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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

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Please comment on Talk:Aaron Swartz

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Geonotice

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Hi Andrew, thanks for putting up the geonotice so quickly! I just realized I forgot to add a link to Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 8 in the notice, is there any way you could add that as a piped link to the words "Chicago meetup"? Sorry to impose. Thanks so much! Keilana|Parlez ici 16:10, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Done - I've removed the Pritzker link to avoid confusion. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:06, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Geonotice expert?

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Hi Andrew. I've removed the Training for Trainers event from the geonotice, because it wasn't working. Do you happen to have a solution? WormTT(talk) 08:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

I've nudged Reedy on meta to see if he can update the interwiki shortcut cache. That would mean that wmuk: would point to the right site and we can just change the geonotice to the more standard interwiki wikilink. ... if that makes sense. WormTT(talk) 08:58, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-42

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Future

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Wikidata weekly summary #81

 
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Matt Lowell

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Since the prod that led to your deletion was not valid as the article had previously been proded and deproded I have restored the article and taken it to AfD, where you would be welcome to contribute to the discussion. --Michig (talk) 21:39, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

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Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

 

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

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Tech News: 2013-43

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New features

  • The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [8]

VisualEditor news

  • On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [9]

Problems

  • On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [10]

Future

  • MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
  • In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [11]
  • You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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09:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you

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  The WikiLovesMonument Barnstar
Not sure precisely how we're handing these out, but pfft, I struggle to think of a way in which your contributions to the success of WLM-UK 2013 would not deserve proper recognition. - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 16:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks - very relieved we've got through to the end and have our winners selected, even if I had to bunk off mid-month! Andrew Gray (talk) 19:31, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Ten Lost Tribes

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WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

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The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is   Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

  1.   Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
  2.   Hawkeye7 (submissions)
  3.   Sasata (submissions)
  4.   Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
  5.   Casliber (submissions)
  6.   Adam Cuerden (submissions)
  7.   Miyagawa (submissions)
  8.   Piotrus (submissions)
  9.   Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

  •   Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
  •   Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
  •   Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
  •   Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
  •   Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
  •   Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
  •   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
  •   ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
  •   Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
  • The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to   The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
  • Finally, the judges are awarding   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:13, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #82

 
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Please comment on Talk:God

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Tech News: 2013-44

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New features

  • The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [12]

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [13]

Problems

  • There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future

  • Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers

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  • Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [15]

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10:29, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Lyndon LaRouche

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Geonotice poke

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Hi Andrew! I've posted a Geonotice that I was hoping could be activated soon, so any weekend-only editors in our area would have a chance to see the Geonotice before our meeting next Saturday. Thanks for your help! -- Gaurav (talk) 07:35, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #83

 
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