User talk:theinstantmatrix/Archives/2018/November
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That was a quote from a review and properly presented and cited as such, so NPOV is not an issue. 86.131.176.213 (talk) 11:32, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- Crap, I actually didn't notice that was a quote. I stand corrected. theinstantmatrix (talk) 11:33, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- Apology accepted 86.131.176.213 (talk) 11:35, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
- A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.
Technical news
- Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
- A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
- The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
- The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en
wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2018)
Hello, Theinstantmatrix.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gulf of Alaska • Latin music (genre) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 November 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on
you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [1]
Changes later this week
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
- When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Reverting edits
Why do you keep reverting my edits without justifying the reason? They are not vandalism so why are you acting like they are? 61.68.227.249 (talk) 11:20, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
- Your edits for sure look like vandalism. If this is not the case (assuming good faith), please, you can use the article talk page to discuss changes you request. Pavlor (talk) 11:25, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
- Blocked 32 hours. Denial isn't going to do you well on here, and you've continually inserted unprofessional phrases such as "rather piss-poor" and "bugger all" into an OS article. theinstantmatrix (talk) 11:38, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2018)
 Distribution map of modern man (Horniman Museum)
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Civics • Gulf of Alaska Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 November 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [3]
Problems
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [4][5][6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [7]
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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
you know which ones
When you see that happening, if you can, please call on an admin. Check Recent changes to see which admins are on call and bother the hell out of them until they block--the sooner they block, the better. I know it's not easy with the flurry of edits, and I want to thank you for keeping your eyes open and your rollback at hand. Drmies (talk) 04:18, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
A message from ELC-LC
Hi Theinstantmatrix, sorry accidentally clicked publish when I meant to hit preview. What would be the best way to include a word list for the article? ELC-LC (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Hello ELC-LC. I was not aware the content you're adding is on an article about a pidgin language, leading me to think it was adding some sort of cryptic phrases or something like that. While I apologize for mistakenly thinking it was vandalism (and I've blanked my warning already), however, this is something that would be better if it was in prose format (see WP:USEPROSE). From my experience as a reader, language articles don't usually include a "list of words and their translations" on the article itself (see Spanish language, Japanese language, Powhatan language, etc.). Feel free to re add the content; I'll not remove it again, though beware that if it does get removed by somebody else, then you'll need to discuss this on an accompanying talk page rather than repeatedly adding the list over and over again. theinstantmatrix (talk) 21:41, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2018)
 The Equator on the world map of the Earth
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Mongoloid • Civics Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 November 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message
Hello, Theinstantmatrix. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
- There is an A/B test for
sameAsdata. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [8]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [9]
- The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [10]
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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| You're pretty good at it! startTerminal {haha wow talk page | startTerminal on irc} 07:33, 21 November 2018 (UTC) |
i want to permission
hi sir i want some permission to upload information about my please give me permission.iam a student i study in 9th class at Maharashtra india — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.208.72.54 (talk) 14:21, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
A message from PaulinJ
Hello, I am Jessen Paulin. Please let me edit my story. PaulinJ (talk) 13:34, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Please see Wikipedia:Ownership of content; you don't own the content on that article, even on your own article. I had to revert your edits because of sentence changes contrary to Wikipedia's manual of style guideline, and that you've also removed categories here with an edit summary that says "removed dead hyperlink" (see Wikipedia:Link rot). For your username, please see WP:REALNAME. theinstantmatrix (talk) 13:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2018)
 Siri is a virtual assistant part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, watchOS, macOS, HomePod, and tvOS operating systems.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Equator • Mongoloid Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 26 November 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
/to create a new page:/wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [11]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [12]
- Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [13] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The
mw.util.jsMessage()function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warningUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecatedin the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code containsmw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to usemw.notifyinstead. [14]
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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
A message from 2607:FEA8:33E0:A02:D889:FB78:E8D0:FA74
Why did you remove my edit of DCA as a treatment to cancer in conjunction with anti-hyperglycemic agents? I hope your response is as swift as the time it took you to edit. 2607:FEA8:33E0:A02:D889:FB78:E8D0:FA74 (talk) 14:08, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Very good job. Keep it up! Jebcubed (talk) 16:03, 27 November 2018 (UTC) |
A message from Billyabong
Hi Theinstantmatrix,
Thanks for your edit on the DisgusedToast wiki. I'm confused by the copyright rules regarding the image I uploaded, are you able to link me/explain the rules? Also, how would I properly source an example of the catchphrases?