User talk:Pine/Archive 8

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS Essex (CV-9) - January 1960

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:USS Essex (CVA-9) underway in heavy seas, 12 January 1960 (NH 98517).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} 01:56, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost

Thank you. Go Phightins! 04:03, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [3]
VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [4] [5] [6]
When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [7]

Meetings

You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [8]

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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Police reform in the United States

On 28 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Police reform in the United States, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 2015 commission on police reform in the United States controversially recommended that independent prosecutors investigate when an officer kills a civilian while on duty? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Police reform in the United States. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Read your Teahouse message

I am a Teahouse host and did not feel it was appropriate to contradict another host in the Teahouse so I am leaving a message here to let you know that I am very interested in what you are doing to help new editors to read the signpost. Please give me more information if you can. Best Regards,

Bfpage |leave a message 23:34, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bfpage my personal view is that new editors might get more engaged with Wikipedia and the larger Wikimedia community if they at least skim the contents of the Signpost, so I would encourage Teahouse hosts to invite new users to subscribe to the Signpost. Additionally, WMF is finally working on an ancient idea to create an easy way for users to subscribe and unsubscribe from multiple newsletters. In your role in the Teahouse, I hope that you can encourage new users to subscribe to the Signpost. --Pine^✉ 00:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-14

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

Recent changes

You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [9]
You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [10] [11] [12]
All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [13]
You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [14]
VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [15]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [16]
You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [17]
You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [18]
You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [19]
VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [20] [21] [22] [23]

Meetings

You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [24]
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2015

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

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:31, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this message is not on your home wiki's talk page, update your subscription.

Talk back

Hello, Pine. You have new messages at User talk:The Herald/Talkback.
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Tech News: 2015-15

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

Recent changes

You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [25]
You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [26] [27]
The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [28]
You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [29]

Problems

The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [30]
Labs was broken several times this week. [31] [32] [33] [34]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [35]
Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [36] [37]
You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [38]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [39]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue III, March 2015
Headlines
Africa report: Closing the gap of the Global South Belgium report: Gendergap and Belgiumgap Catalan areas report: One day at the radio France report: A very busy month! Germany report: 1 topic, 2 talks, 3 hours Italy report: Agreements with national cultural institutions and professional associations Mexico report: Wiki rides the subway editathon and second edition of the Editatona gender gap marathon Netherlands report: Nature, Art, Feminism and a GLAM-WIKI conference Poland report: Six months in Spain report: Women's edit-a-thons, Workshops and Miguel Delibes Sweden report: Fashion; BARK; Council of Central Museums UK report: GLAM activities in the UK USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikimania Open Access policy; Wikimania; Wikipedia Science Conference; Punch-card microfluidics Calendar: April's GLAM events
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A new reference tool

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-16

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

Recent changes

You can read the latest news about VisualEditor.
You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [40]
The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [41] [42]

Problems

Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [43] [44]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [45] [46]
All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [47]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter

March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 19–25. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here!

May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in December 2013, January and February 2014 and all request articles, begins soon. Sign up now!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:29, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-17

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

There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [48]
VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [49]
You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [50]
If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [51]

Problems

There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [52]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [53] [54] [55]
If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [56]
You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [57]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [58] [59]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Motivations for editing Wikipedia

Hi Pine, you had asked about Motivations for editing Wikipedia. I have collected graphs about that at de:user:Atlasowa/editor motivation, because it's an important question and almost everyone thinks about this at some time. Here are some answers:

"The motivations of highly active Wikipedians", Wikimania 2012 talk

"What makes you more likely to edit?" WP Editor Survey April 2011
"What makes you less likely to edit?" WP Editor Survey April 2011

60% of editors whose edits had been reverted without any explanation said that this made them less likely to edit, while only 9% of editors whose edits had been reverted with explanation felt less inclined to edit. (Video by Barry Newstead (WMF) watch )

HTH, best --Atlasowa (talk) 09:20, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much Atlasowa. I put a barnstar on your DEWP talk page. --Pine^✉ 22:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-18

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

All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [60] [61]
You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [62]
There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [63]
You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [64]

Problems

Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [65]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [66]
You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [67]
You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [68]
You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [69]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Serra dos Órgãos National Park

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Amanhecer no Hercules --.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} 09:36, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: April 2015

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :)

Dear Pine I just realised (with a sense of shame) that I hadn't thanked you for the lovely kitten pic you sent me. Please forgive my bad manners - I didn't have time to respond when I opened the post but meant to do so asap, and somehow it just slipped away from me. I am so sorry. The photo was most welcome. Thank you. All the best Plutonium27 (talk) 12:08, 2 May 2015 (UTC) PS Re the Hillsborough links you sent - Was it your IP who sent me an explanation about the message I'd received re Hillsborough (anon but turned out to be from User::LynneFox)? If so, many thanks for that: I'd looked up my posts to see what may have caused her to contact me but couldn't see anything relevant and so I was quite puzzled. JFT98.[reply]

Hi Plutonium27 I'm glad that you liked the kitten. I don't recall contacting you about Hillsborough or anything else, although if this happened awhile ago then I may have forgotten. --Pine^✉ 21:51, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-19

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

Recent changes

You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [70]
There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [71] [72]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [73]

Meetings

You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [74]
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [75]

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15:14, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:41, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 11

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: April 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue IV, April 2015
Headlines
Africa report: GLAM activities in Africa Catalan areas report: First Ever edit-a-thon in Andorra; Libraries project shared in L'Alguero; Archives time! France report: No spring break for Wikimédia France! Germany report: Fresh and GLAMmy datasets for Wikimedia projects to harvest Italy report: Wikimedia Italia Training Day and another one Bibliohackathon! Macedonia report: Collaboration with Holocaust Memorial Center Netherlands report: GLAM-WIKI; a new brochure; Wikipedia in the Museum Poland report: Modern art onto Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Women in Science edit-a-thon and other stories Sweden report: Conferences and edit-a-thons Taiwan report: Hackathon for Mandarin-Taiwanese Dictionary UK report: Around the world, in peace and war USA report: GLAM-Wiki US Consortium moving forward Special story: GLAM-WIKI 2015 in The Hague; Muse Awards for three GLAM-WIKI projects ! Wikipedia Library report: Wikipedia Library report Wikidata report: New feature: GLAM activities in Wikidata Open Access report: Wikiproject Open Access on Wikidata; Wikimedia Sverige at Meeting Place Open Access in Malmö; JATS-Con GLAM Survey report: Preliminary Results from Poland and Finland Calendar: May's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
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Tech News: 2015-20

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

Recent changes

You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [76] [77] [78]
You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [79]
The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [80] [81]

Problems

There was a problem that caused slow editing. [82]
Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [83]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [84] [85]
You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [86]
When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [87]
When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [88]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy 2

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.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} 04:59, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Glassy Tiger Butterfly 2

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Parantica aglea at Nayikayam Thattu.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} 05:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-21

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

Recent changes

You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [89]
You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [90]
The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [91]
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [92] [93]
UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [94]
A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [95]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:27, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Texas bluebonnet

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Bluebonnet-8100.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} 21:35, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Police reform in the United States

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Police reform in the United States 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 Delldot -- Delldot (talk) 22:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Police reform in the United States

The article Police reform in the United States you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Police reform in the United States for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Delldot -- Delldot (talk) 23:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-22

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

Problems

VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [96]
Some Labs tools had issues last week. [97] [98]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [99]

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16:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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

Problems

Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [100]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [101]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [102] [103]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [104]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2015

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Language corrections

Hello Pine, perhaps you remember me from WMCON15, I held a talk on 100wikidays. I just finished Rila Monastery Nature Park. Would you throw a glance on my translation from Bulgarian, because nature topics are definitely not the area of my expertise, but I happened to write an article on a nature park. Thank you very much in advance! --Lord Bumbury (talk) 00:10, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lord Bumbury, I made a few changes to the article. The article is mostly comprehensible in English. I am unclear on what you mean by "In 2000 it was extracted from its territory". Do you mean that some of the land was given back to the monastery? --Pine^✉ 23:25, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi, Pine! Thank you for making the article better. You understand correctly - some land from the National Park Rila was given to the monastery. --Lord Bumbury (talk) 07:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Lord Bumbury, I made a few more edits. Please take a look and let me know what you think. --Pine^✉ 07:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's very good. Thank you! --Lord Bumbury (talk) 14:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE June 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News

May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

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Tech News: 2015-24

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [105] [106]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [107]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [108]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [109]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [110]

Future changes

If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [111]

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17:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue V, May 2015
Headlines
Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group meeting Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Catalan areas report: ORCID France report: GLAM, all over the place! Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change! Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and bibliographic data Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most remote areas in Macedonia Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming Calendar: June's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2015-25

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

Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [112]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [113]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [114]

Future changes

Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [115]
If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [116] [117] [118]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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

Recent changes

Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [119] [120]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [121]

Problems

On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [122] [123] [124]
On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [125] [126] [127]
Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [128] [129] [130]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cirque de Gavarnie

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Cirque de Gavarnie, Haute-Pyrénées, France.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} 04:53, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Pine. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom.
Message added 03:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Notifications are a mess in SP templates, so figured I'd give you a TB here. Thanks -- BP Go Phightins! 03:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Travelogue

Hi, Pine,
I saw your Signpost article and I was wondering if there were any demographic snapshots of who went to this conference...how many people from the U.S. and other countries, % of women attending, other stats like that. The report is otherwise very comprehensive but it would be nice to see if the people who attended reflected the make-up of editors of the WMF projects. Maybe someone at WMF has this data. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:02, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Liz, besides the demographics that are shown in the sidebar near the top of the report, you can see this list of participants and the group photo. If you want more details then I suggest that you contact User:Daniela Gentner (WMDE). --Pine^✉ 18:58, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seattle Wiknic 2015

In the Seattle area? You are invited to the Seattle Wiknic 2015 on Sunday, July 5, 2015, 11am to 2pm at the Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at 47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W. Click here for more details!

Tech News: 2015-27

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

Long lines in code blocks now look better. [131]
You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [132]
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [133]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [134] [135] [136]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [137]

Problems

JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [138]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [139]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [140]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [141]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [142]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [143]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2015

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:07, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-28

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

Recent changes

On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [144]

Problems

The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [145]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [146] [147]
You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [148]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2015-29

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

Recent changes

You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [149]

Problems

There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [150]
There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [151]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [152]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-02-11

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-02-11, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single/2015-02-11 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-02-11 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:41, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-02-11

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-02-11, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single/2015-02-11 (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-02-11 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:43, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]