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586		Rapid City, South Dakota (talk)						Add sources
1,503		Samsung Gear VR (talk)						Cleanup
3,185		Augmented reality (talk)						Cleanup
1,951		"Wild Bill" Hickok (talk)						Cleanup
1,298		Maximum likelihood estimation (talk)						Expand
4,425		Houston (talk)						Expand
31		Lake of Tunis (talk)						Expand
10		Construction puzzle (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
3,979		Maryland (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
69		Sub Rosa (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
288		Tracking system (talk)						Merge
7,619		2010 Haiti earthquake (talk)						Merge
14		Palmito Ranch Battlefield (talk)						Merge
3,537		Wyoming (talk)						Wikify
2,145		Academic degree (talk)						Wikify
2,960		Juris Doctor (talk)						Wikify
2		Anton Beketov (talk)						Orphan
5		Adela de la Torre (talk)						Orphan
3		Ajjarakadu Mahatma Gandhi District Stadium (talk)						Orphan
6		Corey Brown (politician) (talk)						Stub
6		66th Street/Richfield (Metro Transit station) (talk)						Stub
838		Google Assistant (talk)						Stub
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7		Mark A. Heckler (talk)						Stub
54		Vladimír Chvátil (talk)						Stub

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You are invited to a Wednesday evening event in SF

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

Please copy and share this on other talk pages. We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather at the Wikimedia Foundation lounge to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no meaty agenda this month, but we will allow a brief period for:

• Open mic for anybody who attended WikiConference North America 2016 in San Diego last week and wants to share their takeaway
• Question & answer
• Open mic for announcements
• Maybe a focus on some topical election article editing with Ben?

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, a stool or counter and do your own thing.

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Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, October 2016.

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PS: Mark your calendars ahead now for the 3rd Wednesday in November, the 30th (the week after Thanksgiving), at 6 p.m. when our WikiSalon will host a super awesome top secret mystery guest mingling in our midst. We will announce specifics at the upcoming WikiSalon.

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Tech News: 2016-43

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

• The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [1]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [2]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [3]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [4]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [5]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [6]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [7]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [8]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [9]

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Learning Quarterly: October 2016

L&E Newsletter / Volume 3 / Issue 10 / October 2016
Learning Quarterly

Frontpage:
#CEInsights
#WMCEE

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

A program in the spotlight:
Wiki Loves the Olympics

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns you can contribute to.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

• New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
• New Library Card Platform and Conference news
• Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Read the full newsletter

19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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9		Roseville Area Schools (talk)						Add sources
557		City College of New York (talk)						Add sources
29		U.S. Route 16 (talk)						Add sources
36		Custer County, South Dakota (talk)						Add sources
3		Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States (talk)						Add sources
1,881		Apache (talk)						Add sources
56		Pervasive game (talk)						Cleanup
4		South Dakota Highway 47 (talk)						Cleanup
248		Electroless nickel plating (talk)						Cleanup
662		Black Hills (talk)						Expand
5		Concordia Academy (Minnesota) (talk)						Expand
1,961		Oculus Rift (talk)						Expand
84		T. Denny Sanford (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
268		BlackBerry Priv (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
142		Sega VR (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
79		Equipotential (talk)						Merge
64		Real-time computer graphics (talk)						Merge
44		Basilica of Saint Mary (Minneapolis) (talk)						Merge
97		Multimodal interaction (talk)						Wikify
18		The Game of Logic (talk)						Wikify
7		Georg J. Lober (talk)						Wikify
20		Jong-il Peak (talk)						Orphan
31		BaDoinkVR (talk)						Orphan
4		Lois K. Alexander Lane (talk)						Orphan
24		Bill Cowan (talk)						Stub
850		Black Russian (talk)						Stub
5		Deb Peters (talk)						Stub
6		Snelling Avenue (Metro Transit station) (talk)						Stub
5		South Dakota Highway 79 (talk)						Stub
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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

• Wikicup: WikiCup winners

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

• Featured content: Cream of the crop

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2016-45

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

Recent changes

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [10]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [11]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [12]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [13]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [15][16][17]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:41, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [18]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [19]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [20]

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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33		Lemmon, South Dakota (talk)						Add sources
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11		Live for the Night (Krewella song) (talk)						Add sources
16		Mayo High School (talk)						Cleanup
265		South of the Border (attraction) (talk)						Cleanup
3,646		Virtual reality (talk)						Cleanup
141		Google Data Centers (talk)						Expand
24		Grant County, North Dakota (talk)						Expand
12		Commissaire (cycling) (talk)						Expand
60		Deregulation of the Texas electricity market (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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180		Dombivli (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
127		Traveling carnival (talk)						Merge
85		Equipotential surface (talk)						Merge
31		Sopara (talk)						Merge
74		Music of Austin, Texas (talk)						Wikify
281		Circuit court (talk)						Wikify
108		Jesse Johnson (musician) (talk)						Wikify
8		Hugo Villa (talk)						Orphan
2		Nupont (talk)						Orphan
10		Voxofon (talk)						Orphan
14		Saint Janet (film) (talk)						Stub
6		Bald Eagle, Minnesota (talk)						Stub
5		Bellaire, Minnesota (talk)						Stub
18		Ta Mara and the Seen (talk)						Stub
9		Fort Pierre National Grassland (talk)						Stub
12		Dendroctonus (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [21]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [22]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [23]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [24][25][26]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [27]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [28]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Runner1928. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

• Featured content: Featured mix

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [29]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [31][32]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Everybody is invited to the November 30 Bay Area WikiSalon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

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Details and RSVP here.

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See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

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47		U.S. English (organization) (talk)	Add sources
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194		The Lady, or the Tiger? (talk)	Add sources
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399		Levelling (talk)	Cleanup
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47		Metro Green Line (Minnesota) (talk)	Merge
390		Mixed reality (talk)	Merge
63		Reality–virtuality continuum (talk)	Merge
14		McKissack & McKissack (talk)	Wikify
3		Tentaizu (talk)	Wikify
331		Minesweeper (video game) (talk)	Wikify
14		Within (Virtual Reality) (talk)	Orphan
2		AmphetaRate (talk)	Orphan
3		Psychographic filtering (talk)	Orphan
4		Judith Meierhenry (talk)	Stub
4		Ambarnath taluka (talk)	Stub
123		Open Source Virtual Reality (talk)	Stub
11		Frantoio (talk)	Stub
128		Oneplus 3T (talk)	Stub
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