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Template:Did you know nominations/Exhibition of Australian Art in London

Hi, the nominator has submitted a QPQ. Are you interested in continuing with this review, or should we call for a new reviewer? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 08:10, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

@Yoninah: I may bow out of this one at this point. Ultimately, my review still stands, particularly:

Is the content of the hook properly verified in the article by the source in the article?
Does the article contain plagiarism or close paraphrasing?

These matters have not been particularly directly addressed. At the time I performed the review, I did so because the previous review with the tick was so deficient, it would have been entirely inappropriate for the hook to have gone to prep. Feel free to mark for new review at will. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:33, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

OK, thank you. Yoninah (talk) 09:37, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thank you for helping to keep the DYK nom queue in order. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2018)

Siri is a virtual assistant part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, watchOS, macOS, HomePod, and tvOS operating systems.

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Siri

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

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Tech News: 2018-48

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

Recent changes

On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [1]

Changes later this week

The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [2]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [4]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018

There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

In closing

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:24, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of Rachel Parent for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rachel Parent is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rachel Parent (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.8==8 Boneso (talk) 01:16, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Ready...set...GO! Be a glutton & engorge yourself...

Want more yams? No thanks, I'm stuffed.	Wishing You A Happy Turkey Day!
	Thanksgiving chuckles... What smells best at a Thanksgiving dinner? Your nose. What did the turkey say to the computer? Google, google, google. 😊🦃 ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 17:59, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Atsme, and hope you had a savory turkey day as well! Goooooobbblllleee Gooooooobbbblleeee Gooooobbbblllleeeeeeeeee! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:08, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

To my fellow brother!!

Wishing Northamerica1000 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:10, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks The Herald for the kindness. It's a reminder that I'm getting older! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:07, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Recent changes

Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [5]
Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [6]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [7]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [8][9]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits.

For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits.

Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits.

For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles.

The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now!

Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk.

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The Signpost: 1 December 2018

From the editor: Time for a truce

Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

Special report: The Christmas wishlist

Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

Arbitration report: A long break ends

Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

Gallery: Intersections

Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

Essay: No one cares about your garage band

Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis

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A bit of help with DYK

It has been a while since I've done anything at DYK and was hoping you could guide me a little in wrapping up the following older nom. The issues appear to have been corrected and the DYK has been sitting there for a couple of months, so...

do I replace the existing review with a new one, or do I edit/add to the existing one?
do I create an entirely new review?

The editor worked on the issues today. I cleared it as a Third Review but I'm not sure what else I need to do. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 16:46, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

@Atsme: I noticed in your third review that you stated all criteria have been met. So, as long as this is the case, it should be good to go. I would have done what you did, just provide a new review. If you want everything to be really on the up-and-up, you can add various criteria of WP:DYKRULES to your nomination to further qualify it. Below are the points that I use when reviewing for DYK.

New enough?
Long enough?
Any copyvios?
All ¶ have at least one inline citation? (per D2 of the DYK Supplementary guidelines.)
QPQ done, if required?
Is hook content interesting to a wide audience?
Is content of the hook verified with an inline citation in the article at the end of the sentence stating it in the article?
Got milk?

Hopefully this answers your question, I think. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:12, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, thank you! Just 2 more questions - (1) do I add the above checklist as an indented list under my final review? (2) Is there a queue where I add the article name as completed or is that done by a bot? ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 21:31, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

@Atsme: Regarding above: 1) yes, that would work. You can format it any way you'd like, really. Whatever's clever. 2) User:WugBot automatically moves approved entries to Template talk:Did you know/Approved, so you don't have to do a thing. Chillaxin, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:35, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

🍹🏝 TY!! ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 21:50, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2018)

Waves in Lake Ontario

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

Lake surfing

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Siri • Equator

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing ClassifEYE, Northamerica1000.

Unfortunately Insertcleverphrasehere has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

PRODed and CSD tagged articles should not be marked as reviewed, per consensus here.

To reply, leave a comment on Insertcleverphrasehere's talk page.

— Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 16:29, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

That's not necessarily to say that the article shouldn't get deleted, it just is to help things from falling through the cracks. Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 16:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

AmericanAir88 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Northamerica1000 to be Editor of the Week for his persistent efforts in fixing and expanding articles. He is a fantastic administrator. NorthA does several maintenance tasks and ensures that WikiProjects stay in check. NorthA has done a tremendous job on reducing the amount of bare urls and cleanup tags on articles. His work on Food and Drink articles also shines as he ensures quality in every article. On WP:CLEAN, NorthA assists with the cleanup and archiving of nominated articles. NorthA also takes care of AFD, AFC, and Vandalism using a fair jurisdiction. He helped me turn List of water parks from a mess to a refined neat wikipedia list. We still collaborate on the multiple cleanup jobs and the list. Wikipedia would not be the same without the help of NorthA and his role in maintenance. NorthA is one of the funniest, nicest, most motivated users I have had the pleasure to work with. An incredible admin. User:7&6=thirteen said; "Consistently good and prolific quality content creator. Lots of DYKs. Pleasure to work with; works well with others. User:Davey2010 added; "Amazing editor and amazing admin. Agree with thirteen they're a pleasure to work with and they thoroughly deserve this, FWIW I'm surprised this wasn't given to them years ago, Easy support. -User:MelanieN shares; "I agree with these sentiments - North is a very valuable editor here.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 20:57, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks to American Air and everyone else, how nice and thoughtful, it is appreciated! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Congratulations, you have earned it. Remember in September when I said a gift was coming, here it is. Keep up the good work. Its a pleasure working with you. AmericanAir88^(talk) 16:33, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

— The Transhumanist 19:57, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [10][11]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [12]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Help with article?

Hi!

I'm Ed. I was looking at the list of participant of the Wikipedia Apps project and noticed you are a member. And also a Wikipedia admin. I wonder if you might be willing to give some feedback to proposed changes I have for the article about the app Letgo, which is the second most downloaded iOS app? The suggested changes are here: Talk:Letgo#Reactivating_Edit_Request. I should note that while I am an experienced Wikipedia editor, I have a conflict of interest as a paid consultant to Letgo, which is why independent review is so critical. Best wishes, BC1278 (talk) 20:17, 4 December 2018 (UTC)BC1278

Hi BC1278: I don't mind the request, but I may not become involved in this matter. I am working on other matters, and have not been as active lately on-wiki as in the past. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:03, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

What happened this week.

Dear @Northamerica1000: and @The Transhumanist:,

This week I had a family emergency where my mother was in the hospital. After 4 days, she is thankfully ok with a clean bill of health. This is what explains my absence. Another factor was that this hospital stay made me cancel my vacation to Phoenix and my front seat NY Rangers hockey tickets. I had severe depression on Monday but it is finally going away. It will be gone on Sunday which is the day I was supposed to get back.

Anyway, long story short I am just explaining why I wasn't active these last few days.

Also: For work we have decided that every month we will have community service hours for each employee. I need to have written proof that I do this as a community service volunteer basis hobby. I would greatly appreciate it if one of you could either write a paragraph confirming that I do more than 4 hours a month or could refer me to someone who would do that.

Thank you very much, Ill be very active again starting today. -AA AmericanAir88^(talk) 23:59, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: Sorry about your mother's health, but it is great to hear that she is now well. I am declining on the notion of providing any evidence of your editing activity on Wikipedia for your employer. Sorry, but I'm not comfortable performing this activity. I'm not sure of any avenues on Wikipedia where this request would be considered. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:35, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thank you so much for the good wishes. I totally understand your decline on my request, I get it. However, is there a way to pull up a log of hours? Thank you anyway for the consideration. AmericanAir88^(talk) 12:06, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

You could print out pages of your contribution history to demonstrate a quantification of your editing time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:06, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

I am glad to hear that your mother is doing well. And I'm sorry and impressed to read of your personal sacrifice. She is lucky to have you.

Concerning community service, you need to find out what the definition of "community service" your employer is using. It may be the same definition (and system) as used by the courts. If so, then the service can be done only for organizations on an approved list.

If Wikipedia volunteer hours count, then there are two possible approaches you can take, that I think of:

1) Contact the Wikimedia foundation for a letter. But, this will be complicated by the fact that your account is anonymous. You will need to reveal and verify your identity. I do not know if they have ever provided this type of letter before, or who in the organization to contact.

2) Prove directly to your employer what your time commitment on Wikipedia is. To do that, you tell them what your account name is, and then post a unique keyword or phrase that they give you onto one of your user pages, so that they can see that it is in fact you (and explain to them how to view a diff). Then you email them a link to the diff, and a link to your contributions page.

I hope you can work this out with your employer and/or the Wikimedia Foundation. Good luck.

If you do work out a solution, please share your experience by expanding meta:Wikipedia as community service (this link works for me, even though it is showing up as red). Job-related community service isn't covered on there yet.

By the way, if you would like to keep your main account on Wikipedia anonymous, you could set up an additional account, and do your community service on that account. See WP:MULTIPLE and WP:SOCK.

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 19:49, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Thank you very much for this response. My employer will be thrilled to see this. By the way, I completely automated the Portal:California Roads. Could you check my work? Thank you. Also a portal I made Portal:Macroeconomics seems to have article spew issues. AmericanAir88^(talk) 21:21, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2018)

Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. Pictured is the Nuussuaq district in Nuuk, with Sermitsiaq mountain in the background.

Hello, Northamerica1000.

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

Nuuk

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Lake surfing • Siri

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Northamerica1000,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

Tech News: 2018-51

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 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [13][14]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [15]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [17]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Cabbage stew

What is the connection with Austria? What is the local name? Xx236 (talk) 08:16, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Upon consideration, I have removed some content from the article (diff). It may not be an Austrian dish, but rather, in the context of the source, simply a soup that the author ate while in Austria. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:33, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

So perhaps rather Cabbage soup on the basis of Sauerkraut? Xx236 (talk) 08:27, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

It's unclear what you're suggesting directly above. Is this regarding Austria? If so, feel free to expand the article if you can find a source that provides a connection between cabbage soup made using sauerkraut and Austrian cuisine. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
- If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2018)

A bookworm / beetle grub found inside a paperback book, showing some of the damage it has wrought

Hello, Northamerica1000.

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

Bookworm (insect)

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Nuuk • Lake surfing

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Search engine

Wikipedia:Advanced source searching#Reliable Sources Search Engine is not working. Happy holiday season, wumbolo ^^^ 10:08, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

@Wumbolo: It (link) just worked when I tried it out, I think. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:30, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Works for me too now, weird. wumbolo ^^^ 10:34, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

{{no problemo}} then. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:36, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018

Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

Portals status

We now have 4,620 portals.

And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...

Can we make it?

The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Evad is back!

After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner

User:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.

Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway

Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.

Spotting missing portals that are redirects

In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.

Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.

The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.

Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.