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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. [1]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [2]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [3]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [4]

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. [5]

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. [6][7][8]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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275		Comparison of wiki software (talk)						Merge
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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2016)

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Wikidata weekly summary #235

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

• Discussions
  • Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
  • Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
  • Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
  • Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
  • Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
  • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site, ACM Digital Library event ID, ACM Digital Library citation ID, HGVS nomenclature, Supermodels.nl ID, CIViC variant ID, wurvoc.org measure ID, Réserves Naturelles de France ID, World Waterfall Database ID, Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID, ID petit-patrimoine.com, opponent during disputation, Vlindernet ID, male form of label, board member, Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID, BDI ID, ICCF ID, chesstempo ID, 365chess player ID, plan image, muscle action, SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID

• • Query examples:
    • Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
    • Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
    • Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
    • French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
    • Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)

• Development
  • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
  • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
  • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
  • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
  • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
  • Analysed queries used with Listeria
  • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
  • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
  • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
  • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
  • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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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. [9]

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. [10]

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. [11]

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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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. [12]
• 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. [13]
• 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. [14]

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. [15][16][17]

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. [18]
• 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. [19]

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New Page Review - newsletter

Hello TheresNoTime/old,

Breaking the back of the backlog

We now have 804 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.

Mid July to 01 Oct 2016

If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.

Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote

With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2016)

Homework may include mathematical exercises Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Homework Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sponge (material) • Dress Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 28 November 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #237

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID
  • Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
  • Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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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. [20]
• 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. [21]
• 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]. [22][23]

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)

TOTP

I know what I just wrote at Wikipedia:Simple 2FA sounds like a joke, but there's a serious point behind it. Top of the Pops was one of the best known television shows of all time in Britain and the acroynm "TOTP" is sufficiently well-known to the point my brain keeps parsing all these discussions about "Top of the Pops authentication". However, if you're not British and / or under 30, you won't know this! Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Must have crossed messages just then, the thanks still applies - I vaguely remember Top of the Pops but given the fact I'm 22 I must be unaffected by the TOTP association! Thanks again -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:51, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

You're slightly older than my step-daughter but not by much! I think TOTP terminally declined by the late 90s, and even then it wasn't the musical juggernaut back in the 70s and early 80s that could pretty much make or break someone's career. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:55, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: I swear you sometimes see TOTP on around Christmas though - along with copious Top Gear repeats and Jaws II.. -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:45, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

User:Samtar/2FA for AWB

I suggest updating the section on the grants here. A major benefit of using BotPasswords is that you can remove some of the non-required access from your account when using botpasswords, for example I use AWb and on my AWB Botpassword I left of all of the "admin" functions that I don't use AWB for. For most editors, they only will need the first 4 boxes. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:59, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Good call - I've updated the section to reflect that. Feel free to make changes -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:03, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:ANI#Range block needed - LTA IP editor who reverts Eik Corell

You are invited to join the discussion at WP:ANI#Range block needed - LTA IP editor who reverts Eik Corell. Regarding an edit filter you may have assisted with --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 03:18, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Rollback Rights

Samtar, can you tell me how to apply for Rollback Rights on the English Wikipedia? Thanks! - JustAGuyOnWikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by JustAGuyOnWikipedia (talk • contribs)

@JustAGuyOnWikipedia: Sure can - have a quick read of this page and then head over to this permissions request page -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:48, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

@Samtar Thx!! JustAGuyOnWikipedia (talk) 17:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

@Samtar, I also Supported you on the Adminship page for you. JustAGuyOnWikipedia (talk) 17:03, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

RFA

Hi Sam, when you're ready Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Samtar is begun. ϢereSpielChequers 15:40, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

I'll be ready to support if you accept the nomination and the RfA goes live. Good luck mate! Class455 (talk) 17:26, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

I know it's an old cliche, but seriously you're not an admin already? However, I was just about to run off and add my name as a co-nom, when something made me pause. Your most recently created article is 2016 Benidorm forest fires, and it mainly uses a citation from the Daily Mirror - a tabloid newspaper. An earlier creation, William J Tarling is largely unsourced. Church of Saint Winwaloe, Gunwalloe does appear to be in a reasonable shape aside (the most obvious error is a duplicate reference) but much of the article seems to have been added by other editors, and while I don't think it's against policy to pass your own AfC submission, it does get frowned on as spammers do that a lot to trying avoid getting their stuff speedy deleted at NPP. That is going to pretty much guarantee an oppose vote from Andrew D, and may take a few others along for the ride as well. Sorry, but having done that bit of research, I would probably !vote "neutral" in the RfA and recommend you read User:Kudpung/RfA criteria closely, specifically in this case point #5. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:30, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Hey, no worries - I do see you as something of an authority on content and content creation, so these points are something I will take onboard and work through. Content creation is not my strong point but the core mission of the project is one I do care about deeply. I'll drop you an email if that's alright - thank you for the comments -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Sure, drop me an email. As you probably can guess, I didn't say any of the above to be mean, rather I didn't want to see this RfA run and then tank, and I'm sure you don't either. I know you pass with flying colours on technical chops and civility, and in this case the content really is the last missing piece of the jigsaw. I'm really not an authority on content creation at all, I've never single-handedly taken an article all the way through FAC yet, and I look up to numerous editors who have. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:02, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

You don't want to see it run and tank, then you oppose because of it? Interesting. Thankfully for the candidate the broader community doesn't seem to share your views. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 01:18, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

I would rather state my honest opinion than be a yes-man, and as you can see from the diffs on this talk page, I had a co-nomination for the RfA typed up which I hoped would smack it out of the park into WP:RFX200 and got stuck at the sentence : "He likes creating articles about [topic], such as ....". So this isn't a decision I take lightly or with any happiness, particularly as we've worked very well together recently. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 21:25, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Sam, when is your RfA going live? Just curious, because I want to know when I need to support you ;). By the way, I hope you don't mind me updating the time on you edit notice, as the clocks have gone back. Class455 (talk) 12:33, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

@Class455: That's very kind, and I look forward to a reasoned support !vote I hope to be doing this soon, but as Ritchie points out above there are a couple of Ts to cross and Is to dot - it would be silly to rush in and ignore advice from a respected editor! And of course not, if you hadn't of done it I would still be an hour out ;P -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:37, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

RfA

Hello. Good to see you running for RfA. I am confident that you will make a good admin. I wish you all the best. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 13:11, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

@AKS.9955: Sorry I never replied! Thank you -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:50, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #238

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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
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  • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
  • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
  • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2016)

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RFA

Might be a bit early, but I'm thinking it's time to welcome you to the team! RickinBaltimore (talk) 17:58, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

As requested on IRC, here is a parade. *parades* Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 15:51, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

William biggs

Could you double check the warning you issued to the user with this edit? I got a query about something I reverted some time ago, but I suspect he was really asking about your warning. I don't see anything in his edit history which would have triggered that. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 20:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

@Tarl N.: The warning was regarding LeBron JAmes SUCKS, a page they created which I recently deleted -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:23, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Ah. Which doesn't show up in his contributions because it's deleted. Got it. Tarl N. (discuss) 20:25, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thank you for blocking Kiwieggset. If s/he continues that behaviour, remove his/her talk page access. --Brynda1231 [Talk Page] [Contribs] 12:18, 6 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brynda1231 (talk • contribs)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

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RfA successful

Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the Administrators' guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch on my talk page. WJBscribe (talk) 15:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you WJBscribe, and to everyone who voted (supports and opposes alike) - thank you. I will take the criticism on-board and will improve both in areas of policy and in content contribution and creation. I won't let you, the community which makes this place tick, down -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:43, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Obligatory AN/I notification

There is a lovely, edit-warring discussion happening at AN/I with which you may be involved. Please visit us as soon as you can, much obliged. :P Mr rnddude (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

There we go Sam, getting dragged off to ANI - a true sign you're an admin! Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:09, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Just downhill from here... -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

The first forty-eight hours;

• Made an admin at 15:50 on the 4th of December. First block enacted at 16:18 the same day. It's a test block, against an unsuspecting IP victim that is reverted just 4 minutes later.
• 23:33 December 4, an edit-war starts on Ritchie333's talk page.
• 14:58 December 6, Samtar becomes aware of the battle which has now escalated to a full on BRD. Block, Revert, Discu-no? no D?... Full on BR.
• 15:33 the same day, Pikachu joins the fray, but, who's side is he on?
• By 15:56 he's been warned. Will it be enough to take him off the course for a block?
• 16:01 December 6, Pikachu takes it to AN/I and drags Samtar along with him. Within minutes everything has been explained.
• 16:18 Bbb23 closes the discussion preventing a BOOMERANG block. Disaster has been averted. All ... within the first forty-eight hours (forty-nine but who's counting). Next time on the first forty-eight hours we'll be looking at ... to be acknowledged.
• But in all seriousness, as unfortunate and I imagine a little unnerving/daunting as that was, you did not perpetuate that edit war, it started long before you got there and ended quite a bit after you left. You didn't even get to 3RR. All in all, you did what was best and within guidelines. WP:DENY and WP:RBI. Quite an eventful few days though. Keep up the good work :) Mr rnddude (talk) 12:37, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Ranvir Sena

It's sad to see two good editors getting blocked for edit-warring.

I want to be aware for myself: in cases as these; if I see a disruptive editor who has a strong personal POV, and reverts/removes sources content disregarding the NPOV of the article; as he can't see negative content about his country (removes atrocities section), his favorite political party (changes the lead section to something good from one source which is primary source), his favorite actor (removes controversy section). I revert him as per policy more then three times. Result — Shall I will get blocked for edit-warring? --Marvellous Spider-Man 14:42, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

@Marvellous Spider-Man: It is indeed a shame - I tried to get some dialogue going because in my experience, once people get talking issues can be resolved. WP:NOT3RR explains the exceptions to the three revert rule better than I ever could, but basically if you're not reverting a BLP violation or blatant vandalism you could get blocked for warring over content. It's always best to open a discussion on the article's talk page and pop a note on the editors talk advising them to take part in the discussion -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:49, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

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Undelete Sairee Chahal

@Samtar: Can you please undelete the article Sairee Chahal or provide it as a draft. --Satdeep Gill (talk • contribs 08:45, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

@Satdeep Gill: Unfortunately the entire article was copied from here and here. There are a couple of sentences which weren't, but I think it would be better served by being rewritten entirely. Sorry I couldn't be more help - are you working with the edit-a-thon/the original editor? I can email you the article if that would help? Please let me know if there is anything I can do -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:51, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

@Satdeep Gill: I've emailed you the copy before it was deleted -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:53, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes Samtar. I am trying to help people to create articles as a part of BBC 100 Women editathon. Thanks a lot.--Satdeep Gill (talk • contribs 08:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

@Satdeep Gill: No worries - please feel free to bother me any time today regarding undeletions or anything I can do to help with the edit-a-thon. If you use IRC I am in #wikipedia-en ^connect as myrcx -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:56, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

UTRS Account Request

I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. -- samtar ^{talk or stalk}

Protect

Hi, can you semi-protect my user page so there is no vandalism. --Wyatt2049 | (talk) 23:31, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: Hi again - per our protection policy I can't protect your user page without an existing need. This abuse filter also prevents a lot of common vandalism to user pages, so you should be alright. Of course, should someone vandalise your user page let me know and I'll protect it with no further questions -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Successful RfA

• Congratulations for adminship !! CAPTAIN RAJU ^(✉) 15:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Congrats..The admins' T-shirt for you. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(✉) 15:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

• Congratulations dude! Now go rock the boat. Lourdes 15:54, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congrats, my man! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:10, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Well done, now WP:RFPP is thataway and there's probably a backlog... Update : attaboy! Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:20, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congratulations! :) Patient Zero^talk 16:26, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Now be alert for those vandals and trolls here since your passing of your RFA. Good luck ;) KGirlTrucker81 ^{huh? what I've been doing} 16:33, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congrats from me too! You'll do a great job. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 16:45, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congratulations Samtar :). –Davey2010^Talk 16:46, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congrats! ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 17:16, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Commiserations! Congratulations! — Jkudlick • t • c • s 18:06, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congrats, friend! — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:16, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congrats!!!!!!! And isn't this a nice gift from Wikipedia, the mop. Now, go clean something up. (And merry Christmas.) JustAGuyOnWikipedia (talk) 20:58, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Congratulations on your successful RFA! In a self-imposed tradition I'm sure many people wish I would stop, allow me to impart the words of wisdom I received from the puppy after my RFA passed – almost ten long, sordid, I-really-really-should-have-found-a-better-hobby years ago:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version. (I got nothing here. It's inevitable.) Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. Without exception, you will pick the wrong one to do. (See #5.) Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. (You'll attract many more of those now, because mop. They must like to drink the dirty water in the bucket.) Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block, because really, what else is there to live for? Remember that when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. It will not be a personal attack because we are admins and, therefore, we are all rouge anyway. Finally, remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able. Katietalk 16:04, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

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• Congratulations from me too, and thanks for being the excellent candidate I thought you'd be. When you get bored scrabbling down the back of the sofa to find the right block template to go with various blocks, check out my monobook, some kind person put some very useful scripts there which every active admin would benefit from. ϢereSpielChequers 20:58, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
• Many congrats on your successful RFA. The mop and pail are in good hands. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 21:52, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

• Congratulations! Do great things as admin! Also, don't abuse the tools (Sarcastic)! UN$¢_Łuke_1Ø21^Repørts 12:57, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congratulations on adminship. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 06:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congratulations! We've got a new active admin now! --Mhhossein ^talk 07:42, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
• Congratulations for going through the brutal process of RfA and passing it! I believe you would do a good job as an admin. Jianhui67 ^T★C 11:29, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
• Well done. Feel free to get in touch if you want any advice. Katie's borrowed words of wisdom are excellent. Doug Weller talk 18:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
• Looks like I'm late to the party. Congrats! We haven't talked in a while, but I look forward to seeing your work as an admin :). Omni Flames (talk) 00:23, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Qualification

Hi, Samtar. I wanted to know if i qualify to become an admin. I made over 100 edits, had no blocks, and no disruptive editing. So, do I qualify to be an admin? --Wyatt2049 (talk) 13:17, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: Thanks for the message - whilst there is no set criteria for adminship, the RfA voting community has certain expectations. A very experienced editor, Kudpung, has written a very fair yet thorough RfA criteria - if you can get to a position where you meet most of these it is likely you would pass a RfA. I know it looks like a lot, but don't be discouraged! Keep working in the areas you find interesting, help out with anti-vandalism where you can, stay civil even when the editing gets heated and always ask for help when you need it As always, my talk page is open for any questions or concerns you may have -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:24, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@Samtar: But, with 129 edits, would I become an admin? --Wyatt2049 (talk) 13:48, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: We would need a lot longer than six months and 129 edits to judge your ability to understand and enact policy - so no, it is unlikely you would pass at this time -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@Samtar: So how long, and how many edits--Wyatt2049 (talk) 15:13, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Varies from person to person, but, in this climate I'd say a good minimum is 2-3 years and at least 4,000 edits. You'd need to demonstrate an understanding of article, behavioural and procedural policy for a start. Depending on what you're specializing in, you'd also need considerable competence in that area as well. Take Samtar as the example, he's aspiring to AIV and UAA. Well, he's an editfilter manager - so he's definitely got the marks to deal with vandalism and abusive edits -, has considerable experience at both UAA and AIV, seems like a good candidate for the role. What else? temperament - calm, collected, not trigger happy, and patient. Contributions? not the strongest on article construction, but, has at least some experience in the area. So forth and so forth. Mr rnddude (talk) 15:23, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

What about a bureaucrat. Do I qualify --Wyatt2049 | (talk) 16:41, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: No - please take the time to read up on these user groups -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 17:08, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

About an old idea

Hello. Times ago I, along with Doug Weller, proposed a filter in order to contrast a notorius disruptor. The filter wasn't activated due to the editor's sudden inactivity, and the discussion was archived here. Now the disruptor is back, as you can see on the history of articles such as Ra and Horus; I've just reverted one of his edits on Ancient Egyptian religion. I'd appreciate a lot if you could now reconsider the filter's activation. Khruner (talk) 18:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@Khruner: I spent a moment thinking of an Egyptian-ish pun I could use here, but I've got Nuthing - anyway, I've re-enabled 737 (logging only) and it looks like it would have caught these recent edits. I'll leave it log only for a little longer before switching to disallow -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 18:20, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Nice pun, I don't understand the log only thing but hope that it will deal successfuly with our disruptor. Thanks! Khruner (talk) 18:34, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Basically, it right now it just looks for the addition. If there are no false positives, it will be changed to disallow edits of the sort. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 18:36, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I certainly endorse this. I didn't keep track of the number of editors and reverts involved in the last round, but it is a pain. I blocked several IPs, other Admins protected some articles. Doug Weller talk 18:40, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

RevDel

Do you really believe that this falls under the Revdel policy? Is that "grossly degrading"? RBI is the applicable policy in this case.--v/r - TP 18:54, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Did you see the username? RBI is even more applicable if their edits aren't publicly shown. It's obvious RD2/3. Lets stop this discussion as to deny what I believe is the sockmaster attention. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 18:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

I saw the username. We can RevDel the username w/o RevDeling the content. If you want to discuss this via email, feel free. I'm not angry about this or care much, but it's worth bringing up about a very delicate policy and admin tool.--v/r - TP 18:59, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

I agree with TParis.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Me neither, sorry if I'm coming off as it. The username is as a signature I believe. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 19:00, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

It was unsigned. Again, willing to let this go - it's just that there is no one else to hold admins accountable on deletions other than other admins so I tend to nitpick on RevDel and CSD stuff.--v/r - TP 19:02, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Hate to pile on to the appropriate comments, but a new admin (congrats!) can never receive too much advice .. probably not a good idea to then create their talk page :) I'd normally G3 or G10 such creations. And DatGuy, I also had to delete your edit summary. Rollback is not so good for bad usernames. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 19:15, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you all for the advice, I will definitely reflect on this - @TParis: you are entirely correct, I should have just RevDel'd the username and I will ensure I am much more attentive to this in the future. I understand the RevDel tool is extremely sensitive and should be used with care. @Zzuuzz: any advice is very appreciated. Apologies for any issues I've caused -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:37, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't mean to draw this much attention to your userpage, sorry.--v/r - TP 19:51, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

No issue at all - I appreciate your advice and guidance -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:59, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Edit warring on Madhesh article and insults on my talk page by a user

On the Madhesh article, a user by the name of Template:Rajivkilanashrestha is reverting sourced content. I've attempted to discuss with him on the talk page and opened a case on tbe noticeboard however I've received no reply. He's also resorted to insulting me on my own talk page. Can the appropriate action please be taken? Damien2016 (talk) 18:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

@Damien2016: Hi, I'm having a quick look at this now - it looks like you've both been edit warring over some content and both need to cool off before returning to editing. Myself and other administrators are keeping an eye on this and should the back and forth edit warring continue both of you could end up blocked. Obviously I don't want to see that happen, so could you explain to me what it is Rajivkilanashrestha is doing which you disagree with? I have attempted to copyedit some of their additions so that they make a bit more sense -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:16, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look at it, my issue is that I'm posting sourced content which is swiftly removed without discussion. It's then replaced with an unsourced paragraph that contains no references for the most part. The few references that are there fail to corroborate with the paragraph. I believe the issue is being sorted out on the notice board but thank you for responding. Damien2016 (talk) 21:05, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Just curious...

Hi Samtar,

When blocking IP addresses, I was just wondering if you take the addresses' block log into account when considering the block length of an IP address. Some admins do, some don't. So I'm wondering what your stance is on that matter, since I know that you are a fairly new admin, ;-) Cheers. 2607:FB90:82E1:5CCD:0:E:9DDE:AD01 (talk) 21:03, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi IP - I do give it a quick look over and do consider blocking for longer if there is a block log. However I recently blocked an IP for 1 week where the previous block was 2 years - I did this because I wanted to see if there was the same level of disruption coming from the address (as they had been unblocked for a couple of months with no disruption before today). Do you have any suggestions? As you state, I'm very new and I always welcome advice! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 21:09, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

As I see it, when viewing the contributions of shared IP addresses (particularly schools), the ratio of constructive to unconstructive edits is generally pretty heavy towards the unconstructive ones... If the block log reflects this type of behavior through past lengthy block durations, than blocking these shared IP addresses for a lengthy period of time generally helps to prevent more vandalism from occurring rather than it is preventing editors with positive intentions to edit the encyclopedia. Usually I find these IP addresses through patrolling ClueBot NG's contributions, as well as patrolling the edit filter logs. (But ClueBot has been down for quite some time now). Also the school and anon block templates give editors advice of what to do when they are prevented from editing., due to the school/anon block. 2607:FB90:82E1:5CCD:0:E:9DDE:AD01 (talk) 21:37, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

That's what happened with my school IP address lately when I was in school and checking the edits and all of them are bad edits. I can still log in into my account during school breaks. KGirlTrucker81 ^{huh? what I've been doing} 22:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Concerning Kiwi IRC

Hey Samtar, on the Kiwi IRC Chanel I was blocked for trolling, and I wasn't. I was just wondering how to create a WikiProject, and this guy JollyOldStNick banned me because he thought I was trolling just because I was going to create a WikiProject About England and there already was one. I just didn't know. Can you please help me? JustAGuyOnWikipedia ( To see my User page, click here) | (talk) 22:21, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi JustAGuyOnWikipedia, I understand that must be frustrating - blocks on IRC auto-expire after 24 hours so please feel free to come back tomorrow. I should note however that apparently you were told to drop the stick a couple of times regarding WikiProjects - being able to respond to this sort of advice is really a key element of getting on well with the Wikipedia community, both on IRC and here on the project. Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 22:53, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

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RevDel, please?

May I please get a RevDel of this diff? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zambia&type=revision&diff=754382733&oldid=753197571 Zambia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 10:35, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

@Jim1138: Done :-) -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 10:39, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, the ES is bad too. Should I have asked in another way to point both out? Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

@Jim1138: No, just my mistake - in the future you may wish to visit #wikipedia-en-revdel ^connect -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 10:44, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

I tried it a couple of times and nothing happened. Jim1138 (talk) 10:46, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

@Jim1138: Give it a go now? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 10:48, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Click "connect" to the side of the link, I should've said -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 10:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Pardon me. I meant that I had requested a few revdels on IRC and they were not done. I'll try again next time I need one done. I did try to connect via your link here and succeeded. Thanks again! Jim1138 (talk) 10:53, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

LGBT Symbols

Thank you for protecting the LGBT Symbols page. There's been a lot of vandalism since it got unprotected on the 5th, and I appreciate you protecting the content on that page. Ariadne (talk) 19:46, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2016)

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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Archive

How do you archive messages on your talk page. --Wyatt2049 | (talk) 16:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: I'd recommend using one of the ways listed at this help page (preferably the automated archiving). I personally use this script but it is very buggy - I wouldn't recommend it -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:34, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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87.244.181.185

Hi Sam, how's it going? I'm not sure whether the block length of 87.244.181.185 (talk · contribs · block log) was intentional. Typically, open proxies are blocked to prevent logged-in editing - you've probably seen all the sock accounts using open proxies. This IP, labelled a dynamic range and blocked back in 2015, all things considered, I would think a block length of a year or two would be appropriate. {{blocked proxy}} would be an appropriate template, as it is indeed open rather than a web server. No need to disable talk btw, that was only me. HTH. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 19:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: that was unintentional after I got into a faff trying to get the settings right - I'm primed to (again) reblock with an expiry of 1 year, but it's been suggested I should also prevent logged in users from editing using this IP. The preset for {{blocked proxy}} (TW) and previous proxy blocks suggest that I don't need to prevent logged in users from using the IP - so now I'm just confused. Could you clarify before I spam this poor IPs block log even more? I think I'll leave proxy blocks to the experts for a while... -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:23, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

You've got to start somewhere :) I'm not going to say that you have to prevent logged-in editing - some admins are allowed to differ, and some IPs are purposefully softblocked - but it is pretty much the norm. ProcseeBot takes this approach, Tor is hardblocked, also take a look at what checkusers and admins that you know do. I don't tend to use Twinkle for blocking, but the preset at WP:OP is also for hardblocks (or would be if it didn't need updating). Maybe you will come to the same conclusion, but I only really came here about the block length. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 20:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: There's a bigger learning curve than folks give you all credit for! I've corrected the block length, and please do feel free to drop me a message if you see me making mistakes -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:59, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Hey Samtar, (as well as Zzuuzz) — thanks for taking a look into this IP, as I was the one who originally reported the proxy to Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Requests. From what you and Zzuuzz were discussing above, were you intending to hardblock the IP? From what it looks like, it still has "anon. only" in the block settings, but "account creation blocked" is already enabled though... 73.96.115.111 (talk) 00:21, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Now I've added a couple more requests to Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Requests, just in case if you wanted some extra practice... ;-) 2601:1C0:10E:636F:B80A:A583:74D1:5307 (talk) 05:29, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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Indefinite semi requested...

Apparently this is some bureaucratic architecture?

Hi samtar, would it be possible for you to indef semi the following three pages in my user space?

1. User:Lourdes/TFAhistorylink.js
2. User:Lourdes/TFAhistorylink
3. WP:TFA title (an indef full on this if poss)

Thanks. Lourdes 11:46, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Lourdes: The JavaScript file can only be edited by yourself or an administrator, so I won't semi that. The second page in your userspace could probably be semi'd if there is a valid need. Do you have any reason for these to be protected? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:31, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello samtar and thanks for the reply. The second page is the documentation page for a script. How silly of me to forget about the javascript existing protection. Given that, there's no particularly killing need to protect the second page. So you may scratch that. The third page is a page created for use by the script, which calls the Template:TFA title. While all sub templates of Template:TFA title are already included in the title blacklist, the third page above which calls the TFA title template and is required for doing only that, is not included in the title blacklist. If one changes the content of the WP:TFA title, the complete output for the script would change. What would you suggest for the same; should it be protected or not? Thanks Lourdes 13:04, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Lourdes: In the time taken for me to quote bureaucracy at you another admin has gone ahead and done it - apologies if I'm treading a little too lightly, still getting the hang of these buttons! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

The building looks great...but...What are you talking about? Lourdes 14:01, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Lourdes: Glad you like the building, and I've just realised I checked Template:TFA title and not WP:TFA title - now fully protected indef -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:14, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

:D Thank you. Lourdes 14:14, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

101.62.205.186

Hi. On diary of a kid the third wheele, this ip deleted the plot section. Block him. --Wyatt2049 | (talk) 19:11, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

For future reference, WP:AIV deals with IP and user vandals. Samtar may not be able to respond in a timely manner to these requests on account of not being on Wikipedia at all times. Mr rnddude (talk) 19:18, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Mr rnddude: Note the IP is also stale. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 19:19, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Oh yeh, it's been three months since the IP has edited. AIV is for reports of recent vandalism. An IP that hasn't been active in months won't be blocked. Thanks for noticing DatGuy. Mr rnddude (talk) 19:21, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Handled by our resident tool-less admins -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:56, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

A Question

Please pardon if this does not follow Wikipedia's rules and etiquette, but I'm pretty innocent when it comes to those things. My concern is the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmananda_Krishna_Menon which keeps getting vandalized by a certain VictoriaGrayson.

There are many approaches in the philosophy of advaita (non-duality), one being the Direct Path, after the teachings of the sage referred to by this page. Apparently VictoriaGrayson is a hard-line, evangelical follower of some other approach, and disagrees with the Direct Path, so she keeps vandalizing that particular approach with the derogatory label "cult". I have no idea which approach she follows, but is it necessary to hate what is different? I have tried numerous times to undo her mean-spirited vandalism, but now you have jumped into this by siding with her and her personal vendetta.

My question is, Why? Why do you support her mean-spirited vendetta against a field of study that she personally does not like? Is there a list of approaches, philosophies, studies, etc, that VictoriaGrayson does not hate, and is there a way to put the Direct Path on that list?

Can't we just live and let live, instead of battling points of view that differ from those we happen to like? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.65.196.6 (talk) 19:28, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

IP, how exactly have I sid[ed] with her? By enabling Pending Changes protection? I have no opinion on the topic of the article, and am quite happy as long as it remains neutral and verifiable. I'm all for "live and let live" and will happily discuss this with you - I don't appreciate being accused of siding with anyone though -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:44, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I'm so sorry. As I said, I'm pretty innocent about the inner workings of Wikipedia. I didn't know what "Adding )" meant, and assumed (wrongly) that it meant something like locking out further changes. Please excuse my ignorance; we'll see what will happen with the review process.

"Derp vandalism" false positive

Hi Samtar, I hope you're doing well...

About the discussion regarding the 2607:FB90::/32 block due to "Derp vandalism" at WP:AN, (which I recently offered my two cents in that discussion as well)...

I had been recently getting some notifications that were blocking me from editing due to unvonstructive editing, and when I looked at the edit filter log entries for the IP address that I was using at the time, it said that the edit filter blocked me because of "Derp vandalism". Obviously, this is a false positive, as I was merely trying to add a shared IP address template to another IP address. The IP address that I was using which the edit filter blocked was 2607:FB90:8180:AB87:0:35:A5CE:5901 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Though, when I attempted to try this again from the IPv4 address that I am currently using, it worked just fine. Maybe you would know something about this...? Regards. 172.58.40.107 (talk) 17:09, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi 172.58.40.107, yeah that sure looks like a false positive - I'll ask the creator of the filter and see if we can get that tweaked -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 17:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

It is a false positive. Apologies! You should be able to edit user talk pages again — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:33, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Committed Identity

Thank you for giving me the NPP credential. Also, I observed that you have a committed identity, as do I. However, I would like to change mine. How would I go about doing this?PublicWorld (talk) 20:56, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

@PublicWorld: all you need to do is replace the hash in the {{committed identity}} template :-) -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:58, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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AIV

Hi there; I would like to ask you a question. Before I do so I must say, with total sincerity, that it is in no way intended as a criticism. Rather, it is an attempt to get a handle on as aspect of the project which is, perhaps, not adequately defined. In AIV, as you clearly know, action against nominated vandals can only be taken (except in a few specific circumstances) if there is a recent warning and the vandalism is taking place now. As we obviously cannot hover with poised finger over possible vandals, I have always taken now to mean within the past few minutes. But, and this is my question, how would you define recent?--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:20, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

@Anthony Bradbury: Hi Anthony - I think my definition of recent is wavering a little as I'm getting used to what other admins block and don't block at AIV. Personally, I consider recent to be 'in the same day'. A warning issued yesterday is of course still valid and I have blocked where a final warning for vandalism was issued the day before. Do you have any suggestions on this? Am I perhaps being too liberal or conservative in my definition? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:12, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Assuming that the vandal has had the correct number of warnings, which as you know will between one and four according to the nature and severity of the vandalism, I personally would consider a recent warning as being within 24 hours. I define vandalizing "now" as being any time in the past 4 to 6 hours, but if I came across seriously offensive vandalism outside that time frame I would assume that other admins had failed to spot it and would block.--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:08, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer

Hi. A user whom you accorded the group of New Page Reviewer gives me pause. With your approval, if this user continues to disrupt the process with inaccurate tags, I will remove the right again. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:28, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

@Kudpung: that is unfortunate - hopefully that wasn't a bad assignment on my part. Of course, if they continue please feel free to remove the user right. I'll leave them a message shortly to see if we can get them back on track -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 07:04, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

I've left them some mesages - let's not deluge them for the moment. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:07, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

A message from Pas de chat

Hi Samtar, Hope you are fine! I just would like you to ask if you got/see the translation in my sandbox - and if I should change things before you start to help me. Concering the photographes I have also some questions. Looking forward to your answer in my sandbox, thanks a lot in advance--Pas de chat (talk) 11:01, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

UTRS

Hi! It's been 10 days since this URTS appeal was returned back to you. Do you intend to do anything about it? If not, you should release the appeal so that someone else can evaluate it. Thanks. Vanjagenije (talk) 13:50, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

@Vanjagenije: released, apologies -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:52, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2016)

Helena Bergström in 2014 Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Helena Bergström Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Hoax • Three-martini lunch Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Remind Me Please!

What's your IRC username again? Escaped my mind somehow... --JustBerry (talk) 18:50, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #240

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• Discussions
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  • Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
  • Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
  • WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
  • SQID now supports PrimarySources
  • Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
  • Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
  • New parser function has been enabled
  • Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline

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    • Items with no father or no mother (source)
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A decision has been made about how the Recent Changes filtering scheme will affect current ORES beta feature users. When this new filtering system rolls out as part of the beta, it will replace the current ORES display on the Recent Changes page. That means the automatic color coding, the red “r” symbol and the “hide probably good edits” filter will go away, to be replaced by the new, more nuanced set of filters and user-defined color coding. All other pages that have ORES features, like Watchlist and Related Changes, will remain as they are now for ORES beta users. We think those pages could also benefit from the new filtering system. But we'll wait to see how users react to the beta test—and make any necessary changes—before we start spreading the new UI around. That's the plan as it currently stands. As always, please let us know if you have any thoughts, in any language.

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PERM

According user rights can sometimes be a bit challenging to new admins. This is how I accord New Page Reviewer and it's basically the same for the other rights too:

Details

The easiest thing to do is to look in the archives at the ones at PERM that I and various admins have been processing and see the comments we made when asking questions or declining. I check: User talk page to get an idea of communication skill. E.g. I probably don't accord the right to someone who communicates in telephone text style, talks like a 7th grader or a rapper, and says things like 'Hey, bro' (but remember, I'm a retired British professor of English and I'm very old fashioned - and proud of it} User talk page to look for complaints of poor patrolling or reverted CSDs, etc. The edit history at Supercount. I expect to see at least three fairly recent consecutive months of regular editing. Beware of the users who claim to be regular editors or patrollers, those ones are usually exactly the opposite - some haven't patrolled or edited in years, but they don't think we're going to check. It's not unhead of, particularly with NPP and AfC for users to click away and rack up 500 very minor or even blank mainspace edits to reach the required minimum. Anyone who has done only 900 or so edits this year is going to get very close scrutiny. Anyone who has done hardly any edits at all this year, whatever they've done in the past, is not going to get the bit - mainly on the premise that they are not up to date with new policies, etc. AfC: if they've done a fair number of AfC reviews without any problems, that would compensate for a low level of other patrolling. However, there are no logs for AfC reviews. Block log. Not all blocks are of the kind that would prevent me from according the right, but too many recent 3R might. Page Curation log. This is a big plus if they've used Page Curation extensively. Check for blue linked CSDs and find out why they are blue. There are no logs for Twinkle patrols, and from what I understand, there nver will be. Other user rights. If they haven't actually done a lot ot of Recent changes or vandalism patrols but already have a raft of rights, chances are very strong they are just a hat collector. Finally, I apply a lot of gut feeling. I know I'm not supposed to be, but I'm probably a bit more lenient on the ladies. Hope all this helps. It sounds complicated but it actually never takes more than about three minutes to do for each candidate. In doing so, you'll also get some surprises and you might even catch the occasional sock and serial spammer. Don't worry if you get it wrong occasionally - we can always remove the right easily.

Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:57, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Kudpung, thank you kindly for the above - I'll take your suggestions on board. Perhaps a short essay building upon the points could be linked to from WP:PERM? Looking over them, I think I've been a little on the lenient side with some of the requests, so I'll reign it in a little. Also, although there's no log for AfC reviews, Enterprisey created this tool which you may find helpful. Thanks again, and please feel free to offer advice whenever - I always appreciate and I'm always learning -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:14, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

As a classic example, check out the outrageous background to the application for NPR made two days ago by user:Historywiki11, who is probably also only 11 years old too boot. Just goes to show how much we need to be on our mettle! Even BU Rob13 didn't see it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:56, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

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• Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [37]
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UGG (brand)

Hi there. Regarding this: [40], protection was lifted about three days ago and the article has had daily spam-attacks since then, see [41]. Should I lodge yet another request for semi-protection? Cheers. Daveosaurus (talk) 04:10, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

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December 2016

Hi,

I made a few edits regarding very specific running shoe topics and these edits were 100% neutral in point of view. They were not meant to be spammy or useless in value and were factual edits, adding helpful information.

The wikipedia edit asked for a source so i cited a running website i also write for... but if i don't cite where this information came from then i'm not sure how people will know where the information came from. Also, i genuinely would like to be given credit for adding valuable information when i am taking time out of my day to add these bits of important information to Wikipedia, so i thought the credit made sense.

I'm confused here... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesrad (talk • contribs) 18:47, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

I took 5 and looked at the kitten ... MANY TIMES and...

Thank you so much for adding protection against continuous intentional vandalism on page of Andre Birleanu but unfortunately was ONLY for one week ... now the mess start it again and am asking for whatever you believe in , but let's say as a XMas present to reinstate protection on the page for one year .. PLEASE !

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Deletion of Wordsmith

5 members from our label have created a page for Wordsmith just to have it deleted. He does not do these pages on his own and the info is coming from people who have worked with him for years. We try to follow the guidelines by having friends and employees of the company write the pages, but nothing seems to work and there is never a true reason why legit evidence of his prominence in music is denied. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buzzworthy11 (talk • contribs) 21:49, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

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User talk:Whydoeswikipedianotletmechooseagoodusername

I've made some clarifying (well, I think they are anyway) remarks and given him/her a temporary access to the page again. I do have suspicions too, but give a man enough rope and he won't need to go fishing... (or something like that...) Peridon (talk) 18:50, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

I use the Add button on talk pages, and didn't see the above exchange until I'd saved. 8-( Peridon (talk) 18:55, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

User talk:Whydoeswikipedianotletmechooseagoodusername

I'm not really sure I understand your reason for revoking talk page access. The latest unblock request clearly does not show understanding of Wikipedia's sourcing requirements, sure, but an AGF approach could suggest that could be an honest misunderstanding. It does seem more reasoning, and I'd suggest it perhaps needs further explanation and discussion rather than a gag. So can I ask you to explain your reason or perhaps reconsider? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:18, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Boing, sure - having had a look through the previous unblock requests, the editor didn't seem to be `getting it` and the more recent request continued this trend. I believe I extended a reasonable amount of good faith when considering this option, especially as UTRS is still an option for the editor, but am open to reconsidering the talk page access. Do you think discussions here would lead to a reasonable outcome? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 18:32, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, yes, I do see your point. I have to admit that, no, I think a reasonable outcome from further discussion is probably not likely - perhaps I'm too optimistic. But we have nothing to lose, and I see Peridon has made an offer, so I'm happy to see how that works out. I'll try to suggest a few thoughts myself, though I'm a bit tired now and events might overtake me. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:58, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016

Hi,

So anyone who has a Wikipedia account can successfully publish an Article about someone else, yes?

The reason I ask because there's an Article published some time ago about my good friend and former on-air partner on the radio, Mark Staufer and I wanted to publish a Wikipedia record similar to his.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Staufer

Can you clarify please?

Thank you,

Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Kennedy Voice Artist (talk • contribs) 21:14, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) All registered editors can create pages. I recommend you create via the articles for creation process and submitting your draft for review. KGirlTrucker81 ^{huh? what I've been doing} 21:58, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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User:Chathuranga Chandrasekara sock? has recreated Janindu Mahesh Chandrasekara and Janindu Mahesh Theroadislong (talk) 13:55, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Pages deleted (1 salted), user blocked :-) thanks for the heads up and happy new year! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:58, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Next IRC office hour on January 5th
  • Past: we were at 33c3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
  • Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
  • Query examples:
    • Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
    • Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
    • Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
    • Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
  • Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
  • Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

• Development
  • When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
  • Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
  • Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:55, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2017)

Some of the Aeolian Islands Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Aeolian Islands Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Tectonics • Helena Bergström Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 2 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Speedy deletion of International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP)

Hello, I noticed that you speedily deleted the page I created at International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP), I understand the reasons for doing so. I have rectified the copyright issue by adding a copyleft statement to the page here: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/collections/icmp/history Regarding notability the collection is just as notable as any in this category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Culture_collections perhaps more so as it is the largest one in the Southern Hemisphere, I will make this clearer in a re-edit of the text. I trust that this will be sufficient to have the page undeleted. Kind regards, Onco p53 (talk) 21:26, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

@Onco p53: Good to see! I've undeleted the page, please take a moment to add some references. You may find the tutorial useful -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 21:31, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

My Earlier Edits and My User Name.

Samtar, I was updating national sales figures for the Mustang which were OBVIOUSLY WRONG. Someone put a ghastly overstated figure of 150,000 cars this year sold and usually Ford sells around 60,000 mustangs every year. I went to the National Highway Safety Transportation website where they keep track of yearly US sales of various car models. I verified the Ford numbers I posted but I just did not post the reference correctly as this is my first time editing anything as I am new here. I was trying to help this site maintain it's integrity because someone obvious posting something untrue and it was not caught. Also there is the 150,000 figure and no reference was posted by whomever posted that.

Secondly. my user name is not promotional. I work for the City of Los Angeles. I use my city email for personal things but shhh don't tell anyone. I also registered here with it. I also verified it. I made that my user name because everything else I could think of was taken. So I just thought I would use the suffix of my city email. It is not promotional and it is not a privately owned thing.

Also, I received 3 or 4 messages just like yours. I would appreciate it if Seniors such as yourself would get together and decide who is going to write people and threaten them with corrective measures so I only have to respond to one of you such I have here to explain myself before one of you bounces me because you THOUGHT my user name was promotional for something or you THOUGHT that I was maliciously updating things incorrectly. I am trying to do things correctly and this experience has taught me to practice in the sandbox first as you said and get used to things.

Thank you very much for your input and please tell the other people that thought it necessary to jump on me and threaten to remove my user name.

2606:6000:6705:B600:D580:5675:E540:C408 (talk) 21:29, 31 December 2016 (UTC)LACITY.US2606:6000:6705:B600:D580:5675:E540:C408 (talk) 21:29, 31 December 2016 (UTC) I HOPE I signed this note with the 4 sqiggly things correctly.

You might want to log in there - please do continue to read up on how stuff works here, though I do appreciate you are still learning and it's great to see you wanting to practice and improve. You may find it helpful to read up on how to reference things correctly and what we consider to be a reliable source. Your username could appear promotional to some, so it may be worth considering changing it, but that's entirely up to you. Happy new year! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 21:39, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

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Andre Birleanu // Repeated vandalism !!

Happy New Year to you ..

I have previously requested help (and was given, by you, thank you but only for one week ) to protect my page from continuous vandalism, slander, from same anonymous source. Kindly requesting to take a look at the history and the degrading uninformed and obvious deliberate slander and vandalism of source 50.143.4447. PLEASE requesting page protection for half a year, thanks in advance . Anaphoto (talk) 03:02, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Questions pas de chat

Hi Samtar, thank you! I am working on the article, included all references and websites etc, but how can I put the photographs - they are not taken, as I put them in the commons..for pictures. Do I have to make this all anew? how and where.... Tank you! --Pas de chat (talk) 16:34, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Good Evening Samtar, I finished the article, inlcuding all links and pictures. Where can I show it to you for a final check? (there are ALWAYS some faults) And: could you move/put it officially into the english wiki...and authorize it? Best regards--Pas de chat (talk) 22:47, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Questions pas de chat

Hi Samtar, thank you! I am working on the article, included all references and websites etc, but how can I put the photographs - they are not taken, as I put them in the commons..for pictures. Do I have to make this all anew? how and where.... Tank you! --Pas de chat (talk) 16:34, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Moved to bottom by Class455

Hi Samtar, I hope you are fine and had a wonderful Christmas. If you read your talk page, I would be extremely grateful for your answer. Because I finished this article we started and would like to show you my final version but don't know how and where. I am sorry for disturbing you, but it's all new for me and not easy - I need some help for my first step here... so - just: where can I show you the formatted final version and could you - if there are not serious mistakes - move it in the wiki...? Thanks a lot for a lifesign... Pas de chat (talk) 19:06, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Samtar!

Happy New Year!

Samtar,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 13:43, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Samtar!

Happy New Year!

Samtar,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Class455 (talk | stand clear of the doors!) 18:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Samtar

(Charles R. Knight, 1922)

Thank you for all you did for this project in 2016, Samtar. May your house be safe, and may you and those having the privilege of your company enjoy good health in a Happy New Year 2017! Kind regards, — Sam Sailor 01:47, 2 January 2017 (UTC) Pass on! Send this greeting by adding {{subst:User:Sam Sailor/Templates/HappyNewYear}} to user talk pages. Automatic level-2 heading and auto-signing included.

Happy New Year, Samtar!

Happy New Year!

Samtar,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 04:31, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Talkback

Hello, TheresNoTime. You have new messages at Class455's talk page.
Message added 16:48, 3 January 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hi Sam, when you have a minute, can you please have a look at this discussion and see if you have anything to add? Thanks mate and happy new year! Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 16:48, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Cheers Class455, been so swamped with on and off -wiki stuff and I kept putting it to the bottom of the list. Replied now with apologies! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:55, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Cafe Royal Cocktail Book

On 5 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cafe Royal Cocktail Book, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Cafe Royal Cocktail Book contains one of the first recorded recipes for the 20th Century? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cafe Royal Cocktail Book. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cafe Royal Cocktail Book), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Silicon Alley

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Silicon Alley. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

User:Vtkempi

Sam,

Noticed that you had removed my nomination of Vtkempi (talk · contribs) from the Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism page under the description of "rm declined". I was looking for a bit more clarification on this judgement as I felt I was pretty clear in my description of what Vtkempi has engaged in and how it's unproductive for Wikipedia.

Thanks in advance, GauchoDude (talk) 17:02, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi GauchoDude, in this prior edit I declined the report as stale as the account had not edited in 13 hours. I'll admit I was on the cusp of blocking, but thought given their lack of editing they may have stopped - I do prefer erring on the side of good faith in situations like this. If I see them start again (I've watchlisted the article) or see their name at AIV I will block for an extended time. Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your efforts in patrolling the project -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:38, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Appreciate your prompt response. As I'm sure you've seen Special:Contributions/Vtkempi in making your judgement, he's had sustained attempts to add this information since November 2016, many of which were already deleted. This time of trying to improve the article comes as the subject of the article, his son Jon Kempin, was released from his contract as a professional soccer goalkeeper and now lacks a job as the sourcing (which I added into the article) indicates. In your opinion, what qualifies for an "active" editor to be banned, based on the user's time between edits, edits adding the same plagiarized material, and edits on only the topic in which he has a conflict of interest? Thanks in advance! GauchoDude (talk) 18:47, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

@GauchoDude: It's something which was discussed with me recently - I'm still rather new to this admin stuff, so there's a chance I've got it totally wrong but I see active as edits in the last two to three hours ago. There are of course exceptions to this, such as personal attacks -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:50, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Similarly, I don't believe I've ever brought it to an admin's attention re: issues facing an article and looking to potentially ban anyone. I admittedly don't understand the process fully, but thought this might warrant a second set of eyes. I wasn't even sure if I had brought it to the right place using the right procedure. I appreciate your responses and I will continue to uphold the integrity of the Jon Kempin article until such a time where it's no longer necessary. Thanks, GauchoDude (talk) 19:01, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

@GauchoDude: Haven given this some more thought, I have blocked the account temporarily as it is rather clear this has been ongoing for a while, and disruption is likely to restart when the editor returns. Apologies for the delay, and thank you for the pointers -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 20:30, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

HamzaNasir

Hey there! Just letting you know I switched the 12 hour block you gave HamzaNasir to an indef. Looking through their edits, both in the filter log and the one I ended up reverting, they were a VOA it appears. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Cheers for the note RickinBaltimore. Hope you're having a good new year! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 19:16, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy new year to you too! :) RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

How do I get started with vandalism removal?

Hello. So, I'm trying to get started with removing vandalism on Wikipedia. How do I get started? I've already started a bit with removing vandalism using the recent changes page. Can you give me any tips on identifying vandalism, and removing it effectively? Is there any easier methods than Twinkle and the recent changes page? I would appreciate some tips on identifying what isn't vandalism either. Thanks. XboxGamer22408 (talk) 19:56, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi XboxGamer22408, nice to hear from you again Have you had a look at CVUA? After you've got the rollback permission you will be able to use Huggle to combat vandalism. Back in the day I used to patrol recent changes - have you enabled ORES, as this will highlight vandalism. If you've not, go to "beta" (up at the top near "Log out") then then check "ORES" - this will allow you to view this page which shows potentially damaging edits -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 20:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll take a look at the CVUA. I just enabled ORES. I'm just getting more active on Wikipedia. I feel like I might be starting to become a Wikipediholic! XboxGamer22408 (talk) 20:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

It's waaay too easy to get addicted to Wikipedia! I recommend taking breaks often, and remember that real life comes before Wikipedia -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 20:42, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2017)

Professional audio – pictured is a portable setup of various live audio production and recording equipment Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Professional audio Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Aeolian Islands • Tectonics Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

FYI

FYI --JustBerry (talk) 01:21, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Chet Kamal Parkash

Hey Samtar I just wanted to drop a line and let you know I bumped up the PP on Chet Kamal Parkash to admin required from extended confirmed user. For some unknown reason extended confirmed seems to be the default when salting deleted pages. If you set it at that level deliberately feel free to revert me. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:56, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Huh, good call Ad Orientem! I might go poke one of the devs about that.. thanks for fixing it :) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 20:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Oh jeez they've all been ECP create protected since the beginning of this year... -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 21:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

That's annoying. I don't salt articles casually but when I do, it's because they need to be locked down. I've already had to go back and fix a few of mine. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:13, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

@Ad Orientem: well after realising that I went and asked a couple of techy admins - apparently an RfC found consensus to use ECP for create protection, and using the philosophy of least protection it was decided that ECP should be the Twinkle default. The RfC is here -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 21:16, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Boo hiss. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:20, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

No1dead

Did you really check Special:Contributions/No1dead? Is there any useful contribution from this user than requesting fake page protection, did this childish thing, disruptive "anime" edits on Seinfeld article and listed it on this anime list? I believe my report is valid. Marlin Setia1 (talk) 22:40, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

@Marlin Setia1: Obviously Seinfeld is not an anime, I've blocked them -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:22, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Okay, glad to hear that. Marlin Setia1 (talk) 08:27, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, TheresNoTime. You have new messages at Class455's talk page.
Message added 17:11, 8 January 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hi Sam, sorry to bother you again, but could you just correct me on why you removed the gallery from Bruno Kurz? (Pas de chat is asking me why you removed it, I don't know the answer but given by your edit summary, I presume its per USEPROSE). Thanks Mate! Class455 (talk|Stand clear of the doors!) 17:11, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
  • Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
  • Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
  • Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
  • Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
  • How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
  • Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
  • Query examples:
    • Birth place of Academy Award winners
    • Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age (source)
    • 9 species named after the President of the USA (source)
  • Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)

• Development
  • Log of our last IRC office hour
  • This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
  • Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
  • Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
  • We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Add statements to items without
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:00, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

ONLY ONE FINAL CHECK - please, how and wherePas de chat (talk) 18:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Samtar, Thank you very much for your answer. Please don't worry - I did it ALL - all references, Sources, Links, Pictures, authorisation for the pictures - it's ready! But: I just would like to show it to you for one final check before putting it in the wikiworld... Where can I do this, just to show, not so save... Please - which kind of page (not this one, it's for talk only)? And the sandbox neither ...I am only elaborationg there, without saving...so WHERE can I show it to you? I AM So SORRY FOR MY HUMBLE STEPS , but I could not find out upt to now how to put my final version in the sandbox to show it to you....without risking, that it is automatically saved as an edit...Pas de chat (talk) 18:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC) Thanks a lot in advance Pas de chat (talk) 15:21, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Pas de chat, please save it to User:Samtar/pasdechat (it'll say "create this page") and I'll take a look -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:04, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Samtar, thank you!! I saved it there and hope, it's so far ok...? Pas de chat (talk) 15:18, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

@Pas de chat: Sieht gut aus! Ich werde einige anderungen vornehmen (Looks good, I will make some changes) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 15:20, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Samtar, Thank you for the good news and your help! Do you have a suggestion when you may finish it and how can I than edit it officially? Or could you do this?... If I made serious mistakes, could you perhaps give me a hint? - I want to learn and avoid them next time!!:-) Best Pas de chat (talk) 17:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

@Pas de chat: Please see Bruno Kurz :) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:09, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Samtar, Thank you very much - but I am really surprized...why should more references and citations are necessary? And if they were, why did not you tell me....before....? I am sorry for my misunderstandings, but this is the complete translation of the German article, so from there nothing could be added, and the German version is highly appreciated!! in Wiki and linked internally a lot. If I compaire with other edits it is obviously a much higher category concerning all levels... You wants more...? The List of references, articles and catalogues is long.... What could you suggest to me? Pas de chat (talk) 11:09, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Samtar, I added some references and two citations in English - what else can I do?... More citations from German catalogues - but only Germans would understand... and there is already the German aricle. There are so many sources, everybody can read it everywhere... why should this not be enough...? Could you please help me one more time? Thank you very very much in advance Pas de chat (talk) 16:17, 8 January 2017 (UTC) Could you review it and

Hi Pas de chat, some other editors have added those tags - they don't necessarily mean the article is bad, just that some more references could be added -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 16:28, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok - but how many....I just added a lot and can add some more... Can you stop that "game" (for me not logical...) Pas de chat (talk) 16:32, 8 January 2017 (UTC)Or do I have to contact other editors?

Hi Samtar, I added quite more...please have a look, can you now give green light and delete these tags...? PLEASE...? WHO, IF NOT YOU?? thank youPas de chat (talk) 21:16, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Pas de chat: I have removed tags from areas which have now been sourced. Please bear in mind Sam is busy with off-wiki matters so he will not be able to reply unless he gets a spare moment, when this will happen, I don't know, as I don't know Sam personally. Please bear this in mind. Thanks! :) Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 21:23, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

@Pas de chat: Class455 hat freundlich entfernt die Tags - diese Dinge können Zeit dauern, ist der Artikel gut (Class455 has kindly removed the tags - these things can take time, the article is good) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Blocked for edits to WP:Sandbox?

Did you really block someone for making 7 edits to the sandbox? I do not see anything disruptive about those edits. There were no attacks, no BLP violations nothing disruptive. The only disruptive thing going on was the edit summaries by Cyrus noto3at bulaga. They were experimenting in an area where they are allowed to experiment. I am unblocking per your edit notice. - GB fan 13:31, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@GB fan: Thank you for the note - you're completely right, that was a crap block on my behalf and I will apologise to the IP. At the time I blocked to prevent the edit war continuing, and blocked the IP for disruptively re-adding multiple transclusions - I see now if anyone should have been blocked in that incident it was Cyrus noto3at bulaga -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:40, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

The only reason I saw this was that Cyrus noto3at bulaga left a note on my talk page asking about becoming an admin and I was reviewing their edits and saw that the IP was blocked and looked into it. I have blocked before for bad reasons also and have been told you shouldn't have done that. It is a learning experience and I bet you won't do it again. - GB fan 13:56, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Good unblock. Just don't think this IP is an exemplary user.[42][43][44] :) -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 14:03, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

People's Protection Units

Samtar and Ad Orientem- just an FYI- but you both protected the article in almost the same minute- thanks very much both! O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 16:33, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

We did - TW has this annoying habit of not telling the other admin someone else is in the process of protecting an article -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 16:35, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

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 datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [45]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [46]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [47]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [48]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [49]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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Lotus Eye Hospital and Institute

Were both of the articles that you deleted created by Priya darsini (talk · contribs)? --JustBerry (talk) 15:51, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

@JustBerry: Not entirely, looks like Gajendrankambaa, Ruthra Jayabalan and Priya darsini all created/edited these articles -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 15:57, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Do you mean Priya darsini (talk · contribs)? Just confirming, as Priya darsin (talk · contribs) is not a registered user. Regarding the accounts, though, might be worth including the third account at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ruthra_Jayabalan. --JustBerry (talk) 16:00, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah yes JustBerry, I was a little hasty with the copy/paste (now corrected) - I'll take a look at the SPI -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 16:01, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good. --JustBerry (talk) 16:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Liberty Clipper

This page has been under discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberty Clipper for just a day but you seem to have deleted it. Please revert or explain. Andrew D. (talk) 19:10, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson: That was entirely inadvertent and I've restored - not quite sure what happened as I wouldn't have deleted an article at AfD without at least commenting there... Apologies -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 20:25, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Non-headered query

You "speedy deleted" my page for illegitmate reasons. You made no attempt to contact me. I realize the description was facetious but it was intended to just be temporary for a few minutes while I prepared my content. However you had it instantly deleted. Please stop abusing your "power" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabrielebbert (talk • contribs) 18:02, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

@Gabrielebbert: I've left you a message on your talk page, but I'll repeat it here so that it might go in - that page was very clearly attacking an individual, and was not fit to be on Wikipedia. If you create something like that again, you'll get blocked - simples -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:20, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

KittyNap!

I'm sorry, I hav KittyNapped one of your kittnes! That one made me feel so good,I just had to take it! Sorry for the inconvenience. 101.175.38.163 (talk) 09:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

WP:TFA title

Hi sam. You had assisted me previously in protecting this page. We've now consolidated all TFA updates, through LourdesBot and subsequently Joe's Null Bot 11, to WP:TFA Title rather than WP:TFA title. Request you to redirect WP:TFA title to WP:TFA Title. No protection is required any more on any of these pages (protection was also messing up the script). Thanks (I repeat, WP:TFA title needs to be redirected to WP:TFA Title, and not vice versa :) Thanks again). Lourdes

@Lourdes: Done - to clarify I have redirected WP:TFA title to WP:TFA Title and removed protection from WP:TFA title -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:24, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

• Yes, that's what was required. Thank you. Lourdes 17:13, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Unblock request on hold

There is an unblock request at User talk:Edelweiss Broking Limited, for a spam username block that you placed. If what the editor says is to be believed, it is a case of the remarkably common happening of a new editor using the name of the article he or she intends to create as a username, rather than an actual COI editor. Looking at the editing of that account and of its (admitted) sockpuppet Piyushpanc, that seems likely to be true. Also, the one edit that the account made before the block (here) was not blatantly promotional. I am therefore inclined to unblock the editor. Do you have any opinion on the matter? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 08:29, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: given the reasoning supplied in their unblock request, I wholly agree with your inclination to unblock - one thing to note is I believe you may have muddled up the parameters when placing the unblock request on hold! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:58, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I shall go ahead and unblock. As for the mistake in placing the unblock request on hold, you are, of course perfectly right. That was a very careless mistake, and I have slapped myself on the wrist for it. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:29, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

• I have just looked at User:Samtar/about, and seen that you became an administrator just last month. Welcome to the gang. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:39, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Cheers James :-) feel free to drop by any time and be sure to let me know if I muck up anywhere! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 09:45, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

You will, because we all do sometimes. It's called "being human". However, I hope it will only be small muck-ups. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:05, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

ACC access

 Done I have restored your access to ACC, please review the guide before working requests as there have been many changes since your last involvement. Welcome back, - Mlpearc (open channel) 17:45, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Cheers Mlpearc - I'll read through that now. Just tried logging in as `samtar` (after resetting my password) and it's not having it.. "Auth failure: User account is not identified"? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 17:55, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

KK, no problem, I'll notify a tool developer to mark you as identified, although this might take a few. I'll try to be around to ping you when that gets set. - Mlpearc (open channel) 18:00, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

I see you have been able to login to the ACC interface. Happy editing, - Mlpearc (open channel) 21:10, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Euphoria

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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Film#"Lists" vs. prose about lists

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Film#"Lists" vs. prose about lists. Pyxis Solitary (talk) 11:39, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
(Notification per WP:CAN.)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2017)

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Thanks for the quick work on my page deletion

It was a technical thing: I forgot a folder in the URL for the archiver. No need for a refund. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 21:09, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

ANI Notification

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Odd editing behavior at User talk page. -- Dane ^talk 00:07, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

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 upload WebP files to Commons. [50]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [51]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [52]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [53]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [54]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [55]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [56]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [57]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [58]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #243

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
  • EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
  • Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
  • Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID
  • Query examples:
    • People without gender, but with photo (~2500 items)
    • Gallery of cheese varieties and origin
    • Taxa with more female than male individuals (source)
    • Scatter chart of river watershed area (in km²) over length (in km), now using normalized unit support (source)
  • Newest database reports: lighthouses at night

• Development
  • Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
  • Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

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• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

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• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

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CheckUser

Hi, Samtar! If you remember, I was going for adminship some time ago. One of the reasons was the sock puppet investigations. I learned, that if you get the CheckUser right, you can investigate sock puppets, but I did not find a page, where you could request for them. Can you help? - FriyMan ^talk 13:11, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hi FriyMan. The short answer is, you can't. Please see WP:CHK for what the role involves and how it is managed. You knowe appreciate the efforts you are making on our behalf- but I think it's been suggested that you focus on editing the encyclopaedia and building up your experience, rather than aiming for positions within the beurocracy. Checkusers, to briefly answer your question, are some of the most trustworthy editors the community has- even more, perhaps, than mere admins (pace Samtar, of course...). Good luck with your editing! O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 13:52, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Bot creation help.

On your user page, you said, that you can mentor fellow programmers. Could you please help me set up a pywikibot on the PAWS? FriyMan ^talk 14:34, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) By far and away the easiest way to get into bot writing is to grab a Raspberry Pi, install the development stack using apt-get, download the Pywikibot source, compile it, and off you go. Getting used to the tarball / make / install cycle is a useful skill to have, that will move you closer to a professional developer. You can test your programming skills with readonly stuff - it's only when you need to write / edit pages that you need to prove you bot is not going to be disruptive. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:05, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Using AWB with 2FA

Hi, I saw Wikipedia:Using AWB with 2FA some time ago. One thing not mentioned on the page is that if you create the account will it still have access to the admin functions of AWB? I needed to move 100+ pages after an MfD but without redirects. I just noticed that the move edit does not say AWB but the next edit does. What I did was to log out of 2FA, run AWB, then restore the 2FA. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 00:08, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

@CambridgeBayWeather: Apologies for not getting back to you sooner - you should be able to grant the rights Create, edit, and move pages and Delete pages, revisions, and log entries and AWB will then be able to move without leaving a redirect behind.. To see/change the grants navigate to Special:BotPasswords and select the `bot` - you may wish to enable other "admin functions". Hope this helps -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:23, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. No worries I wasn't around anyway. At the moment I don't have a working Windows and I only ever got AWB working in Linux once. So until I get it working again I can only use AWB at work. And I'm off till Friday. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 15:28, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Extended confirmed!

Hello Samtar, you had refused my request, you told me to (read the comment by xaosflux as it contains some useful advice). He had told me that (should you have edits to pages that are not covered under arbitration sanctions) that's what I did! and then (After you have avoided the restricted topics and amass more edits) there are 895 live edits excluding user sandbox of 1,390 live edits as of now. As per-talk there were 521 live edits excluding user sandbox (of 1016 live edits).--Marlo Jonesa (talk) 17:00, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Okay - my advice is still the same. Reflect on those comments (and comments by other admins at that request) and request the right again in the future. Frankly, having looked over the Enforcement again, it appears you are rushing in regards to Extended Confirmed, and the fact you requested the right five days after having it previously denied doesn't bode well - slow down, continue to edit constructively in the mainspace and please do request the right again (perhaps in a month or so?). Your contributions are greatly appreciated, and thank you for volunteering your time here -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:31, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Samtar, just wanted to say a quick thank you for deleting The Real Pizzagate and blocking the editor so quickly. I know they were not going to be around for long. Thank you again! -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

My talk page

Thanks for the protection! I left a message on Zzuuzz's talk page earlier, and I did a range block of the one IP that was vandalizing earlier. He mentioned an edit filter, any chance that can be done? RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:39, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

@RickinBaltimore: Hiya Rick, no worries - as for the filter could you drop me a line with more information and I'll see what I can do? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:12, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Testing something... -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:27, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

And if you're following it's being discussed here -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:30, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Query ref Stay Jay

hi, i try creating an article stay jay but i realize that it was created before but by a ban or block user. i was wondering is if u can unblock it for me to redo-it?? 41.66.229.7 (talk) 12:15, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

I'd recommend using the article wizard to create a draft - that way, it can be reviewed by experienced editors who will guide you in ensuring the article meets our relevant guidelines -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:31, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Creator in Buddhism

Can you apply Pending Changes protection here? There is an effort to delete well-sourced material and insert off-topic WP:OR, ESSAY and WP:PRIMARY.VictoriaGrayson^Talk 05:53, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

@VictoriaGrayson: Sorry for the delay - done for 1 week, we'll see if it helps. The disruption is rather low there -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 16:20, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Pedophilia

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Pedophilia. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2017)

Ghanaian nationalists celebrating the 50th anniversary of national independence in 2007 Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: African nationalism Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Professional audio Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 23 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #244

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
  • Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
  • QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
  • List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin
  • Query examples:
    • Tide mills in France (source)
    • Wind mills in Paris (source)
    • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes (source)
    • Fire stations in Paris (source)

• Development
  • Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
  • Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
  • Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
  • Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
  • A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
  • More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-01

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Our goal to add filters to the Recent Changes page is going well. We will contact soon some communities - the ones where ORES is available as a Beta feature - to plan a possible trial.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Edit Review Improvements' Glossary is ready for translation.

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

• Revert notifications were not received on Wikidata. This is now fixed. [59]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

• We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is welcome.
• Communities which have allowed Flow trials with manual enabling (Hebrew Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia) will be asked if they want to switch to Beta feature activation. [60]
• A small maintenance on Flow database will happen during week 4. No impact is expected. [61]

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Tech News: 2017-04

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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [62]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Hamgaacaan

Hey . This user did vandalism on many pages.Look at his contribs. He needs to be blocked. Thanks. --Wyatt2049 | (talk) 17:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: Hiya - they seem to have stopped for an hour or so. If they start again I will block them, thank you for letting me know -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:47, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of "Alonzo Church Award" page

Dear Samtar,

I created yesterday the wikipedia entry "Alonzo Church Award". This entry consisted of an introductory text that I more or less took from the ACM SIGLOG homepage, modulo some changes. However, the table with awardees was new. In response to the copyright strike, I rewrote the text and also gave notice about that, as required. However, the page was still deleted and I am wondering why that is. Would you mind explaining that?

Best, Henning — Preceding unsigned comment added by H.basold (talk • contribs) 07:41, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

As explained in the deletion rationale, the article was a copyright violation -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 09:42, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Dear Samtar,

As I said, I wrote a new text, which contains even more information than the old one. Moreover, I responded to the notification, just as required. So I would have expected to be at least contacted before the page is taken down. In fact, the entry copyright violation that you quote says: "If you suspect a copyright violation but are uncertain if the content is copyrighted or whether the external site is copying from Wikipedia, you should at least bring up the issue on that page's discussion page, if it is active."

Best H.basold (talk) 10:24, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

but are uncertain - I wasn't uncertain, so I deleted the content. If you've now got the appropriate licence on the content you can request undeletion or re-create the article -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:46, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Pocporn Time

Hello, Thank you for your answer but if you can check the .ag website was never mentioned anywhere + they are trying to diffuse confusing information to users Let me clarify only Popcorntime.sh is playing by the Open source Rules , Popcorn TIme.sh have Github github.com/popcorn-official and all their builds are from ci.popcorntime.sh which make it safe for any users

the .ag version did not supply any correct reference or reliable one

Thank you for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.204.132.154 (talk) 10:32, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Replied at the article talk page -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:49, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

This article should not be delete

[Vaibhav_Kasyap_(actor)] this is notable article has good sources should not be delete — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahul kashyap (talk • contribs) 13:34, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

@Mahul kashyap: Hi there - welcome to Wikipedia. Have you ever had an account on here before? Anyway - the article as it stands probably won't pass WP:AFD. I understand this must be frustrating - I recommend you consider using the article wizard in the future -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:39, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

but i just did it in article wizard no wats your problem bro remove your template on my page

@Mahul kashyap: No, you didn't - how many other accounts have you had? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:48, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

ok sorry bro, i have many accounts but i just want to create this page it has good sources, you can google him read news about him, it should — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahul kashyap (talk • contribs) 13:52, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2017)

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Wikidata weekly summary #245

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
  • FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
  • Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
  • The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
  • The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
  • Query examples:
    • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
    • Largest companies by revenue in USD
    • Characters whose actors died recently (source)
    • Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
    • Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
  • Newest database reports: film festivals this month

• Development
  • RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
  • Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
  • Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
  • We plan to provide og:image Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
  • Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
  • Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
  • Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
  • Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2017-05

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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [63]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [64]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [65][66]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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:-D

I don't know why but this edit summary gave me a good laugh today. Might do that with some of the responses I get at my talk page upon reverting vandalism. :-) Have a good day! Patient Zero^talk 13:36, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm glad :-P I do try to keep my edit summaries light hearted, lest we fall into the false assumption that Wikipedia is serious business -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:50, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

We need more Samtars in the world, spreading joy, happiness, and laughter through the use of edit summaries :-) Take care! Patient Zero^talk 11:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Other pages for consideration...

• User:INDRO/sandbox: bit of advertising? --JustBerry (talk) 11:45, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Not sure - I would ask the editor what they're trying to do. It could just be legitimate sandbox editing/trying out Wikipedia. We need to be careful to not bite the newbies -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:59, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
• Also, not so sure about User:Visby Gotland, which may or may not be a BLP issue (translation reference). --JustBerry (talk) 11:47, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
  • I'm afraid the translation probably doesn't do the wording justice - as someone who doesn't understand Swedish, I can't personally see this being a BLP issue. Their edits aren't the best, but they don't strike me as a vandal (especially the month of no edits) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:57, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
• Mudunuru village: What do you think of something like this userpage, where the user page is not promotional but perhaps a userpage written as an article. WP:U5? --JustBerry (talk) 11:50, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
  • I'll refer you to WP:FAKEARTICLE - not CSD-worthy but you can try WP:MFD? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:58, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Can you help me in forwarding the following request to User:JamesBWatson.

Dear, JamesBWatson Can you create an article on Statistical Machine Learning with inclusion of LDA and QDA, PCA, clustering methods, cross-validation, bootstrap, linear model selection and regularisation, modelling with regression splines and smoothing splines, tree-based methods, support vector machines, etc. Kindly also maake the the educational language as non-technical as possible with good redirects to important concepts.

Samtar, if you could do it would be noice of you.45.249.239.44 (talk) 08:11, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Why do you ask for me to do this? I know next to nothing about Statistical Machine Learning, and I don't even know what LDA, QDA, and PCA stand for. If you do know about the topic, why don't you create an account and create the article yourself? Or perhaps better still create a draft for the article and submit it for review by an experienced editor, which yo can do with or without an account. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your help just now

For content please see header! Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:57, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

No problem, any time! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:10, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Irene

When she said "the dumb users" she's probably referring to the ones she mentioned, not the whole community. I know I might be coming off as a bit insensitive, but if I see a personal attack, especially directed at me, I will redact it. I've been abused on online forums before and I'm not tolerating it on Wikipedia, where I feel I should be able to contribute without getting attacked. Linguist^talk|contribs 13:07, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Linguist111: I see - please don't for a moment think I accept what Irene was saying as being anywhere near reasonable and appropriate, just that when people are irritated they say and do things which they later regret. Unfortunately they have continued after a stern warning, so I have revoked talk page access. Please feel free to contact me directly if you ever require assistance, especially related to harassment - I won't tolerate it on Wikipedia -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:09, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Samtar. I appreciate that. Linguist^talk|contribs 13:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Hello,

You deleted My Article on Wikipedia, and I don't know the reason why you deleted my article! I know on Wikipedia need to add articles of for famous people, but I added bio for political activist and on this way he is part of history, and is part of many decision in his country and many other things! Also he is part of many events and that's important!

Please check again my article!

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shimrud (talk • contribs) 22:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2017)

A high school in Malaysia Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Secondary school Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Nvidia Shadowplay • African nationalism Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 6 February 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello TheresNoTime/old,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 804 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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Congratulations!

I just noticed that you successfully applied for administrator! Congratulations. CatcherStorm ^talk 16:04, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Only a little late CatcherStorm but thank you! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 16:40, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Could you do me a favor

The WiFi I am on now blocks wmflabs. Could you check my AfD stats for me? CatcherStorm ^talk 18:49, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

The fight continues.....

Hello sire. We interacted over at Fortuna's Page. You had asked me to remind you about getting rollback once i do a bit more anti vandal work. And thats exactly what I've been upto. Once again i run into the problem of not being able to use dedicated tools like Stiki, Huggle or igloo. Rollback would enable me to use these and be more effective. My niche of interest is in Indian articles which face their fair share of vandals. I try to bring the fight to the vandals here. Hope I'm worthy now! Arkhaminsanity (talk) 17:33, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Arkhaminsanity: Hi there - thanks for dropping by! I've had a quick look through your contributions and you are so very close to having rollback granted. The guidelines suggest 200 mainspace edits and this tool shows you have 102 - if you make a few more mainspace edits (lets say, 160 total?) I will give them a proper review and grant rollback if it's all looking good. Good luck, and talk soon! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 19:30, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

No problem, I think I confused my total edits with mainspace edits. Still, I will keep the flamne of the fight burning even without rollback till my edit count is appropriate. Thank you for being supportive. Arkhaminsanity (talk) 04:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

ANI

Hehe, I was wondering if you might notice my ANI edit, and I see you did. Have a little something from Bishzilla's fridge with your afternoon tea. Bishonen | talk 17:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC).

Awh Bish how sweet, as long as 'zilla doesn't mind! I often err on ANI - I think it must be the quick typing to save from all those nasty edit conflicts! Hope you're well :-) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 18:02, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

David L. Jones page move

Thank you for the assist! Jeh (talk) 16:18, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

No worries Jeh! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 16:40, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Air India

Thanks for the revert on my talk page. Is there anyway we can have an edit filter in place? They are on a proxy, so a range block is out of the question, and it seems they are jumping from IP to IP. RickinBaltimore (talk) 21:10, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do - afraid I've been rather ill so only popping in from time to time -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 21:14, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Take your time, your health's more important that a persistent vandal. RickinBaltimore (talk) 21:22, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/835 is disallowing -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 21:26, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Review of my work!

I have the required number of edits now(170+). Kindly go over my contribs. I've focused on a lot of anti-promotional work. Articles of Indian origin contain a lot of advertising and i aim to reduce that. I've also been peering over the new page feed and appropriately tagging articles. Regards, Arkhaminsanity (talk) 11:23, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

@Arkhaminsanity: could you make the request at WP:PERM please? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:37, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

@Samtar: done!. You can take a look at my application on the rollback request page. Arkhaminsanity (talk) 13:58, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 February 2017

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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Tech News: 2017-06

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 block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [67]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [68]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [69]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [70][71]

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Please comment on Talk:Doxycycline

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Doxycycline. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Bullfighting edit-war

Hey Samtar, the edit-warring at Bullfighting is continuing. I think there are communication problems going on as well as assertive behavior on the part of both editors. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:04, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Homeless International Edits

Hi Samtar,

A few weeks ago you were helping me with edits on the Homeless International page. You changed the URL as the link was dead. However, the rest of the page has still not been updated. As I have a conflict of interest, I can't edit it myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeless_International

Could you take a look for me please?

Thanks.

Jodie Y (talk) 14:03, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #246

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
  • Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
  • Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
  • Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
  • Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
  • Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
  • What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
  • Join the Wikimania program committee!
  • OpenStreetMap uses several wikidata-related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
  • Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
  • An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
  • WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
  • WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
    • Fictional items named after real items(source)

• Development
  • You can now download query results as SVG images
  • When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
  • We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
  • Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
  • Setting up test system for lexemes
  • Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
  • Doing more groundwork for lexemes
  • Working on better integration with Elastic
  • More work on Federation
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
  • Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
  • Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
  • Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)

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This Month in GLAM: January 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue I, January 2017 Headlines Brazil report: GLAM news in January Côte d'Ivoire report: Editing during #1Lib1Ref, presenting at WikiIndaba 2017 Estonia report: Paintings and graphic art depicting Tartu from Tartu Art Museum's collection, photographers' biographic data Germany report: January: less action - more planning Italy report: WMI @ Uffizi Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 2 and Karpoš Municipality meeting Netherlands report: WiR in Gelderland; Royal Library supporting #1Lib1Ref; De nieuwe rijschool; Impact assessment image donation Norway report: Immigration of images and #faktajakt Spain report: Open Heritage: our first wikivisit Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; GLAM and Open data; #1lib1ref UK report: Libraries, Museums, Hospitals and Antiquities Ukraine report: Libraries Help Break Record for Ukrainian Wikipedia Birthday USA report: Wikipedia Day 2017 Open Access report: Over 700 new videos uploaded Wikidata report: Commons structured data takes a big step forwards WMF GLAM report: Ramping up structured Commons, #1lib1ref success, and other updates Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Block me

Please block me for 31 hours, I NEED A WIKIBREAK! 2001:8003:30B2:1100:F468:53DF:748F:B923 (talk) 10:24, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

IP, this is your only edit - do you have an account you'd rather me block? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:43, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

We need a mop

In Aisle five. Specifically User talk:Bhoomikahy- can you see the problem? It's got too complicated to explain! O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 11:52, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: oh goodness... I'm on it -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:00, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

me? Thanks though: Basically they moved user page to wikipage and thirdly to articlespace. Which I guess is why I couldn't move it back. And so probably ade things worse. Incidentally the article which started it is fun  :) O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 12:05, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

No not you, just general userspace --> wikipediaspace --> articlespace --> draftspace --> outerspace moves the article did indeed look a little fun Smiling Diariesis a dais from Paragon Solea for all the wonderful women who like to keep it real o.O -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:08, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Do we really need to keep the redirects at WP:Smiling Diaries and WT:Smiling Diaries? Neither page has any meaningful incoming links. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:10, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Quite right! and then there were none.. -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:12, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Samtar and Dodger67: Many thanks both. ...until next time... 12:22, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

caught my first sock.

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ajayy99

Could you have a look at this. An admin needs to be involved. cheers, Arkhaminsanity (talk) 09:04, 9 February 2017 (UTC) P.S. I wasn't granted rollback. :(

This investigation goes nowhere. We have two accounts that are already blocked and one that haven't edited for 2 years. There is no ongoing disruption. Case closed. Vanjagenije (sysop)

And No, Arkhaminsanity, with still only 182 mainspace edits, admin shopping for user rights isn't going to help either ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Backlog drive—NPP

I'm ambivalent toward contests, but I do have a suggestion on quantity v. quality (I thought I'd put it here on your tp to avoid clogging up the start of discussion of your idea).

1. A NPPer can self-nominate one patrol they consider the best they've done to that point in the contest.
2. A live list of the nominations will be displayed during the contest.
3. An entrant may change their nomination during the contest.

I think this would encourage competition for the best work, show good examples for emulation, encourage additional patrols in to stay ahead of the completion. This would be more work than a straight numbers win, but I think it'd have better results and attract more attention, otherwise it'd be a magnet for sloppy patrols and very long patrolling session. — User:Neonorange (Phil) 06:05, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Neonorange: That's a good idea! There will definitely have to be some balance between getting the backlog down in a quick yet quality controlled manner and being able to reward editors who take part -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:46, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Repeated use of the phrase 'do me a solid'

A common household solid

should be a blockable offence in itself!!! :D O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 15:36, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

FIM, could ya do me a solid and link to these most heinous violations of the English language? Cheers bruh -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 15:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

First, he has to do me a solid. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:55, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Represent :) O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 15:59, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer stats

You might find some useful stuff here that I collected over the years including some earlier quarries that might give you an idea how to start: Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrollers. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:34, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

You haven't gave proof

I asked only for proof . Can you cite how my article was considered promotional? You cannot give me proof because you cannot find fault in my article. Soon you will repent. Good bye Edson Frainlar (talk) 12:14, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@Edson Frainlar: I understand you're upset but storming off won't help - I'm happy to talk you through why your article was deleted, but you've got to adjust your attitude a little first -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:16, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Even now you haven't shown proof. Don't tell me to change my attitude. Do you know how I created that article? I was spending three days for that article. Nearly i have edited 30 times in three days. Without visualizing all these things and without any proof how dare you delete my article? I used to speak polite. But you are getting into my nerves and forcing me to speak harshly. Anyway you don't have proof. Accept Edson Frainlar (talk) 12:26, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Final time I'm going to ask you to change your attitude - I didn't delete your article, and I don't see how I'm getting on your nerves. Fathers of Missionaries of Mary Immaculate was poorly referenced and seems to be promoting the subject somewhat. Would you like my help? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:36, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

You are getting angry. Don't you have any feeling that without any proper reason you have deleted my article. You don't have the desire even to get angry. You haven't provided the proof even till. At least can you mention what are the promotional features found in that article. How can you say it is poorly referenced?I have mentioned all references that i can pick in Internet. If everything must be referenced then check for other article . Think practically. You are doing this intentionally. Who are you to tell me to change my attitude. You must change your attitude. You haven't produced me proper reasons of deleting my article. Don't speak until you give me proof on my article that it was promotional Edson Frainlar (talk) 12:55, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

• Poorly referenced: http://www.mmi-eap.com (x3) (primary source), http://www.mmiinternational.in/ (x1) (primary source), http://www.mmict.in (x1) (primary source), http://indiancatholiconline.com (x1) (secondary source)
• Promotional language: Right from the inception of DMI & MMI in South Sudan they do their full-fledged work towards all round development, The world is their mission., They march towards the father’s kingdom where everyone welcomes the gospel

@Edson Frainlar: I'm not angry, I'm disappointed that you've chosen to be so hostile about this when I've offered to help you multiple times. I hope you have a great day! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:05, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

For being a religious congregation i think that the evidence or reference from www.indiancatholiconline.com is enough . Just for these two words 'full fledged' and 'welcomed by everyone' you have deleted it. Why don't you edit that article? I am really disappointed with many including you. Edson Frainlar (talk) 13:18, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@Edson Frainlar: Well I'm sad to hear you're personally disappointed in me, I can only hope to improve - unfortunately a single reference to the above would not be enough. To clarify, I did not delete the article, a different admin did. Are you associated with Fathers of Missionaries of Mary Immaculate? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Misplaced query

Hi samtar, I want to know why my page AppPerfect Corporation is deleted? The products specified there was free to use so I thought to bring them out to public notice. the page AppPerfect corporation indicates a company but it was not for promotion. Can you give me some suggestions to improve the page that you have deleted? Ranjana21 (talk) 12:15, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@Ranjana21: Hi there, thanks for getting in contact! I know it must be frustrating to have your article deleted, but thank you for contacting me in a polite and civil manner - I deleted your article for two reasons. Firstly, it lacked a credible claim of significance - this might sound confusing, but the link will help explain. Secondly, and I appreciate your above explanation that the article was not for promotion, it sounded a bit too promotional. So, what can you do? I'd recommend following the instructions at the Article Wizard and creating a draft which will be reviewed by an experienced editor. Remember, if you're involved with AppPerfect you will be considered to have a Conflict of Interest and should read these helpful pointers -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:47, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Still waiting

Still waiting for an explanation of this. DuncanHill (talk) 23:13, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

I found how you worded that rude and uncalled for - ANI isn't the nicest place and if everyone just took a moment to chill out then perhaps it'd be a little less shitty? I don't know, maybe I overreacted and should have just kept my mouth shut -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:19, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Potential edit filter?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Catcreekcitycouncil

One of the tactics this user has taken to is creating sleepers in advanced, then on the day they use them, rapidly undoing themselves on an unprotected article to gain autoconfirmed. Check the contributions of all three reported socks to see what I mean. Could "rapid repeat undo of self edits" possibly be an edit filter to help catch these? -- ferret (talk) 13:50, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@Ferret: Can't see why not! I'll give it a look-see and draft something up -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 13:53, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2017)

The Sun and planets of the Solar System (distances not to scale) are examples of astronomical objects. Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Astronomical object Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Secondary school • Nvidia Shadowplay Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 13 February 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Block Me

Could you please 1mo block IP range 2001:8003:30B2:1100::? I NEED A WIKIBREAK! 2001:8003:30B2:1100:99FD:B2E0:966E:4FA5 (talk) 10:27, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

If another editor does come across this range and asks to be unblocked, you can just accept the request and then the editor will not be affected. 2001:8003:30B2:1100:99FD:B2E0:966E:4FA5 (talk) 10:28, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Remove SSTflyer from AWB

Can you please remove SSTflyer from WP:AWB/CP? You forgot to do this while adding Feminist to the list. 24.205.24.240 (talk) 23:58, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

 Done - thanks for letting me know! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

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

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [72]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [73]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [74]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [75]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

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• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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Wikidata weekly summary #247

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
  • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
  • Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
  • Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
  • Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
  • Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
  • ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
  • It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
    • Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
    • Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
    • Timeline of antipopes (source)
    • Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
    • Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
  • Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine

• Development
  • Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
  • Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Editing a new article

Hello,

Be kind and help me improve an article which is a biography of a living person. The article is entitled: Marieta Maglas [77]. I need an examination regarding the reliability of the references. Also, my article keeps small parts of the editing text that should disappear after saving it( like </ref>). My article is in the draft. I'm new here and I don't know if they will disappear automatically after publishing the article or not. Also, I don't know if my article contains information that is not considered notable or remarkable.Add Andrewrares at the beginning of your message.

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-02

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Flow satisfaction survey’s results are available. The survey provides useful data on what users like and don't like about Flow. This information will be helpful in discussions recently begun as part of the editing team's Annual Plan process. As the editing team investigates its priorities for next fiscal year (which begins in July), many ideas for improvements have been suggested, including projects to research the future of wiki discussions and to fix Flow's shortcomings.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

• Huggle users are asked to share their feedback concerning proposed improvements for Huggle.

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

• Flow notifications category in the Notification Preferences page will be changed from (in English) "Flow" to "Flow Discussion". Messages that have to be updated on TranslateWiki are echo-category-title-flow-discussion and echo-pref-tooltip-flow-discussion. [78]
• Mentions were not recognized when more than one section is added during the same edit or when an new section was added and a change (new message or deletion) was done in another section. This is now solved. [79]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

• Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. [80]
• We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is still welcome, the conversation will be closed on February 28th.

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I pinged ThePlatypusofDoom

@Samtar: As a follow up from IRC, I pinged him on his talk page and he says he is happy for you to grant me rollback rights ;P Qaei ☎ 22:11, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Deleted article

Delcortez (talk) 20:27, 13 February 2017 (UTC) Article removed Delcortez (talk) 20:27, 13 February 2017 (UTC) Why do you think Pedigreepedia is website which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject? Is one of the biggest pedigree's website in the world and one and only website for breeds which is so intuitive and popular all over the world since it started.

The article was overly promotional - please read this page for some more information -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:26, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

ACTRIAL

Hi, Further to the conversation last night, do you think consensus is clear enough to use the blacklist to enable an ACTRIAL-esque scheme? Thanks :) -DrStrauss talk 10:44, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

@DrStrauss: Which consensus? Any current discussions such as on the Village Pump is not widespread or specific enough to enable the blacklist (in my humble opinion) - especially as such a move would be somewhat against a previous WMF decision -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, if we're thinking of doing it without the WMF an RfC would be inappropriate but it still requires a more "formal" (i.e. support/oppose) community discussion I guess. Where should this take place? Thanks, DrStrauss talk 10:57, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

@DrStrauss: I still believe the proposal Village Pump is the correct place, but I would recommend having a highly-defined RfC (as in, Should we do X?) and ensuring it is widely advertised. I'm worried that no matter how well defined the RfC is you'll still see topic-stretching discussions taking place which ultimately will end up with the RfC getting close and no action being taken.. -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:01, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

What do you think to this? Thanks! DrStrauss talk 11:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

@DrStrauss: Looking good - when that goes live will you be proposing a number of months too? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:29, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Yeah I'm toying between 6 and 3 months. 3 sounds more agreeable as WMF rejected 6 before... DrStrauss talk 11:32, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

@DrStrauss: Three sounds good to me! -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:35, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Where do I actually put it? DrStrauss talk 11:36, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

WP:PROPS and use the {{RfC}} template would be my suggestion -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 11:38, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)DrStrauss - the WMF did not reject it because it asked for 6 months. I and others have asked you many times to read up on the background of ACTRIAL - and then get a team to work on it. All you will do is set back what we are trying to do for NPP and the new landing page. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

The future of NPP and AfC

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. The coordinators will do their best for for the advancement of the improvement of NPP and AfC and generally keep tracks on the development of those things. Coordinators have no additional or special user benefits, but they will be 'go to' people and will try to keep discussions in the right places. This very much involves this project too, especially with growing renewed interest around the site about what WP:ACTRIAL was all about.

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Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 804 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
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Tech News: 2017-08

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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [81]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [82]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [83]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [84]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

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Wikidata weekly summary #248

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
  • If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
  • Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
  • Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born at the sea (source)
    • Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
    • Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
    • People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship (source)
  • Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS

• Development
  • Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
  • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
  • Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
  • Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2017)

Växjö surrounded by lakes, as seen from an airplane Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Växjö Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Astronomical object • Secondary school Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 20 February 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Please comment on Talk:Nintendo Switch

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Nintendo Switch. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

My educational estates IP address

Hello samtar, I'm a new Wikipedia user, I was just wondering how long this IP will be blocked: 208.84.138.21 Lone Pulsar (talk) 23:30, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

@Lone Pulsar: 1 year (expiring 1st Feb 2018) - are you affected by the block? -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:16, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Strange article history

Hello Samtar,

can you tell me, what happened here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claudia_Rosiny&action=history

Why were there versions of your sandbox in someone else's user namespace? I just don't understand.

Kindest regards, --Drahreg01 (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Well I've been scratching my head over this one for a little while - I did help Pas De Chat previously (as seen here) so I'm guessing some mixture of page moves and wikipixies has somehow merged some history together.. As we can see from this revision of Claudia Rosiny this was my initial copyediting of Bruno Kurz from User:Samtar/pasdechat. My head hurts -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 10:14, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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Stats

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T158301

Sam I really, really, really need those stats now. I've been asking around the site since October for them. I need them more than ever now before DrStrauss makes an error in his enthusiasm to run a premature RfC on ACTRIAL. If you haven't got time or don't know how, I'll understand, but please let me know. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Hi Kudpung, I understand it's pretty urgent - I'll try to get stuck into it again by this weekend. I've left some notes at the request. If I find this is beyond my SQL-fu I'll make sure it gets passed on to someone and not abandoned. The wonderful people in the #wikipedia-analytics ^connect IRC channel helped me with a very complex query recently so I may be able to convince them to take a look at this too -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 12:13, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

@Kudpung: I'm so sorry, have I messed it up? DrStrauss talk 12:16, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

I would be most grateful if you could,Sam, because if DrStrauss has his way, ACTRIAL will never happen and the other other software improvements I'm negotiating for with the VP of the WMF will be swept under the carpet again and I'll have them all laughing in my face for my 6 years of efforts. I'm verging on retiring from Wikipedia over this. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:20, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Kudpung, I'm not "having my way" - I'd like ACTRIAL to happen and maybe I went the wrong way with it. What are your other software proposals? DrStrauss talk 12:28, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @DrStrauss: Just an non-involved comment (-too technical for me to understand!) but I think the unspoken advice here is- could you just hang fire with whatever it is you are keen to do? Apparently, time will reap rewards, and we will all get a better result by waiting. More haste, less speed eh! Good luck, ladies and gentlemen. O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 12:30, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

@Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: good idea, I'll leave it to the more experienced editors to handle now. Hopefully I've caused little damage. DrStrauss talk 12:34, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

• Sam, putting the stats request on Phab will almost certainly not result in it being actioned there. There is a general call at the WMF to ignore anything to do with NPP. This bunch of stats is required to reinforce our (my) argument with the C and top level executives at the Foundation that solutions are needed. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:49, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
  • The phab task is just a self-reminder to ensure I either do it or find someone who can :-) -- Samtar ^{talk · Special:Contributions/. Samtar|contribs]]} 19:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
    • Could you please touch base with User talk:Cryptic. There is no point in duplicating the task (he hasn't said he'll do it) but you might be able to help each other. I can't stress how much these stats are needed now. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:32, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Request a query

hi, I noticed you watch the above page, this request was posted [85] 2 days ago(UTC), I was wondering if you might be able to help, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:46, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: I'll take a look :-) -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 08:14, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:14, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2017)

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2017)

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Wikidata weekly summary #250

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
  • Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
  • Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
  • Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
  • Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
  • The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
  • Query examples:
    • Countries with similar populations (source)
    • Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
    • Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
    • Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
    • Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion

• Development
  • Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
  • SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
  • Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2017-10

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 search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [86]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [87]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [88]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [89]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [90]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [91]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:There'sNoTime

A tag has been placed on User:There'sNoTime requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — O Fortuna! ^{Imperatrix mundi.} 16:53, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

:p — O Fortuna! ^{Imperatrix mundi.} 16:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@FIM I'll admit...you had me there for a moment -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue II, February 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Images donation Australia and New Zealand report: #1lib1ref - what's next? Belgium report: Local heritage monuments Brazil report: Creating new articles on cultural heritage Bulgaria report: 2017 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting and Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group; New scanners for digitizing in BASA Côte d'Ivoire report: Providing sources for the BlackPower Edit-a-thon and more... France report: #1lib1ref and slate museum Germany report: Exhibition photography; WikiLibrary Barcamp Greece report: Memories+History & #1lib1ref workshop Italy report: WLM awards, #1Lib1Ref and seminars Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon and memorandum for collaboration with the Memorial House Of Mother Theresa Mexico report: 100 years of the Constitution of Mexico and Mexican flags: Edit-a-thon in the Center for the Study of Mexican History Netherlands report: Rare drawings of Brazilian animals; Wikimedian-in-Residence Erfgoed Gelderland Norway report: Linking Fotodugnad to Commons Serbia report: Content donation from an artist Davorin Dinić Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Swedish GLAM-WikiEdu project nominated for Pedagogy Award of the year; Connected Open Heritage UK report: Enlightenment comes to Wikidata USA report: Black Lunch Table + Black History Month Special story: European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting Open Access report: Over 1000 new multimedia files, e.g. on predation, prediction and spying Wikidata report: Putting Wikidata on the Map (and on Quora, and on Facebook) WMF GLAM report: European Coordinators Meeting and Planning Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Not sure why your user page is on my watchlist...

...but it raises the question: do kids these days play with spirograph anymore? --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

If someone's talk page is on your watchlist, then so is their user page. The same also applies to other wiki pages - you get both the main page and the talk page on your watchlist. Alcherin (talk) 20:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Along with the hoop and stick I'm sure.. -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

That image couldn't be done with a spirograph, the pen is outside the inner wheel. Now that my inner pedant has had his say I can lock him away again. :-) Umm, happy new username. Cabayi (talk) 08:52, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

JaneDoe to JaneDoeporn

Thanks for your valuable input yesterday. I've opened Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pornactress.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:38, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Probably the most interesting thread subject my talk page has seen... -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 19:45, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

RFA poll

Hi TNT, Hope all has been well,
Sorry the troll comment was a reply to this , (although I didn't !vote in that RFA I've still gone by those exact reasons),
I actually wanted to reply to that editor but thought it was unfair on the candidate so kinda put it in my own comment, Sorry for the confusion ,
Nice name btw :), Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 16:36, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

No confusion, just didn't want you to believe your opinion was anything less than valued :-) -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 19:46, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Ohhh right sorry , Well thank you that was extremely kind of you :), Have a great day! :), –Davey2010^Talk 19:51, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Bad rollback grant?

Hi there, can you please offer an explanation for this? Assuming you actually conducted a review of the user, you surely would have noticed:

• They are fairly inexperienced.
• They just became active one month ago.
• They didn't meet the bare minimum requirement of 200 mainspace edits.
• They had virtually no substantive history of anti-vandalism work (only a few reverts in total).
• They never claimed to be involved in anti-vandalism work, nor did they claim to actually have any need for the tool—they openly stated that it was meant to be a stepping stone in order to acquire a different user right, that they do not even qualify for. This is a wholly invalid reason for requesting permissions.

Since being granted this tool, this user has gone on a rollback spree. Most reverts are vandalism, but some border on misuse and make me doubt whether this user even knows when to not use rollback: [92][93] I would be inclined to revoke based on all of this. Swarm ♠ 17:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Swarm: Hi, thanks for the message - I'll preface with you're more than welcome to revoke rollback for this editor. I do conduct a review of editors before granting rights, but clearly I'm way too lax. I'm of the opinion that rights such as rollback, which with the advent of Twinkle's rollback is no great deal, should be granted to competent editors with clue, experience and desire to learn. As you've stated above, my cursory review was evidently lacking and I came to the wrong conclusion about the editor. This error has allowed an editor to cause damage with a right I had granted - and for that I apologise and take full responsibility. Perhaps I'll keep away from PERM in the future -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 19:44, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry. Legobot (talk) 04:28, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2017)

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Wikidata weekly summary #251

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
  • Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
  • Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
  • Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
  • Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
  • Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
  • Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
  • Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
    • Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
    • Awards received by more women than men (source)
    • Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
    • The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Natural arches around the globe (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
  • Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator

• Development
  • Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
  • Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
  • Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
  • Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
  • Finishing federation prototype.
  • We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
  • Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
  • Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
  • Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
  • Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
  • Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
  • Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)

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  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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Tech News: 2017-11

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

• You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [94][95]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [96]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [97][98]

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15:26, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Self-block

Hi,

I'd to request a self-block as I'm spending too much time on WP and need to get stuff done for a temporary period (further explained on IRC). I've tried enforcer but I just change my PC time to circumvent it.

The conditions I'd like are as follows:

• No talk page access
• Expiry on 3 July 2017
• Don't let me talk you out of it

Thanks,

DrStrauss talk 12:33, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

@DrStrauss: As discussed, sure - could you just confirm you'd like that to start immediately? -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:35, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes please. If you could explain in the summary that'd be fab. Thanks and see you in 4 months ;) DrStrauss talk 12:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Edit - I have a pending cloak IRC request. Will this still to through? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrStrauss (talk • contribs)

Blocking now until 3/7/17 with no access to your talk page. Your cloak will still be applied -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Uhh...

Is this Samtar? Or somebody else? I'm confused. UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 17:19, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

@UNSC Luke 1021: It is, I was renamed :) -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 17:58, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Two questions: 1. Why? and 2. Why can't I see your old pages in the history of the now-disambiguation? UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 23:24, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

A mixture of disliking my current username and off-wiki harassment which my username didn't exactly help to prevent. I've discussed the link (and been asked to put redirects in) so the fact I did it is rather moot now. I'm not sure what you mean by the second part of your question - everything should be attributed to me properly, and in the rename subpages were moved to this (for example, User:There'sNoTime/about). I've elected to not link any of these subpages purely because I can't be bothered to and I prefer my user page nice and blank. They can be found here -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 08:27, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

When I ask question II, I mean when you go to the page User:Samtar (the disambiguation, not what it redirects to) and go into the history your old user page doesn't show up; there's only one recorded edit. I was just unsure. As for the name change, I hope the off-wiki harassment stops because of this. UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 11:45, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2017)

The long-legged buzzard is an example of a bird of prey. Hello, There'sNoTime. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bird of prey Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Tandoori chicken • Plastic explosive Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 20 March 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Weekly Summary #252

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
  • Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
  • A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
  • Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
  • Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
  • Quora: Identifying Topics about People
  • How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
  • Mix’n’match interface update

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
    • Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
    • False Vermeer works (source)
    • From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph (source)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
  • Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
  • More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
  • Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
  • Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
  • More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
  • Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
  • Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
  • Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
  • Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
  • Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-03

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

We have focused all our efforts on the New filters for edit review. You will discover these filters on your wiki soon (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• The documentation concerning the new filters for recent changes has been written and marked for translation.

Future changes

• We will release the ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽ beta option on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias March 28. This beta option adds powerful filtering and other tools as well as an improved filtering interface to the Recent Changes page (and Recent Changes Linked). To try out these new tools on these two wikis, go to the Beta tab of the Preferences page (after the 28th) and select ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽.
• In the weeks following the initial release to Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias, the New Filters for Edit Review beta will go out to the following list of Wikipedias in waves (schedule to be done):
  • Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech Wikipedias and Wikidata. [99]
  • English Wikipedia. [100]
  • All other wikis. [101]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• <math> <hiero> <score> <syntax> <source> <ref> shortcuts are now working on Flow visual editing mode. Type a shortcut in the visual editing mode will open the control panel for the chosen option. [102]
  • Concerning <ref>, footnotes will be automatically included at the end of the message, unless if they are displayed elsewhere in the message by the appropriate template.
• Flow has been removed from Metawiki. [103]

Future changes

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It will be a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [104]

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A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for patrolling the requests for page protection! RileyBugzYell at me | Edits 20:32, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

No worries! All part of the job -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:35, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Don't retire. Ever.

Cheers, FriyMan ^talk 20:47, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Well I'm here and back to work for now :-) -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:08, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hey, it's been over a year since I first met you through the adoption program; what happened previously and what can I (and the rest of us) do to help? Regardless it's good to see you're back, keep up the good work! Alcherin (talk) 21:04, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

@Alcherin: a year! Times like this it hits me how long I've been on this quirky website it's not overly something which needs to be gone into, but I'm here and working away -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:30, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

FYI

someone removed a thread here. 98.230.196.215 (talk) 21:31, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks 98. - I've added it back in -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:35, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

A nice, warm cookie for you!

I was really sad to see that you retired. You're an absolutely brilliant editor, and I'm very very grateful for all you've done, so when I saw the {{retired}} template, it was saddening and I thought you wouldn't come back. But the fighter in you obviously decided to come back and you followed that fighter instinct and returned! Don't let those lifeless trolls bring you down. Anyway "nuff said", its great to see you back, and remember, if you need to talk, my talk page is always there for you mate . In the meantime, have this, its fresh out the oven. Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 21:37, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Well thank you kindly Class455 - some behind the scenes stuff has meant I feel happy enough to come back and pick up the mop again. I realised the only way I can make Wikipedia a little less sucky (and it is sucky at times) is by actually doing something -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:43, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

A Cold One On Me

		A beer on me!
		Glad to see you back. Don't let the SOB's get to you. Ad Orientem (talk) 22:54, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 08:17, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

I was sad to see you retire a few days ago. You're a brilliant editor and admin, and I'm elated that you changed your mind and decided to come out of retirement. Don't ever let the trolls bring you down! XboxGamer22408talk to me 05:46, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Well thank you keep on keeping on! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 08:17, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

From me, too: Good to see you back! Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:41, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

@Fut.Perf. thanks, both here and for your off-wiki support - definitely appreciated and pretty sure without it I would've just thrown in the towel -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 15:45, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, that's funny – I'd be honoured to be able to say I provided some off-wiki support here, but I'm afraid I didn't; maybe you are mixing me up with somebody else ;-) Anyway, I'm glad there was some support; I've been through enough similar situations myself to know how it feels. 20:57, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

*sigh* yes I did -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:54, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Dreaded 45 day list @ ACC

Hello, just here to remind you to login to the ACC interface, you're on the dreaded 45 day list. Thanx, - Mlpearc (open channel) 16:39, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Headers are difficult

Recently you delete page ZEBRONICS. However you have not indicated the reason — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kesavanchristo (talk • contribs)

Have you tried reading the deletion reason? The article was overly promotional -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:28, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

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 Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [105]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [106]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [107]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [108]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [109]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [110]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [111]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Mark L Walberg.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mark L Walberg.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the file description page and add the text {{di-replaceable fair use disputed|<your reason>}} below the original replaceable fair use template, replacing <your reason> with a short explanation of why the file is not replaceable.
2. On the file discussion page, write a full explanation of why you believe the file is not replaceable.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media item by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by creating new media yourself (for example, by taking your own photograph of the subject).

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. January (talk) 17:39, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

As I am in Brussels now....have a beer to overcome the grumble...you made me chuckle. But...being an old admin has its perks :). Lectonar (talk) 21:04, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Ahah! Thank you hope you're enjoying Brussels! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 10:17, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Tremendously. I only say Westvleteren Brewery...got my six bottles on the weekend. And of course there is Sauce andalouse...Cheeers nad happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 14:27, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Deltawebservice

I believe you were too lenient with only a 12 hour block on Deltawebservice (talk · contribs) given that this is also a promotional user name. This user should have been given a permanent block with option to rename. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 13:11, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@WikiDan61: you're very right - I was only really reviewing the links they were adding here and there and didn't pay too much attention to the username. I'll reblock indef now and leave them a template to change their username :) thanks for the keen eye! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 13:15, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Always glad to be of assistance! WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 13:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

In the matter of User:ShakespeareFan00's account

Persuant to the IRC disscusion and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ShakespeareFan00&oldid=771976445, A 7-day wiki-break enforcerment block is requested. Checkuser to confirm I am the account holder is authorised. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:13, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

 Done -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 16:19, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

ShakespeareFan00 categories

User:ShakespeareFan00/furme.js is in seven categories (viz. Category:Incomplete file renaming requests, Category:Images in non-image formats, Category:Images with coins to indicate scale, Category:Images which should be in PNG format, Category:Wikipedia images using freedom of panorama, Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming, and Category:Images for cleanup without reasons) that it should not be. I would have raised the matter with ShakespeareFan00, but I thought maybe we could remedy it without bothering them during their self-requested block, which you implemented for them. Even if I could edit the page, which I can't as a non-administrator, I can't quite discern which part is causing the problem. If you aren't able to either, perhaps simply blanking it would suffice? Best Regards, — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 06:38, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

@Godsy: Sorry for the delay - I've had a couple of looks and can't really figure out how they're getting there... I'll ask some admins who are vastly cleverer than I to see if they can work it out -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:07, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)I noticed this myself and had a few looks, I have no idea. I'm guessing that it's template transclusion related, but I don't know why only some of the templates would transclude the category. Maybe the others have a file namespace check...? --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 12:18, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) It is template transclusions. Adding // <nowiki> as the first line and // </nowiki> as the last line should fix it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 17:19, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:TWA/Portal

Re this edit, do you want to be listed at Wikipedia talk:TWA/Portal under your new account name? -- John of Reading (talk) 17:22, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

@John of Reading: I think it's best being left off - I hardly have the time to patrol through backlogs let alone help people any more -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 17:32, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

You deserve this

		The Purple Barnstar
		You deserve this barnstar, and you know why. You've endured stressful hardship and it impacted and involved aspects of your life that nobody should have to go through, and yet you are still here. That's amazing, and it makes me smile. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:43, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

You didn't join us having fun on the April fools? Well, take this cupcake as a compensation. Cheers, FriyMan talk 05:08, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Last I.P you just blocked

It looks like | he's begging for a longer block . Check his edit summary.  К Ф Ƽ Ħ  14:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

@KoshVorlon: eh venting always happens - I've revoked TPA so hopefully they get bored and piss off -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 14:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Gosh!

See User talk:Adam9007#CSD tag removal.....!Winged Blades ^Godric 09:29, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Resolved.Got a way out.No worries!Winged Blades ^Godric 09:45, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Which template....

was this? Mighty useful. Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 15:04, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Boomer Vial: Template:Uw-softerblock --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:11, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) ^ that be the one, but Twinkle does all my heavy lifting when it comes to templates -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 15:14, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

NeilN Is that an administrator-only template? Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 15:13, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

@Boomer Vial: Well, anyone can technically add the template but since it says, "I have blocked this account" only admins should use it. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:16, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

NeilN Noted. Thanks for the tips, Neil. Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 15:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

IP blocks

Hey,

I'm just a bit curious as to why you never seem to use the {{school block}} template when blocking IP addresses, and instead use the {{anonblock}} template... For example, [112] and [113] - the block logs in these IP addresses indicate that they have been school-blocked in the past. Also, both of these IP's are confirmed to be school IP addresses, see [114] and [115]. I know that the blocks say "Likely a school based on behavioral evidence", but I would think that using the {{school block}} template would be more accurate here...

No big deal, just a bit curious, that's all... 2601:1C0:4401:F360:B8DD:17E3:BAAB:24AB (talk) 03:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Hadn't noticed that - in Twinkle (which does all my heavy lifting in terms of templates) selecting the preset "anonblock - likely a school" applies {{anonblock}}. Having had a dig around, I see I can pick a different template for "likely a school", so I'll try to remember to do that in the future -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:41, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Good to know. I don't really know much about Twinkle, so I can't really understand what you mean by "selecting the preset", but it looks like, for example, you've placed a school block template on this IP address' talkpage, but you still used the anonblock template in the block log; so maybe that's what the "preset" means...? Anyhow, the only thing that really matters is that it helps to quell the vandalism, so thanks! :-) 2601:1C0:4401:F360:B8DD:17E3:BAAB:24AB (talk) 22:17, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

I think the IP is saying, if it's definitely a school IP then use the school preset which adds a schoolblock template. What I would say is if it's not definitely a school, but is likely one, then anonblock is appropriate. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:29, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Tanner Fox

The article has been expanded with many citations since you put up the AFD. If you could please review it. It has been updated by an admin along with myself. It shows notability would you consider closing the AFD? Reb1981 (talk) 22:51, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

I don't think I've ever seen such poor references and un-encyclopedic content in my eight years of being here. You and this admin seem to spend a lot of time `helping each other out`... I've removed the non-reliable sources and the unreferenced claims which littered the article, and we're basically back to square one again. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policy on reliable sources -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 10:30, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC/Work group list

Not sure if you still want to be on this list, but was doing some cleanup on it. You're not on under this name, so I thought I would drop a line. Hope all is going well! TonyBallioni (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you! Please feel free to remove me from that list, I have absolutely no interest in wasting any more time on that :) -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:06, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Already done. Just wanted to see if you wanted the new name on it :) TonyBallioni (talk) 20:07, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Two out of three so far

) ‎User:Greenhealthadvocates2017, who has created Polyoxyfen‎. — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 19:56, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

@Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Article deleted, salted and sock blocked :) good spot! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:04, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Ha! Dead eye. I bet you used to bullseye womp rats in your T-16 back home! Cheers, — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 20:06, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

They're not much bigger than two meters -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:08, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Block

• 20:44, 28 May 2017 There'sNoTime (talk | contribs) blocked 66.109.136.37 (talk) with an expiration time of 31 hours (anon. only, account creation blocked) (Deliberately triggering the Edit filter)

This user was on a crusade to remove information about songs by Kendrick Lamar, rapidly reverting our reverts. Just an FYI, his intentions were not to trigger the edit filter but to see this content removed. In any case, disruptive editing. —Guanaco 20:49, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco: Thanks for the background - I came across the user from an automated report we get at AIV when someone repeated trips certain filters, and thus blocked on that. Has this been happening a lot? May be worth some page protection -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:51, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

I just picked up on what was happening with Huggle. It doesn't seem to be a trend from the article histories I've seen. I explained to them that there's a deletion process for articles, and sourced content shouldn't be removed without a discussion. I'll keep an eye on those articles, but I think the block should suffice for now. —Guanaco 20:54, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Good stuff :) if you do notice a trend please feel free to ping me directly in any related RFPP/AIV reports -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:55, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Actually it's likely he'll IP hop. In the course of a few minutes both 66.109.136.37 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and 66.109.136.35 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) made the same edits. —Guanaco 20:56, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, looks like a range-block might be required on this one.. seems to all be coming from IPs registered to Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc. in Missoula -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:02, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

User:Jamesgolding

Hello. Jamesgolding (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who you just blocked for 31h, is an obvious sock of Shingling334 (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shingling334). - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 10:26, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

@Thomas.W: so they are - blocked indef. Thanks for the poke! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:39, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!

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— O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis 11:58, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

2017 London Bridge incident

I would probably suggest semi-pp on 2017 London Bridge incident, especially looking at the high-influx of IP edits some of which appear to be disruptive, and more so with this being an unfolding incident. Wes Wolf ^Talk 22:11, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

@Wesley Wolf: I'm keeping an active eye on it, and will protect if it gets overly unconstructive -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 22:15, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

That makes two sets of highly active eyes on the article then. I've just corrected the time on the article too, someone put UTC which is incorrect as it is currently BST - at least I seem to recall losing an hour's sleep a couple of months ago - LOL. Wes Wolf ^Talk 22:18, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

I need a beer after all of this. That was not easy trying to keep a sharp eye on the article, the talk page, and calm down the IP. But alas, the last part has calmed down lol. Wes Wolf ^Talk 00:08, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

I think there are a number of eyes on this article. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:34, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Please may I join this "intellectually elitist" gang? It sounds rather interesting - LOL . Wes Wolf ^Talk 09:56, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Pretty sure I've got a membership form here somewhere... -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 09:57, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Here's my signature Wes Wolf ^Talk to go onto the form lol. 10:02, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Maryann Keller

Hi There'sNoTime, Can you help address the issues raised by the warning tag in the article "Maryann Keller" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryann_Keller . Thanks a lot for your time and help. Cutie girly (talk) 09:51, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Master deserves a block/trouting

I see that you blocked User:VanishedUserCK, which was a pretty bad violation of the vanishing guideline. The original master User:CKJJ99 should probably be e(a?)ffected. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 10:41, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Eh probably DatGuy, might be worth asking @Vanjagenije: as the original blocking admin. I'm only semi-familiar with the editor, and saw VanishedUserCK as a pretty obvious sock -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 10:47, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Secretariat New Section Wanted

Hi there,

I see you placed Secretariat under Silver Protection due to Vandalism. I posted in the talk page there about it, but I was hoping to add a new section to the page entitled 'Cultural References' or similar, or just find a place existing on the page to talk about the appearance of the horse in the Netflix Show Bojack Horseman.

Please could you get back to me about this?

Thanks

Scriveners (talk) 09:00, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

@Scriveners: if you head over to edit the page you'll be presented with a notice asking you to make an edit request - if you click this link it will autofill the template for you, allowing you to request that section "officially". The request will then be added to a queue which is actively reviewed -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 09:59, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Get back new page reviewer user rights

Hi. Samtar, Today my Six month has expired (Banned from tagging any pages with CSD A1 or CSD A3 or performing patrol duties on any article created within the last 7 days for 6 months) (tagging and patrol duties for six months per WP:ANI).I would like to get back my new page reviewer user rights and page curate options.Please See here ANI discussion.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 10:55, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@CAPTAIN RAJU: Please re-request them at WP:PERM. It would be unwise of me as the admin who removed your rights to re-add them without another admin's opinion -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:07, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!!

I really appreciate you granting me rollback rights, I consider it an honor and a duty. Thank you! El cid, el campeador (talk) 13:46, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

@El cid, el campeador: Not a problem remember to take it slow with this new right, and have a read through the links I left on your user page (mainly how rollback works and when it should be used). If you have any questions about rollback, or Wikipedia in general, feel free to drop by here any time. Thank you for your hard work keeping Wikipedia clear of vandalism, it's appreciated! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 13:50, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

C.Narayana Reddy

User Vivvt has been repetitively removing others sourced information and adding a bunch of duplicate information. He duplicated Awards 3 times at three different places, you duplicated Rajya Sabha 2 times, he duplicated some of CNR's books 3-4 times. I have left all his duplicate info only because he has been disruptively removing, vandalizing and harassing me by removing my referenced information. He is the one vandalizing and blaming others. Reddyvi (talk) 11:40, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

@Reddyvi: It would be best to discuss this at the talk section -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:41, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Seeking for some help

Wanna ask you personally to help on these two issues:

• Please stop Tnguyen4321 making disruptive editing on Battle of Ia Drang.
• Please stop him harassing me by his baseless warnings on my talk page.

I've tried issuing two reports on those so far on WP:AN/I but it hasn't been fruitful so far. I'm still trying to be civil though, so I'm asking for your help. Thanks! Dino nam (talk) 09:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

You're both blocked for goodness sake -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 10:01, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

User:Drake1986

Hey There'sNoTime, just noticed that the user you blocked for three hours yesterday, Drake1986, has now taken to blanking thousands of bytes of data from Drake (musician) and a sizable amount from Rick Ross (which were both reverted/treated as vandalism) with next to no explanation. I'm not sure if this user is turning out to be very productive here, unfortunately... not sure what can be done, just letting you know. Ss112 11:40, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

@Ss112: Well I was rather clear to them, and they didn't bother to respond to my block message so I've gone ahead and blocked for one week as this behaviour is just going to continue. Hopefully this significantly longer block forces them to start talking to us, otherwise they're just not here to build an encyclopedia and will be blocked indef as such -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:44, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

C. Narayana Reddy

I would firstly like to acknowledge your efforts in diffusing the edit war that was occurring at the page above. It was admirable (hence the barnstar), and demonstrated skills that I, a novice editor, aspire to. Unfortunately, I am not here to report on positive news. While Vivvt has heeded your advice and stepped away from the article, User:Reddyvi has sadly failed to. While I cannot comment on the nature (disruptive or not) of his edits on the main article, he has wiped the talk page of all material relating to the edit war, including discussions which do not involve him, and continued to attack Vivvt who has since left the article alone. I do not know how to proceed, as I lack experience in these issues. I have asked him nicely to revert while applying WP:AGF (as previous efforts to revert have failed), but am pessimistic as to whether they will succeed. That is why I am asking you, an editor who is adept at diffusing such scenarios, to assist and guide me in this effort. Given its nominations at WP:ITNC, time is of the perogative, and this issue is becoming tedious. I also want to avoid being accused of edit warring, as it is my intention to end the conflict, not exacerbate it. What advice would you (pardon the atrocious pun) administer? Thanks in advance - Stormy clouds (talk) 17:55, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

@Stormy clouds: It's a tough little situation going on there, and whilst at the moment it seems(?) to have quieted down, it's likely to flare up again. Your actions were entirely correct, and I can see the sections were restored You note that this may be time sensitive with the ITNC nomination, but I've often found that any sort of haste on Wikipedia causes more issues than it solves - taking things slow, realising this is only a website and trying to be civil with everyone is pretty much the only thing you can do in situations like this. You might note that I and other admins have taken a step back from what is going on, and you may find yourself having to do that too - it can help for a number of reasons, as it allows people to either try to work things out or start again and show they have no intention of solving the dispute. Lastly, in my opinion, all editors on Wikipedia are novices in some regards - I for example am rather weak in several areas of administrator work, as well as having little experience in article creation. Wikipedia is not something anyone gets "good at", they just end up understanding the polices well and knowing when to offer advice. Good luck with your editing here, and keep up the great work! My talk page is always open -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:44, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

@There'sNoTime: - Thanks for the response. I have closed the WP:ITNC nom, so time is no longer an issue. I will step back from the article, as I have done my best, and see how the situation develops in the interim. Sincerest thanks, and apologies for hassling you with this isse once again. - Stormy clouds (talk) 12:52, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		For the civility and coolness you demonstrated in your attempt to resolve an edit war and diffuse an argument at C. Narayana Reddy __ Stormy clouds (talk) 17:46, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

@Stormy clouds: Thanks! It's not always easy, but it's worth trying -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Steelgym user block

Hi there, I see you just blocked user Steelgym after the username violation request I raised. It seems the user keeps editing using his IP address, circumventing the block. I have raised this as Sockpuppet case Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Steelgym, but wanted to let you know in case you think other actions may be appropriate. Regards _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 11:35, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Jake Brockman, thanks for letting me know - I've left a comment there, but will repeat it here for completeness. I blocked Steelgym solely for a username violation, and as such I don't believe them now editing as an IP address can be viewed as block evasion or socking -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:50, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

User talk:83.31.45.24

Hi. Would you object if I unblocked User:83.31.45.24 after their agreement not to try any template work until they have more experience? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:09, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

@Boing! said Zebedee: Not at all - looking through it again perhaps they just got caught up in what was going on. Agree they need to gain a little bit more experience before moving to Template-space but the block is clearly no longer necessary to prevent disruption -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:17, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, that's done. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:20, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

:-] ‡ Єl Cid, Єl Caɱ̩peador ᐁT₳LKᐃ 17:23, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Well thank you! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 18:21, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

WP:Edit warring at Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present)

Hi. The full protection you placed on Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present) a little more than a week ago has since expired, and the WP:Edit warring has resumed. I have no desire to report the involved editors at WP:ANEW (I find them to be otherwise constructive editors), but I want to call it to your attention, seeing as you are already familiar with the issue. TompaDompa (talk) 19:03, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

@TompaDompa: Thanks for letting me know TompaDompa, I saw it had started again unfortunately - I've left both editors a stern final warning and have the article on my watchlist. I'd prefer to keep the article unprotected -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 19:05, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

I see you had to protect it again. That's regrettable. TompaDompa (talk) 20:43, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Very, but it's starting to either attract established editors editing logged out, or people being asked to edit - it's time to use edit requests and get consensus for every change. Wikipedia shouldn't be like this, but unfortunately it's an emotive subject -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 20:45, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Edit warring at Battle of Ia Drang

I am seeking your advice pertaining to Dino nam recent editing at the Battle of Ia Drang [116][117][118][119]. Should I react to these bogus 'dubious' and 'synthesis' tags? Tnguyen4321 (talk) 21:27, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

@Tnguyen4321: If you disagree, yes! Just do it on the article's talk page - just create a new header, ping them and give a civil explanation as to why you don't agree with them. Normally you would be able to follow WP:BRD, but given the history of edit warring I'd prefer it if you both talked on the talk page. Let me know if they don't reply or reply inappropriately -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 21:29, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I will do that. Tnguyen4321 (talk) 22:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Eri (king)

This version is actually the correct and verified article on the subject matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eri_(king)&oldid=786434955

Please try to effect changes to adhere to the content written about the Eri (King)

http://www.erikingdom.com erikingdom.com 04:12, 22 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikingdom (talk • contribs)

Personalised commenting

I don't want do this but I feel I have to. I would like to report the following edit [120] which is wholly unconstructive and would like this to be raised with the user concerned. I don't like doing this, but I am not going to take the bait. The comment does not comment on the contribution made, instead it goes after myself as the contributor. This is where the issues have stemmed from, and needs to be dealt with. Sport and politics (talk) 10:34, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

@Sport and politics: thanks for letting me know, I've responded directly to the comment on the talk page. I won't tolerate anything on that article page which undermines the good faith dispute resolution which is going on -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:07, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

:)

[121] — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 11:16, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

@FIM I replied? in any case, I'm okay with the link as it needs to be kept public (see RfA pages etc) and the WMF doesn't particularly care what issues that causes -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:18, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Ah! Right- I never received it then, you see, so I was forced to assume that the hot weather / general election / the world going to hell in a handcart had merely made you unconscionably rude  :) That's WMF policy is it? See also WP:CB applies. Fffs. Cheers, — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 11:23, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Unconscionably? Goodness no, when I'm rude it's a conscious and rather colourful decision ;) -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Warning User:BlaccCrab

Hi There'sNoTime. I saw you commented at the WP:AN thread started by BlaccCrab on me. However, I pointed out there that BlaccCrab was previously blocked for disruptive editing at my talk page, which he also did yesterday. I first told the previous blocking admin, Ritchie333, but they appear to now be confused about who did what and almost appear to be excusing the same actions they blocked BlaccCrab for in November of last year, and I'm confused as to why. It appears that BlaccCrab feels bold enough to revert me on my own talk page, which I never do to another editor, and I don't understand how he has not been warned about it. Would you please be able to issue a warning for this? An admin's word holds more sway than my own request that he not post at my talk page, which he clearly disregarded. Thank you. Ss112 12:50, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

I can see a number of other editors and admins have gotten involved in this so I'll abstain from continuing any involvement - too many cooks -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 09:23, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

81.191.115.125

You are correct. Is mostly ranting about journalists. I withdraw my complaint. Thanks for taking the time to review this. 81.191.115.125 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:20, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Not a problem, ranting goes against WP:NOTFORUM and if they keep it up/go too far off topic then it'll be another matter -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 09:22, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

62.253.180.251

• 62.253.180.251 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Hi,

Did you mean to perform a shorter block on this IP, given that the last one was for two months (so I would have guessed that the next one be for three months)? Cheers. 2601:1C0:102:29D8:CC06:F9E1:52DD:1E95 (talk) 11:18, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Quick clicks cause errors! Thanks for pointing that one out, upped to 3 months -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 11:20, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

NSEL Case

Hi There'sNoTime, I can understand why you have blocked the page. The edit war was going nowhere. Unfortunately, my attempts to revise the page to a neutral version with a balanced outlook that a page of public interest should associate with were getting lost to edit warring. This despite one of the warring handles CMshah was already blocked earlier from editing this page. The other handle NimrodIndia has also been been previously warned. Im not sure if they have an agenda but surely if you look at their versions, it does come across as if neutrality is clearly not been given a thought. I’m surprised at the extent to which this has gone given that some talk page comments have been undone. I’ll appreciate your guidance in restoring this page to a balanced, clean version. And if in any way I can validate my bona fide intent or if anywhere I have gone wrong. Thank you Anrdshr (talk) 12:29, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

@Anrdshr: Thanks for getting in contact - please go to the article's talk page and submit an edit request detailing why your version should be restored. I won't be making any restorations of any version unless there is some consensus on the matter. I don't endorse the version it is currently "locked", it just happened to be the one present when I clicked the button - it's almost always the The Wrong Version -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:33, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Respect personal rights and companies rights!

Why my request to rename the username from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SaschArt was rejected ? If it was true that we used our username to advertise/spam why you not rename or delete the name?

Do not advertise with our name and do not dirty our name!

Wikipedia must respect international laws and Internet laws about protection of personal rights and companies rights. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.12.203.231 (talk) 14:21, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

You made a legal threat and thus I revoked your talk page access. I'm also blocking this IP as ban evasion. See WP:UTRS on how to get unblocked -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 14:33, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @5.12.203.231 That is dangerously close to a legal threat. Please desist. And please allow us to rejoice in the irony of being accused of advertising you when your company advert has previously been deleted from this site. — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 14:35, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

^^^ what he said ^^^ -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 14:39, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

lol sorry TNT, that must've been the edit conflict i got. With you of all people, here  :) incidentally, the IP left the same post here, I don't know if it requires summoning up your arcane lore but fyi. Happy Friday! — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 14:44, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Signature

I see in your signature the link to your talkpage is something else instead of talk, how can i change mine ? --MJ500 (talk) 00:28, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

@MJ500:You can change in in your preferences. See WP:SIG#CustomSig for more instructions on how to do this. (talk page stalker) --AntiCompositeNumber (Ring me) 02:06, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: thank you :) MJ500 (talk) 02:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Margarita Andreeva hoax restored

Hi There'sNoTime, I write to you as Снежная ночь is active again and you are familiar with the case. He/she restored the article, but now the details changed a bit. The Lada claim is now gone and he kept the more plausible opera singer bit, although is still a ridiculous hoax if you ask me. He/she tried to pass as a legitimate source a piece written in the free web hosting sitebuilder.com. I strongly suspect he/she wrote it, so the details can change as he/she reads this, but Lada isn't even mentioned in the version I read, "Andreeva" supposedly made money thanks to her talent, "Lada" shares had nothing to do with that this time (archived version). He/she has a strong interest on introducing this hoax to Wikipedia, I don't know why, maybe he/she has a strong attachment to the real person behind the picture he/she keeps adding. In any case, he/she is WP:NOTHERE. I would like some advice on this case, as he/she seems an expert on Wikipedia mechanics and he/she is very capable of gaming the system. --Urbanoc (talk) 06:29, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

I nominated the article for deletion, let's see how it goes. --Urbanoc (talk) 15:48, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Tech Ambassadors

Wikipedia:WikiProject Tech Ambassadors, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Tech Ambassadors and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Tech Ambassadors 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. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 05:46, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Could you have a look?

Hi, an IP keeps adding un-sourced material to the article Hammad Miah I don't want to keep undoing it as it will get into an edit war and I have no wish to get involved in one, I have warned them on their talk page, could you possibly have a look? Thanks --MJ500 Fancy a coffee? 11:14, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Off-topic tip: The reason the link didn't work was that you formatted it [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hammad_Miah&action=history|to this article] instead of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hammad_Miah&action=history to this article] (URLs use a space before the custom text, whereas internal links use a vertical bar, | <-- that character). I know I've made that mistake quite a few times. I also see that you managed to make that custom signature. Nice! TompaDompa (talk) 11:27, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks MJ500 Fancy a coffee? 11:46, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

I've reverted and given them a final warning - good job not getting into an edit war :) -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 12:09, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Now a registered account has recently undone your edit with the exact same information as the IP, not sure what's going on. MJ500 Fancy a coffee? 18:49, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hi MJ500. Out of the idle curiousity for which I am famed, why does that particular tournament need sourcing when that entire section is ensourced? Incidentally, sources seem to exist, try [122], [123], [124], for example. See WP:PRESERVE. (In-off-the-cushion comment: He's already mentioned in our 2017 Riga Masters article too.) Cheers! — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 10:09, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for semi-protecting List of current ships of the United States Navy. However, the template expires in a month and it is almost a certainty that the problems will continue after that. It seems that a little friend of ours has been causing all kinds of disruption on this page over the last 7 or 8 months and using up to 30 different IP addresses to do so. They are all 182.130.*.*, which is based in Chengdu City. in the Sichuan province of China. A look at the entries and edit histories shows this is likely the same person the various talk pages of these IP accounts show many, many warnings and even multiple blocks, and these should be more cumulative than they are.

Could this protection be extended for a longer period, or even made permanent? Also, any advice on how to best deal with this person? Thanks - ^theWOLFchild 23:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

@Thewolfchild: Hmm, we could definitely look at a longer term protection or even a range block (though, it's likely 182.130.0.0/16 is going to have way too much collateral) - we could also consider the use of an edit filter if there is some pattern we could figure out privately. As for dealing with them, consider the three revert rule and revert, warn, report - if AIV is being slow consider popping onto #wikipedia-en ^connect and using the !admin stalkword to get someone's attention sharpish -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)}

Thanks

For making me autopatrolled. All the best. Mccapra (talk) 11:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Anthony Bailey

Whilst I am new to Wikipedia and I did read up the various points before I made my changes to the above article. I do feel They are relevant and maintain The high standards expected on Wikipedia. So in the absence of any reply from The author to the individual changes made to the article I'm surprised that you have sore fit to protect the article at the request of the author of the quesrionable Text. Could you kindly advise me what I need to do so that the wider Wikipedia community can consider what I've made and why to enhance this article. I would Also like to understand why you have acted too in this way as again I have only acted to enhance an article rather than to vandalise it as I'm wrongly accused of. I Appreciate your understanding. Wonderground (talk) 14:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

@Wonderground: Firstly, welcome to Wikipedia - secondly, I responded to your concerns at the ANI thread but will repeat them here for clarity; "My decision to protect the article isn't anything against yourself personally - you can use a edit request on the article's talk page to request a change be made". If you have a quick look at that link you can see how to request a change be made - alternatively you can use our dispute resolution processes to get a wider community input. As an administrator, I make choices which not everyone is going to agree with - to protect an article from non-confirmed editors is something I don't like doing, and it was only done to prevent disruption. Also, your account is nearly confirmed (your account needs to be four days old and have made at least 10 edits) so you will shortly be able to edit the article directly -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 15:02, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Can you please have a quiet word

Sorry to bring this up again, but can you please have a word with a certain editor who you have spoken to before. I think this diff is potentially the basis of a problematic beginning if it is not nipped before it develops. Referring to other users motives as 'Islamaphobic', 'absurdist POV', and ascribing it as nothing more than 'don't like', is particularly unhelpful. This kind of language and associated commenting, is not helpful. The discussions have become very civil and constructive. It is best to try and keep discussions that way. I also think the user is missing the point of Wikipedia with the line 'white-washing/rose-colored glass which is trying to convince WP that islamic terrorism is not happening'. No user as fat as I can tell is going anywhere near those sentiments, and the user is forgetting this is an encyclopedia, and not a news site, or a historical/political book for publication. Can you please have a gentle word to prevent this getting out of hand, I do not want to comment directly as that could just inflame the situation. Sport and politics (talk) 09:10, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

@Sport and politics: I'll keep a close eye, I agree the tone of the comment is a little terse, and everyone is being rather civil so it would be a shame to see it become heated again.. -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 10:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Edit warring at Battle of Ia Drang

I am happy to report to you that your advice in handling the edit war at the Battle of Ia Drang did work: I flagged the editor in question; he responded by admitting one of his mistake; I further explained to him that he erred likewise in his other bogus 'dubious' and 'synthesis' tagging; he hasn't responded to this and it appears to be a silent consensus. I revert the remaining bogus tags of his. Let's hope he does not resume an edit war. I will alert you if he does. Thanks for referring me to WP:BRD.Tnguyen4321 (talk) 13:07, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

@Tnguyen4321: Glad to hear it's working well for you! Remember the D part of BRD, if anyone has an issue with one of your actions as long as you stop and discuss you'll be able to get stuff done easily -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 13:12, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

NSEL Case

There'sNoTime I have raised an edit request at the NSEL case page. Thank you Anrdshr (talk) 12:36, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Re

In the event their ping didn't work. Tiderolls 16:35, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

@Tide rolls: Thanks for the ping, I see they've replaced it with an unblock request - I tried initially to see if this could be resolved through discussion, but it seems not. I'll leave it to another administrator to review the unblock request -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 07:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

IP Block evader

Hi and thanks for taking care of 92.22.168.155. Can I ask you to revdel (RD1) the additions he made and then removed today. They're technically unattributed copyvios, even from other WP articles, so RD1 would apply. I'm not sure why he's doing that, so this would also cover DENY. Thanks! Crow^Caw 16:39, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

@Crow: Apologies for the delay, it appears it's already been done in my absence. Teaches me to go away for a long weekend! -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 08:52, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Sock question

A while ago you blocked Dal8986 for (among other things) socking. I'm not familiar with this sock drawer; are MJF1986 and 95.160.154.117 part of it (see their deleted edits)? Worth filing a centralized SPI? Is it worth salting the other variants of the article-title that that IP worked on? DMacks (talk) 08:47, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

@DMacks: Apologies for the late reply - MJF1986 is a sock as far as I'm concerned, and 95.160.154.117 is related. I think an SPI might be useful here, and salting would be helpful until they evade it again -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 07:13, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

List of video game emulators

Hello, you may remember that an edit war was starting earlier at List of video game emulators; the same thing is happening yet again, and instigated by the same editor.

User:KAMiKAZOW remains adamant that none of the entries of this list need to be notable in any way, and is deliberately re-adding non-notable entries. WP:BRD is not working here, as KAMiKAZOW is refusing to hold discussion; he is deliberately ignoring sections of WP:LISTN which establish that some lists must be culled to adhere to Wikipedia's notability guidelines. After adding a to one of the entries he re-added and leaving a note on his talk page that he should attempt to find a reference, he blanked his talk page and removed my citation tag with his only explanation being "citations aren't needed".

It is becoming very difficult to clean this article up to Wikipedia's notability standards when this user is aggressively reverting any removals from the list without allowing meaningful discourse afterwards. Could you please step in once more and offer guidance/judgement? FlotillaFlotsam (talk) 19:02, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

LOL --KAMiKAZOW (talk) 22:13, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

@KAMiKAZOW and FlotillaFlotsam: I'll take a look shortly, but in the meantime please just leave the article and each other alone -- There'sNoTime ^{(to explain)} 08:51, 4 July 2017 (UTC)