User talk:Hawkeye7/Archive 2019

Precious
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Seven years!

March
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	... with thanks from QAI

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Your GA nomination of Scott Carpenter

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Scott Carpenter 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 10:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Scott Carpenter

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article Scott Carpenter 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:Scott Carpenter for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 10:20, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Scott Carpenter

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article Scott Carpenter you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Scott Carpenter 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 04:41, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

2018 Year in Review

Latest comment: 5 years ago11 comments1 person in discussion

		The WikiChevrons
		For your work on British hydrogen bomb programme, K-25, Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign, Trident (UK nuclear programme), British logistics in the Falklands War, Neil Armstrong, and Project E during 2018 you are hereby awarded these WikiChevrons. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Nuclear Barnstar
		For your work on British hydrogen bomb programme, K-25, Trident (UK nuclear programme), and Project E during 2018 you are hereby awarded the Nuclear Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Featured Article Medal
		For your work on British hydrogen bomb programme, K-25, Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign, British logistics in the Falklands War, Neil Armstrong, and Project E during 2018 you are hereby awarded The Featured Article Medal. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Wikiproject Aircraft Wiki-Wings
		For your work with aviators Neil Armstrong and John Glenn you are hereby awarded these WikiWings. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		WikiProject Ships Barnstar
		For your work on Trident (UK nuclear programme) you are hereby awarded the WIkiProject Ships Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Biography Barnstar
		For your work on the articles Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, you are hereby awarded this Biography Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Half Barnstar
		For your work on the articles Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, you are hereby awarded The Left Half of the Half Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Epic Barnstar
		For your contributions to the area of History in General, you are hereby awarded this Epic Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		For your work on Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign you are hereby awarded The Australian Barnstar of National Merit. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
		_{this WikiAward was given to TomStar81/2018 by TomStar81 (Talk) on 20:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC)}

		The Special Barnstar
		In recognition of the decision by the Wikipedia Signpost to feature the K25 building as the lead image for its "Feature Content" section in the 20 February 2018 edition you are hereby presented with the Special Barnstar. Admittedly, this was a "luck of the draw" matter, but its still worthy on noting :) TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Quarterly reviewing stats etc

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

G'day Hawkeye, and Happy New Year! Is Milhistbot up to running the quarterly reviewing task yet? Otherwise we might need to get on with it manually. Let me know? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:29, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

The Bot had a problem: "Unable to find 'Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Marcus Aurelius/archive2'". It had been moved or deleted. I told the Bot to Keep Calm and Carry On. The tallies are posted now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:44, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Don Z. Zimmerman

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

On 5 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Don Z. Zimmerman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in planning the capture of the Marshall Islands during World War II, Don Z. Zimmerman disputed Charles Darwin's theory about the evolution of the coral reefs—and was proven correct? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Don Z. Zimmerman. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Don Z. Zimmerman), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: It's a terrific article, kudos! – Athaenara ✉ 02:25, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you.

For every article I bring to Featured Article quality (in this case Buzz Aldrin, I create two more short articles (in this case, Don Z. Zimmerman and Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr.). Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:23, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

You are welcome, and thanks for the Aldrin Sr. link. You are very good at this. – Athaenara ✉ 04:32, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Nick-D looks at Albert Speer
Op-ed: Factotem on common problems affecting infoboxes
Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:58, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Quebec Agreement scheduled for TFA

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This is to let you know that the Quebec Agreement article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 7, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 7, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

We also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors on the day before and the day of this TFA. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:32, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the article on the merge of the "British (Tube Alloys) and Canadian (Montreal Laboratory) nuclear weapons projects with the American one (Manhattan Project)"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for October to December 2018 reviews. MilHistBot (talk) 01:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

A barnstar for you!

Latest comment: 5 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

	The Technical Barnstar
	I'm following up some stuff I did long ago and just saw that you took up my bot proposal. Thanks a lot! Far better than I thought a bot could do. Huon (talk) 18:44, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

This Bot run is on the seventh of each month (to allow the page stats to be updated beforehand.) So last month is now available. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:17, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I saw the TFA wait for Apollo 8 was 13 years, which is technically not true since it was run as TFA between its original FAC and this TFA. Just an oddity to point out if you feel like addressing it, not a big deal. Neat tool! Kees08 (Talk) 21:38, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I had to decide how to handle those, and decided to take it from the most recent FAC to the current TFA. So, for example, J. Robert Oppenheimer was promoted on 1 February 2005 and ran as TFA on 22 April 2005 (80 days later) but was demoted on 5 April 2007, and restored to featured status on 19 March 2011. If it was TFA again on 22 April 2019, the table would say 8 years, 34 days. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:50, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, you always have to decide what to care about for the edge cases. The TFA case column does not sort correctly though, and that should be an easy fix. Also, was a little sad that Apollo 8 was not the number one viewed article for the month! Kees08 (Talk) 03:07, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Carrying the Fire

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

The reason I asked about your version is because in the book, In his biography he said he felt at that moment like a Roman god riding the skies in his chariot. is definitely not on page 78. It is also not on 178, 278, etc. I will try to find where it is mentioned in the book and fix the page number. Kees08 (Talk) 00:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

It's on page 221. I have corrected the reference. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:36, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you. Would you be opposed to me rephrasing it from In his biography he said he felt at that moment like a Roman god riding the skies in his chariot. to In his biography he said he felt at that moment like a God riding the skies in his chariot. He did not mention Roman, and the G is capitalized. Also wouldn't this be considered an autobiography? Kees08 (Talk) 03:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Nevermind, read page 475. Thanks, that was the missing page I was looking for. Kees08 (Talk) 03:11, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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

You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [5][6]
You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [7][8]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [9]

Problems

When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [11]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 20

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Gordon Cooper, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Conrad (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants

A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:

Harvesting categories tool prototype

DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

What else is going on

There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 09:27, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).

Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [12]

Recent changes

The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [13]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [14][15]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [17]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for James Lawton Collins Jr.

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

On 22 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James Lawton Collins Jr., which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lieutenant Colonel James Lawton Collins Jr. (pictured) was wounded when his battalion was accidentally hit by American bombers during Operation Cobra? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Lawton Collins Jr.. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, James Lawton Collins Jr.), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 00:01, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gordon Cooper

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Gordon Cooper 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 08:20, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Douglas MacArthur GCB

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I hear what you say about reverting my edit concerning the nationality of the honorary GCB awarded to MacArthur. It would be interesting to know the background of his award. You say British government objected but the objection could not have been unanimous and strong enough for them to veto the award which was a British state honour, of British manufacture (could they have been minted in Australia?). Somebody somewhere had the last word. The British sovereign (in his day George VI) I understand is usually advised by the Prime Minister (Winston Churchill until summer 1945, Clement Attlee at time of Allied-Japanese armistice) before conferring the Bath order. It may be interesting to note that Churchill, as UK PM, did turn down an offer by Stalin to award a Soviet campaign medal to all British troops in PAIFORCE in Iran (of which my grandfather was one) and only allowed a token number of senior officers to receive Soviet honours - a decision which did annoy many rank and file in the theatre when it was announced.Cloptonson (talk) 11:07, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

The insignia were minted in the UK and shipped to Australia. The sovereign (George VI in this case) by convention acts only on the advice of his ministers; but in the case of Australia, this is the advice of his Australian ministers, and the Australian Prime Minister was John Curtin at the time. The UK government could not veto the award. This was a consequence of the Statute of Westminster 1931. The Australian government communicated directly with the Royal staff at Buckingham Palace through the office of the Governor General of Australia (Lord Gowrie at the time), who acts on the advice of his Australian ministers. Australia continued to award Imperial honours until 1989, although their use was bot formally discontinued until 1992. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:43, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Portal styles

For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.

If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.

Conversion continues

There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".

Flagship portals: the portals on the Main Page

Speaking of upgrades...

The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:

Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.

The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.

As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.

Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.

And be sure they are on your watchlist.

New portals since last issue

Keep 'em coming!

Deorphanizing the new portals

As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.

What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.

Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...

Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.

That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!

To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.

It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.

Good news indeed.

Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!

And, that's a wrap

That's all I have to report this time around.

No doubt there will be more to tell soon.

Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:12, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05

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 Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [18]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Mars cycler

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

On 30 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mars cycler, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that astronaut Buzz Aldrin discovered the Aldrin cycler, a means of repeatedly traveling between Earth and Mars? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mars cycler. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mars cycler), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 00:03, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Great job on this fascinating page, Hawk! Thanks for your consistently high editing standard and your devotion to the project! BusterD (talk) 05:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

News from the WMF: News from WMF

Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

Essay: How

Humour: Village pump

From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:50, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gordon Cooper

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The article Gordon Cooper 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:Gordon Cooper for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 07:20, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019

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Here's a quicky status report:

Old-style portals: 1,018

Single-page portals: 4,367

Total portals: 5,385

But of course, there has been more going on than just that...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!

Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.

What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.

We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.

When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.

Get ready...

Get set...

Go!

Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discovered

User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.

When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.

The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:

And the corresponding talk pages:

New portals since the last issue

Keep up the great work

Until next time, — The Transhumanist 09:00, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Charles J. Donlan

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On 5 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charles J. Donlan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Charles J. Donlan was responsible for selecting the Mercury Seven astronauts and the Mercury spacecraft they flew? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles J. Donlan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charles J. Donlan), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Your GA nomination of Gordon Cooper

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The article Gordon Cooper you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Gordon Cooper 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 11:01, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019

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Where we are at:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down

You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).

Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!

Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Indefinitely_semiprotecting_the_refdesk#Proposal_II:_Shut_down_the_Ref_Desks

The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...

The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...

Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.

For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch

10,000 portals, here we come...

We're at 5,705 portals and counting.

New portals since issue #28

Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.

What's next for portal pages?

There are 5 drives for portal development:

Create new portals
Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
Pageless portals

Let's take a closer look at these...

1: Creating new portals

Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.

Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.

Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.

2: Expanding existing portals

The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...

Improving and/or adding search parameters to better power the Did you know and In the news sections.
Adding more selected content sections, like Selected biographies.
Adding and maintaining Recognized content sections, via JL-Bot.
Adding pictures to the image slideshow.
Adding panoramic pics.
Categorizing portals.

More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.

3: Converting old portals

By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.

There are two approaches here:

A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...

B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.

4: Linking to new portals

Or "portal deorphanization"...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.

And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.

5...

See below...

New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...

Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.

What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?

Quantum portals.

What are quantum portals?

Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.

Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:

...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...

Introducing...

Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).

Keep on keepin' on

...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:22, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Project E TFA

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Hi, this is to let you know that the above article will appear as Today's Featured Article on March 25, 2019. The blurb to be used can be found here. You are free to edit the blurb, and may want to watchlist that page, as well as WP:ERRORS in case there are queries about it on the day it runs, as well as the previous day. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to post on my talk. Thanks for building quality content!--Wehwalt (talk) 18:14, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

I have trimmed the blurb down to ~1,000 characters. Warning: Project E weapons were phased out under a treaty the US and UK have now decided to break. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:36, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Albert Kesselring

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Hi, I'm sharing my concerns about the exchange at Talk:Albert Kesselring#Feb 2019 edit. For example:

"Tweaking the wording is not acceptable. The wording has been carefully reviewed..." & "Your proposed changes are rejected. Seek consensus for any changes you propose." -- article content does not need to be preemptively cleared with a page owner. Even FA articles are not set in stone, especially when the "careful review" took place 10 years ago.
"We'll have another look"; "But we can source easily enough"; "the only source we can have..." -- "we" who?
"a sensitive issue in your country"; "This is another part that could be sensitive in your country"; "Yet another issue that could be sensitive in your country." --My country? What does this even mean?
"... reverted. This was because of multiple problems, including grammar, reference formatting and the use of an abbreviation that is not commonly known..." -- you well know these are not valid reasons to revert an addition, but thank you for getting "reference formatting corrected".

I know that this was an FA that you nominated and you are proud of the page as evidenced by your 2011 MILHIST Op-Ed. However, you seem to have assumed ownership of the page and are acting as a gatekeeper, shutting down or ignoring dissent. The examples of the condescension above are really offputting and can have a stifling effect. While this comment, in particular, comes uncomfortably close to war crimes apologia: The final figure was higher than most previous estimates, bur still only a fraction of the number of civilians killed by Allied bombing. Perhaps it's time for you to step back from the article and let other perspectives be heard. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:18, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

This actually comes from the report itself. It also appears in the German official history. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

I would like to continue working on the article with a goal of improving due weight of certain aspects. My first attempt did not go so well; perhaps I was too bold with my changes by making them in one single edit. I can adjust this going forward. For example, I can implement the changes section-by-section and provide more specific edit summaries and / or more justification for the edits. For example, the 1954 source I referred to on the Talk page was "Smiling Al". Time. 19 April 1954. Retrieved 4 April 2009.; it is used to claim that the Kesselring's "memoirs formed a valuable resource...".

My initial impression was that you felt that the current text was fine and any changes would be unwelcome. If this is the case, the other option is to ask for community input via FA reassessment. Not sure if your thinking on this matter has changed. I'd be happy to proceed with either option. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:18, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Before archives began being declassified in the 1980s, memoirs of senior leaders were a major resource for historians for many years. Many sources consulted Kesselring's memoirs for the reasons for the invasion of the Soviet Union being delayed from May until June. They refuted the claim that the campaign in Greece was the cause. Today a better source might be the German official history on the Invasion of the Soviet Union; I haven't read that volume, so I don't know what it says. But in the context, a 1954 source is precisely what we need for how the book was received. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

While I feel the current text is fine, changes should be considered. Community input via the FAR process would be good, but the article only gets about 200,000 page views per annum, so it is not a high traffic one, and I don't think very many editors would be much interested besides the two of us. Have you read through the memoirs and von Lingen's book? It is available in English now, so you don't have to read it in the original German. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I have Lingen's book and it has confirmed my impression that the article lacks neutrality in certain areas, through uncritical use of primary sources and a one-sided presentation. Some sources are dated; see WP:RS AGE, especially in regards to bias.

It's a bit unclear to me what you feel should be done. There's seemingly support for both editing the article ("changes should be considered") and a FAR ("Community input via the FAR process would be good"). If you plan to continue reverting my changes wholesale, then I feel that FAR is the way to go. My preferred option would be to implement and work through the changes since the goal is not to have the article delisted but instead to improve it. Please let me know what you think. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:59, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Do you have an opinion one way or the other? K.e.coffman (talk) 00:16, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

It seems that other editors are interested, so a FAR is the best way to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:40, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for John L. Whitehead Jr.

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On 19 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John L. Whitehead Jr., which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John L. Whitehead Jr. (pictured) was the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John L. Whitehead Jr.. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John L. Whitehead Jr.), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Apollo 15

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Would you have time to do a FAC review? Much obliged.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:12, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

I'll do it on the weekend. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:03, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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Hi Hawkeye, I think your bot went a bit doolally earlier - it started removing FAC notices from nominated talk pages, stating "Removing unfinished candidacy from talk page". It looks like it's done that to a stack of pages, all of which seem OK to me. Cheers. - SchroCat (talk) 00:42, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

My fault. The problem has been resolved. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:18, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Gordon Cooper

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On 9 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gordon Cooper, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after astronaut Gordon Cooper (pictured) died, his ashes were launched into space three times? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gordon Cooper. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gordon Cooper), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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NPR Newsletter No.17

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Hello Hawkeye7,

News

The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
{{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019

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Previous issue:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

This issue:

Single-page portals: 4,562

Total portals: 5,578

The collection of portals has shrunk

All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019

Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals

Individual Nominations:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prostitution in Canada Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agoura Hills, California Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urinary system Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cannabis (2nd nomination) Reverted to non-Automated version
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Intermodal containers Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adventure travel Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adam Ant Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benito Juárez, Mexico City Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spaghetti Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Wikiatlas Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Greek alphabet Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Accounting Deleted G7
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH

Related WikiProject:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals Demoted

(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)

WikiProject Quantum portals

This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).

It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.

Hiatus on mass creation of Portals

At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.

The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.

Until next issue...

Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 10:15, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Collins

Latest comment: 5 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

What would you like to do with Collins? Ask for an exemption on the two weeks, or just wait it out? Kees08 (Talk) 18:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I'd like to wait until Buzz Aldrin makes it through. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:56, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Actually if you check my closing comment, I did give you guys leave to ignore the 2-week wait since only one person commented. OTOH Aldrin shouldn't take too long to close, last I looked... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Much appreciated. I may still exercise it. I thought that it would be best of there was only one astronaut at FAC. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

I believe Aldrin's article is ready for promotion, in case you want to nominate Collins now. Otherwise we can wait until it is official. Kees08 (Talk) 04:28, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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Changes later this week

When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [29][30]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

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Future changes

Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [31]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:43, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Policy refresher

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

Hi,

You may want to read up on Wikipedia's policy on original research before you incorrectly label someone's good-faith edit as a "blockable offence"; doesn't mention that anywhere. Secondly, you've probably been around here long enough to know that citations don't belong in the lead of an article. Granted, the body of the article should mention the bit about being the second longest -- but everything else is there. Thanks, —MelbourneStar☆^talk 11:08, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

You're right. That was uncalled for. It seems to contradict the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy, which says: All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution... Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:08, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

It's mentioned elsewhere on Wikipedia that only Whitlam served longer as Federal leader of the ALP. I thought it was important to include, because a person wouldn't last that long in the modern era. Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 21:27, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

I'll dig up a source, and I'll add it to the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:35, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

TFA

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Thank you for Project E, "about the US supplying nuclear weapons to the UK forces during the Cold War. It was the first of a series of nuclear sharing agreements; subsequently weapons were supplied on similar terms to Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:25, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

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Recent changes

The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [32]

Problems

There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [33]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [34]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [35]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

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18:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Abby Cubillo

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On 27 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Abby Cubillo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Abby Cubillo is the first woman born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in the Women's National Basketball League? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Abby Cubillo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Abby Cubillo), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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From the editors: Getting serious about humor

News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

In the media: Women's history month

Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding

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Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37

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ITN recognition for Ed Westcott

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On 1 April 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ed Westcott, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.

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Tech News: 2019-14

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Changes later this week

Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [36]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:NAB AFLW 2019 logo.svg

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DYK nomination of 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final

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Hello! Your submission of 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! – Teratix ₵ 10:44, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

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		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for January to March 2019 reviews. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

Tech News: 2019-15

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

More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [37][38]

Problems

You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [39]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [40]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [41]

Changes later this week

When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [42]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [43]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [44]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [45][46]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019

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Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Peacemaker67, Nick-D and Hawkeye7 look at three books focussing on the World Wars
Op-ed: Indy Beetle on the fall of Idi Amin

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 21:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Comment on Kim Clijsters FAC?

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Hi Hawkeye7, I nominated Kim Clijsters as an FAC a few weeks ago, but I've been struggling to attract reviewers. Seeing that you have worked on a lot of other women's sport articles, I was wondering if you could help me out and leave comments. Thank you, Sportsfan77777 (talk) 19:43, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Sure. I'll have a look. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:16, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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Recent changes

All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [47][48]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Finger on the button WP

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https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Finger-on-the-Nuclear-Button.pdf

FYI. Interesting the paer posits UK PM doesn't really need CDS approval to launch nuclear strike.

BlueD954 (talk) 03:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Barnstar for you

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		The ISSstar
		For the amazing work getting Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to FA prior to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 (with time to spare!). Kees08 (Talk) 05:56, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

FACBot FL closures

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Hawkeye, just wondered if you knew if there was a reason that several closed FLCs have remained unarchived by FACBot? Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:30, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

The coordinator marked two of them as "unsuccessful", and the FACBot did not know what that meant. I've instructed the FACBot that this is a failure so it will know from now on, and started a manual run at 1917K. The two were processed. I think everything is okay now. Let me know if there are any more problems. It is a public holiday here so I am on a laptop. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Good topic

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

It looks like with your 1966 NASA T-38 crash, along with my Elliot See and Charles Bassett, we have a good topic. Would you be interested in proposing it? Kees08 (Talk) 06:38, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Sure. I can do that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:37, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello! Your submission of 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 15:56, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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Recent changes

The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [49][50][51]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [52]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [53][54]

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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mercury Seven

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mercury Seven 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 07:20, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mercury Seven

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The article Mercury Seven you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mercury Seven 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final

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Hello! Your submission of 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:31, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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Recent changes

The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [55][56]

Problems

Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [57]

Changes later this week

You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [58]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [59]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [60]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [61]

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

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News and notes: An Action Packed April

In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

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Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

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Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

From the archives: Portals revisited

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Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

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The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, Ceranthor, Lee Vilenski, and Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. 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.

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) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Child prodigies

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Fermi is included in List of child prodigies. You might be interested in this discussion about the proposal to abolish the Category:Child prodigies‎. Rathfelder (talk) 21:08, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #031, 01 May 2019

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Back to the drawing board

Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.

Some of the reasons for the purge are:

Portals receive insufficient traffic, making it a waste of editor resources to maintain them, especially for narrow-scope or "micro" portals
The default {{bpsp}} portals are redundant with the corresponding articles, being based primarily on the corresponding navigation footer displayed on each of those articles, and therefore not worth separate pages to do so
They were mass created

Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.

In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.

Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:

Manually maintained portals are not scalable (they are labor intensive, and there aren't very many editors available to maintain them)
The builders/maintainers tend to eventually abandon them
Untended handcrafted portals go stale and fall into disrepair over time

These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.

However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.

See you at WT:POG.

Curation

A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.

There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.

See you at WT:POG.

Traffic

An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.

And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.

The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?

And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...

Some potential future directions of development

Quantum portals?

An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.

Non-portal integrated components

Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.

What kind of features could this be done with?

The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.

Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).

The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.

Where would that leave curated portals?

Being curated. At least for the time being.

New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.

But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.

Keep on keepin' on

The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.

And who knows what else?

No worries.

Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 01:17, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [62]

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DYK for 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final

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On 8 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that 53,034 people watched the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final, a record attendance for a standalone women's sporting event in Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2019 AFL Women's Grand Final. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

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FACBot

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Hello. First of all, thank you for promoting many articles and topics. Actually, I have a question about FACBot: Is there anything manual/semi-auto about it? I mean, is it completely automated? And also, is it easy to port bot's source to another wiki? We have some difficulty adding {{Article History}} in fawiki and I think your code is a perfect tool to make it easier. Thanks in advance. Ahmad^Talk 05:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

The FACBot is fully automated and runs as cron jobs on Phabricator. I can run it manually from the command line when required. I never wrote it with any other wiki in mind, so it cannot run unmodified anywhere else. In particular, the name of the wiki (and Bot operator) is hard coded in the Bot.pm module. I should perhaps move this out to the config file. If the templates have different names, then that would have to be changed too. I suggest asking at WP:BOTREQ where they may be able to help you more. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:07, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for fast response. I have downloaded Perl and some other things; also checked MediaWiki::Bot; now I have a question that may seem too silly to ask: What command do you run in order to manually run the bot?! Ahmad^Talk 07:53, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

perl -I <library> <script> If you take your request to WP:BOTREQ, I can create a Bot run for you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:57, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

I think FACBot is still ignoring a lot of closed FL candidates, any ideas? The Rambling Man (talk) 10:47, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

No errors have been reported by the FACBot, and I cannot see any either. The Featured List run occurs daily, at around 0025Z, so nothing you've done today will be processed yet. I will check again after the next run. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:57, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

There are five listings waiting, more than one of which has been there several days. I wouldn't ask about things I've done today, I'm aware of how the bot should work, cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:18, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Hypericum species/archive2 - done today
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of poker hands/archive1 - done today
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Slovenia international footballers/archive2 - status is "successful" - should be "promoted"
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Cardinal electors for the August and October 1978 papal conclaves/archive1 - status is "successful" - should be "promoted"
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Daniil Trifonov discography/archive2 - done today

So what I can do is (a) inform the bot that "successful" is a "promoted" status (b) upgrade this from a remark to a warning, so the Bot will email me if it finds a status it does not recognise (I'm calling that a bug). The fixes will be in the next run. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:04, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:07, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Change made in Phabricator [63] - Bot run manually to test. All five nominations processed. [64] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:24, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

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Featured article review: Albert Kesselring

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I have nominated Albert Kesselring for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --K.e.coffman (talk) 02:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

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Hello Hawkeye7,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

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News

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Discussions of interest

A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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DYK for Clive Disher

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On 18 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clive Disher, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Disher Challenge Cup, an annual rowing race, is named after Clive Disher, who rowed for the winning Australian eight in the 1919 Henley Royal Peace Regatta? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clive Disher. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Clive Disher), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

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Recent changes

The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [65][66]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [67][68]

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The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [69]
The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [70]

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British logistics in the Normandy Campaign

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Hi, To avoid cluttering Eastfarthingan's talk page, I'm replying here to note that I'll review this article, most likely over the weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing how its developed since the GAN. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 07:58, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

MilHistBot

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Hey Hawkeye, I noticed that the bot is tracking Sturmvogel incorrectly in the ACM tracking page - see here, there are two different Sturmvogels, one with an underscore and one without. I haven't looked to see if any other editors are affected, but I figured I should pass it along in case there's something in the code that needs to be fixed. Parsecboy (talk) 11:47, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 4

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Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [71][72]
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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth L. Gardner

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To photo? Or not to photo? That is the question.
Whether to spiff up the main page, or to maximize page views.
And is that a false choice?
What is best for Wikipedia in the long term?
Your counsel would be welcome.
Thanks for the timely review. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:30, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Believe it or not, I nearly added the photo to the nom, but decided to defer to you. I presumed that you wanted readers to click to see the photo, but you will get more page views with a lead image. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:15, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

I was conflicted when I drafted it. I added ALT1. Please take a look. Needs to have the picture placed in the nomination and get a new ping. It's a fabulous photo. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 02:06, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the B class rating. It is now a fairly comprehensive article. I'm pleased with it. If we could get it to GA, there is an award for raising it from the depths. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 02:10, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Recent changes

You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [73]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [74]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [75][76]

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [77]

Changes later this week

Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [78]
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Proposed deletion of File:Army Ground Forces patch.jpg

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Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 4

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DYK nomination of Rose Hollermann

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Hello! Your submission of Rose Hollermann at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Edwardx (talk) 10:45, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [79][80]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [81]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [82]

Problems

Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [83]

Changes later this week

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Astronaut portraits

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I use the astronaut portrait guide to get the ID numbers, then plug them into the NASA Image and Video Library to get the highest resolution photos available. Not sure if you knew about the portrait guide, I only found it recently myself. Kees08 (Talk) 07:19, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019

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Four Award

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		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on British logistics in the Normandy Campaign. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 13:53, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Frank Borman

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Your GA nomination of Frank Borman

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The article Frank Borman you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Frank Borman 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 No Great Shaker -- No Great Shaker (talk) 14:41, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

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Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [84]

Changes later this week

MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [85]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [86]
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Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 4

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The article NASA Astronaut Group 4 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:NASA Astronaut Group 4 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 Starsandwhales -- Starsandwhales (talk) 16:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations!!

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Hey, Hawkeye7. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Mjs1991 (talk) 03:25, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh wow. It's been 14 years. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:30, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Frank Borman DYK

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I have requested July 1 date for Frank Borman with the hope of getting him a photo spot. It is the date he entered West Point and also the anniversary of his retirement from NASA. He will be the tip of the spear for July. Of course, you can request any other date. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 07:35, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Neil Armstrong scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the Neil Armstrong article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 21, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 21, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

We also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors up to the day of this TFA. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:54, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

@Jimfbleak: Disappointed. A lot of effort went into getting Apollo 11 ready for this date. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:12, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry to read that. This article was nominated by your co-editor, Kees8, at WP:TFAR and well supported there, so I would be a bit high-handed to ignore that, especially as there was no request for Apollo 11 either there or at WP:TFARP Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:06, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

That's funny..I thought Hawkeye7 was the one that wanted Armstrong as TFA, I just looked for that discussion and either I cannot find it or it does not exist (I'll just assume the latter). I actually preferred to have Apollo 11 at TFA on that date... The RfC seems to prefer Apollo 11 over Armstrong as the TFA as well. I have no issue with that, and would prefer it. Sorry for the confusion, perhaps we can make the switch. Kees08 (Talk) 07:09, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

It was my understanding that Neil Armstrong was the first choice for July 21. I am real sad to hear that you are disappointed. I pinged you so many times to join the discussion at WP:S2019 that I started to feel that I was pestering you. But we made several plans based on the assumption that Neil would be the TFA. I also fought hard to get an FP of the famous photo of Aldrin on the moon and nominated it for TFP for July 21. See Template:POTD/2019-07-21 where the Apollo 11 article is the focus. If this worked against your wishes, I am really really sorry. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 07:50, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 4

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Hello! Your submission of NASA Astronaut Group 4 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:33, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-26

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

The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [88]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [89]

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for NASA Astronaut Group 4

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On 28 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article NASA Astronaut Group 4, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that NASA Astronaut Group 4, selected in 1965 for the Apollo program, was the first recruited primarily on the basis of scientific experience? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NASA Astronaut Group 4. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, NASA Astronaut Group 4), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Frank Borman

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On 30 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frank Borman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after retirement from NASA, astronaut Frank Borman (pictured) became a special advisor to Eastern Air Lines, and helped rescue survivors of the Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crash near Florida's Everglades? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Borman. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Frank Borman), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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Hello Hawkeye7,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

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		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this barnstar in recognition of the sterling work you are doing on maintaining the Featured Article status of Albert Kesselring. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:37, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

The June 2019 Signpost is out!

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Hi

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Re. [90]. Why not try again, if you still want to do admin? Alanscottwalker (talk) 22:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

I still want to admin, and intend to try again. I was waiting for the current drama to die down. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:23, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye I was just thinking the same thing! Koala-gate being a long time ago now. Also I've been meaning to thank/congratulate you on all your moonshot related work - lots of good/featured articles are now ready for the big anniversary on July 20. Way to embiggen the wiki. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27

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

Recent changes

The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [91]

Problems

Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [92]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [93]

Changes later this week

You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [94]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

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The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything 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). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia, the free encylcopedia anyone can edit

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Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity. The fundamental principles by which Wikipedia operates are the five pillars. The Wikipedia community has developed many policies and guidelines to improve the encyclopedia; however, it is not a formal requirement to be familiar with them before contributing. from Wikipedia:About 5Ept5xW (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

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		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) for participating in 6 reviews between April and June 2019 Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 02:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

DYK for Teisha Shadwell

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On 6 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Teisha Shadwell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that wheelchair basketball player Teisha Shadwell raised money for a custom-built chair on GoFundMe? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Teisha Shadwell. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Teisha Shadwell), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:15, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Wow. Has it been that long already? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:43, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Do you think seven years is long? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes indeed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 12:11, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

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

Recent changes

For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [95]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [96]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [97]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [98]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [99]

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20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

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For some reason I've always thought that Cernan flew the Apollo 10 Lunar Module alone, so thanks for the correction and the change to my incorrect mental map of the Apollo missions. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:14, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Half-Million Award for Michael Collins

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	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Michael Collins (astronaut) (estimated annual readership: 561,574) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 14:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

In recognition of your work as a major contributor to Michael Collins (astronaut), a level-5 vital article, and seeing this article through a review to become a Physics and astronomy biography featured article. Thanks for your work on this high-readership article! – Reidgreg (talk) 14:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

I noticed that you and Kees08 already have the MA userboxes and are on the Hall of Fame list for Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Apollo 11 and Buzz Aldrin. Would you like me to verify and award those as well? – Reidgreg (talk) 14:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Sure. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:19, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

I thought for a few minutes that there was a problem with John Glenn; that article's readership went down significantly in 2018 but it more than qualifies for the year before it made FA, which is the metric used for MA.

	The Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Neil Armstrong (estimated annual readership: 1,920,938) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 21:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

	The Million Award
	For your contributions to bring John Glenn (estimated annual readership: 2,003,876) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 21:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

	The Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Apollo 11 (estimated annual readership: 2,021,546) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 21:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

	The Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Buzz Aldrin (estimated annual readership: 1,491,903) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 21:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Awarded to Hawkeye7 and Kees08, who are leading authors (1 2 3 4) of all four articles and saw them through their featured article reviews. These four featured articles are each listed as a level-5 or better vital article and they have had a total of 65 main page appearances, attesting to their importance to the Wikipedia community. Congratulations, and thank-you for this service to the Wikipedia readership! – Reidgreg (talk) 21:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Abby Dunkin

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On 13 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Abby Dunkin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Abby Dunkin was one of three University of Texas at Arlington players selected as members of the All Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Abby Dunkin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Abby Dunkin), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 3

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Hello! Your submission of NASA Astronaut Group 3 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:34, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019

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Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Haweye7, Peacemaker67 and Nick-D on recent books covering the world wars

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:00, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29

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

The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [100]

Changes later this week

The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [101]

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15:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

EngvarB Q

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What's the matter with EngvarB? I haven't heard of any problems with it before. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 09:00, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Per template:EngvarB: An article tagged with one of the specific language templates must never be changed to {{EngvarB}}. There is no legitimate reason to do so. {{EngvarB}} is a cleanup template applied by bots to articles where the national variety of English cannot be automatically determined from the text. It signals to bots that the variety is unknown, and they will add according to their own defaults. The idea is that the article maintainers should go through the article, remove the anomalous spellings, and tag it with the correct variety of English. Per WP:ENGVAR, once this is done, the bots and human editors must respect the specified variety of English. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:27, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Wish I'd found out about this sooner, I've used it as a tidy-up device. I thought that it was a newer version of the BritEng tag. ah well, you live and you learn. Thanks Keith-264 (talk) 20:46, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Isabel Martin (wheelchair basketball)

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On 17 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Isabel Martin (wheelchair basketball), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Isabel Martin was one of the Australian Devils who won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphan Buri, Thailand? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Isabel Martin (wheelchair basketball). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Isabel Martin (wheelchair basketball)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:02, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

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On 17 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Isabel Martin was one of the Australian Devils who won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphan Buri, Thailand? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:02, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for NASA Astronaut Group 2

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On 18 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article NASA Astronaut Group 2, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that six of the Next Nine astronauts flew to the Moon, and three walked on it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NASA Astronaut Group 2. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, NASA Astronaut Group 2), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for NASA Astronaut Group 3

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On 20 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article NASA Astronaut Group 3, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that four of the fourteen astronauts in NASA Astronaut Group 3 were killed in training accidents before they had a chance to fly in space? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NASA Astronaut Group 3. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, NASA Astronaut Group 3), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Michael Collins (astronaut)

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On 21 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Michael Collins (astronaut), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Michael Collins (pictured), the command module pilot for Apollo 11, was the first person to perform two spacewalks in a single mission? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Collins (astronaut). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Michael Collins (astronaut)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [102]

Problems

The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [103]

Changes later this week

Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [104]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

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DYK stats for Michael Collins (astronaut)

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Hi, you have to wait another day to record the July 21 page views for this page, since that formula which deducts the pageviews on the days before and after needs to be implemented. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 17:23, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Kerstin von Lingen

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Your GA nomination of Project Rover

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Your GA nomination of Project Rover

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ITN recognition for Neil Davey

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Your GA nomination of NERVA

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Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 2

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Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 5

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Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 3

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Might a hatting be in order?

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Hi Hawkeye7,

I was surprised at the tone of this response to you. My thought is that we were informative, but that you were not reciprocated by the asker. I am prepared to hat this whole thing, but I suspect that you are easygoing about it. Probably we could let this all pass, in silence.

But I could act. --Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 23:32, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Will you run for administrator?

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Hi Hawkeye I've kept an eye on you (as you know) for a while and I think you'd make a fine admin. Would you consider running? Any talk-page stalkers who are interested in co-nominating, please speak up. I'm always happy to share. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I would very much like to run. I appreciate your confidence in me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:56, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Great. I'll start working on an RfA page over the next few days. It won't be done in a hurry. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:15, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

There's no rush. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:14, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I would be very happy to co-nom, Dweller, but would happily step aside if someone with greater credibility was to offer. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 11:20, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Happy to have you and anyone else. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:46, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

The RfA is beginning to take shape at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hawkeye7 3. Anyone wishing to co-nom can add their nominations. Please don't participate in any other way yet. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:00, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 2

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The article NASA Astronaut Group 2 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:NASA Astronaut Group 2 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 08:21, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 3

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The article NASA Astronaut Group 3 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:NASA Astronaut Group 3 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 02:02, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Rose Hollermann

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On 12 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rose Hollermann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rose Hollermann (pictured) was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rose Hollermann. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rose Hollermann), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:01, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Nominating you for admin

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Dweller would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Dweller to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hawkeye7 3. If you accept the nomination, you must state and sign your acceptance. You may also choose to make a statement and/or answer the optional questions to supplement the information your nominator has given. Once you are satisfied with the page, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

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Nope nope nope

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I don't agree one bit with your last revert : not only are you deleting valuable information, that was correctly accompanied with a citation needed tag, but your reasons are shady.

Editors are forbidden from adding unsourced material.

I didn't see the forbidden part anywhere in the guidelines, especially when it was clearly written that a citation was needed. And ultimately, since information is lost by your revert and the article linked was very explanatory of the subject, that falls for me in IAR.

Unsourced material in not allowed at all in A-classd articles.

Wikipedia:Content assessment: "It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources." Don't see the not allowed either.

Last thing : I already corrected a non negligeable amount of information in this article just by looking in the official decrees. That is strange for a good article. So, I revert back.

CocoricoPolynesien (talk) 21:08, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

WP:V: Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source. How about just finding a source?

I was going to ask you if you would be interested in co-nominating the article for FAC?

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:23, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Just thanks for all the great work you do around here. Among others, I happened to read/enjoy the Buzz Aldrin article recently, after seeing First Man (not the most flattering portrayal, I imagine, but oh well). — `Rhododendrites ^talk` \\ 02:16, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Timing is everything?

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I don't usually look at RFA, so missed the start. I'm not going to post at this point, but would like you to know that what I said in 2016 still holds. Risker (talk) 16:39, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Risker I think having an Arb who voted for the desysop to add their voice to NYB who opposed it, would be valuable. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 13:02, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Albert Kesselring featured article review

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Hi, I note that you've notified MILHIST about the FARC: [115]. Could you please notify the rest of the projects listed at the top of the nomination: WP History; WP Germany; etc: Wikipedia:Featured article review/Albert Kesselring/archive1? --K.e.coffman (talk) 16:32, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

I have notified WP Biography, Germany, MilHist and Aviation, the four projects that have declared that the article is in their scope. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:16, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

RfA and edit summaries

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I am not sure what's going on but the Xtools edit summaries report does give you the mainspace edit summary usage of 46.7% for all mainspace edits, and 45.6% for major mainspace edits. Nsk92 (talk) 23:03, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Looking at your article space edits from today, I do see quite a few edits that in the edit history appear as not having edit summaries. E.g. [116] [117][118] [119][120] [121] [122][123][124][125][126]. All of these edits have a notation "Tag: PHP7". I am not sure if the tag has any significance, as plenty of your other edits, with edit summaries, have the same tag. Still, it is possible that something related PHP7 to is not working right. Nsk92 (talk) 00:07, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

They all have edit summaries. The first one is "Safety tests", the second is "Biography". I don't know what the tag means. My preferences have "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" set. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:26, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Those aren't edit summaries. They are pre-existing section headers. If an edit is made without an edit summary, it is shown in the edit history by a greyed-out section header. E.g. this edit that I just made here on my own user page [127]. The same is true for all of your edits whose diffs I listed above. ""Biography", "Safesty tests", etc are section headers that were already there before, prior to your edits. When a new section is created by an edit, it is shown in the edit history by its new greyed-out name followed by bright black phrase "new section", e.g. here [128]. Nsk92 (talk) 10:52, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

The sections have been added by my edits. The editor preferences setting regards them as edit summaries. If we want to regard them as otherwise, then the editor preferences will need to be changed first. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

It does not matter who created the section originally. When you made the edits linked in the diffs in my original post above, all the sections that you mention already existed in these articles. The "Safety tests" section in the "Project Rover" article, for example, was created by you on August 8 in this edit [129]. But in this edit of yours of August 12[130] the section had already existed for several days, and your edit did not include an edit summary. Note that if a section had already existed in an article prior to a particular edit, the greyed-out name of that section is always shown by the system in the edit history log, regardless of whether the edit was manual or automatic. An actual edit summary, if it is included at all, is always shown in bright black. Nsk92 (talk) 11:27, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Note that this point is explicitly explained in Help:Edit summary#Section editing and Help:Edit summary#Automatic summaries. Nsk92 (talk) 11:38, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Pedantic note: the section name is not "always shown", even if you click the "edit section" button. It's just inserted into the edit summary as a default. It can be added, removed or altered (as I'm doing in this edit). It's no less a part of the "actual edit summary" then any other code which the system automatically formats (e.g. blue links). — Bilorv (talk) 23:11, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, the edit summary counters don't count the automated summaries, while the preference does. It is a bit inconsistent (and maybe there should be a feature request for extended preferences). The auto summaries that state which section you are editing are better than nothing, but of course not as good as really describing what you do by hand. —Kusma (t·c) 11:21, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Harold Finger

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Hello! Your submission of Harold Finger at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Thincat (talk) 18:43, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm probably being a bit fussy and it may not strictly be a DYK matter anyway. I'll keep watching and give a tick asap. Best wishes. Thincat (talk) 18:43, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of NASA Astronaut Group 5

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The article NASA Astronaut Group 5 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:NASA Astronaut Group 5 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:02, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019

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Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 19 August 2019. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 19, 2019. Thanks! Ealdgyth - Talk 15:51, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Oh. It's the only Paralympic featured article, and I was hoping that it could be run during the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:13, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the article, with "drama and controversy, triumph and heartbreak" - and for that steady flow of GAs below, amazing! I have a peer review open btw. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

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Re: Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

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Hello.

Instead of repeatedly making the same change, maybe you should propose changing the article names – especially since you think there's a grammatical error.

Cheers.

HandsomeFella (talk) 08:51, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

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		The Military history A-Class cross
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class cross for Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins (astronaut), Elliot See, and 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Harold Finger

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On 22 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Harold Finger, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the 1960s, Harold Finger was in charge of the development of NASA's nuclear rocket and nuclear power systems, including generators left on the Moon by Apollo missions? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Harold Finger. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Harold Finger), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of NERVA

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The article NERVA you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:NERVA 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:41, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Backlog Banzai

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In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Relax!

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Congratulations on getting so far on the RFA. But you just did not make it. So to relax, here is a cup of tea!

Here is a cup of tea!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyatt2049 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Tim Fischer

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On 22 August 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tim Fischer, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.

Ad Orientem (talk) 21:45, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Project Rover

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On 23 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Project Rover, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the 1960s and 1970s, Project Rover tested nuclear-powered rocket engines (example pictured) at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at Jackass Flats? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Project Rover. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Project Rover), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Trinity nuclear test.

Latest comment: 5 years ago8 comments2 people in discussion

I'm not really clear on why I have to convince you of anything... Have you ever even been there? I have and have worked @ Los Alamos. did you check my source ? It was a test... it was a proof-of-concept... it wasn't a weapon, it wasn't weaponized, it wasn't deliverable as a weapon. The main header of the page calls it a test... The rest of this overly simplistic page repeatedly refers to trinity as a test...They had to test it to see if it would work as a weapon.... The first paragraph of this page is incorrect, wrong, just plain bullshit. Instead, I'd like to see you provide a single source that claims that it was a deliverable weapon in the form used at Trinity. Schreddley (talk) 06:52, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Trinity was the first large scale test of fissionable material...Hiroshima was the first test of a nuclear weapon...get your facts straight. Schreddley (talk) 07:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

All that was required to weaponise it was to add the ballistic casing... What if we change "nuclear weapon" to "nuclear device"? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:23, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Hawkeye, I still have to disagree... due to the sheer size, shape, and especially weight, the Trinity device was not deliverable as a weapon. Not withstanding that it was hard wired and had to be detonated via hardwiring... Not until the plutonium impact device configuration, using altimeter activated detonators and being in a shape and at a weight that could be dropped from a B-29, was it a weapon. And I also apologize for getting cheated in my prior response... I was at a loss to understand why my corrections on a Wikipedia page keep getting deleted. Schreddley (talk) 07:09, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Heated, not cheated...sorry. Schreddley (talk) 07:10, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

And the verbiage correction is fine, IMO. Schreddley (talk) 07:12, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

And if you ever make it to Las Vegas, I'll take you out to the Nevada test site. ;-) Schreddley (talk) 07:20, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I may take you up on that. :) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:54, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

RfA

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Thanks for making yourself available. These ordeals are not for the faint of heart. Being desysopped was a major hurdle but not an insurmountable one. Reflect upon the comments (some are helpful some are not) and remember that the majority supported your RFA. - Ret.Prof (talk) 13:44, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

I second that. Deb (talk) 13:56, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

I would vote for you again tomorrow, but I don't know how long it will take before you can get consensus. As you well know, 98% of most admin's contributions do not require the bit. --rogerd (talk) 17:13, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Sad to see the outcome, Hawkeye. You would make a great admin (again). Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:23, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Supported you, and not a very wise result from the community. Yet to be honest I was hoping you'd even decline to run, because as we go even further into the Apollo missions 50th anniversaries it's been a pleasure seeing your large body of work on spaceflight pages, your continuing fine edits, and your courteous use of your knowledge in answering questions and shepherding articles as they become even better. Nice work, and thanks. The admins staff loss is spaceflight articles gain, and not a better time than now to be a part of that. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:42, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
I was sorry to see the outcome. We haven't always agreed but you've always been civil, and civility is an important trait in an administrator. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 17:11, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
I feel you've demonstrated reliability and good judgement over and over. I'm tickled to support you. I often disagree with folks I respect here, but this outcome was just sad for the project IMHO. Please keep on. We all need you. You have my trust. BusterD (talk) 20:47, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

WP:REVEXP

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Do not revert my edits without explaining why you are doing that. See WP:REVEXP. Your behaviour is rude and highly disruptive. Doktor Rotkod (talk) 22:46, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Do not remove sourced material from an article and then tag it with a {{fact}} asking for the source you just removed to be provided. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:55, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Appreciation

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Good day, I just wanted to drop a note to say that your contributions are appreciated. I always enjoy reading your FAC submissions. Oh, and the bot obviously makes my job a lot easier. I'm planning a trip to Melbourne, Canberra, and Sydney this (my winter, your summer). --Laser brain (talk) 17:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

It would be great to see you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Allen F. Donovan

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On 30 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Allen F. Donovan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Allen F. Donovan worked for the Manhattan Project on the design of the shape of the Fat Man atomic bomb? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Allen F. Donovan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Allen F. Donovan), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:03, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2019

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News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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DYK for NASA Astronaut Group 5

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On 31 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article NASA Astronaut Group 5, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bruce McCandless II (pictured) flew in space for the first time in February 1984, nearly eighteen years after being chosen as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NASA Astronaut Group 5. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, NASA Astronaut Group 5), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

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Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Well done, sir. Well done.

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A very provocative and well narrated tale, proving itself worthy of authentic, earnest discussion by editors with skin in the game. Good job, my friend. Proud of you. BusterD (talk) 03:04, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bernard Adolph Schriever

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Bernard Adolph Schriever 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 Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:20, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

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The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

b dam

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https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73712/is-there-some-difference-between-north-east-and-northeast

You win, 15-4, south-west notwithstanding.--Brogo13 (talk) 20:03, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Well you had me reaching for the style guide over further vs farther. The British hyphenated form of "south west" was officially eliminated from Australian English many decades ago. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:26, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your contribution

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		*The Signpost* Barnstar**
		For being the Op-Ed contributor for the August, 2019 edition of The Signpost. Thanks for making the effort to share your thoughts and analysis. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:45, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Kerstin von Lingen

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Hello! Your submission of Kerstin von Lingen at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 04:13, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36

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

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
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Your GA nomination of Bernard Adolph Schriever

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The article Bernard Adolph Schriever you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Bernard Adolph Schriever 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 Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:42, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Toby Graham

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On 9 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Toby Graham, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that military historian Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Toby Graham. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Toby Graham), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 01:37, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2019

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VIII, August 2019
Headlines
Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategic salon around GLAM perspectives Finland report: Continuing our work with the Saami communities Indonesia report: Digitization of banknotes and introduction to structured data on Commons (continued) Netherlands report: Wikidata map making workshop Norway report: Women in Red: collaboration with The National Library in Norway and Oslo Metropolitan University Sweden report: GLAM communities of practice; Problematic data UK report: New and old collaborations USA report: Wikimania 2019 Special story: Wikimania GLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Recent presentations, workshops and blog posts Wikidata report: Work for us, or just tell us what you think of us WMF GLAM report: Updates on OpenGLAM Calendar: September's GLAM events
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Hello Hawkeye7,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

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Kesselring

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I plan to add some information about Kesselring's detrimental influence on the German air campaign during the Battle of Britain. It will shed some light on the mysterious decision—decisions often portrayed as Hitler's—to shift strategy to London. The article is a little thin there. Any objections? Dapi89 (talk) 20:49, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Sure. Go for it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:48, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

I've tried to do as little rewriting as possible. Most of the memoir info can be attributed to other sources. Have a look. Any issues letme know. Dapi89 (talk) 21:02, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Have

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you been paid in any form or manner, (including but not limited to monetary reimbursements), by the Australian Paralympic Committee or allies thereof, for contributing to the domain of Paralympics related articles (broadly construed), within the last 3 years? Regards, ∯WBG^converse 19:00, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Winged Blades of Godric, you will need an extremely good reason for asking such a question, otherwise it is blatant harassment and casting aspersions. Hawkeye is of course perfectly entitled to ignore it altogether. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:39, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

@Kudpung: there is, in my very strong opinion, good and sufficient reason to ask this of him and many others. The evidence is buried in the FRAMGATE materials. I, personally, would not have asked just yet and would have asked for 2011 on (the year of the first tender). Winged Blades of Godric is certainly not out of line to ask or even, in my opinion, to go to Arbcom. Jbh ^Talk 22:51, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Allow me to second what Jbhunley has said. A major investigation needs to be undertaken. I anticipate strong opposition from the WMF, but I hope (probably unrealistically) that our own community will recognize the severity of the situation. Lepricavark (talk) 23:09, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

I'm not suggesting for a moment that the issue is not serious, and it does indeed require mature investigation, but without providing a rationale for asking the question on a user's talk page, together with the attempted misleading thread title, I find the post disingenuous. I will remind Hawkeye again, in case he feels he is being intimidated, that he is under no obligation to answer and is perfectly entitled to ignore it or even remove it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:14, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 has never edited the Paralympics Australia page nor ever edited the Paralympics Australia awards page, or the main Paralympics page, so there's that and I just want to let page lookers know before rumors fly further afield. If there is something then WBG has in good faith let the cat run out of the bag, but the main articles and the awards article have nothing by Hawkeye7. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:22, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Rumors?! I wanted to know of something, pursuant to our local policies, and Hawkeye has appropriately responded below. That's it. ∯WBG^converse 03:29, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

A random admin's inability to see evidence does not hinder my right to ask questions. Also, the next time you are slapping a COI/UPE template on anyone's t/p without explicitly detailing your investigation, expect me to claim that you are harassing newbies. And, yeah, I have a perennial (bad) habit of putring the first word of my query in the section header; a cursory glance at my u/t/p edits will lead you to conclude that I am not dishing out some special treatment to Hawkeye. Ta, ∯WBG^converse 03:29, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

I haven't gotten anything from the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) since 2016. My trip to the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Hamburg in 2018 was paid for by myself and WMF. The APC issued me media accrediation for the Pyeong Chang Winter Paralympic Games in South Korea in 2018 but I did not attend due to work committments.

Going back to 2011, I had media accrediation for the London Paralympic Games in 2012 and Rio Paralympic Games in 2016 through the APC and Wikimedia Australia. For London I got a backpack, baseball cap and polo shirt from the APC, which we had to wear, and some items from the IPC media kit issued to all media reps. For Rio I only got the latter, so I wore my 2012 gear. HOPAU held regular meet-ups around Australia between 2011 and 2018. APC and UQ paid for transportation and accomodation to the HOPAU meet-ups in Brisbane in 2014, Adelaide in 2015 and Perth in 2016. The last was in Sydney in 2018, which I paid for myself. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:48, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much for such an open and detailed answer. Jbh ^Talk 01:00, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you and I highly appreciate your reply. ∯WBG^converse 03:29, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 addressed some of this during their recent RfA:

My second area in the articles on the Paralympics. I was asked to join the History of the Paralympics in Australia (HOPAU) project by John Vandenberg (talk · contribs) in 2011. Nearly a thousand articles have been created and hundreds of images uploaded in collaboration with the Australian Paralympic Committee. I attended the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio as an accredited media representative, and have been involved in workshops and training courses all over Australia. (The admin toolkit would have been very useful here.) My work on the warranted Wikipedia a rare mention in Hansard. I am most proud of the article I wrote on the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It is one of a kind: the only Paralympic article with FA status.
Disclosures

I have never edited for pay. I have two bot accounts, User:FACBot and User:MilHistBot.

-- ToE 16:13, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

This was part of the GLAM program. John Vandenberg, Tony Naar, Tara MacPhail and I discussed the HOPAU project with Sue Gartner in 2013. I wrote about iyt on the Wikimedia blog. [143] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Alan Shepard

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Birthday coming up 18 November ... would you like to see him on TFAP? - Dank (push to talk) 16:43, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

It will be his 97th birthday; his 100th won't be until 2023. The 50th anniversary of his moonwalk is in February 2021, and the 60th anniversary of his first trip into space is in July 2021. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't have a preference, just wanted to mention the birthday. We've got Collins late in October. Any of those dates sound good. - Dank (push to talk) 20:42, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

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G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019

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Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Nick-D looks at the legacy of World War II

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 09:17, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Toby Graham

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Hey, I just wanted to stop by and say great work on the Toby Graham article! I went on vacation and was very surprised to see the development on the article when I was gone! Any plans to bring it to GA? Canadian Paul 19:33, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

I didn't have any plans to do so since it has already run at DYK. We can nominate it if you like. To improve the article further, I would need to locate a copy of his autobiography. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Interesting. I'll see if I can get access to a copy. Canadian Paul 22:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Albert Kesselring

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Hi Hawkeye, could you please respond at Talk:Albert_Kesselring#Reverts? Thanks, Sunrise (talk) 14:59, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Michael Collins (astronaut) scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the Michael Collins (astronaut) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 31, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 31, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

For Featured Articles promoted on or after October 1, 2018, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.

We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:29, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Bernard Adolph Schriever

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On 22 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bernard Adolph Schriever, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Bernard Schriever (pictured) was promoted to general in 1961, General Curtis LeMay looked at his four stars and said that had it been up to him, Schriever would not be wearing them? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bernard Adolph Schriever. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bernard Adolph Schriever), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark

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G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

A Favor

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When you get a moment can you check the post election section at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Becoming a coordinator? I know we update the ping system to account for new coordinators so when you drop the @-MILHIST tab everyone get a ping, but I was less sure about how exactly MilHistBot tells the coordinators from the non-coordinators and I don't want to be accused of misleading anyone reading the essay by not checking with the actual bot operator to gets his two cents on the matter, so if its right its cool and if not you can adjust accordingly - or remove the whole thing if need be. TomStar81 (Talk) 13:25, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Originally it looked in Category:WikiProject Military history coordinators, but I have recently changed it to obtain the information from Template:@MILHIST so we only have toi update one place. I have updated your documentation. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:32, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations!

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		The Coordinator stars
		On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, in recognition of your election to the position of Coordinator, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Coordinator's stars, and wish you the best luck in the coming year! Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:43, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Welcome Back! TomStar81 (Talk) 07:14, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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From the editors: Where do we go from here?

Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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Tech News: 2019-40

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Problems

Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [144]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [145]

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16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

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		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) for participating in 4 reviews between July and September 2019. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:31, 5 October 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

Tech News: 2019-41

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [146]

Problems

There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [147]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox military unit

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Hi... Could you please so kind to participate in request for comment on Template talk:Infobox military unit. Thanks.(Ckfasdf (talk) 01:32, 8 October 2019 (UTC))

This Month in GLAM: September 2019

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue IX, September 2019
Headlines
Colombia report: The GLAM team from Wikimedia Colombia in OpenConLatAm Finland report: Photographs and events France report: European Heritage Days Indonesia report: Image donation by Indonesian Air Force Italy report: Wikimedia Italia Summer School Sweden report: Open cultural heritage; More libraries in Africa on Wikidata; Global MIL Week 2019 Feature Conference; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Wiki Loves Monuments UK report: Oxford, Khalili Collections and Endangered Archives USA report: Hispanic Heritage and Disability Awareness Month Special story: Help the Movement Learn about Content Campaigns & Supporting newcomers in Wikidata training courses! Wikidata report: Tie a knot in your handkerchief WMF GLAM report: GLAM Manager Role Announced! Calendar: October's GLAM events
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Japanese monographs

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G'day, Hawkeye, I have been doing a bit of work on the Borneo campaign (1945) article and a couple of the associated battles (Beaufort and Balikpapan). I have been trying to get my hands on a copy of Japanese Monograph Number 26: Borneo Operations 1941–1945, but haven't had much luck online or in my local library. Just wondering if you either have a copy, or know whether it is online, or accessible in some other way? Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:12, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

I have a copy of that one. Email me and I will send it to you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:25, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Hawkeye, I've sent you an email now. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 23:21, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Could you please also send me a copy? I'll ping you an email. The copy I relied on was destroyed when the Chifley Library at the ANU flooded last year. Nick-D (talk) 00:01, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

@AustralianRupert: I didn't get your email, although Nick-D's came through. You can try downloading it from here Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:40, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, not sure what's happened to the email - I used the "Email this user" link on your talk page. Anyway, the download worked; thanks for setting this up. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:05, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Pine Gap book review

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi mate, I might be having a bad day but not certain what you mean by (For some value of "jointly")... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:00, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Mathematician talk. We often say "for some sufficiently large/small/unknown value of epsilon". In computer programming it is often abbreviated to "FSVO". cf wikt:FSVO. If we say, "the upgrade went well FSVO 'well'", then it means not very well at all. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:26, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Works for me -- tks. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:43, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019

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Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at three works
Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on writing a military biography

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:40, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42

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Recent changes

You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [148]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [149]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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23:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Book review

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Hi there. I am not a member of Wikiproject Military History, however, I read a military history book and I would like to review this book in the next edition of the Bugle. I don't know anything about this process, or whether I would be allowed to write this book review, but I was just asking because I found the book to be very interesting. I look forward to hearing a response. Thanks, Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 21:22, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

@Willbb234: Sure. No problem. Write up your review in a user page and leave a note for the editor on the newsroom page. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:40, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Archiving of awarded ACCs

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

G'day Hawkeye, thought I'd let you know I've created an archive page for the awarded ACCs, it is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACC/Archive 1. I expect some tweaking of Milhistbot is required, so I've left a couple of awards on the awards page for now so it doesn't get confused in the interim. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:44, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes, the Bot needs to know about this. I have informed it. It should work as expected now. Hawkeye7 (discuss)

Thanks Hawkeye. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:04, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43

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Recent changes

The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [150]

Problems

There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [151]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [152]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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14:34, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Template:TFAFULL

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Hawkeye, does FACbot rely on Template:TFAFULL in any way? Based on the current discussion at WT:TFA, it looks like I'll be adding a second parameter to it, on those days when we have a Featured Topic. - Dank (push to talk) 02:03, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

No, it doesn't use it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:26, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Great, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 02:35, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44

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

You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [153][154]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [155][156]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [157]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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16:13, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

provenance

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some may well be very confused by the various naming events over about almost 200 years along the coastline - a bit of dutch here, a bit of french there, (god only knows maybe other rumsfieldian unknown nationalities in various locations - dont let me start on that one there is a particularly bizarre claim of chinese settlement in a valley east of perth pre european era (gasp), I would have to offer how that happens over a beer sometime in this lifetime) and the effect is possibly a slippage of 'sense' of provenance of any of the land masses on the continent or adjacent. I had the very good fortune to have a former map librarian then phd in indian ocean maritime borders as an acquaintance in the 1990s but probably I am over-reacting. It had names, from various, but only one provenance, unless someone can contradict my understanding of the coast, they are welcome... JarrahTree 10:26, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

TFA

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Thank you today for Michael Collins (astronaut), "the third man on the crew of the Apollo 11 mission. He orbited the moon in his spacecraft, Columbia. As he passed around the far side of the Moon, he became the loneliest man alive, with the nearest two people thousands of miles away, and out of radio contact with both them and mission control back on Earth. Later he built the National Air and Space Museum, one of the world's great museums." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

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In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit

Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse

In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing

Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars

Community view: Observations from the mainland

Arbitration report: October actions

Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers

Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast

Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia

Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world

News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

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The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ernest Graves Jr.

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On 3 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ernest Graves Jr., which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ernest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go to West Point, all of whom graduated first or second in their class? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Graves Jr.. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ernest Graves Jr.), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

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Hello Hawkeye7,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 807 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Tech News: 2019-45

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

At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [158]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [159]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Bold move

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I'll say that I am supportive of this bold turn of events. It takes a lot of guts to offer yourself up like this, and win/lose I appreciate you giving voters the option. I look forward to seeing this play out! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 05:28, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of INTERFET logistics

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article INTERFET logistics 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 Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 08:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of INTERFET logistics

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The article INTERFET logistics 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:INTERFET logistics for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 03:21, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of INTERFET logistics

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article INTERFET logistics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:INTERFET logistics 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 Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 06:41, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019

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Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Willbb234 on Allied pilots, Hawkeye7 on the defence of Australia and logistics in Indochina, Nick-D on Australian commandos
Op-ed: Hawkeye7 reports back on a high-profile history symposium

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 21:44, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46

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

MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2019

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue X, October 2019
Headlines
Australia report: WikiD at the Design Museum Colombia report: Wikimedia Colombia in Argentinean event Czech Republic report: Wikipedia Week of Libraries in Broumov Estonia report: Nordic cooperation + Wikisource + library information Finland report: Collaborative histories France report: GLAM working group at WMFr; Partnership with AAF Indonesia report: Numismatic items from Sumatran Numismatic Museum Malaysia report: Wikipedia Penang Meetup 2 @ Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Gallery, University of Science Malaysia Netherlands report: Share Your Data master classes for GLAMs; New project manager WMNL; Images from Africa Norway report: Radio Cinema at the National Library in Oslo Sweden report: Nordic Museum publications on Wikidata and Commons; Wikipedia training in Härnösand; Open cultural heritage data in focus in Visby UK report: Khalili; Museums + Tech; Oxford WIR placement ends USA report: Spooky Autumn meetups Special story: #WikiForHumanRights Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Getting started, Tool highlights, Blog posts and presentations about SDC Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 35, July–August 2019 Wikidata report: We Are Seven Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: October 16th meeting minutes Wikisource report: Community Wishlist Survey 2020 and Wiki Advanced Training 2019 WMF GLAM report: 1Lib1Ref, Wikimedia Sweden Research and other updates Calendar: November's GLAM events
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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 09:01, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Peer review of Apollo 13

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A peer review for Apollo 13 has been opened at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Apollo_13/archive1, any comments you can provide would be very appreciated if you can find the time. Thanks either way. Kees08 (Talk) 16:21, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process

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Hello!

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to improve the community consultation outreach process for Foundation policies, and we are interested in why you didn't participate in a recent consultation that followed a community discussion you’ve been part of.

Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes.

The privacy policy for this survey is here. This survey is a one-off request from us related to this unique topic.

Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:44, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47

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

You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [160]

Changes later this week

You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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MilHistBot

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Hi, how do I prevent your bot from assessing a page? I tried to revert it, but it checks the page again. See here for example. This article is barely a start, but the bot thinks it's "C".

The Bot will only attempt to assess the article if it does not have a complete assessment checklist. To override its assessment, all you need to do is alter the checklist. In this case, since you feel that the article is not comprehensive enough, change the b2 assessment to "no" and the class to "Start". (I would have given it a C myself.) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:17, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Einstein's letter to Roosevelt on atomic bomb

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Hi, I saw your old edition, do you know if 1939 Einstein's letter to Roosevelt was known to the great public in the 50's ? I don't find any mention in french newspapers and I wondered if Einstein contribution to the launch of atomic era was stated clearly in the newsweek 1946's paper you mention, or in that 1947 time magazine edition. Einstein is often mentioned in french newspapers of 45-55 in relation to atomic bomb but as some sort of moralist asking for regulation and trying to avoid the destruction of human kind. Reuns (talk) 20:21, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

You mean the 1946 Time magazine with the cover showing a portrait of Einstein with a mushroom cloud from the Operation Crossroads test bearing the legend "E = mc²"? It says:

Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb. When the serpent of necessity hissed, the men and the woman who bit into the apple of scientific good & evil bore different names: Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Dr. Leo Szilard, Dr. H. C. Urey, Dr. Niels Bohr, Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, et al. The woman was Dr. Lise Meitner, a German refugee. But Einstein was the father of the bomb in two important ways: 1) it was his initiative which started U.S. bomb research; 2) it was his equation (E = mc2) which made the atomic bomb theoretically possible. Late in 1939, after the German Panzers had driven through Poland, and the citizens of Hiroshima were still going quietly about their daily tasks, the little man who hates to write letters wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt. In it he stated his conviction that a controlled chain reaction of atomic fission (and hence the atom bomb) was now feasible, that the German Government was working on an atomic bomb, that the U.S. must begin research on the bomb at once or civilization would perish. Einstein enclosed a report by his friend, Dr. Leo Szilard, describing in more technical language how & why the bomb was possible. Franklin Roosevelt acted. Result: the Manhattan Project (TIME, Aug. 15), the bomb, the 125,000 dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the biggest boost humanity has yet been given toward terminating its brief history of misery and grandeur.

Einstein and Szilard re-enacted the drafting of the Einstein-Szilard letter for the documentary, Atomic Power (1946) and it was dramatised in the movie The Beginning or the End (1947). I think it was fairly well known, at least in the United States. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:10, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

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Changes later this week

The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [161]
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [162]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [163]

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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2019

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From the editor: Put on your birthday best

News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

In the media: You say you want a revolution

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

Gallery: Winter and holidays

Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

Essay: Adminitis

From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:24, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Great Britain women's national wheelchair basketball team

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Hawkeye7,

After seeing them play in person earlier in the month, I've started working on an article on the Great Britain women's national wheelchair basketball team. However, it is still in its very early stages, and I'm struggling to find enough quality sources for it. I'm curious if you might be able to help...this is my first wheelchair basketball-related article, but certainly not my last! I'm hoping to get it up to DYK standards within the week and then nominate it for DYK.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, and all the best! Michael Barera (talk) 06:02, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Sure. I remember the British team from Beijing 2015, Rio 2016 and Hamburg 2018. They're fabulous. Why did you user the 2012 roster instead of the 2016 one? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:58, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I was copying elements from the Canadian team article. I just updated the GB article. Michael Barera (talk) 15:18, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49

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

Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [164]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [165]

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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Revisit

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Hey, when you get the chance, please revisit your ivote entry at [ Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Newton_Earp_(2nd_nomination) ] and verify it is what you meant. Regards, GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 00:09, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 7

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Charles Duke, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Christian (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:43, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Great War Horse (Australian WWI documentary)

Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I have just finished watching (on the BBC) a repeat of the Australian documentary Great War Horse, which was really excellent. Maybe you are aware of it already (it was released in 2015), but if not, there is a blog about it here that gives a good flavour of it. I sometimes make notes afterwards to see where we have Wikipedia articles on the more obscure aspects, and how good our coverage is on the major topics in the documentary, and if we have articles on any of the 'talking heads'. Am dropping you a note in case you have an interest in this area. Certainly a mention of the documentary could be added to Waler horse. Carcharoth (talk) 23:49, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I haven't seen it; I will seek it out. I was once reading a newspaper in a cafe on a Saturday morning, and an article about an obscure artist said: "You won't read about this on his Wikipedia page but..." So I thought, "Well, I can fix that." I pulled out the laptop and added it, with a reference to the newspaper article. So that anyone coming from the newspaper would find that it was indeed there, while someone verifying from the article would find a source that says that it is not. Alas, I was soon pulled up by someone from WikiProject Obscure Artists (or something like that) who indignantly pointed out that while the factoid in question was not on the artist's page, it was in Wikipedia on the page on the artwork itself. My newspaper reference was then replaced with one from a more authoritative source. Sigh. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:25, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

The 'talking heads' (not including the horse people and the descendants of soldiers) were: Brad Manera (from the ANZAC Memorial, blog and news article), Roland Perry (his website), Jill Mather, Michael Tyquin, Jean Bou (Strategic and Defence Studies Centre), Mesut Uyar (Turkish Military Academy and associate professor of Ottoman military history at the University of New South Wales, Canberra). I'd not heard of Roland Perry before. He has an impressive Wikipedia article and output. I used to just watch such documentaries. Now I find myself reading up on the people in them, to get a feel for the context in which they are presenting their views and the history they are talking about. Carcharoth (talk) 13:08, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Project Rover

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Thank you today for Project Rover, or "The people that build the atomic bombs decide to become rocket scientists."! - I confess that I thought "Kiwi" in the ibox header was some vandalism. Could perhaps the article title also appear there? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Possibly. The infobox is about the engine. What I'd like to be able to do is include {{Infobox nuclear reactor}} inside {{Infobox rocket engine}}. Some discussion and technical work would be required first. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:40, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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

Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [166]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [167]

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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2019

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue XI, November 2019
Headlines
Australia report: Wiki Loves Monuments Finland report: Combining the old and the new France report: Wikimedia training workshops; Conference in the city of Arles Netherlands report: IHLIA starts monthly Wikipedia writing sessions, Wiki Techstorm 2019 New Zealand report: Wellington talks and edit-a-thons Poland report: Transgressing the boundaries of internal academic discourse Sweden report: Minor grants and Library training USA report: A busy conference season, a new Caribbean community and introducing a tool for adding artwork metadata Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Continued development, documentation, and blog posts Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes-Issue 36, September–October 2019 Wikidata report: Research published Wikisource report: Results of Community Wishlist Survey 2020 Calendar: December's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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DYK nomination of INTERFET logistics

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Hello! Your submission of INTERFET logistics at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:12, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Kesselring

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So the minority rules now? I understood consensus to mean majority agreement. Last I checked, the majority favoured keeping it. Unbelievable. Dapi89 (talk) 13:10, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

It was the case that no consensus meant that it would be kept. Now WP:Randy in Boise can demand that skeletons be added to the article, or it will not be kept. A huge win for the WP:FRINGE dwellers. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Buzz Aldrin scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the Buzz Aldrin article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 20, 2020. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 20, 2020, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

For Featured Articles promoted on or after October 1, 2018, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.

We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:24, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

It’s that time of year!

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Christmas tree worm, (Spirobranchus gigantic) ^{^Atsme _Talk 📧 18:30, 13 December 2019 (UTC)}
	Time To Spread A Little Happy Holiday Cheer!!
	I decorated a special kind of Christmas tree in the spirit of the season. What's especially nice about this digitized version: it doesn't need water won't catch fire *and batteries aren't required.
	Have a very Merry Christmas - Happy Hanukkah‼️ and a prosperous New Year!! 🍸🎁 🎉

Magnus Stenbock

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Hello! You recently reviewed my updated version of the Magnus Stenbock article for GA status. You say on the talk page that it has passed but in a separate message to me sent by a bot it says that the nomination has "failed", despite your comments saying the opposite. Can you fix that? Thanks! Alexander Alejandro (talk) 08:34, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:59, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks! Alexander Alejandro (talk) 13:41, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Walter Krueger scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the Walter Krueger article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 26, 2020. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 26, 2020, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

For Featured Articles promoted on or after October 1, 2018, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.

We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:03, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Charles Duke

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Charles Duke 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 16:20, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51

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 Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [168]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [169]

Changes later this week

You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [170]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [171]

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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK for INTERFET logistics

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On 19 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article INTERFET logistics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that to assist the Australians with INTERFET logistics, the U.S. Army brought in helicopters from Russia and Bulgaria? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/INTERFET logistics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, INTERFET logistics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019

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Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at works on aspects of the Second World War and Cold War

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:47, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

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A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
May 2020 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls, vandals or visits from Krampus! All the best Gavin / SchroCat (talk) 07:49, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

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Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

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		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:30, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Help

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I've notified other editors that are part of MilHistory project. There is a discussion on the Easter Rising talk page about whether or not it should be included as part of WW1 in the infobox because it was significantly influenced by it. Can you please contribute? 98.221.136.220 (talk) 20:20, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

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	Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!
	Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:50, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

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Thank you for continuing to make Wikipedia the greatest project in the world. I hope you have an excellent holiday season. Lightburst (talk) 03:52, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [172]

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20:05, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria)

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On 24 December 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria), which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 21:37, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Good luck

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豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
このミラ PはHawkeye7たちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！
フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
ミラ P 03:20, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

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Hello Hawkeye7: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 08:17, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

A barnstar for you!

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	The Citation Barnstar
	For your work on the UK's nuclear deterrent and corresponding articles. BlueD954 (talk) 12:55, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Feliz Navidad!

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Merry Christmas! Hope yours is joyful. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:01, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Charles Duke

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The article Charles Duke you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Charles Duke 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 00:02, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Belated holiday greetings

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Belated holiday greetings. Merry Christmas and happy new year.
↠Pine (✉) 06:00, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Hawkeye7!

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Happy New Year!

Hawkeye7,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:22, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

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