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Please comment on Talk:American Pekin

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:American Pekin. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

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 most Wikipedias. 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. [1]
  • The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [2]
  • English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [3]

Problems

  • Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

15:10:35, 4 April 2017 review of submission by Millind Seth


Respected Sir, this article aims to provide details of a school existing for over 55 years. The only context permitted to be public and unbiased are submitted in public interest (basic info about an institute). There are similar articles on Wikipedia such as St._John's_Universal_School Kindly reconsider my article sir. I believe the deceased founders of a non profit institution deserve to be known through your platform.

@Millind Seth:  Already done by SwisterTwister --Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 21:29, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Robert Plant

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Robert Plant. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

05:20:00, 6 April 2017 review of submission by Nirmit Arora


Respected Sir,

This is regarding the draft submission Rivigo. I have cited multiple sources for the information added to the page. The sources are renowned and reliable. There exists sufficient coverage on the subject which can be seen from the references provided. I want to know which part of the article you feel has not been written from a neutral perspective. I have removed certain parts of the article. Requesting you to check it again. There exist similar articles on Wikipedia already like OYO Rooms.

Thank you!

Regards, Nirmit

On declining Draft:V-Key

Hi @Zppix:, I understand that you have declined my submission of V-Key draft page and your comment was that it didn't meet the notability guidelines based on the references. My apologies, but I would greatly appreciate your help to point out the specific areas/sections/statements where I could improve on the references as I have tried to provide several independent sources - i.e. other than announcements made by the company. The independent sources are mainstream media such as key newspapers, online and TV coverage in Singapore as well as Southeast Asia. How else can I improve on the references? I do think it is notable, but perhaps I didn't present it adequately with the right references? Thanks much in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adsiah (talk • contribs) 10:49, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Zppix:, I have made some changes - deleted content that could be deemed promotional and changed the references to include more mainstream media such as Straits Times, Business Times, Channel NewsAsia and CNBC. I have also tried to include a wider list of references so that it is not just from one or two company announcements. Appreciate if you could help me review again to see how else it can be improved? Thanks so much!

Tech News: 2017-15

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

Changes this week

  • Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [7]
  • New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [8]
  • The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [9]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
  • RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Declined Submission of Draft: Tourico Holidays

Hi Zppix! I saw that you declined my submission of the the Draft: Tourico Holidays, but you left no comment. I am still trying to get a handle on things and be able to publish this article and that it meets the criteria and guidelines set by Wikipedia. If you can advise me on what I should do to improve the article as well as its notability, also if there is a specific concern that you may have about the overall article publication please let me know.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by DayanaFabiche (talk • contribs) 19:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

@SwisterTwister: please answer this for me as you would be able to answer this better than I. re-edited to add my sig Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 19:19, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Borderline personality disorder

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Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings!

The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

Arbcom

Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:

  • Community encouraged to review common fixes
  • Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits
  • Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface
  • Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope
  • Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis
BRFAs

We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:

New things

Several new things are around:

Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-16

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 add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [10]
  • You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [11]
  • The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [12]

Problems

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 18 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [13]
  • From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [14][15]

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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Request on 10:29:26, 19 April 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by AndrewStocker


Hi Zppix, thanks for reviewing my SafeCharge submission. I was wondering if you could provide an example of a notable source, as my understanding was we'd listed a number of notable sources. Would help me learn a lot about the process. Thanks!

AndrewStocker (talk) 10:29, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

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

Problems

Changes this week

  • The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [19]
  • Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [20]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (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 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Abraham

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20:15:15, 26 April 2017 review of submission by Sophocles1


I did delete the history section and moved the more concrete facts of it to the acquisition timeline since there was more "mythos" around that than fact, but I'm wondering what specifically in the references was considered not notable/reliable/independent. Among the sources are Bloomberg, Fortune, Gartner, Dartmouth's Business School, Forbes (US & India), International Business Times, The Hindu, etc. and each of them is specifically analyzing aspects of the Infosys Consulting practice. Wikipedia in general is a little western centric, but Infosys (parent) is in the top 5 largest global IT corporations and there is no wikipedia presence for their operating arms except BPO.. It's a massive gap. Willing to change it up of course, but I don't know what could make a more compelling case for notability other than (1) these prestigious institutions write about and are interested in Infosys Consulting, (2) it's a major operating arm of one of the world's biggest IT corporations and (3) it employs over something like 6000 people and makes millions in revenue each year.
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