bot? I assume you have a {{bot}} template or something. — MusikAnimal talk 01:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm sorry for the block. Unfortunately, at the time we don't have many people online and thus you haven't been unblocked; anyway, I requested an increase of your bot's rights. The IRC channel is ##Mediawiki-abusefilter, feel free to join, although you may find it a bit desertic. Thanks for the thorough explanation, I'll translate it and put it somewhere useful. At last, yeah, we have a bot template, it's enough to add {{Bot|MusikAnimal}} to the UP. Many thanks again, and please let me know whether you need anything else. --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 06:47, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

(←) Hello Daimona Eaytoy! The FilterMonitor task is up and running. Here's the first report, which is EVERYTHING =P So I blanked it, and it should now only report changes since the last run. I had a look at your it:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/config, and it looks the same as ours except you have private set to false. Just to clear, this means it won't report any changes to private filters. If you were to enable it, it still respects the other options. So for instance, description is off, so it won't report the name of the private filter, etc. Here on enwiki, we feel that with descriptions off, we like the private flag on because all that will tell us is if the actions changed, and at what time, but it won't say who made the changes (with lasteditor set to false). And obviously, it being private filters, it is not possible to report changes to the "pattern". Just letting you :) Whatever configuration you want is fine.

I'm going to update the code to make "blocca" appear bold and in red, like it does for "impedisci". They are both powerful actions, which is why they are emphasized in the report. Regards — MusikAnimal talk 04:59, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Oh, and one other bonus. This task sets it:Utente:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/Conteggio, which is the total number of enabled filters. With that, you can mimic our MediaWiki:Abusefilter-status so there are nifty links to show all enabled filters, and the stale filter report. Cheers — MusikAnimal talk 05:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, I noticed it. Despite that little problem, it looks really good. I'd also feel comfortable with the "private" option, but I'd like to wait for some opinions about it. Or for a fix to the code itself to solve this visibility problem once and for all :-) I like the reddish thing, it may also help to identify major changes. At last, I'll edit the abusefilter-status message; actually, I already had it prepared :P P.S. In case you didn't notice, there's a little pull request to fix the hopefully last problem with translations. Thanks again for your well done job, --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 06:41, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

March 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday March 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)

P.S. You are also invited to Art + Feminism Events in the New York Metropolitan Area continuing this month!

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CANCELLED: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

CANCELLED: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Due to the winter storm warning, the WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare scheduled for March 21st has been cancelled. Please consider attending one of the many edit-a-thons scheduled for this week. We look forward to editing with you soon!

--Megs (talk)

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2018)

Spanish transition to democracy – People waiting to vote in the 1977 general election in Toledo, Spain. The 1977 general election was the first free election since February 1936.
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Spanish transition to democracy

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Tech News: 2018-16

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 later this week

  • Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [148]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [149][150]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:21, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 25th, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda! After the main meeting, pizza and video games in the gallery.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our agenda, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 02:25, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Creeping on your dashboard templates

(stalking) I believe in {{User:MusikAnimal/Dashboard/Entry}} you want to add |R after the PAGESIZE magic word call inside #expr; right now, there's a hidden error with commas from PAGESIZE so the backlog warning won't show. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 16:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I don't even remember creating that template! It looks like it was coded to say "clean" when the pagesize is under specified amount, and as you say that comparison was broken. So no biggie, but hopefully fixed now. Cheers :) — MusikAnimal talk 12:43, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

response helper js

I added response helper to my common.js a long time ago, and it works great. Within recent months/weeks, "Dashboard" has appeared above it, perhaps part of it. That also is a great help. Today I've noticed, on both Firefox and Chrome, that if I click Dashboard, it will go to dashboard ... but if I right-click Dashboard to open in a new tab or open in a new window, it opens a duplicate of the page I was already on. Never used to do that. The only recent addition to my common.jr was Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks. Is the Reflinks now in conflict? If so, it's minor issue, but puzzling. — Maile (talk) 15:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

FYI - I deleted Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks, deleted cookies, closed my browser. Opened my browser and tried again. It's still happening. So, whatever it is, the Reflinks script has nothing to do with it. — Maile (talk) 19:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
@Maile66: Yes, sorry I didn't reply sooner! What is happening here is that there is a listener when you click on DASHBOARD. When clicked, it checks if Special:MyPage/Dashboard (your custom dashboard) exists, and if so it will go there. Otherwise it goes to Template:Admin dashboard. Opening a link in a new tab however bypasses JavaScript listeners :( BUT we can at least make it go to Template:Admin dashboard, so I've made this change. To clarify, if Special:MyPage/Dashboard does exist, opening the DASHBOARD link in a new tab won't go there, you have to click the DASHBOARD link directly. Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 09:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. It's working now. — Maile (talk) 10:33, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Switch to https on articleinfo-gadget

The gadget provides an http link rather than protocol-neutral or https, which, at least on firefox, leads to a mixed content failure. It wasn't immediately obvious to me where in the repo this was defined, so apologies for posting here instead of making a PR. Probably not too many issues since you manually fixed mw:XTools/ArticleInfo.js back in September. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 16:11, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks for both spotting this in the source code, and attempting to fix it :) This is/was a known issue, and honestly I don't know of a solution. The HTTPS redirect is done via the Apache config. Here, it seems for some unknown reason Symfony doesn't evaluate to the hosted protocol (or at least I think Symfony is to blame). The code does in fact return a protocol-netural path, but alas we can't hard-code a protocol because XTools is meant to work on any MediaWiki installation. That's all I know... I spent too much time on it, and settled on fixing the WMF installation, and the fact it redirects to HTTPS anyway. If you have any further ideas, by all means please share :) Many thanks — MusikAnimal talk 22:52, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2018)

The Wikipedia Fried potatoes article is presently a Disambiguation page that has been identified as qualifying for a standalone article.
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Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#time edited, a privacy issue

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Tech News: 2018-17

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  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [153]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [154]

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  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [155]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2018)

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Paul Anka

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Recent changes

  • The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [156]

Problems

  • Advanced item We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [157]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [158]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [159]
  • Advanced item You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [160]
  • Advanced item There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

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  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [161][162][163]

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.
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List of Gothic brick buildings

Hi Music Fan,

I know that my (it was begun by somebody else, but meanwhile more than 90% of the objects have been entered by me) list has reached the very top of the queue, one or two weeks ago.

  • I hope you have noticed that I have installed some instruments to improve navigation.
    • There could be more: Where one country is devided in several parts, between each two of these parts I could place not only national navigation boards, as I have done, but also the international naviagtion board.

The parallel German list, which still is a bit shorter (I am working on it), is devided into a group of lists.

Hey, thanks for the reply. I have replied at Talk:List of Gothic brick buildings#Splitting out into separate articles to keep the discussion centralized. Regards — MusikAnimal talk 15:22, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Newarticletext-unconfirmed

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2018)

The entrance of Kerobokan Prison
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Pageviews tools: Option to display median values

Hi MusikAnimal,

I really like the Pageviews tool and its siblings that you, Kaldari and Mforns have developed.

There is however a slight issue with the calculated average page views: Whenever a page is linked from the main page or other prominent locations, there is a sudden surge in views which rapidly declines afterwards. The tools then use the total number of page views in the specified period divided by the length of that period to produce a daily average. Such singular events do however heavily skew the daily mean. That makes it hard to get an idea of how much attention the page usually gets.

Consider the page de:Brinner and its pageviews of the year-to-date as a random example of an article: In the end of January 2018 it was linked in the German equivalent of the WP:DYK section. That generated several thousand pageviews in just a few days. Going by the average metrics the article gets viewed 178 times per day. Removing the spike yields a somewhat more representative value of about 20 views per day.

An easy way to fix this would be to use the median value of views for aggregated metrics, as it is much more robust to outliers. Maybe not as the only option, but having median as well as mean values could be useful to assess general interest in an article.

In the above example the median value of views per day is 22 and thus much closer to the usual level of activity.

Thanks again for developing these very useful tools and maybe considering adding that feature! --CorrectHorseBatteryStaple (talk) 16:46, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

I think is a great idea! I have created a ticket at phab:T194053. You can follow it for updates. Showing the median would indeed be helpful, I just hope folks aren't confused by it. I'm thinking we might only show it if there is a spike in the timeframe. So whenever the logarithmic option would automatically be applied, it will show the median. This removes the redundancy for datasets that don't include spikes. Thanks for the fine suggestion! — MusikAnimal talk 15:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

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Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [164]

Problems

  • Advanced item The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [165]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [166]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

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  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [167][168]

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MusikBot off by one?

At WP:PERM/C, MusikBot reported 0 open requests, but it does appear there is one open. Report is clean. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! (Along with some other changes). It was just decrementing the number of open requests twice. Legit bug. Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal talk 19:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

A message from Vahurzpu

I was trying to clean up some citations on the page of a comic book character whose name starts with "D" and ends with "an Dunn". However, edit filter 917 blocked it (abuse log). When I tried to report a false positive, the filter blocked me from adding it to the "report false positives" page (abuse log). I saw that you were the last one to edit the filter; can you please loosen it?

Thanks, Vahurzpu (talk) 21:46, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

That would be Cyberpower678. All I did was disable the broken filter. — MusikAnimal talk 21:47, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Sorry! I didn't look notice that it had been since disabled. Thanks for turning it off! Vahurzpu (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
You're the one who deserves an apology! It was an honest mistake for sure. I'll try to monitor further changes to that filter — MusikAnimal talk 21:55, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Yea, sorry about that. The first version actually worked, and then I had to screw it up.  :-(—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:58, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Need assistance

As per a message placed on my talk page in February, I'm trying to find out if I still have access to DRN. Help is much appreciated. EnglishEfternamn*t/c* 21:38, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@EnglishEfternamn: I think you mean WP:AWB, not DRN? You were automatically removed due to inactivity. As the message says, you can regain access by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Regards — MusikAnimal talk 03:01, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Merging

Hello, I am Anass from Arabic Wikipedia, I have a question, you are the reviewer of Zion Square and Downtown Triangle (Jerusalem), but I think they should be merged. They talk about the same place, and 70% of the informations are duplicate. What do you think?-Anass (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Oh boy. That was a long time ago! As it stands now, I'm not familiar enough with the subject(s) to really give a good opinion. I will say however that if in fact 70% of the information is the same, you definitely make a good case for merging them. It looks like Cas Liber actually reviewed Downtown Triangle (Jerusalem) (while I did the other). Maybe they will have some meaningful input. Sorry I'm not of more help! — MusikAnimal talk 03:07, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA

Your recent BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot 13) has been approved. — xaosflux Talk 23:59, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 03:08, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2018)

A view of the Sargasso art installation at the BCE Place for Luminato arts festival in 2011
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A message from Spaicol

hey whats good broski, i was reading an article that regarded the topic on a newspaper, i didnt know weather it was ok to use it as a source, ill give u the link special right quick u feel me http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/weird-and-wacky/how-tourists-are-getting-inside-balis-kerobokan-prison/news-story/0b3fee19bed8f9d7714170f13f1b821d Spaicol (talk) 06:39, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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  • Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
  • The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [169]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

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  • In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
  • The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [170]

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2018)

The Uzi is a weapon.
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  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

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  • It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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May 23: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday May 23, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 03:13, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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Notability
General notability guideline
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See also

ACTRIAL:

  • WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

  • Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

  • A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

  • There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

  • Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

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  • The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
  • Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

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Page view statistics

Hi MusikAnimal, do you suppose that there can be an update to the Page View Statistics? I have an idea: When we click on to see the numbers of views that a certain page is getting, it could also show us the city, state, and country where those views are coming from. I maintain a certain public page in Facebook, and the view statistics are constantly being shown to me in the settings, so I always know the geographic location of where the views are coming from. It would be good if we could have something similar to that for Wikipedia. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 07:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

This information is not recorded for privacy reasons. The closest you can get is pageviews by country, across all of Wikipedia [171] — MusikAnimal talk 11:39, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Okay. Can you tell me what to click so I can see the views by country? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
You can use Wikistats. To be clear, this shows pageviews of all pages on Wikipedia, combined. — MusikAnimal talk 12:03, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2018)

Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company as of 2014.
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MusikBot

Hello MusikAnimal! I saw MusikBot in Wikipedia:Requests for permissions and I wonder if it can perform the same activities on the same page at ckb:وپ:دم? Is that possible?--◂ ‎épine Ⓥ 21:58, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

@Épine: I see you are using a similar format, so yes, most likely :) I'd love to help you with this. I am away on holiday right now but will return on May 24 and we'll talk more then. For reference, all of the bots features are documented at User:MusikBot/PermClerk and are configurable. — MusikAnimal talk 22:21, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Awesome! Where can I translate the messages? Maybe here, I'm not gonna mess with anything until you're ready to help out of course. Also, you can request the botflag in our wiki at ckb:ویکیپیدیا:دیوەخان (تەکنیکی)/بۆت, we follow the global bot policy. Your request can be in English and I will translate it after you put it there. Have fun with your vacation!--◂ ‎épine Ⓥ 22:30, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Messages still need to be refactored out to be translatable, but that's not hard to do. I'll get that for you soon.

Completely unrelated, your signature contains invalid HTML. I recommend:

--&#9666; [[user:Épine|<b style="color:purple;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;border:1px solid purple">épine</b>]] [[user talk:Épine|<b style="color:black;font-size:11px">'''&#9419;'''</b>]]
This will render exactly the same, but with the corrected placement of </b> and removing the apparently redundant bullet character. Regards — MusikAnimal talk 22:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, I've updated it. Sometimes you guys make me feel ridiculously stupid, but then again, coding is not my field of work :P.----◂ épine Ⓥ 07:48, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
A reminder, in case you forgot about this. :p----◂ épine Ⓥ 21:52, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Units of height

Hello, MusikAnimal, for Asian people including the Thais, people always use the metric unit to measure height. They never use foot or inch like the Americans, so if it is the Wiki page of an Asian celebrity, you should put the metric unit like 176cm first and use foot unit as a complement in the parenthesis. If you ask an Asian person how tall he/she is like Krist Perawat, they will always use "cm" and they seldom know how tall they are in the unit of foot. Please respect their custom. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.33.178.28 (talk) 22:41, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi! I believe you are mistaken. Judging by your contributions, I think you're referring to the articles Prachaya Ruangroj and Perawat Sangpotirat. I did not edit these pages. My bot did, but it only removed protection templates (1, 2). It did not change the height measurements. It looks like this was done by 2001:DF3:0:D2:C1A4:45B8:DDD2:C6CD on 14 April, and Melcous on 27 May. Regards — MusikAnimal talk 00:32, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

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 global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [172][173]
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [174]
  • Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [175]
  • Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [176]
  • Advanced item There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [177]

Problems

  • Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [178]

Changes later this week

  • There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [179]
  • A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [180]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [181]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [182]
  • A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [183]
  • Advanced item Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [184][185]

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

  • A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2018)

Richard Rohr OFM (born 1943, pictured at podium) is an American Franciscan friar ordained in 1970. He is a known inspirational speaker and has published numerous recorded talks and books.
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Tech News: 2018-23

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

  • The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [186]
  • Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [187][188]
  • Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [189]

Problems

  • You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
  • MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [190]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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