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Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) Media Viewer RfC

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You are being notified because you have participated in previous discussions on the same topic. Alsee (talk) 19:31, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [5] [6]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [7] [8]
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [9]
  • VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [10]

Future software changes

  • Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [11]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [12] [13]
  • Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [14] [15] [16]
  • You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [17] [18]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!

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thx!! Darkstar1st (talk) 09:35, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Darkstar1st! --Pine✉ 21:35, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Barnstar of Diligence
Thanks for the help this week! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:42, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ed! --Pine✉ 21:36, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [19]

VisualEditor news

  • Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [20]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [21] [22]
  • VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [23]
  • There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [24]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [31]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
Thanks for creating the page Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014!! I was shocked to discover that no one had created one sooner, considering the seriousness of what is being alleged. It is definitely worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia and I think you did a good job of creating a comprehensive article. HistoricMN44 (talk) 13:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much, HistoricMN44! --Pine✉ 07:40, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your message about VE on wikimedia-l

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Hello Pine, just in case you had missed this, there's a Wikipedia:VisualEditor/2014 RFC, and there was some discussion about VE lately during the last office hour and at the feedback page. Best, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 11:07, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Elitre (WMF), that RfC draft's talk page looks stale. I've appreciate the links though. --Pine✉ 20:08, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marsh frog 2

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Pelophylax ridibundus JdP 2013-06-16.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:43, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes, Issue 6

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

  • New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
  • TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
  • TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
  • New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

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The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here.

The newsletter has been sent to the talk pages of WP:MED members bearing the {{User WPMed}} template. To opt-out, please leave a message here or simply remove your name from the mailing list. Because this is the first issue, we are still finding out feet. Things like the layout and content may change in subsequent editions. Please let us know what you think, and if you have any ideas for the future, by leaving a message here.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:23, 5 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Medicine.[reply]

GOCE June 2014 newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone!

Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here.

Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28.

Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis.

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DYK for Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:51, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]


RfC for Media Viewer

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Pine, bringing the 'media viewer' issue to Rfc is a good idea. My only suggestion here is to simplify the layout. Instead of having separate Enable, Disable, and Neutral fields, I would have people simply enter Enable, Disable or Neutral and leave a short comment after the vote. I went ahead and did this before people start voting. Hope you agree. If not, go ahead and revert I guess, but I think we're going to have to try and keep this one simple, otherwise it'll be all over the map. Yes? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 15:51, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gwillhickers I appreciate your good intentions but I think your layout would make vote counting more difficult for the closer, so I have reverted. --Pine✉ 18:03, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No problems. I think in order to get this thing rolling we are going to have to leave some neutral notices about English Wikipedia. The Village pump was and is a good start, but I think we're going to have to go further than that. I left word with a few users, but don't want to be accused of spamming, so we have to be mindful and post where it will do the most good. Here's the notice I've been using.

Opinions are needed at RfC about Media Viewer being the default image viewer.

-- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:33, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi Gwillhickers, I strongly suggest not pinging individual editors for their opinions because this can easily result in accusations of canvassing. Placing discussion notifications on village pumps and other neutral forums or email lists is likely to be better received. Also, by tagging the discussion with the RfC template, I have signaled a bot that automatically adds the discussion to some RfC lists and randomly asks some users to participate. If you want to encourage more participation I encourage you to do so by posting in neutral, public forums like village pumps or public email lists that are closely relevant to the discussion and where interested editors may be watching. --Pine✉ 06:17, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate the concern, but there are appropriate forms of canvasing, so long as it's limited and done in a neutral and open manner. In any case, I've notified about four or five users individually, and I think this would be an acceptable limit for me, so I don't plan on notifying anyone else individually. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 16:10, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FC report

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Not a bad start, though a bit over-illustrated; we'll need to cut it down a bit. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:34, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adam Cuerden please let me know if you can find a way to get the tight gallery tag to work properly with the height parameter. --Pine✉ 07:41, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [32] [33]

VisualEditor news

  • You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [34] [35]
  • The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [36] [37] [38]
  • You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [39] [40]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [41]
  • You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [42]
  • On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [43] [44]
  • You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [45] [46]
  • Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [47] [48] [49]
  • You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [50] [51]
  • Hovercards will no longer flicker. [52]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

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Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: May 2014

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Headlines
  • Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data
  • Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons
  • Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms
  • UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming
  • USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City
  • Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource
  • Calendar: June's GLAM events
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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Annelid diagram

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An alternative image was added with white background. Could you re-evaluate the nomination? Armbrust The Homunculus 11:05, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kelvinsong

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I do want to promote Kelvinsong's work, but I kind of wanted to put up this one, which I think is a better illustration by him - the supercell is good, but not the best of his work. Should we do the commmentary on him now with the not-quite-as-good image, or wait on the (presumably inevitable) renom and promotion of the Saturn image?

Also trying to avoid a few images that have appeared a lot - That Sega CD one has appeared at least once, probably twice or thrice in recent months, and hurricanes heavily dominated (and likely will once more dominate) the Wikicup report. Anyway, the selection is good, just going to prune it down a bit; I think you can overdo images even in something like this. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:15, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings

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Hi Pine! I'm a native Washingtonian (from Mount Vernon) that currently does Wiki stuff in New York and with Wikimedia NYC. I will be in Seattle for the Wikinic and am looking forward to meeting some Seattle Wikipedians. I see you've signed on to be a founding member of Wikimedia Cascadia (or whatever we will call it) on meta:Talk:Cascadia Wikimedians#Sign on to be a Founding Member of Cascadia Wikimedians and contributing to the discussion. I hope to talk to you more about the proposed Usergroup at the meetup! Cheers. OR drohowa (talk) 18:49, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: June 2014

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Headlines
Highlights  · Single page edition

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Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

  • You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [53]
  • When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [54] [55]
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [56] [57] [58] [59]
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [60] [61] [62]

Future software changes

  • Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [63]
  • You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [64]
  • You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [65] [66]
  • It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [67] [68]
  • Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [69]
  • The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [70]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
  • You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [71]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed

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Hi Books & Bytes recipients: The Wikipedia Library has been expanding rapidly and we need some help! We currently have 10 signups for free account access open and several more in the works... In order to help with those signups, distribute access codes, and manage accounts we'll need 2-3 more Account Coordinators.

It takes about an hour to get up and running and then only takes a couple hours per week, flexible depending upon your schedule and routine. If you're interested in helping out, please drop a note in the next week at my talk page or shoot me an email at: jorlowitz@gmail.com. Thanks and cheers, Jake Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:41, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-06-18/Featured content‎

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Please help; I've been knocked out badly by allergies this week, and am way, way behind on it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:41, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [72] [73]
  • When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [74] [75]
  • You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [76] [77]
  • You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [78] [79]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [80] [81]
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [82]
  • CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [83]
  • You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [84] [85]
  • An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [86]

Problems

  • On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
  • Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [87]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July 2014 newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights:

– Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-27

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [88] [89]
  • A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [90] [91]
  • VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [92] [93] [94] [95]
  • Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [96] [97]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [98] [99]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [100]
  • All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [101] [102]
  • Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [103]
  • You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [104] [105]
  • You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [106]

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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

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After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Scotland Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to Florida 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

  • We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [107]
  • It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [108] [109]
  • You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [110] [111]

VisualEditor news

  • Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [112] [113]
  • You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [114] [115] [116]
  • When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [117] [118] [119]
  • The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [120]
  • Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [121] [122] [123]

Future software changes

  • Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
  • A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [124]
  • If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [125] [126]
  • Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [127] [128]
  • Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [129] [130]

Problems

  • Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [131] [132]
  • For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [133] [134]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2014

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Headlines
  • Belgium report: Bouchout Declaration on Open Access to Biodiversity data; Virtual collaboration in the government
  • France report: Round table in Brussels; Video at Sèvres; 70th anniversary of the D-Day
  • Germany report: Exhibition photography
  • Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
  • Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
  • Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
  • UK report: Free Culture; Image releases
  • USA report: A GLAM Day Out! in Philadelphia; Local History at the Local Library
  • Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania
  • Open Access report: Open biodiversity data; Automated import of scholarly journal articles into Wikisource
  • Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Courtesy note

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Since you initiated the RfC in question, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#MediaViewer RfC may be of interest to you. Cheers, 28bytes (talk) 14:44, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@28bytes: noted, thank you. --Pine✉ 05:39, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
  • It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [135] [136]
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
  • You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

  • The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [137] [138]
  • The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [139] [140] [141]
  • References will now be shown in the default font size again. [142]

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [143]
  • The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [144] [145]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [146]
  • Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [147] [148]
  • Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [149] [150]
  • Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [151] [152]
  • Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [153]

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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2014

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POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.ogv is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 6, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-08-06. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:29, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Medical Translation Newsletter

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Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.

note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you *sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject Medicine

Spotlight - Simplified article translation

Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?

IEG grant
CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

  • Swedish
    Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
    Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
  • Dutch
    Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
  • Polish
    Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
    (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
  • Arabic
    The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [156]

News in short

To come
  • Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
  • Proofreading drives

Further reading



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Greetings

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I've been following Wikimedia-l for a month or two and just wanted to drop by to say hello. Your posts seem thoughtful and intelligent. best regards, —Tim //// Carrite (talk) 02:01, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much, Carrite. --Pine✉ 05:42, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer RfC case opened

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You were recently recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Media Viewer RfC. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Media Viewer RfC/Evidence. Please add your evidence by July 26, 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Media Viewer RfC/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. Before adding evidence please review the scope of the case. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:10, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SP

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Hey Pine, I've changed your title to make it a bit more engaging and so we don't repeat "Wikimedia" and "education" -- I hope that's alright. I've also changed the template so we don't have a bunch of red links. I left the wikitext links in a hidden comment so it will be easy for you or me to copy/paste them. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:40, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ed the title change is OK. I would like to leave the template as it is so that our readers know what to expect in future issues. --Pine✉ 05:42, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I figured that, which is why I only removed the links -- not the titles or dates. Is that alright? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ed ok thank you. --Pine✉

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/James Webb Space Telescope mirror acceptance testing

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:James Webb Primary Mirror.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 04:54, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [157] [158] [159]
  • The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [160]
  • Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [161] [162]
  • A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [163]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [164]
  • All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [165]
  • You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [166]
  • Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] [172]

Future software changes

Problems

  • Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [176]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
  • You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [177] [178]
  • The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [179]
  • If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [180] [181]
  • You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [182] [183]

Future software changes

  • You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [184] [185]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [186]
  • It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [187] [188]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Charles F. Bolden, Jr.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 19, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-08-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:10, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 7

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
  • TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
  • Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
  • Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer RfC draft principles & findings

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Hello. This is a courtesy note that the draft findings and principles in the Media Viewer RfC case have now been posted. The drafters of the proposed decision anticipate a final version will be posted after 11 August; you are welcome to give feedback on the workshop page. For the Committee, Lord Roem ~ (talk) 02:31, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [189]
  • You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [190] [191] [192]
  • You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [193]
  • New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [194] [195]

VisualEditor news

Future software changes

  • You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [207] [208]
  • All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [209]
  • Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [210]

Problems

  • Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [211]
  • Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [212]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33

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

Recent software changes

  • Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [213]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [214]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [215]

Future software changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [216] [217] [218]
  • If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [219] [220]
  • You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [221] [222]
  • An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [223]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer RfC arbitration case - extension of closure dates

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Hello, you are receiving this message because you have commented on the Media Viewer RfC arbitration case. This is a courtesy message to inform you that the closure date for the submission of evidence has been extended to 17 August 2014 and the closure date for workshop proposals has been extended to 22 August 2014, as has the expected date of the proposed decision being posted. The closure dates have been changed to allow for recent developments to be included in the case. If you wish to comment, please review the evidence guidance. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:00, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: July 2014

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Headlines
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Tech News: 2014-34

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
  • There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [224] [225] [226]
  • You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [227] [228]
  • You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [229]
  • You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [230]
  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [231]

Problems

  • There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [232] [233]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July drive and August blitz

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the 40 people who signed up this drive, 22 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2400 articles to 2199 articles in July. This is a new month-end record low for the backlog. Nice work, everyone!

Blitz: The August blitz will run from August 24–30. The blitz will focus on articles from the GOCE's Requests page. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. The blitz will run from August 24–30. Sign up here!

Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: August 2014

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Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

Signpost 20 August

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Hi Pine, thanks for publishing, I was just sitting down to have a look myself when I noticed. Did you encounter any errors with the script (assuming you used the script)? Ed was having trouble last week. - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 20:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer RfC arbitration case - motion to suspend case

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You are receiving this message as you have either commented on a case page or are named as a party to the case. A motion has been proposed to suspend the Media Viewer RfC arbitration case for a maximum of 60 days due to recent developments. If you wish to comment regarding the motion there is a section on the proposed decision talk page for this. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs). Message delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 02:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

  • There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [234]
  • You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [235]
  • If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [236] [237] [238]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
  • After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [239]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:F-16 June 2008.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 16, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-09-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:57, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

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The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
  2. Scotland Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
  3. Nepal Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
  4. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
  5. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
  6. Florida 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
  7. Colorado Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
  8. Canada Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Herm Matty.007 (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), United States WikiRedactor (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), Portugal Prism (submissions) and Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-36

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

Recent software changes

  • You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [240] [241]
  • You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [242] [243]
  • A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [244] [245]
  • If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [246]

VisualEditor news

  • You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [247]
  • We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [248] [249] [250]
  • VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [251]
  • We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [252]
  • You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [253]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
  • There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [254]
  • You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [255]
  • You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
  • You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [256]

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Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Haliaeetus albicilla (Svolvær, 2012).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 18, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-09-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:11, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Crisco 1492 thanks for all your work with POTD, but how did I get that nickname? --Pine✉ 08:11, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Carina Nebula.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 19, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-09-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:04, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-37

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

VisualEditor news

  • From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [257] [258] [259]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
  • You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [260]
  • You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [261]

Problems

  • There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

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For the barnstar! Graham87 00:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: August 2014

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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Pelophylax ridibundus JdP 2013-06-16.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 5, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-10-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:42, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-38

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

Recent software changes

  • You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [262] [263]
  • There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [264] [265] [266]
  • New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [267]

Problems

  • There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [268]

VisualEditor news

  • If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [269]
  • The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [270] [271]
  • You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [272]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
  • These changes are coming with the new version:
    • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [273] [274] [275]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2014

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Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

Tech News: 2014-39

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

Recent software changes

Problems

  • There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
  • Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
  • There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [277] [278]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
  • If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[279] [280]
  • In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [281] [282]
  • The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [283]
  • The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [284]
  • There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [285] [286]
  • In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [287]

Future site changes

  • You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [288]

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Tech News: 2014-40

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

Recent software changes

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
  • Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [292] [293]
  • You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [294]
  • If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [295] [296]
  • The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [297]

Future changes

  • You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
  • JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [298]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

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In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Scotland Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wait a sec

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Give me a moment to override the old file and renominate that! So we have the corrected version on all the current articles!--Mark Miller (talk) 19:33, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. I have also tagged the alt 2 for speedy deletion. The corrected image now appears on all articles and the original uploader still has attribution for their work!--Mark Miller (talk) 19:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Miller ok. Are you also known as Commons user Amadscientist? If not and you edited that person's version of the photo then please credit them in the file description at the new location and add them to the credited contributors at Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_2 --Pine✉ 19:50, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's me. Just received the name change yesterday!--Mark Miller (talk) 20:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Amadscientist is also my secondary monster on Wikipedia. It was my first account and became a legitimate secondary one when I changed my name here. I actually don't use it, but in the last few days a technical issue began autologging me into Wikipedia as Amadscientist again. --Mark Miller (talk) 20:05, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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You cannot publish the Sognpost with the Featured content unfinished! Its part of Portal:Featured content, which literally gets about fifty times more traffic than the rest of the signpost! I've had to fix this kind of thing once before. It was one of the most stressful things I've ever done. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:28, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a big deal, Adam. We've published without descriptions of FPs before. *If* someone has the time and interest to add them, they can do so. The Signpost is already late for publication. We're all short on time. --Pine✉ 19:33, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I quit. I was promised this wouldn't happen again. I said, two days ago, that, in an emergency, if someone e-mailed me I'd step in. I got no such email, but dfid some of the work anyway, in an effort to try and help out. But, after sticking my neck out to get us on Featured content, I'm not going to be part of this if it's not going to be finished. This was one of the promises made to me as part of me doing this. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:35, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
See, the thing is, if you do all the content types but one, that shows you consider one type of content less important. And Fuck. That. It is a big deal, and if it happens again, I am saying so. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:15, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Adam Cuerden, I appreciate that having those descriptions is important to you, and I thank you for your work on this week's report. I do not recall any promises being made about FPs missing descriptions, but perhaps that is a discussion that happened between you and Ed. In any case, in future weeks I will try to have FP descriptions as well if I am finalizing the report. I'm pinging The ed17 in case he wants to add anything to this discussion. --Pine✉ 23:55, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2014-41

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Recent changes

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
  • If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [306] [307]
  • We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [308]
  • On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [309] [310]
  • You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [311]
  • 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [312]

Future changes

  • You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [313]
  • More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [314] [315]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
  • Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
  • New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
  • Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

Read the full newsletter



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FC

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....Just when I get the photos right, half the content disappears... =/ Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:49, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, that's dealt with now. How's this look so far? Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15/Featured content. I've pulled the Clark image since it was eating up a lot of the much reduced space available, while not being that good of image (I'm pondering adding the caption to the description, though. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Adam Cuerden that looks ok to me so far. I'm ok with removing the Clark photo, but I think the Clark caption could go well with the article description. I prefer the report title that I originally used because it's poetic and I think more engaging, if you don't mind. Other than that it looks like we just need a few more FP descriptions and then we'll be done for the week! --Pine✉ 19:20, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think we need to make the Fez video too prominent - with the really good video support we have, playing the video centres it and makes it large anyway - so why use up the page real estate? =) Maybe swap it and Keswick if you want to encourage people to watch, but I just can't see any reason to make it larger, when watching it will automatically scale it up anyway. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And we're done. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:42, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-42

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

Recent software changes

Problems

  • 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [318]
  • Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [319]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
  • 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [320]

Meetings

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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Deepwater Horizon fire 2

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit on fire 2010.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:47, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/Featured_content&diff=prev&oldid=629619785

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I'm not quite sure why you did this. It could result in the gallery going to two lines, is the thing, but, on the other hand, if you had a good reason, I don't want to just revert without fixing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:53, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi Adam Cuerden, on wide displays, having that break results in a large empty space between the bottom of the text and the top of the pictures that are at the end of the report. I am ok with you reverting it if there is a reason to do so, although I tried testing the display on mobile and that gallery was separated into two lines both with and without the line break that I removed. --Pine✉ 02:07, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grace Hopper portrait

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN (covered).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:37, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE October 2014 newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors October 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights:

– Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis.

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Tech News: 2014-43

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

  • You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
  • You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [324] [325]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [327]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
  • 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [328]
  • If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [329] [330]

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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Signpost FC

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Just to warn, I have a bad cold, and will need a lot of help this week. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have only had a little help this week. There are still 19 FC items unfinished. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:27, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And we're good. With lots of thanks to SchroCat, who really picked up a lot of the slack. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much, Adam Cuerden and SchroCat. --Pine✉ 08:32, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-44

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

Problems

  • There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [331]
  • There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [332]
  • There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [333]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [334]
  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [335] [336] [337]
  • VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [338]
  • VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [339]
  • The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [340]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

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Happy Halloween!

Hello Pine:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – Thanks from all the users of the project for your generous help. Victuallers (talk) 10:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]



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Halloween cheer!

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Happy Halloween!

Hello Pine:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – The herald 12:14, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]



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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Timeline of the universe

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:CMB Timeline300 no WMAP.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:27, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost

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Please publish immediately: The FC has a Hallowe'en theme, and has been ready since Monday. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:54, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-45

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

Recent software changes

Problems

  • There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [344]
  • Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [345] [346] [347]
  • HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
  • Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [348] [349]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [350]
  • The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [351] [352] [353] [354] [355]
  • After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [356] [357] [358]

Future changes

  • The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [359]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

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The 2014 WikiCup champion is Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Scotland Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Church Heart of the Andes.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 26, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-11-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:52, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

  • DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
  • Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
  • British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
  • Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
  • Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
  • JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 23:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
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Portal:Featured content

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I had reminded Ed about this, but I take it he's out again? Portal_talk:Featured_content#The_Best_Wikipedia_Has_to_Offer.3F. That half-done column went live, because you left a redirect when moving the page. I'm not really upset about this - it's an easy mistake - but... please, if there's anything going on with featured content, please check Portal:Featured content the moment you publish next time. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:55, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Revert this diff as soon as the next issue publishes. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:59, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Might be a little more complicated than that. Please give me 24 hours' notice before updating. I can get this to work, but I'll need to update Portal:Featured content first. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Real Life Barnstar
Pine, thank you so much for your "real life" contributions to the Wikimedia movement, those related to Wikimedia Cascadia and otherwise. Your hard work and dedicated are much appreciated. --Another Believer (Talk) 16:52, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-46

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

Recent software changes

  • You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [360] [361]
  • The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [362]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [363]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [364] [365]
  • The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [366]
  • The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [367]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2014

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For the last couple weeks ... and more

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The Barnstar of Awesomeness
For publishing the Signpost over the last couple months. Thank you. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:39, 15 November 2014 (UTC) [reply]


You also have an email. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:39, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FC

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Thanks for all the help, and sorry about the problems. Last week's delay will help us a lot in future, but when it combines with me overdoing it and burning out and getting a cold... then it's problematic. No matter, I think we have one more moderately big week, and then we'll have cleared the Wikicup spike.

I may have told you, but I'll be away from the 27th to the 15th. I'll do what I can. As long as you delete any redirects when moving the FC forwards, Portal:Featured content can deal with a one-week gap, but not a two-week one, and I WILL have more time in the second week. I don't think it'll be too bad, though. Decembers tend to be a bit dead on Wikipedia, so as long as we get as much done before I leave as possible, we should be alright. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Adam Cuerden. There is a semi-active discussion on the Wikitech email list about dealing with the edit conflict issue, so I hope that something good will come of those two lost hours.
If I may make a suggestion, when there are large sets of photos, skip linking every single photo in the FC report and just link to the set nomination page on FPC. --Pine✉ 07:51, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Eh, don't like doing that, if I can: Screws up the formatting of the (created by X, nominated by Y) tag, and kind of cuts down their achievement so it looks like less. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:45, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-47

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

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
  • The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [368]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

  • The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
  • You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
  • You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
  • Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
  • You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [369]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Frederic Edwin Church - Aurora Borealis - Google Art Project.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 9, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:52, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-11-19/Featured content

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It's done, publish it. And after I had to write almost the entire thing by myself, don't you dare remove my bad jokes. =P Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:20, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have another version where it's a stick figure. I'll put that in. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:13, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Just for the record, the edit labelled as undoing you changed the artwork; I just wanted to get the text back. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:22, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you're online too. I was able to finish my obligations early today so I threw together a short ITM for this week thanks to Everymorning's story and something I'd written last week. It's ready to go. Gamaliel (talk) 06:05, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank god that we finally have a normal-sized FC next week. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:13, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By the way

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I should have fixed that annoying bug where the "next" button would lead to draft articles on Signpost pages. It basically grabs the date of the current issue and compares it with the date of the "Next" issue it would be linking to. Little more complicated than that, as I have to convert to Unix time to get a simple comparison, but...

I've checked as best I can, and tested things thoroughly in the sandbox, but let me know if you find any odd behaviour. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:38, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-26/Featured_content

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Pine, could you possibly do the FLs for this? I want to finish the last two FPs, then move on to December 3, as if we can have that ready before my holiday, chances are at least reasonably good that we won't run into problems later. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:32, 23 November 2014 (UTC) [reply]

While you're at it, if you could do as much as possible on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-12-03/Featured content, it'd be appreciated. I'm basically trying to get three of these done in about three days, so that you won't be screwed while I'm on holiday, and will just need to get the one for the 10th done sometime between this Sunday and the publication date for the 10th. I'll leave instructions. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:57, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, they're all but done. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:58, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-48

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

Recent changes

  • The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [370]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [371]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
  • You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [372]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [373]
  • You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [374]
  • VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [375] [376]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peaceray -- Peaceray (talk) 02:02, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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