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The Bugle: Issue CIV, November 2014
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Arbcom guide
Just out of curiosity, how will you know how many barnstars, thanks, Wikiloves etc I have? I haven't the slightest idea, everything just gets archives as I'm not much of a badge collector. Dougweller (talk) 11:39, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
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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 move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [1]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the
colspanorrowspanoption. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [2]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
- You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [3]
- VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [4]
- You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [5]
- VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [6] [7]
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Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.
- We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
- In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
- The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.
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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 software changes
- All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [8]
- You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [9]
Problems
- There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [10]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [11]
- You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [12]
- It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [13] [14]
- The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [15] [16] [17]
- (Lua) You can no longer use
mw.text.unstripto get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [18] [19]
Future changes
- Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [20]
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GOCE coordinator elections
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  Candidate nominations for Guild coordinators to serve from January 1 to June 30, 2015, are currently underway. The nomination period will close at 23:59 on December 15 (UTC), after which voting will commence until 23:59 on December 31, 2014. Self-nominations are welcomed. Please consider getting involved; it's your Guild and it won't coordinate itself, so if you'd like to help coordinate Guild activities we'd love to hear from you. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis.
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Question on your comment on the article, "Gage Allen"
Hey!
You reviewed my draft article "Gage Allen" and stated that once I was able to show coverage that the person was notable for more than working on SCP: Containment Breach, that it would be accepted. Recently, the individual received an immense amount of coverage for a new project he did, with articles from around the world, as well as being featured in a magazine as a filmmaker.
From what you meant, is this what you were talking about? Or were you signifying something else?
The reason I am asking is just to make sure I corrected the article the way you suggested.
Thanks!
-xfire12345 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xfire12345 (talk • contribs) 09:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
- @Xfire12345: Looking at the sources you've provided, it appears that most of them don't comply with our WP:RS policy. Your coverage appears to be a lot of Facebook pages, and YouTube videos created by the subject of the article. What we need, are non-affiliated, reliable, secondary sources. Essentially, coverage of the subject of the article that isn't connected with the subject that is reliable. When I look through your sources, I see nothing that is reliable except for the PCGamer article, possibly The Northern Light article and the Whatcom magazine article, and maybe (very lightweight sources here), videogiochi and hereisthecity. Unfortunately, Videogiochi and Hereisthecity don't provide in depth coverage of Gage Allen (they don't even mention him), and The Northern Light and Whatcom magazine articles I can't see. The PCGamer article provides some coverage, but needs to be supplanted by other sourcecs. Grognard Chess (talk) Ping when replying 14:58, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Declined speedy deletion
Hi Chess, I wanted to let you know that I have declined your speedy deletion request of Chick Magnet (film) because I don't think it qualifies as unambiguous advertising or promotion under the WP:CSD#G11 criteria. If you think the tone of the article is overly promotional you can tag it with {{advert}}. Sarahj2107 (talk) 16:29, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
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December 2014 GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors December 2014 Newsletter
  Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in November's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 43 people who signed up for this drive, 26 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The November Drive removed 26 requests from the Requests page and 509 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog. We copy edited 83 articles tagged in the target months; July, August, and September 2013. Together with tag removals from articles unsuitable for copy editing, we eliminated July 2013 from the backlog and reduced August and September's tags to 61 and 70 respectively. As of 01:01, 1 December 2014 (UTC), the backlog stood at 1,974 articles, dipping below 2,000 for the first time in the Guild's history (see graph at right). Well done everyone! Blitz: The December Blitz will run from December 14–20 and will focus on articles related to Religion, in recognition of this month's religious holidays in much of the English-speaking world. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. Sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from 1 January to 30 June 2015 is now underway. Candidates can nominate themselves or others from December 01, 00:01 (UTC), until December 15, 23:59. The voting period will run from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. You can read about coordinators' duties here. Please consider getting involved and remember to cast you vote—it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Thank you all once again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve anything without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [21]
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- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
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- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [23]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+ForCmd+F. [24] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [25]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [26]
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [27] [28]
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [29] [30]
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The Signpost: 17 December 2014
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Recent software changes
- The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [31]
Software changes this week
- There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [32]
Future changes
- The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [33]
- A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [34]
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The Bugle: Issue CV, December 2014
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Priya's Shakti at WP:RSN
I have started a discussion about Priya's Shakti at RSN.
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The Signpost: 24 December 2014
- From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
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