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Tech News: 2015-39

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

Recent changes

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [1][2]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [3][4][5][6]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [7]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [8]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [9]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [10][11]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [13]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [14]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [15]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Notability

Hello,

I was wondering if protests make something notable or only based the coverage it gets. There was a book launch [16] and a translation author was asked not to come because she is a woman and an organization prohibits their holy men from looking at women. She was offended and there was some public outcry. Is this considered something that is notable in the book page, organization page, somewhere else or just not notable?

Citations here [17]

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Question

Hi Kaldari,

Since you are a computer expert, I have a question:

On Japanese Wikipedia, let's say if a user tries to create a 1-2 sentence stub page, then their system would automatically not save the article and displays this message instead:

"作成しようとしている記事の文章量が少なすぎるようです。

作成しようとしている記事の文章量が少なすぎると判定されました。

ウィキペディアにおけるひとつの記事として求められる文章量に達していない可能性があります。 Wikipedia:スタブを読んで、文章量をもう少し増やしてから投稿してください。 現在の文章量で十分であると考えられる場合、もう一度投稿ボタンを押せばこのまま作成することも可能です。"

It roughly translates as: "It was determined that the article text content you are trying to create is too little. It did not reach the minimum text requirements for new articles on [Japanese] Wikipedia. Please read our Wikipedia:stub policy, and try to post with a little more words to increase the amount of text content. If the text content is considered to be sufficient, it will then be possible to create this article by pressing the Save button again. "

Could you show me how they did automated that and how I can implement this on another Wikipedia language edition? Thanks. --Chrysolophus pictus (talk) 21:48, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

@Chrysolophus pictus: It was most likely done using the AbuseFilter extension. The interface for this can be accessed at Special:AbuseFilter on any wiki. Kaldari (talk) 05:32, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

First Presbyterian Church (Nashville, Tennessee) to be merged with Downtown Presbyterian Church (Nashville)

Hello. It looks like the First Presbyterian Church (Nashville, Tennessee) is just another name for the Downtown Presbyterian Church (Nashville). Should we not merge the first article with the listed church building?Zigzig20s (talk) 20:35, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: Possibly. It's a bit confusing since the official First Presbyterian Church (congregation) still exists, but at a different location. I have no idea how this sort of thing is normally handled. Might be good to ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity. Kaldari (talk) 20:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

In that case, we could keep both articles. Where is the First Presbyterian Church located now? You would need to expand on that.Zigzig20s (talk) 20:55, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [18]
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [19]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
• UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [20]
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [21]
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [22]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Taylor Swift#Singer-songwriter

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Taylor Swift#Singer-songwriter. Thanks. Calidum 01:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [24]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [25]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

sugar price graph

Kaldari your sugar price graph request is done, if your satisfied with the file please mark with

Resolved

tag
so we can archive it - Cheers FOX 52 (talk) 16:35, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [26]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [27]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [28]
• The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [29]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [30]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [31][32][33][34]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Folger image upload again

Hi Kaldari,

Sorry to nag on you, I'm sure you've got more than enough on your plate as it is. But regarding my previous question (your response); have you had any chance to look at this?

Note that I'm not requesting that you do any GLAM outreach or anything. Back in 2012, Missvain posted a request to the WP:BARD talk page suggesting the Folger needed help uploading their collections (presumably to Commons), and that interested editors should get in touch with you. I'm just trying to find out more about that request, as it was made back in 2012, and what happened with it afterwards (I see it got no response from the WikiProject). Where did the request come from? Did the Folger get in touch with anyone? Did we contact the Folger? Was there a Visiting Scholar setup there at the time? Did they get their collections uploaded? Do they still need assistance? What sort of assistance? And so forth. Thanks in advance, --Xover (talk) 05:12, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

@Xover: The last update we received from Folger was that they were putting the donation on hold pending the hiring of a Director of Digital Access. That was 3 years ago. Kaldari (talk) 16:35, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

@Xover: I've pinged the new Director of Digital Access at the Folger to see if he's interested in restarting the process. Kaldari (talk) 18:21, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. For reference, I am willing to help out with such a project in any way I can. Slow burn manual uploads, scripting it if there's sufficient support for that (APIs, structured data), etc. and I have a passing familiarity with the Shakespeare field if that would help for this particular case. I can't promise oodles of time or predictable time-tables, and can't necessarily commit to anything very long term, but within those limits I'm motivated to help. Also, I believe @Thedarklady154: is based at the Folger in some capacity (that I've not quite grasped, but which seems apposite here). --Xover (talk) 17:19, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Domestic violence and intersex couples

You reverted my inclusion in the domestic violence article of intersex couples? My understanding is that intersex couples exist? Am I missing something? Please explain. Seems like intersex couples can also be victims of DV? I have not reverted your revert. thanks.Charlotte135 (talk) 01:33, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

@Charlotte135: Intersex persons generally identify as either male or female, and thus consider themselves either heterosexual or homosexual. There are of course some who identify as neither male nor female and are thus transgender (which is an umbrella term including transmen, transwomen, and non-binary genders). So all the relationship possibilities of intersex couples are already covered. Kaldari (talk) 02:42, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Similarly can be stated of transgender people, who usually identify as male/man or female/woman (at least when not using the term transgender as an umbrella term), which is why I was going to revert Charlotte135 on the transgender addition. "Transgender relationships"? How do we define that, given gender identity? And where are the sources in the article discussing domestic violence among transgender people? Flyer22 (talk) 02:48, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

@Flyer22: That's a good point. I would support removing transgender as well, especially if it isn't discussed in the article body. Kaldari (talk) 03:11, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for your reply Kaldari. I saw a documentary on intersex couples. Interestingly both were intersex and neither identified as either male or female. Anyway I thought I would add this group to represent them in the article. However I won't dispute your revert further. Flyer 22 I feel you are following me by commenting here. I asked you why you were being so aggressive toward me on the domestic violence talk page and would still like to know? But yeah...i think its a bit strange you appear on another editor's talk page when I was asking them a question? Kaldari, what is your opinion on me adding transgender couples that flyer 22 says they are going to delete? I just feel we need to be inclusive in the article of minority groups affected by domestic violence?Charlotte135 (talk) 03:17, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I may ask that question on the article talk page? Maybe it would be good to add something in the body of the article then? Kaldari what is your opinion based on the doco I watched where both members of the intersex couple did not identify as either male or female? Are they not able to be victims or perpetrators of DV too? We need to be inclusive IMO....?Charlotte135 (talk) 03:25, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I think that probably transgender couples, if discussed in the body of the article, should be included at least?Charlotte135 (talk) 03:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

@Charlotte135: If there are any reliable sources discussing DV in transgender relationships, you are welcome to add it to the article body (with proper citations). The lead should be a summary of the content in the body, however, and not include original research or statements not reflected in the body. Kaldari (talk) 03:43, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks.Charlotte135 (talk) 04:05, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Hot articles for medicine?

Hi Kaldari, is there any chance the hot articles bot could be made to run for the medicine wikiproject? It has far more than 10,000 articles (~30,000) but I hoped it might run on larger wikiprojects as well nowadays. --WS (talk) 10:17, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

@Wouterstomp: I would be willing to try it, but in order for it to work there has to be a category that includes all of your project's articles directly (rather than in subcategories). (I know that's a weird requirement, but it's the only way that the query can run efficiently.) You can do this by creating an new category like Category:All WikiProject Medicine articles and adding "MAIN_CAT = All WikiProject Medicine articles" to {{WikiProject Medicine}}. You could also make your existing Category:WikiProject Medicine articles the MAIN_CAT, although that might be awkward since all the articles are already included in subcategories there. I would recommend discussing this with other members of your project first. Kaldari (talk) 23:50, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thanks I will discuss it. --WS (talk) 13:37, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [35]
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [36][37]
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [38][39]
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [40]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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

• You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [41]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [42]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [43]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [44]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

• A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [45]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [46]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

GamerGate Sanctions Notice

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

This message is informational only and does not imply misconduct regarding your contributions to date.

Not sure if you got this yet (I couldn't find it in your archives), but I'm giving it to you just in case. I know you don't really need to read this but here you go.

Also, how are things?--Jorm (talk) 19:55, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

@Jorm: Thanks for the ping. I had forgotten all about Gamergate. Things are going well. Glad to see you still lurking about :) Kaldari (talk) 22:41, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

• Superprotect has been removed. [47]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [48]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [49]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [50]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [51]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [52]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [53]

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17:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

• You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [54]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [55]
• The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
• Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [57][58]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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

Recent changes

• A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [59]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

• On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [60]
• Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [61]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [62][63]
• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [64]
• Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [65]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:14, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

• Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [66]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [67]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [68]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [69]
• You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [70]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [71]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [72]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [73]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
• New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [74]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [75]

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17:53, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kevin Gorman

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kevin Gorman. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kevin Gorman/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 28, 2015, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kevin Gorman/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:27, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [76]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [77]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [78]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kevin Gorman

Hi there,

You are receiving this message as you have been involved with the Kevin Gorman Arbitration case. I just wanted to let you know that the case timetable has been changed - evidence now needs to be presented by 22 December 2015, the workshop closes 31 December 2015, and the Proposed decision is targeted to be posted 3 January 2016.

I would therefore be grateful if you could submit any additional evidence as soon as possible.

For the Arbitration Committee, -- Mdann52 (talk) 09:59, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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 11 January 2016.
• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
• The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

• There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

• Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
• No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Kaldari Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a prosperous new year! BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:38, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your help with Women in Punk Rock

Dear Kaldari, Thank you for your help editing Women in Punk Rock, it is very appreciated. Have a terrific 2016! Netherzone (talk) 21:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Posthumous award listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Posthumous award. Since you had some involvement with the Posthumous award redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mb66w (talk) 02:48, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Hot article edit counts are off

Hi, something is up with the hot article counts; at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Hot articles BRCA1 is shown to have 1238 edits while in fact it had only one and Reelin is shown to have 630 edits and also only had one. Any idea what's wrong? --WS (talk) 11:15, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

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

Recent changes

• Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [79]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [80]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [81]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [82]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [83]
• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [84][85]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [86]
• The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [87][88]
• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [89][90]
• The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

RfC announce: Religion in infoboxes

There is an RfC at Template talk:Infobox#RfC: Religion in infoboxes concerning what What should be allowed in the religion entry in infoboxes. Please join the discussion and help us to arrive at a consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:18, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [91]
• Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [92]

Changes this week

• The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [93]
• MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [94]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Hot articles bot

Could you update the HotArticlesBot for WikiProject Spiders as per the changed parameters at User:HotArticlesBot/Subscriptions, as it doesn't appear to happen automatically? The project isn't very active at present and lower thresholds would be useful. Thanks! Peter coxhead (talk) 10:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: I changed the day threshold from 3 to 7 days, but left the orange and red thresholds. Usually when you increase the days, you'll want to increase the orange and red thresholds as well, not decrease them. Right now, for example, all the article in the Spiders Hot Articles list are red except for 1 and that's with only 3 days. Kaldari (talk) 04:32, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Ah, ok. Because the project itself is not very active, we didn't know whether there is much activity going on. I'll keep it under review and see if the thresholds need to be increased. Thanks! Peter coxhead (talk) 09:08, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, actually I also changed the number of articles shown to 10 at User:HotArticlesBot/Subscriptions, but this doesn't seem to have been changed. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: Oops, I missed that. Should be fixed now. Kaldari (talk) 16:46, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! And you were quite right about the thresholds – they may need increasing, but I'll see how it goes. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:57, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Page curation tool

I'm looking to automate or make a macro for new articles that need to be moved to draftspace without a redirect, tagged for AfC, removed of comments/maintenance templates, and updated re: wikiproject status. Could you help with this or know who could? I imagine this outcome would be common for new articles. (I was directed here from elsewhere) czar 23:52, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

@Czar: There are a lot of different approaches you could take. You could try extending Twinkle or the PageCuration tools, or write some new gadgets or user scripts. For WikiProject assessments, there are already a couple user scripts out there: User:Kephir/gadgets/rater.js and User:Kaldari/assessmentHelper.js. I'm afraid I don't currently have the bandwidth to help with such an effort, but you could also try filing Phabricator requests against the PageCuration project and maybe another developer will take a shot at it. Kaldari (talk) 16:20, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

RfC on Campus Sexual Assault

Hello. As you have previously provided comment on the discussion in his article, I invite you now to please review and provide comment (if any) to the proposed alternatives located here. Thank you. Scoundr3l (talk) 06:54, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

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

Recent changes

• You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [95][96]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [97]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [98]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [99]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [100]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [101]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)