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edit content of Chromatography page

Hi DMacks, I understand your point of view. But I have limited my edit to what is already claimed in the abstract on Analytical Chemistry that as you know is already peer reviewed. Also, I can tell you that our software was already used and soon will be published in a publication in Nature Biotechnology. Is also already mention in a review of R software I think that scientist should use more Wikipedia page to give more advances about their work. Also, I don't think I am overselling, i don't say that is perfect. Is a prediction, is accurate but not perfect. I am a scientist not a seller :-) What do you think? is my first edit in Wikipedia and still do not know exactly how it works, and i am very happy to learn from someone good like you. Thanks Paolo PaoloBnn (talk) 16:43, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I think lots of what you are saying is a reasonable perspective for someone talking about their own work. An abstract summarizes an article, and an article can make all sorts of predictions and proposals and claims about applicability, and referees can accept based on "this is a reasonable-sounding claim". But ACS referees do not actually verify your experiments, validate your results, test whether something truely is as applicable as you claim, or necessatrily redo all your likely literature searches. That is, it is a WP:PRIMARY source. By formal policy, we are forbidden from any writing or use meant to "get the word out", promote our works, or other sorts of advocacy or promotion (see WP:PROMOTION).

Unfortunately, it's really hard to write about one's own work in a neutral way:( For example, here you say the scope is "liquid chromatography for every system", but the article itself only seems like it is metabolomic-related compounds. Wikipedia is ultra-conservative with novel topics. Your use of the term "empower" sounds like a marketting buzzword not a neutral encyclopedia statement. The metabolomics article has at least one recent review-article cited, which discusses multiple software packages. That sort of WP:SECONDARY source is really need here. That is, someone outside of your lab commenting on your work, such as its scope and novelty, not you talking about your own work. Then our article helps readers understand the different ideas in context. Notice, for example, how the rest of that article talks about ideas, not generally in-depth writing about specific pieces of software.

You mention that there is a "rerview of R software" that includes this program. That might be a good ref to use (along with substantially trimmed content), depending on what it says. DMacks (talk) 02:49, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Request

I need to request you that please delete the revision [1] as RD3 as that revision was purely disruptive or delete as the reason WP:RD2 as it also violates a biography of a living person or delete as the reason "Vandalism" because that revision is not supposed to be visible. Thanks. 182.64.182.198 (talk) 06:10, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Looks like User:Anarchyte got it. Thanks to them, and sorry I did not notice this message here earlier. DMacks (talk) 02:51, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

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

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [2][3]

Problems

• There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [4]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [5][6]

Changes later this week

• The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [7]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [8]
• Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [9]
• Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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

• The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:17, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

edit content of Ahmadiya page

Dear Creffett & DMacks

I made it more neutral by removing the word "sect of Islam" if you check with Muslims around the world 100% of them will declare Ahmedi as non-muslim as they don't believe the preaching of Islam. Is it just like if I got to Scientology and say I don't believe in science but I am Scientologist, or I will be a calling myself GAY but I don't like to have sex with other men but only women?

Nobody cares what Muslims in general, or you personally think about the identity of anyone else. That's part of our WP:NPOV policy, and what makes us an encyclopedia rather than an editorial. DMacks (talk) 17:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC) If someone tries to associate with something, then rules of that association are to be followed. As shared in my earlier suggestion the neutrality goes both ways. By your (DMacks (talk)) own tone in reply to me and also insisting on declaring them Muslims you have gone against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Impartial_tone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abkhalid (talk • contribs) 17:50, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

I see a block in someone's future. Doug Weller talk 18:02, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

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

• There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [11]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [12][13][14]
• The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [15]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Having problem with free basics

Hello, I am facing a trouble. I can't edit with free basics, but I can edit normally. My ip is blocked in free basics. Please help me to edit wiki from free basics without data charges. Thanks. Have a good day. Emdad Tafsir (talk)Emdad TafsirEmdad Tafsir (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:12, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Emdad Tafsir. I have no idea what Free Basics is or what specific block affects it. What is the exact error message you are getting? Maybe UTRS (see Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System) is would be better equipped to investigate? DMacks (talk) 02:22, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Browse internet.org where you can visit a lot of site without data charges. In bangla Wikipedia, I also faces same trouble, they fixed it and gave me IP block Exemptions tag. Now I cam edit with it without any trouble. Please help me to contribute in english wiki also. Thanks Emdad Tafsir (talk) 02:33, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Sounds like Free Basics is blocked as a proxy server. IPBE could be handled by the UTRS I linked previously. DMacks (talk) 04:08, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about that. The CU tool has a built-in feature that allows mass-blocking accounts, and I guess it got confused by the sock's redirect. Having it follow a redirect seems like a bug to me. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

No worries. I've been bitten by that TW bug also:) DMacks (talk) 05:53, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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Recent changes

• Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [17]
• Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [18]
• There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [19][20]

Changes later this week

• You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [22]

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21:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 5 • May 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse EduWiki challenge México by Wikimedia México Featured education community member of May 2020 Sharing Wikimedia Education Projects in the Philippines Turkish professors are giving Wikipedia assignments during Covid-19 days Wikidata introduced in Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade Wikipedia as career counseling tool for teenagers

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Response

   Believe me, you have my sympathy.

Please inform/remind me where you explained, and i shall, for instanceː

1. apologize for my ignorance or carelessness, as appropriate
2. decide you're not worthy of my attention
3. whatever

(I am unlikely, this far on, to put on my avenging veteran admin garb.) --userːJerzyA (sorry, the tildes and brackets aren't working right; doesn't matter, as Paris/Geneva/Cape Town time is now 2ː40 AM, so your talkpage's log is more reliable than what a correctly generated sig would do to authenticate me)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by JerzyA (talk • contribs) 00:47, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

I responded on your user-talk. Always happy to discuss, and not leave something dangling unresolved or with hard feelings. DMacks (talk) 14:48, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

PubChem

In case you hadn't noticed, the change to PubChem which Batreeq had made was to change the file from .png to .svg; I merely sorted out his syntax error. You commented on the size, but if you look at the rendering of the svg without explicit size you will see that it is displayed excessively large. I don't know why the change from png to svg was made, and I have no opinion one way or the other. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:56, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I had completely missed the file-format change; reverted. I'm too used to infoboxes that only take "plain filename" and then do standard formatting within them:( DMacks (talk) 16:07, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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Recent changes

• Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

• There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [23]
• Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [25]
• The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [26]

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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Template:Chem molar mass/format

Hello. Regarding your edit at [27]. {{{Value}}} will always have a value (see the way it is called from Template:Chem molar mass) but it is "0" if it isn't calculated from the atoms. Christian75 (talk) 17:35, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah thanks! That explains why my intersection-cat scanning was giving false positives. DMacks (talk) 18:40, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26

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

• There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [28]
• Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [29]

Changes later this week

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [31]

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18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 6 • June 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Understanding Wikimedia Affiliates Evaluation in Education Report Understanding Wikimedia Community as Research Fellows Participants of Wiki/Ponder online workshop in Kosovo edit Wikipedia Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse – Celebrating the final unit of the online course! Wikipedia in schools competing for innovations in teaching award Meet this month's featured Wikimedia & Education community member: Oleh Kushch

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Tech News: 2020-27

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

• Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [32]
• Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [33]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28

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

• The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [34]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [35]
• The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
• Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Company-list table end

Template:Company-list table end has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 14:09, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

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

• Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [36]

Problems

• Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [37][38]

Changes later this week

• Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [39]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [40][41][42][43]

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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

RfC on the article regarding Santa Claus

Please see: Talk:Santa Claus#RfC about the wording lead section of the article. Félix An (talk) 16:03, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

About draft

I have been globally locked due to an misunderstanding, but they unlocked me anyway. So, I request you to undelete the draft I created. Thanks. A. Shohag 05:52, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Welcome back! DMacks (talk) 08:36, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much. A. Shohag 15:20, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

• There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [44]
• Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [45]
• Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [46]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [47]

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19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Help with importing a non-free file from Commons

Hi DMacks! Can I ask if it would be possible for you to locally import file:Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet.jpg (from the Commons to Wikipedia) so that it may be used under fair use on Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet? Thanks, --Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 03:51, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Could you clarify some of its tagging? You added {{No source since}} but the description says:

|source=http://www.affaires-etrangeres.gouv.ga/
|author=Ministère des Affaires Etrangères

And regarding licensing, there is an OTRS ticket listed. If that ticket supports open-license, then we don't need to do fair-use and it can stay on commons. But if there is a sourcing problem, then that makes it unusable even under fair-use on enwiki. I've reached out to an OTRS agent to get more information about the ticket (presumably if it includes a declaration of proper license release it also would support a specific source, even if we can't state in detail what that source is). Will follow up with more info when I hear back... DMacks (talk) 16:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

The OTRS ticket does not refer to this specific image (neither license nor source), merely the nature of the {{FCO}} tag in general. The image also states "This file comes from the Flickr stream of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office", which seems to contradict the |source=. If it's originally from that Ministère, then the FCO licensing is not relevant. Even if it were to be on FCO's flickr stream, "Note: This permission only extends to content provided by the FCO and does not include third-party content." If instead it's FCO's content being hosted on the Ministère's site, then we need more specific sourcing to be able to verify that fact. Either way, I do not think there is currently enough information to meet the NFCC policy burden about sourcing. DMacks (talk) 16:23, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this. It would appear the real source of the image is from this website. --Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 16:36, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Clarification: the original (but not immediate) source for the image is indeed affaires-etrangeres.gouv.ga. Do you think this would meet the NFCC policy burden? Best, --Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 02:56, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Good detective work! The gouv.ga site (full image) does not have an open license, and wazobiaglobaltimes (cropped image, on commons) neither has an open license nor gives credit to gouv.ga. I think we could use either image by NFCC, cited specifically to where we get it. If we use the crop, we don't need to cite the full from which they cropped it. And regardless, the OFC tagging and OTRS ticket are off-topic. Could you update the description on commons? Then I'll transfer it and delete there. That way, even the deleted material is *correct* and clarifies why it had to be deleted. DMacks (talk) 05:15, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks DMacks. I've updated the image details on Commons, including links to both sources (the immediate and original), while removing the bogus licence. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 05:43, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

All done. Thanks for bearing with this drawn-out process and working on articles on interesting topics! DMacks (talk) 09:45, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [48]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [49][50]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [51]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [52]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Deleted file restoration

Hi DMacks, do you think you could restore the file:Bruce Millan 1992.jpg? OTRS permission for the image is confirmed by the ticket:2019112010009942. Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 09:35, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Done. I don't have OTRS permission to confirm the ticket, so I'm not going to change the tagging myself. DMacks (talk) 13:27, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

  ​ Thank you. Can you also restore the 20:20, 5 March 2011 version of file:John Rickman.jpg and export said version to the Commons? The author of the painting in the image died in 1859. Thanks again, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:05, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

I revived that version on the enwiki file and also added linked and updated the source URL. There seems to be a larger image at that source, maybe upload it to this enwiki and then we can send the whole thing to commons? Or else just upload that higher quality one to commons and not bother with this enwiki history at all? DMacks (talk) 05:30, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

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

• All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [53]
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Ammonium nitrate and "critical mass"

Hi DMacks,

I am sorry that I do not understand the "Talk" function in Wikipedia and find the jungle that the links in the email sent to me by Wikipedia incredibly confusing. I like the idea of including the reference to runaway chemical reactions - that is what happens under the right conditions with Ammonium Nitrate whether it is supplementing combustible material as an oxidising agent, or simply explosively decomposing in its own right, or a combination of both.

However, the more I think about it, the less relevant any idea of "critical mass" becomes to me when talking about chemical explosives. ANY amount of the right chemical substances can undergo a runaway exothermic reaction under the right conditions of temperature or pressure. Under the right conditions of confinement, it will lead to an explosion. In other words, I don't think that the concept of "critical mass" or critical amount applies. If the amount is really small, it just isn't much of an explosion. Unfortunately, we saw yesterday what 2,750 tons of AN can do under the right conditions.

Bunmoh (talk) 03:17, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

@Bunmoh: Wikipedia has a TON of features and ways of using them, no question it can be confusing! I agree that the "mass" itself is not the sole concern (as you note, temperature and confinement matter, which also relates to shape of the material). And also not every runaway reaction is explosive by nature. How about "Both decomposition reactions are exothermic. Consequently, under certain conditions, it can become a runaway reaction, which can lead to an explosion." ? DMacks (talk) 03:36, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dmacks - I had a crack at a further edit along the lines you suggest. What do you think? I believe that, in the case of AN, atmospheric pressure is enough of a confinement to cause an explosion once that runaway reaction takes hold. Here in Australia, it is used in bulk in the mining industry, especially to help with removing large volumes of dirt and overburden in open cut mines. In that case, it is usually buried in holes, soaked with diesel fuel and detonated with an explosive charge, so the explosion is partly its role as an oxidiser for the diesel fuel and partly explosive decomposition. Bunmoh (talk) 03:47, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Nice. I tweaked it a little more. We'd need a cited source that atmospheric pressure is sufficient confinement. Our ANFO article talks about the mixture with diesel fuel. DMacks (talk) 06:01, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Last comment - I think the text of this little passage is about as good as it can get now. It is both concise and accurate. Bunmoh (talk) 11:21, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

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• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [60]

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• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [61]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Windscreen

I wrote a sentence to define formaldehyde as a colourless gas. Unlike USA, the rest of the world is using colour, not color. Also polymerisation is spelt with z in my language, but in non-American countries, British English spelling is more common. Acetonitrile, acetyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride have the spelling "colourless". LeticiaLL (talk) 11:27, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Not acetyl chloride, oxalyl chloride LeticiaLL (talk) 11:29, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Also thionyl chloride, phosphorus pentachloride. You can't believe but hydrogen chloride has "colourless" spelling too LeticiaLL (talk) 11:35, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

As I said, see WP:ENGVAR. I won't bother re-typing the basis for that guideline here, except to emphasize that it's "per-article" not "per-editor" and that the guideline has widespread consensus as the style guide here on Wikipedia. DMacks (talk) 11:47, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Regarding Reverting Edits and Citations of Chris Piche

Hi DMacks you state "Copyvio" for a proper Official Legal source where I cited and provided a Judgement Summary from Canlii a Official Legal Public Database that specifically allows copying.

"...legal materials published on the CanLII website, such as legislation, decisions and commentary, including editorial enhancements inserted into the documents by CanLII such as hyperlinks and information in headers and footers, can be copied, printed and used by Users free of charge and without any other authorization from CanLII, provided that CanLII is identified as the source of the document." "https://www.canlii.org/en/info/terms.html"

Court decisions and opinions, as well as the actual texts of laws, are not protected at all under US copyright laws. This goes back to Wheaton v. Peters, and there have been a number of broader holding since. So anyoen claiming that quoting a court decision is a copyright violation is simply mistaken. (by: DESiegel given to me in the new user section)

Furthermore if my additions to this BLP are somehow wrong and/or copyright violations that would make every BLP with a List of Lawsuits and/or a summary of the Judgment a "Copyvio" using your description.

For example the President's BLP or any other BLP on Wiki that contains Legal references and/or a legal summary copied from a Judgement are those other BLP pages subject to deletion?

And how do I list lawsuits in a BLP with links to primary sources that is the actual final Judgement without it being a "Copyvio"?

Facts are facts (From Wiki :) If someone has been convicted of multiple counts of murder and grand theft, it's not a BLP violation to mention those facts with appropriate sourcing, even though most editors would agree such facts reflect poorly on the subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DragonFireWar (talk • contribs) 19:53, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

@DragonFireWar: Let's keep this centralized on Wikipedia:Teahouse, where multiple other editors have already chimed in while I was offline. DMacks (talk) 03:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

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• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [64]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [65]

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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Regarding edit on article on CBSE

Hello, I have noticed that my edits to include the Scheme of Studies and Subjects Offered by CBSE on its own article have been undone by you. I just read your message at my Talk page.

Actually, I did not know that you had already reverted my edits. I had already started editing the article, much before you reverted my edits, and published it much later. Thus, unknowingly I had published it again, along with several other additions to the article. Moreover, I did not receive any notifications regarding the undoing of my edits. I am regretful for my actions.

I would like to discuss the matter with you before any subsequent edits on this article. Can you please tell why the edits seemed to you as disruptive? I believe that it will be in the best interests of the students and their guardians to know about the scheme of studies, if they can gain this information from a reliable source as Wikipedia. I understand the importance of correct facts in Wikipedia, and thus would add References to whatever edit I make. Moreover, I believe that basic topics like the list of subjects and the scheme of studies which is important for students so as to make good choices for the subjects that they will be taking for further studies.

In the case of the section of Grade cut-offs, which contains just 15 subjects of class XII in 2018, out of the 160+ subjects offered by the board in the 2018 Board exam, not even all the cells are filled with relevant information, and there are no references to support the relevance of the data. The article also contains the grade cut-offs over the years (1992-2012) for a single subject (Hindi Elective-002) out of so many subjects, this subject (Hindi Elective-002) is not even among the most popular ones. If such sections are not disruptive, how can be my section be so disruptive?

Yours Sincerely, Soukarya (talk) 14:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

The best source of current policies and other information specific to current students is the organization's own website. Instead, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for general readership. Specific details like history of grade cutoffs or course-sequences are not "encyclopediac" information. As a comparable guideline, WP:WPSCH/AG identifies content that is appropriate for an encyclopedia vs what is only of interest to current affiliates. I removed the Hindi tables...I agree that they sound too small a detail to include. DMacks (talk) 14:43, 19 August 2020 (UTC)