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A WikiConNA barnstar for you!

WikiConference North America Barnstar
Thank you for the role you played at WikiConference North America 2016. This year's conference could not have been a success without your contributions and we hope you will continue to be involved in 2017. On behalf of WikiConference North America - Gamaliel (talk) 23:57, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, Gamaliel. How lovely. I am truly humbled and it was an honor to work under you and y'all. You can count on me for 2017. For logistical reasons, I hope we return to the same venue next year. Please give me a heads up ping when I can assist. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 07:59, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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

The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf.
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Hoax

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.


  • Events/Press/Blogs
    • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
    • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
    • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-50

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

Recent changes

  • Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [1]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [2]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [3]

Problems

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [4]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Bay Area WikiSalon series: Everybody is invited this Wednesday evening at 6

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki and open-source enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

Before and after the brief presentation we allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks.

In addition, this month we will have:

  • a brief presentation from User:Cullen328 (Jim Heaphy) about the Wikipedia Teahouse
  • spontaneous lightning talks from the floor
  • community announcements from the floor

For details and to RSVP see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, December 2016

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

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P.S. Any help spreading the word through social media or other avenues is most welcome! We plan to announce this on various sites and invite various groups; if you would like to join in, check our meta planning page, and please note any announcements you are sending out: meta:Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco#Announcements and promotion

Please feel free to add to, refine, reorganize or edit the above linked page: it is a wiki!

We need more helpers and organizers, so if you see a need, please jump in, or talk to us about it! You can add your username to the meta page where appropriate, or create a new role!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Tahiti rail

Hello, Checkingfax -- Yesterday, I finished copy-editing Tahiti rail. It was quite well written to begin with, so I made only a few small copy-edits. I left a few comments at User talk:FunkMonk#Tahiti rail. I don't know what to say in reply to FunkMonk's reply to my point about the block quote. I agree that block quotes are normally indented from the left margin, with the indentation formed automatically by the template, but I think these block quote paragraphs are too far from the left margin, leaving too much white space under the image of the bird. What do you think? Can an adjustment be made so that the two paragraphs are not so far from the left margin? I kind of like the left-hand placement of the image. It balances the right-hand placement of a similar image at the beginning of the article. But I don't know what to do, other than making the image much smaller, which I don't think FunkMonk would like. Do you have any ideas?  – Corinne (talk) 14:53, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Ah, were you talking about the white space under the image? I've been wondering about that too, but it has been much worse earlier. I personally don't have a problem with the indent on the left between the image and the text. FunkMonk (talk) 15:40, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Yes, FunkMonk, I was referring to the space under the image and to the left of the two paragraphs of the quote. It is a big white area. I think it's too big, but, other than moving the image, I don't know how to fix it.  – Corinne (talk) 01:43, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne and FunkMonk. I jiggered the images and introduced a hack within the quote template to make the text wrap nicely around the image. Let me know how it resonates with you. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 08:41, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hmm, though I appreciate the effort, I must say I prefer the previous layout, with alternating images, and both the birds facing the text. Looks overcrowded to me now, and I'd rather have a little white space than that. FunkMonk (talk) 09:56, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
FunkMonk I moved the image to the left by just changing it from thumb right to thumb left (thumb right is the default, I think, even if you don't write "right", but you have to specify "left"). The block quote starts before the text starts to wrap around the image, but I think that's all right. The colon at the end of the preceding paragraph makes it clear where the quote starts. What do you think?  – Corinne (talk) 15:50, 8 December 2016 (UTC) P.S. Thank you, Checkingfax, for your help with this.  – Corinne (talk) 15:51, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Ah, ok, I thought the right alignment was part of the fix. So looks fine to me now. FunkMonk (talk) 15:56, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne and FunkMonk. Now there is little evidence of a blockquote when viewed in desktop mode. I took one more stab at making a proper blockquote. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 01:15, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
I assume the large wall of white space was unintentional? FunkMonk (talk) 09:50, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, FunkMonk. No, it is a byproduct of the left aligned image within the blockquote. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:44, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Hehe, ok, because I think Corinne wanted less white space to begin with. Too intrusive now, I think, but I wonder what Corinne feels. FunkMonk (talk) 13:12, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I'd like to ask the opinion of experienced copy-editor Miniapolis. Miniapolis, does a block quote actually have to look like a block, or like a brick? We've been trying to format a block quote that appears pretty close to an image that we'd like to keep at the left (to balance a similar image on the right). Which looks better to you, the two-paragraph block quote wrapping around the image (the way I left it) or as two actual blocks of text, but leaving a band of white space after the previous paragraph? (Before, when we started this, the white space was at the left margin, under the image. Now, the white space is between two paragraphs, just before the first paragraph of the quote.)  – Corinne (talk) 15:54, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
I removed the wall of white space until a more attractive solution can be found, the article is currently at FAC. FunkMonk (talk) 15:32, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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

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Helena Bergström

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Previous selections: Hoax • Three-martini lunch

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-12

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?

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.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Problems

  • Sometimes, after marking an important number of cross-wiki notifications as read, the counter remained at 1. This is now fixed. [6]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Due to a bug, it was not possible to activate Flow on user talk pages as a Beta feature. This is possible again for wikis that have that feature. [7]
  • Flow boards can be moved without constraints. However, this requires the move-Flow-board right. [8]

Miscellaneous

  • The MoodBar extension has been removed from all wikis. [9]

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10:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
  • The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • 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. [10]
  • Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [11]

Problems

  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [12]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

  • The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Reminder invitation to the December Bay Area WikiSalon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

Hi, everybody.

We are excited to remind you of the ninth in the Bay Area WikiSalon series that is coming up this Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.

  • Details (RSVP suggested) here (RSVP helps us know how much food and drink to bring in)

What is a WikiSalon? A monthly safe and inclusive meatspace event conducted in organized chaos and we all clean up the mess afterwards. Livestream links for the presentation are available during presentation months, and will be forthcoming for those of you that cannot attend. December is a presentation month.

Hope to see you there! Wayne (and Ben) - co-organizers
Any last minute questions or suggestions? Please ping or email Ben or me. | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:10, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy [[User:Cullen328]]

  • Archive link (also includes intro, announcements, and a lightning talk)
  • Details about Bay Area WikiSalon for December here

The full title of Jim's presentation was: Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Wikipedia Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016

Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at WikiConference North America 2016 in San Diego, California.

Cheers! Co-organizer Checkingfax - and co-organizer Ben Creasy | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Wikipedia's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2016)

World plate tectonics (click on map for more details)
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Tectonics

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Helena Bergström • Hoax

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Wikidata weekly summary #241

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

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