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Tech News: 2019-11

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  • Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
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  • Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [4][5]

Changes later this week

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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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  • When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [6][7]
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  • Advanced item Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:44, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

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For assisting an editor, who couldn't contribute directly due to a COI, on the Northrop Grumman page. Cheers - wolf 01:50, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

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TonyBallioni (talk) 15:13, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Half dime

I suggest the half dime should not be lumped in with the Nickel, in the same way that the three-cent nickel and the three-cent silver are not lumped together, and neither are the regular dollar coin and the gold dollar. In fact, the half dime is usually listed as an odd denomination/obsolete coin. --Enterlousy (talk) 20:45, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. - ZLEA Talk\Contribs 20:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Obsolete denominations

I personally would keep the two-cent billon, three-cent bronze, stella, and half union in for the same logic that the 100,000 dollar bill is listed. Both those pattern coins and the $100,000 bill were never actually released for circulation, the only difference is that the $100,000 bill is currently illegal to own. --Enterlousy (talk) 04:39, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Enterlousy A better idea would be to include them in a Cancelled denominations of the US dollar page. - ZLEA Talk\Contribs 13:36, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Good idea. --Enterlousy (talk) 15:59, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
I've started the page in my sandbox at User:ZLEA/sandbox/Cancelled denominations of United States currency. - ZLEA Talk\Contribs 16:03, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
I see that you already started the page, nevermind. - ZLEA Talk\Contribs 16:06, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Half union

Should the Panama Pacific Exposition version of the half union be added into the table in Obsolete denominations of United States currency? --Enterlousy (talk) 16:12, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

No, that coin was not meant for circulation, and even today, US commemorative coins are minted in otherwise obsolete denominations of $5 and $10. - ZLEA Talk\Contribs 16:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

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18:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Appreciate your work on pattern coins/Cancelled denominations of United States currency! Enterlousy (talk) 15:26, 26 March 2019 (UTC)


Vandalism

ZLEA, you have signed as vandalism an article edition made by me, the reencarnation of president Kennedy.

If you are near Spain, Zaragoza, you can invite me to a children burger king menu and talk directly about the article and the fact.

With love...

Reincarnation is not accepted by a majority of the general public, nor is it scientifically proven. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view, and is religion neutral. - ZLEA T\C 18:08, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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I appreciate a lot for saving this article. The original F-3 article may get deleted but I will continue to improve this one. Thank you so much. I edit things that come to mind (talk) 22:42, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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Breast Cancer Awareness comment

Hello, my name is Ernie Seider. Was looking at the coloring for the US commemorative coins. I had just made a change to the coloring of the Breast Cancer Awareness background. I had done this because I thought that perhaps you had changed the coloring based on metalic content of the coin - since the coin is predominately gold (85%), I had assumed that the background coloring should be the same as for the other gold coins.

In any event, I liked the identification of the gold coins in the table by the use of a yellow background. I had spend a few weeks earlier this year 'fixing' this page - basically reformatting the table to be consistent. I did not make a lot of content changes, except if I saw some errors, or omissions, but even then I am sure that I did not get everything.

I am a coin collector, since 1968 when I started at 10 years old. I liked this page (Modern US Commemorative coins) since that is one of my main areas of concentration with my collection and I liked the Wikipedia article sine it had most of the info I relied on.

In any case, I did not want to 're-change' the background color - when I was 'fixing' the table formatting, I had not even considered using background colors as an option to make perusing the table easier - I thought the idea was very good and had assumed that the specific coloring on that coin was an oversight/mistake.

Hopefully I got this to you properly - my first attempt at contacting an author.

I see that you are an "aviation buff" (I think). I am retired from US government service - all 36 years with the FAA, but not in an operations/air traffic capacity.

Thank you.

Ernie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esad58 (talk • contribs) 16:00, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Esad58 I see what you are saying about differentiating compositions with colored templates, but that is not what the templates are meant for. The templates are used to show what color the coin actually is, for example, some cupronickel coins are grey or silver in color, although they are mostly copper, so Template:Coin-silver-color is used. In the case of the Breast Cancer Awareness half eagle, while it still is mostly gold, it has a pinkish-brown color, and Template:Coin-copper-color would more suitable for the coin. According to your philosophy for color template use, the modern dime, quarter, and half dollar should be given a copper color, as they are all mostly copper. - ZLEA T\C 17:29, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

apologies.....

hey ZLEA - sorry for starting a new topic, I'm not real fluent with wiki meta stuff - couldn't see how to reply. Anyway, I agree with your template coloring philosophy - I just wasn't aware that there was a template available - like I said, I'm not real fluent. And I really didn't think thru the coin composition being the basis for the coloring. In any event, I really do like the background coloring differentiation. Now that I know that there is a template, I will use that to continue building on the commemorative coins tables. I'm a cut/copy/paste kind of person, so at least the tables going forward will be consistent.

thank! Ernie Esad58 (talk) 18:05, 31 March 2019 (UTC) (hopefully I signed my post properly lol)

No worries, and I agree that the pink color on the table does not accurately represent the true coin color. - ZLEA T\C 18:22, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Joseph Trem

Please inform me of how me sharing my opinion on the fate of an article is considered "vandalism". 69.121.195.96 (talk) 18:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

You changed other users comments to "keep" and changed the numbers in your IP adress. - ZLEA T\C 18:56, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2019-15

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  • You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [16]
  • A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [17]
  • Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [18]

Changes later this week

  • When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [19]
  • The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [20]
  • Advanced item The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [21]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

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  • Advanced item The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019

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WikiProject Numismatics newsletter

WikiProject Numismatics news and updates from the past month (March 2019)

Collaboration of the Month

  • The Numismatic Collaboration of the Month will be making a return in May. Feel free to make nominations.

Project news

  • As you can see, the project now has a newsletter. This first issue was sent to all members, but future issues will only be sent to users who subscribe.
  • A new task force focusing on American currency has been started.
  • A barnstar was created for the project last month, Enterlousy was the first to be awarded.

Member news

  • No new member news

Miscellaneous

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:09, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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  • The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [26][27][28]
  • The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [29]

Changes later this week

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Future changes

  • Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [30][31]

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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-18

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  • The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [32][33]

Problems

  • Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [34]

Changes later this week

  • You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [35]
  • When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [36]
  • You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [37]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

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Future changes

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Collaboration of the Month

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

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  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: 2018 Israeli F-16 shootdown (May 5)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Lopifalko was:
Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at 2018 Israeli F-16 shootdown instead.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
This is already covered by February 2018 Israel–Syria incident
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Tech News: 2019-19

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  • Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [39]

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Coin stubs

I'm loving this back and forth with all these new coin stubs. Thanks so much for doing things like cleaning up redirects, adding infoboxes and images, etc. Nice to just get the ball rolling on lots of new articles and turning links in the navigation template blue. Keep up the great work! ---Another Believer (Talk) 21:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Another Believer Your welcome. I'm not sure if you plan on creating stubs for all US commemoratives, but if you do, the 2018 WWI dollar coin article should probably cover the commemorative medals that were issued commemorating the branches of the military that were active during the conflict. - ZLEA T\C 21:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Sounds good. I'm hoping to continue creating stubs (few at a time) per the red links in the navigation template. ---Another Believer (Talk) 21:46, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Inclusion of "medals" in Modern United States commemorative coins article

I see that medals are now being included in the "Modern United States commemorative coins" article. For example, the World War I Centennial medals for 2018, among others. By definition, this article is for US commemorative coins - a coin having a face value - medals do not. The mint has been issuing medals for many years now, mostly bronze (I had purchased a dozen or so a few years back but decided not to collect these). WHile these medals do commemorate things, people, events, they should not be part of this coins page, but probably should be in a separate article dedicated to medals only.

Hope this makes sense. Thank you.

Ernie Esad58 (talk) 03:50, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Esad58 That is a good idea, however, as you will see at the US Mint's official website, most of the medals issued by the mint are Congressional medals. The First Spouse medals are already covered in Presidential $1 Coin Program. I think that the best way to approach inclusion of medals is to have a separate article for Congressional medals, and include others in Early United States commemorative coins and Modern United States commemorative coins. If you feel that medals should not be included in a coin article, perhaps the articles could be moved to Early/Modern United States commemorative coins and medals. - ZLEA T\C 11:20, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

re: Inclusion of "medals" in Modern United States commemorative coins article

Hey. Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to reply to your reply. Anyway, I like your suggestion about renaming the article to "Modern United States commemorative coins and medals" - probably a lot easier than having separate articles. Maybe instead of separating out all the Congressional medals from what the mint calls "list medals", include all of them in the article, but keep the coins separate from the medals. Thanks again.

Ernie Esad58 (talk) 02:00, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Esad58 The problem with adding a lot of commemorative medals is that each one adds length to the article, which already has a lot of length after my recent table restructure and addition of non-traditional commemorative coins and medals. I am currently thinking of ways to solve the problem, and thehe best solution I can think of is to split the article by decade. If we do this, then there would be plenty of space to include Congressional medals.
Your thoughts? - ZLEA T\C 13:08, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
I was about to start adding the Congressional medals to the lists in my sandbox, but found that all of them are on sale to this day. This poses a problem as the tables are currently structured for coins/medals that are available for a limited time. As there are no plans to end sales of any of the Congressional medals, the mintage figures may never be known.
There may be a work-around for this problem, though. If the tables are re-structured to include the dates that the coins/medals became available, the mintage could remain blank or N/A without giving the appearance if being incomplete. - ZLEA T\C 14:16, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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  • File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [40][41]
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Tech News: 2019-22

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

A page you started (Quintuple Stella) has been reviewed!

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Your editnotice and signature user pages

Hi ZLEA! I was looking at some edit filter logs and I noticed that an IP had added vandalism to some of your user pages (such as the pages I listed in the title). The IP user even created a user page in your user space (it was here) that I deleted per G3. I went ahead and added indefinite edit and move semi-protection to both of these pages in order to stop any future vandalism like this. I didn't see any recent vandalism to your main user page, so I left it be. If you'd like me to add protection to it, just respond and let me know (please make sure to ping me in your reply) and I'll be happy to do so. I figured I'd leave you a message and let you know about the protection I added to those pages. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:48, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Oshwah Thanks for letting me know. I'm not too worried about my main userpage. However, I believe that User:ZLEA/Userboxes and User:ZLEA/Wikiproject userboxes, which I use as templates on my main userpage, are more susceptible to vandalism. I revert any edits to those pages that were not done by me (unless the edits fix a broken userbox or are reverts of vandalism). - ZLEA T\C 13:54, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
I've applied semi-protection to both of those userbox pages for you. You shouldn't have any more trouble with vandalism on either one of them, but if you do - let me know and I'll be happy to take care of it. ;-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 13:57, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (May 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Enjoy your summer, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

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