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Wikidata weekly summary #304

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Development
    • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
    • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
    • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
    • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
    • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
    • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2018-12

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

Problems

  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [1]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •   There is no Editing team meeting this week.
  •   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [2][3]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

March 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday March 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
 
 

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)

P.S. You are also invited to Art + Feminism Events in the New York Metropolitan Area continuing this month!

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CANCELLED: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

CANCELLED: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
 

Due to the winter storm warning, the WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare scheduled for March 21st has been cancelled. Please consider attending one of the many edit-a-thons scheduled for this week. We look forward to editing with you soon!

--Megs (talk)

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You've got mail

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Hello, Courcelles. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 00:29, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #305

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
    • Closed request for comments: Former ATE
  • Development
    • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
    • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
    • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
    • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
    • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
    • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
    • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
    • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
    • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
    • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [4] [5]
  •   The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [6]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [7]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [8]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG
  Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

  Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

  Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
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Tech News: 2018-14

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

  • Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
  •   The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

  • MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [9][10][11]
  • The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
  •   User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [13]
  •   Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [14][15][16]
  •   AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [17] [18]
  • In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [19]
  • You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [20]
  • You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [21]

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
  •   On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [22][23]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #306

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
    • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Revisiting the deleted article on Houston McCoy

Latest comment: 6 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

The discussion over whether to delete the article on Houston McCoy is one I find myself thinking about.

I re-read it today. I saw passages that looked familiar. I didn't remember your closing comments however.

I'd like to ask you some questions.

One of the very troubling things about that AFD was that I learned that multiple previous version had been deleted. I thought it would be possible to offer a brief, safe summary of what the previous versions had said, and a brief, safe explanation as to why those earlier versions had been deleted.

But no one ever did explain why previous versions were deleted, or what those versions said. Even if you could offer a summary that was only one or two sentences, that would still be better than the current state -- zero explanation.

I've thought that we should require every individual who requests courtesy deletion of an article they say is about themselves, or a family member, should be told contributors would be happy to initiate a request for courtesy deletion, on their behalf -- just as soon as they confirm they are the subject of the article, or their close family member, through OTRS.

You wrote, in your closure: "I see no credible evidence, that the requested deletion isn't a genuine request from the subject (or his duly appointed representative), so this closure will proceed under the assumption that the request is valid."

I am confused -- where exactly do people think McCoy made this request? Did nominator Ricky81682 say he passed on a request he received from McCoy, via email? I recently enabled the feature that overstrikes the names of blocked contributors, and I have been amazed at how many individuals I disagreed with had been indefinitely blocked for sockpupetry. I see Ricky81682 was blocked for sockpuppetry. Do you see his sockpuppetry as a reason to doubt anything he claimed came from the McCoy family?

You wrote: "However, there are a few things that most explicitly don't matter ... Second, the stuff that has happened on AN/I regarding this AFD"

I see five ANI discussions that include the phrase "Houston McCoy", but the last three occurred after your closure. Can you remember if you were referring to one of the first two mentions? The sockpuppet that accused Jimbo of bullying me would have been one of the individuals wikihounding me in 2010. If it is the one I suspect, that wiki-ID was blocked in 2011. I don't remember being aware of that discussion.

I remember finding a lot of good valid references, and adding to them to the article, while I expanded it, in the days prior to the discussion closing.

My recollection is that none of the versions I saw had a policy problem.

Would it be possible to userify the last version? I'd simply ask for you to email me the last version I worked on, except that if I were to port the article to a non-WMF wiki, I'd need to be able to state who else contributed to it, in order to hnor the other contributors' right to attribution.

Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 00:40, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

  • Okay, trying to unpack this, I've sent you the wikitext of the last pre-deletion revision. If you ever do need to attribute, I can copy and paste the revision history into another email very easily. I'm not sure Ricky getting indeffed several years later for socking really changes anything as it stood at the time -- I'm seeing that it was actually Newyorkbrad who first mentioned the subject request part of the discussion, not the AFD nominator. Courcelles (talk) 15:57, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

I candidly don't remember this deletion from eight years ago, but I've read quickly through some of the history. There is relevant background about some BLP-related issues on a couple of iterations of the deleted talkpage, including extensive input from Jimbo Wales. Among other problems, there was a series of protracted off-wiki disputes and some litigation between the BLP subject and another individual that kept leeching into the article. Moreover, the BLP subject was noted for just a single incident (Charles Whitman), so a mention in the Whitman aricle struck me and many others as quite sufficient.

It is not clear to me why anyone would focus again on this article at this late date. By way of update, I note that Mr. McCoy died in 2012, which mitigates some aspects of the BLP concerns. But the off-wiki dispute continues, now involving members of McCoy's family; it is not a controversy of public importance, and I don't see much value in revisiting this issue. Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

  • I hate to be a pest.

    It is great to recognize text I added... but it looks like the article had some rewrites, since my last edit. I have a recognizable style of populating new {{cite}} templates. I put each field on a new line. I use the author field, not first and last fields.

    So could I trouble you to do a diff, between the last version, and the last version I edited? Alterations to the metadata don't matter to me. But, if that diff shows non-trivial changes to the article's editorial content, could you email me a copy of the last revision I made?

    Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 04:52, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

  • I can pull the last version you edited, and you can do a diff on a private wiki somewhere or something, but I know of no way to get a diff from a deleted page -- or to email a coherent diff from a live one, even if I temporarily restored it. Courcelles (talk) 13:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Hot C&W Sides number ones of 1959/archive1

Latest comment: 6 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Courcelles, you've been kind enough to review some of my past FLCs on country number ones. Might you be able to take a look at this one, which is a bit stalled right now.......?

Cheers! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:24, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #307

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
    • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
    • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
    • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
    • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
    • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
    • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
    • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Editor using multiple accounts

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

I saw your name on a list of people who can verify whether someone is using multiple accounts to edit. In my editing of Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, 2018, I noticed the same type of incompetent edits kept being restored to the article after they were removed a short time earlier. When I looked to see who was doing it, I realized it was coming from several different accounts. By looking at the very unique style of the edits, it's obvious that they are all from the same person: Michelleena, Shoneea, 84.46.52.128, and 74.89.209.101. I'm sure there are plenty more, 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3068:6709:19FA:DBDA (talk) 03:16, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

The edit history does not support this theory, 84.46.52.128 tried to fix various nits in a contribution by Michelleena after removing their own contribution, because it was a dupe of what that user wrote earlier. –84.46.53.184 (talk) 04:39, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Oops, sorry. 84.46.52.128 isn't one of them, but the other three are 100% the same person. 74.89.209.101, Michelleena, and Shoneea. All the same general content, with the exact same placement in the article, all with improper lowercase of last names (trump, sacconne, lamb) in every edit, all with the same misspelling of Saccone as "sacconne", etc. And this other one from Shoneea which is clearly to be disruptive. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3068:6709:19FA:DBDA (talk) 13:13, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

There was no disputed just a blocked editor vandalizing articles

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

[24] The only dispute was this same already blocked editor using various IP addresses to vandalize various articles by removing large chunks of content, then edit warring with various editors who reverted him. That article is now locked at the version the sock puppet edited, no one reverting him the final time. He has already admitting that all the edits in that article from IP addresses were him. See User_talk:EdJohnston#Guy_you_just_blocked_edit_warring_with_a_new_IP_address_already No reason to block others from editing since all they were doing was reverting the guy's vandalism. Dream Focus 23:10, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

  • From here, it looked like an IP making a plausibly-valid BLP removal, and getting reverted without discussion, and people just using rollback. I certainly wouldn't put that content about the DWI back in the article and take ownership of it... Courcelles (talk) 02:25, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [25]
  • You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [26]
  • The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [27]
  • Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [28]

Problems

  • The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [29]
  • For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [30]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
  • Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [31]

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2018

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Tech News: 2018-16

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

Changes later this week

  • Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [32]
  •   Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [33][34]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #308

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
    • Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
    • Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
    • Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
    • Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
    • Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
    • Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
    • More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
    • Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
    • Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
    • Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
    • New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
    • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 25th, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
 
 

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda! After the main meeting, pizza and video games in the gallery.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our agenda, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 27

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  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • New collections
    • Alexander Street (expansion)
    • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
  • User Group
  • Global branches update
    • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
  • Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
  • Bytes in brief

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Your GA nomination of Malta at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Malta at the 2018 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 02:02, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [37]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [38]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [39]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Changed protection level of Colombia: Persistent vandalism ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite)

Latest comment: 6 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Changed protection level of Colombia: Persistent vandalism ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colombia&oldid=669137243: This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Courcelles (talk | contribs) at 04:00, 29 June 2015 (Changed protection level of Colombia: Persistent vandalism ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite))).

Hello, you have already changed the protection level of the article about Colombia but recently this article that receives a lot of vandalism from IP addresses no longer has indefinite protection, while other articles about countries have that protection. Administrators may apply indefinite semi-protection to pages that are subject to heavy and persistent vandalism or violations of content policy (Colombia has always been an article vandalized frequently from IP addresses for many years).

Thanks for your attention. --JShark (talk) 07:46, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your attention to this matter. --JShark (talk) 16:47, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Alvin Seville

Latest comment: 6 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Thank you. Cheers, 2601:188:180:11F0:7134:C2F3:E23E:FFE3 (talk) 14:17, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Squidwardthetrain's block

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hey, I noticed you indeffed Squidwardthetrain, but he had made only one vandalism edit. I thought users were supposed to get at least 4 warning before being blocked for vandalism. Could you explain? L293D (☎ • ✎) 21:41, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Clear VOAs should be blocked, ASAP. Four warnings is not an entitlement. Besides, the filter log says he tried to do other stuff. Courcelles (talk) 21:43, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
OK, I see. Thanks for the explanation. L293D (☎ • ✎) 21:49, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
WP:VOA is the page with guidance on these sort of accounts. Courcelles (talk) 21:51, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #309

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
    • Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
    • Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
    • Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
    • Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
    • Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
    • Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
    • Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
    • Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
    • New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


The Signpost: 26 April 2018

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Block evasion

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

While looking at [40] it appears that User:12.233.43.2 is the same as User:96.9.247.171. Same edits... - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:30, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

South African cricket in the 1990s

Latest comment: 6 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Would you unblock this? I can add full scores if needed - though I suggest I should not have to. Every Test tour since 1977 has a page on this site except the immediate post-apartheid tours of South Africa in the 90s/early 00s, which for some reason have no pages but should. Though it is suggested stubs are not good enough, there are plenty of Test tours which are stubs which are not part of these 90s/00s SA tours. Marplesmustgo (talk) 20:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

No, please do not unblock this, but warn him for WP:PERSONAL [41] I'm trying to hold a civil discussion over at WT:CRICKET but if he's going to insult me there too, then it's not going to go well. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 20:40, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I’m at a baseball game. I’ll look again tonight when I get home. Courcelles (talk) 22:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
WT:CRICKET discussion is getting some good feedback. Since the block is only for like 48 hours I suggest it stay there until then, at least to let heads cool and to get more responses there. I've also {{RPA}}'ed the insults from the talk page. Don't know if revdel will be needed. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 22:27, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I think I agree with you, AngusWOOF. It does appear that the Wikiprojhect is coming to a rapid consensus. Courcelles (talk) 14:12, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

About Agartala Airport

Latest comment: 6 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Dear, sir/mam please help me. One of a editor in Wikipedia has moved the page Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Airport to Agartala Airport. Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Airport is the new name of Agartala Airport. And the name is given by Govt of Tripura. But one of a editor of Wikipedia has moved the page again to Agartala Airport. Which is the old name. You can also check it in Google maps. You will find there as Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Airport. I am enable to move the page to Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Airport. So please help and move the page. I am living in Agartala so you can believe me. Moreover you will find it in Google Maps. Chandrakant Sarkar (talk) 06:56, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

  • That's not how you move a page, see WP:CUTPASTE. What you need to do is see WP:RM, follow the instructions there, and see if there is consensus (or at least no objection) in ten days for your change. If there is consensus in favour of your change, then it can be completed properly. Courcelles (talk) 14:10, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

I am new so please you move the page. Moreover except administrator the page can't be move. So please please I request you to move the page. As I am new I don't know how to move. So on behalf of me please move the page Agartala Airport to Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Airport. Chandrakant Sarkar (talk) 14:54, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Block

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I am not trying to defend this user or anything but I don't think 2 vandal edits is a vandalism only account here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AMinecraftworshipper to me the edits just looked like test edits. I don't think an indefine ban was needed. @Courcelles: Bobherry Talk Edits 02:29, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Request about Agartala Airport

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I am new so please you move the page. Moreover except administrator the page can't be move. So please please I request you to move the page. As I am new I don't know how to move. So on behalf of me please move the page Agartala Airport to Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Airport. Chandrakant Sarkar (talk) 05:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Article Societat Civil Catalana

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I see that the Societat Civil Catalana article has been page protected but it has not been reverted to the previous state. The latest user edit removed important information, well sourced material without further discussion. I reported him for vandalism but I see that you denied it. The user involved only leaves the message for the commited change history, nothing in the talk page. The change itself shows he is not admitting contradictory information from qualified sources (mainly, police investigations and factual meetings) and alleging WP:OR and that the information is non encyclopedic material. Couldn't you restore the previous version of the article? Filiprino (talk) 19:19, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

  • Sorry, no can do. We always protect the version we find it on, unless there is some overwhelming reason to revert first, in this case no such reason appears to exist. (Such reasons are almost exclusively maor violations of WP:BLP.) Courcelles (talk) 19:24, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok. But I tell you that the article you blocked has been edited by two single purpose accounts and possible sockpuppets: User:BarceloniUK and User:Gargaroi. The latest one was involved in an edit warring with me which resulted in a 24h block for both of us. BarceloniUK wrote drafts which where rejected due to being written like advertisements. What can I do if such users which do not provide reasons to do the removals of well sourced material keep appearing? They just won't accept the word "far-right" at the beginning of the article regardless what the police says and with who the association members work in order to prepare their agenda and events. These editors claim sources are biased in all cases or WP:OR and that's it. Filiprino (talk) 19:34, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
The two users you list are at best   Possible socks based on geolocation, but I do not believe them technically related. You might consider punting the matter to WP:DRN at this point. Courcelles (talk) 19:39, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

16-17 TV schedule and mass linker

Latest comment: 6 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Courcelles, I noticed you semi-protected the 17-18 TV schedule article from the mass over-linker. (S)he has moved on to the 16-17 TV schedule article. Would you might adding the same protection there? Thanks! ----Dr.Margi ✉ 22:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

That mass over linker user just moved to the 2015-16 TV schedule. Can you please add semi protection to that article? Thanks! Blackmagic1756 (talk) 00:25, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [42]

Problems

  •   We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [43]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [44]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [45]
  •   You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [46]
  •   There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  •   All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [47][48][49]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #310

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

  •   Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
  •   Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
  •   Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
  •   SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
  •   Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
  •   Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
  •   Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Unprotection for Cartoon

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I think the page was protected due to excessive vandalism, but it was protected for a while and looks like vandals are gone now. Super Mario Guy (talk) 17:14, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Of course the vandalism is gone, the page is protected. With such high-profile pages, the vandalism will never stop if it is unprotected. Courcelles (talk) 17:22, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Help

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

With this account [50]]. Thanks, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 03:13, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Looks like another admin got there first. Courcelles (talk) 03:40, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

173.9.10.41

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi,

Thanks for blocking this IP. Just wanted to let you know that this IP address has a very long history of vandalism and just got off of a six month school block a few days ago, so the vandal will likely just return shortly after the current 72 hour block expires. With that being said, would you be willing to extend the block duration? Thanks. 147.30.129.94 (talk) 18:24, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Extended to a year. Courcelles (talk) 18:47, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Boston

Latest comment: 6 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion
  • You're changing the entire point of the template, the template is about the BAA, the Marathon is just one part of that. What you're doing is the same as changing an article's subject from one topic to a slightly different topic but at the same title. Courcelles (talk) 18:09, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
  • The main article for all topics is Boston Marathon clearly, not Association. Marathon is more notable than BAA. "Perpetrators" were not related to Association but related to marathon (bombing). It was shown in the talk page discussion by all users, citing here: 1) template should have Boston Marathon as main article, and not place marathon articles in a navbox subgroup. PrimeHunter; 2) The Tsarnaev's have little connection to the BAA. SFB; 3). That's a good suggestion. The marathon is certainly more notable that the organization that puts it on. Location. There were no objections to this title change (possible split votes are not relevant to the title of navbox), so no problem with a title change. So, revert your protection back. 46.211.25.18 (talk) 18:28, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Any response? I have read a talk page very carefully before my edits. I can see a consensus for the title change on the talk page of the navbox (excluding not related split votes; see the cited text above). You are not? 46.211.7.161 (talk) 20:46, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
  • All I see is selective quoting of a three year old discussion to justify edit-warring today. What I’ll admit is that I should have used full protection instead of semi. Courcelles (talk) 20:54, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Really? But user Newbiepedian have nothing against my edits. He wrote: I have no objection in principle to the changes you are making (see here). So what is a problem with my edits? Where is the "disruptive editing" cited by you? 46.211.7.161 (talk) 21:05, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  None
  Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

  Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

  Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

  Arbitration

  Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The C of E -- The C of E (talk) 08:41, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

May 2018 at Women in Red

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Welcome to Women in Red's May 2018 worldwide online editathons.
 
 
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New: "Women of the Sea"

New: "Villains"

New: "Women in Sports"

New: "Central Eastern European women"


Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

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Your GA nomination of São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 18:01, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 18:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 23:20, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Mass Linker in the Daytime\Weekday 17-18 Schedule

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

That Mass Overlinker is messing with the Daytime\Weekday schedule of the 2017-18 season. Can you please add semi protection to that article? Thanks! Blackmagic1756 (talk) 02:00, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Cincinnati Reds

Latest comment: 6 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

A registered user of around 10 years just vandalized this article also[51] and right after you page protected it. One day is not good enough....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 19:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

The wiktionary template

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Once again, thank you for initiating the GA review.

But re this ... I saw that you moved it into an xlinks section which the article hadn't previously had (and when any sort of tranwiki link is the only thing in that section, it's better to use the "-inline" variant of that template ... see another GA I developed for an example).

The template documentation at {{wiktionary}} says "The template may be placed anywhere, such as the External links section, the beginning of the article or in the article's etymology section if one exists" (Emphasis mine). Following that, I have always put that into etymology sections, where I think it is most relevant and would probably be seen as more useful. Is there some other policy that supersedes this? I'm not quite sure MOS:LAYOUTEL or WP:MOSSIS are totally definite the other way, either. Daniel Case (talk) 05:51, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

  • What a strange rule. Okay, I can see putting it anywhere is fine, though it still looks useless up top, given it offers readers nothing they're not about to find in the next few paragraphs. Courcelles (talk) 13:11, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Some people like reading that sort of thing in a dictionary-entry format, with attestations, something we can't really provide in an encyclopedia article the way a dictionary can. Daniel Case (talk) 01:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't disagree with putting it back where it was. Courcelles (talk) 01:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The C of E -- The C of E (talk) 12:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2008 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 12:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 15:41, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 16:01, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 18:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

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The article Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 18:41, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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The article Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 23:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Albania at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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The article Albania at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Albania at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 01:21, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@evleaks

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You create protected @evleaks. Could you please redirect it to Evan Blass? (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:56, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for G4 then, I was not aware that it had the same issues. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 10:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello there, I just noticed this after replying to Emir. I'm not going to make a big deal out of it, except to suggest that my notability has increased quite a bit since the original @evleaks article mentioned here was deleted. Please take a look at the following profiles to decide for yourselves:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28882046
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2014/08/140825_tecnologia_perfil_rey_filtraciones_evan_blass_ig
http://www.ibtimes.sg/daring-life-worlds-renowned-tech-leaker-evan-blass-16601
https://hipertextual.com/2014/08/evleaks
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/CREST/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=CREST&BaseHref=TCRM%2F2013%2F05%2F11&ViewMode=gif&PageLabel=14&EntityId=Ar01300&AppName=1-accessdate=24
https://shifter.pt/2017/03/evleaks/
https://www.androidpolice.com/2013/06/28/evleaks-revealed-android-polices-exclusive-interview-with-evan-blass-the-man-behind-evleaks/
https://techguru.fr/2016/08/09/evan-blass-portrait/
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/new-iphone-8/
https://www.killerfeatures.com/evleaks-interview
EvanBlass (talk) 11:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Some of those are compelling (but note at least two I checked are not in the article I deleted!) Can this wait until I get home later today and have time to read them fully? I'm thinking about sending it to a procedural AFD at this point. Courcelles (talk) 12:07, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Certainly. I do think that more opinions here would be helpful, thanks. EvanBlass (talk) 19:21, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
I can't see any version of the article now as it has been deleted, but perhaps restoring it and moving it to the draft space could be an option? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:49, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
I see the article has been restored. Was this so that it could be moved to the draftspace or do you think this issues have been resolved? If you think they have been resolved could you please create the redirect? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
If someone could add those sources to the article, we could be done with this forever. Courcelles (talk) 16:32, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I'll try and get them added in. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:51, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@Courcelles: I have added the sources mentioned above into the article. Could you please turn @evleaks into a redirect? (please   mention me on reply; thanks!)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 14:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
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