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140		Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom (talk)						Merge
16		Land Force Central Area (talk)						Merge
9		Dukedoms of the British Isles by reign (talk)						Merge
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[Stub Contest] Howdy

Howdy. I am Mitchazenia, one of the Stub Contest judges. I just wanted to note that I rejected about 15-20 of your nominees because either a) they were too close to stubs still or were definitely stubs. If you want to go back make some better, don't be alarmed that I removed some. Mitch32^{(New digs, new life, same old stubborn.)} 22:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #88

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

• Discussions
  • Guidelines about ordering
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
  • Newest task forces: Political geography task force
  • Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
  • Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
• Development
  • Made improvements to lower database load
  • Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
  • Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
  • Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
  • Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2013-50

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

New features

• You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used. [1]
• If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [2]

VisualEditor

• The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [3]
• You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
• The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [4]

Problems

• There was a problem with the "Create a book" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [5]
• The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [6] [7]
• Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [8]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
• You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [9]
• GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [10]
• A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [11] [12]

Other

• You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features. [13]

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08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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Articles without talk pages

Hi Andrew. Following up your comment here (back on 4 December) about numbers of pages without talk page WikiProject banners and number of pages without talk page WikiProject banner ratings, would you have any idea how best to locate pages without talk pages? An example I came across recently is George Tilton. There used to be bots that ran regularly to find at least biography articles without talk pages, but I'm not sure how often that is done now and who does it. Would you know that? Carcharoth (talk) 00:12, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 December 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #89

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
  • Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
  • RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
• Development
  • Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
  • Improved and added a lot of tests
  • Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
  • No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
  • Caching and database improvements
  • Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
  • More work on quantities UI
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2013-51

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
• You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [14]
• There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [15] [16]
• You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [17]
• If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [18]
• You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [19] [20]
• All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org. [21] [22]
• You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [23]
• You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [24]
• Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [25]

Future software changes

• There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
• When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [26] [27]
• New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [28] [29].
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [30] [31]
• You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [32] [33]

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08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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