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Huge number of cite errors

Hi, in this edit to Economy of the Philippines you seem to have introduced a huge number of cite errors. As I can't work out which parts of your enormous edit were good and which were not, could you have a look and try to sort it out please? DuncanHill (talk) 15:07, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

@DuncanHill: my edit was just to remove a leading zero from a date, but appears that AWB has attempted to combine references that were introduced in this edit which replicated part of the article at the end. May be a revert to this version is appropriate? Keith D (talk) 16:10, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

I've reverted as you suggested. DuncanHill (talk) 16:30, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

@DuncanHill: thanks for that. I had not spotted the problem as I thought that it was just the usual AWB fixes and the first References section looked OK. Keith D (talk) 16:44, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

I didn't spot it for a while - I corrected one link, then found there was another hidden somewhere, and only after finding that did I notice the huge red error messages! DuncanHill (talk) 16:46, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51

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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Merry!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello Keith D, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Happy editing, ★Trekker (talk) 17:01, 21 December 2019 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Tech News: 2019-52

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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".

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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. [5]

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20:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

"Cromer, disambiguation" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Cromer, disambiguation. Since you had some involvement with the Cromer, disambiguation redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. DannyS712 (talk) 06:09, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

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• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
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Short descriptions

Hi Keith D, welcome back. Sorry about the short descriptions, I was trying to keep them as near to 40 characters as possible in the description field, hence I went for East Yorkshire as opposed to the East Riding of Yorkshire. I'll stick to the latter in future. Happy New Year, regards. The joy of all things (talk) 07:46, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02

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• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [6]
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21:21, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Keith, I noticed that you made some edits on the draft of the "Monte Warden" article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Monte_Warden) I am trying to get published. Firstly, thank you for the edits! Also, can you perhaps help me understand what I need to do to get this article live on Wikipedia? It has been many, many months in the editing process.

Thank you Katherine

Follow up on Monte Warden draft article

Hi Keith, I noticed that you made some edits on the draft of the "Monte Warden" article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Monte_Warden) I am trying to get published. Firstly, thank you for the edits! Also, can you perhaps help me understand what I need to do to get this article live on Wikipedia? It has been many, many months in the editing process.

Thank you Katherine — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgregoratx (talk • contribs) 02:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I was just fixing a few errors in the cites. If you want to improve the article it is probably best to find an article on a similar topic from the current feature article list and try to follow the style of that article. Those articles have been reviewed by the community and have been through various iterations to get to the best possible state. The most important thing to get an article accepted is the referencing and selecting those that cover the subject in detail and are reliable to show that it is notable and worthy of an independent article. Keith D (talk) 12:17, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Endcliffe Park

Please take a look at the action of User talk:Dartslilly 86.179.247.253 (talk) 23:54, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

I will see what the user does to your request to revert their action, rather than wade in at the moment. Keith D (talk) 23:58, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I just don't understand why my section on Ponds, the only section with a citation was deleted.

2A00:23C6:3B83:EC00:94C7:D4F8:4277:59B4 (talk) 00:05, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03

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• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [7]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [8]

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• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

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• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [10]
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Approval of the Wikipedia page - Draft:Lanka Property Web

Hi Keith,

Thank you for the feedback/edits on the page created. I've made necessary changes as you have highlighted. This is also the first time I am posting an article on Wikipedia, so I wanted to know has my page been approved? If not how long does it usually take to be approved?

Minnath123 (talk) 03:41, 16 January 2020 (UTC)Minnath

Hello, a comment on the article would be the mixed use of Lanka Property Web and LankaPropertyWeb to refer to the company - need to choose one or the other.

You need to submit your article for approval, see Wikipedia:Articles for creation#Submitting for review which indicates that this may take several weeks depends on how busy those processing the queue are. Keith D (talk) 12:09, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Pongal is Tamil festival,

Hi, Pongal is tamil festival, not Hindu festival, i have edited that in the page and you keep on unduing the post, you can refer anything, even Christians people calibrate pongal, the other name of pongal is "Timilar thirunal", — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srsbharathi (talk • contribs) 15:17, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-04

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

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• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [12]
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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05

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Problems

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [14][15]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [16]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Added facts about the parks are still banning exercise and selling them off ith sole money making rights

why are you removing this? the parks are being sold off to friends in Hull, indisputable proof is added via links why would you wish to be a busybody to protect this appalling behaviour? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.121.131 (talk) 14:33, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Because it is just soap boxing and not encyclopedic. The use of words all in upper-case is obvious you are trying to make a point and naming individuals in this way is not valid. Keith D (talk) 16:15, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Who put you in charge of mental health, obesity and public parks??? Get a life you sado there is real actual harm from this.. social mobility and general health.. it's a unique fact to have a team banning exercise in public parks!! Stevebillyhughes (talk) 17:34, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Re the date corrections

Hi. I appreciate your correcting the bad date EyeCont keeps adding to the Earthquake prediction and VAN method articles. However, it is quite likely we will be going back and forth on this for a bit, so you might want to let that slide until matters settle down. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:21, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

It just pops up on my watchlist each time a bad date is added/removed and I am trying to reduce category:CS1 errors: dates so it will probably get visited unless I remember which to skip. Keith D (talk) 22:24, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes

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• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [17]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Speedy Deletion of Climate Forecast Applications Network (by JzG / Guy)

Hi Keith_D, Because you made a small change to the draft of Climate Forecast Applications Network article[18], which was later Speedy Deleted for G11-advertisement, I would appreciate if you could voice your opinion in the discussion here: Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Climate_Forecast_Applications_Network. Thanks. -- Yae4 (talk) 17:32, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-06

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon

Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:09, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

I will publicise in the next WP:YORKS newsletter. Keith D (talk) 18:10, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Access dates

Sorry for putting you to that bother. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:02, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

No problem. I have got them all now. Keith D (talk) 22:09, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Fix PMC warning

Thanks for your recent fix on my edit. I would love to know what tool you used to identify that, as I would love to use something like that to avoid these in the future and help in the ongoing editing overall. Thanks! --- FULBERT (talk) 00:25, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I just use the hidden categories that appear on the articles when the situation occurs. You get all sorts of categories but the one for this is Category:CS1 maint: PMC format. You will not be able to see them unless you set the option in your preferences (under Appearance, Advanced options set "Show hidden categories"). Keith D (talk) 00:38, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

You can also get a message next to the reference by following these instructions -

By default, Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 error messages are visible to all readers and maintenance messages are hidden from all readers.

To display maintenance messages in the rendered article, include the following text in your common CSS page (common.css) or your specific skin's CSS page and (skin.css).

(Note to new editors: those CSS pages are specific to you, and control your view of pages, by adding to your user account's CSS code. If you have not yet created such a page, then clicking one of the .css links above will yield a page that starts "Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name." Click the "Start the User:username/filename page" link, paste the text below, save the page, follow the instructions at the bottom of the new page on bypassing your browser's cache, and finally, in order to see the previously hidden maintenance messages, refresh the page you were editing earlier.)

.mw-parser-output span.cs1-maint {display: inline;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */

To display hidden-by-default error messages:

.mw-parser-output span.cs1-hidden-error {display: inline;} /* display hidden Citation Style 1 error messages */

Even with this CSS installed, older pages in Wikipedia's cache may not have been updated to show these error messages even though the page is listed in one of the tracking categories. A null edit will resolve that issue.

After (error and/maintenance) messages are displayed, it might still not be easy to find them in a large article with a lot of citations. Messages can then be found by searching (with Ctrl-F) for "(help)" or "cs1".

To hide normally-displayed error messages:

.mw-parser-output span.cs1-visible-error {display: none;} /* hide Citation Style 1 error messages */

You can personalize the display of these messages (such as changing the color), but you will need to ask someone who knows CSS or at the technical village pump if you do not understand how.

Nota bene: these CSS rules are not obeyed by Navigation popups. They also do not hide script warning messages in the Preview box that begin with "This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved".

Keith D (talk) 00:52, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

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Recent changes

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [19]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [20]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:11, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Zorastrianism, Growth of religion Article

Hi Keith D!

I'm Skubydoo, a relative newbie to Wikipedia. I saw that you changed the "6th century" to "1500" in the Zoroastrianism section of the growth of religion article. Can you please give me your source for the beginning of Zoroastrianism? Zoroastrianism began with Zoraster, who lived approximately in the 6th century BCE. Here is one source that lists that date: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zarathustra

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Best,

Skubydoo (talk) 19:25, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Skubydoo, 2-13-20

Hello, I did not make that edit but I made the change before that one. That change was made by 47.15.238.125 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and that was the only edit they have made. Keith D (talk) 19:34, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Keith D,

Thanks so much for clearing that up! I went ahead and changed the date back to the correct one.

Best,

Skubydoo (talk) 17:54, 14 February 2020 (UTC)Skubydoo, 14 February 2020

James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale

Pplease check new refs. Thanks again. T.

Tech News: 2020-08

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Recent changes

• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [22][23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello there, Keith D. Just wanted to say congrats on all your awards! -Littlecucumber — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littlecucumber (talk • contribs) 00:09, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello and thanks. Keith D (talk) 00:11, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Lupton family

Ref 86 - should the pages be listed as pp in forward italics? Please leave in the quotes and check other new refs. Thanks as always. T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.33.49.35 (talk) 07:32, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

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21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Action please.

Could you take an action for this user please? Regards. ChanSey 22:09, 24 February 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chansey (talk • contribs)

I have blocked the editor, after a couple of attempts because of edit conflicts. May be they will just switch IP addresses and will need a range block. Keith D (talk) 22:19, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
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Tech News: 2020-10

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Problems

• Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [24]

Changes later this week

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [25]
• When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [26]
• On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [27]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [28]
• There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
• wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [29]

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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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The 2019 Cure Award

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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Please check new refs - thanks as always  !! T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.33.49.35 (talk) 09:47, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Year/date mismatch

Hi, I noticed this [30]. I did not click on the url but this is a work from a Roman era author. I presume the version being cited on archive.org is an 18th century printing. So maybe it is OK?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 20:39, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

I made the same assumption as the year was added by BOT and unlikely that someone consulted the early dated document. Keith D (talk) 20:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Chester School Protests

Thank you for the changes to the Chester, Pennsylvania page. There was so much good content that I created a new page Chester School Protests.

Dwkaminski (talk) 16:37, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

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

Recent changes

• There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [31][32][33]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
• The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [34]

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17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Please check new newspapers refs on this page if you have time. Thanks again, T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.32.219.132 (talk) 10:17, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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

Recent changes

• There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [35]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [36][37]
• You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13

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

Problems

• Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
• There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [38][39]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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17:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14

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

Recent changes

• The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [40]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [41]
• There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [42]

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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes

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• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

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13:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Please rethink your choice.

I unwittingly messed up the source on the last edit I did(you knows which). I fixed it and then you blocked me. I promise you its the last thing ill do on here this day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.203.84 (talk) 01:24, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Advise to the contrary, as per WP:DWT Definition of troll is met. EnTerbury (talk) 01:59, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Hey! I tried to repost WITH a source like you said for I felt bad for losing my temper with you. but this Keith D wouldnt let it happen. You people have WAY too much power.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.203.84 (talk) 03:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

As I suggested please use that talk page of the article to discuss the change and gain consensus for it. The change you make breaks the template & give a cite error. It also looses the birth date of the person. Keith D (talk) 10:29, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

you "suggested" no such thing and I fixed that it but you wouldnt let me post the fix. if I broke something else unwittingly fix THAT.

dont bother answering Ise done with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.203.84 (talk) 18:29, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Adding Images in formatted maner

Hi how can I add images in good formatted manner images I added in List of Brahmin Dynasties look good for PC users not for mobile users how can this problem be overcome. Doremon9087 (talk) 18:51, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, you are going to have to explain what the problem is with the layout you are seeing as it looks OK from here, stacked down the right of the article. Unsure what it looks like for mobile uses. Keith D (talk) 20:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

For mobile users image stack appears after 20. i.e Karkota Empire that's not look ggod for mobile now i want to add these images in a separate section how can i add them — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doremon9087 (talk • contribs) 05:27, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

You could use a gallery (see Help:Gallery tag for how to use) or you could use the template {{Multiple image}} (see the documentation). Keith D (talk) 10:44, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

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

Problems

• There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [43]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [44]

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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

I didn't know this was how to properly date a source. Thanks, again!71.17.24.199 (talk) 14:22, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, |accessdate= needs the full date that you accessed the source to verify the fact, more than likely the date it was added. If it is the date the source was published then that goes in the |date= parameter and can be a partial date. Keith D (talk) 14:29, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

revision of Hortonio's cite form

Hi - thanks for looking over my page, "Jack D. Ives." I'm not used to this means of communication, and may be misconstruing. It looks to me like you removed the hyphen from "access-date". However, there is a hyphen in the template I used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web Please clarify. Also, I can't figure out if I successfully submitted the page for vetting. Finally, do I need to state somewhere that I was a student of Jack Ives in the 1990s? thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hortonio (talk • contribs) 22:31, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I assume that you are talking about my edit to Bruno Messerli. The |access-date= and |accessdate= parameters are aliases and can be used interchangeably in the cite templates. I tend to use the one without the hyphen as it does not wrap in the browser window and gets underlined by the spellchecker to make it easier to spot. It makes fixing the cites easier as the accessdate tends to be the last parameter in the template and it is then easier to scan for the error. The reason for the edit to the template was to remove the double "{{Cite web", which is the error I was searching for.

The rest of your query appears to apply to User:Hortonio/Jack Ives. It looks like this has not been submitted for approval, you need to click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button in the top box on that page. Though there appears to be a reference problem on that page as it appears in Category:User pages with reference errors, see Help:Cite errors#A page shows in the reference error category, but no cite errors show to give you a steer as to what the problem is, as nothing obvious.

On the last point you could put a note on the talk page of the article, once it is published, to say you are connected to the subject.

Hope this answers your queries. Keith D (talk) 11:41, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Ellen Nussey

PLEASE CHECK NEW REFS. THANKS T.

Thomas Nussey

This fellow was the 1st baronet. Please check refs. Thanks175.33.49.35 (talk) 13:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Dear Keith

Could you double check the sizes of eth new files (make them smaller ?? please) and refs of the bellow 2 refs. Thanks again T Lupton family and Ellen Nussey.

Peter O'Toole

Listen. That article should be unprotected. That guy is not relevant anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.24.210.141 (talk) 01:23, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

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

Recent changes

• You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [45]
• You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [46]
• You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
• When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [47]
• There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [48]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [49][50][51]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

• Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [52]
• The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
• For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Potternewton

I have added new refs - r they OK? Thanks as always and stay well. T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.33.49.35 (talk) 02:33, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	We all salute you sir. For your relentless attention to detail. Erasmus Sydney (talk) 22:12, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Reference Dates

Do all reference dates have to be in written text form? I assumed they had to be in numerical form, as that's what the automatic reference maker does, so I've been doing the same with the backwards British dates on the few I've needed to add manually. For example: 18 April 2020 instead of 2020-04-18 for todays date.

Danstarr69 (talk) 17:16, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, ideally all of the dates in an article should be in the same format, though the MOS allows for reference dates to be in the all numeric or short month format, but consistency in the references and body is important. You should follow the style already established in the article when adding new references. Though a couple of releases ago the cite templates were modified to format the dates according to the {{use dmy dates}}, {{use mdy dates}} etc. templates on display, so it is not so much of a problem now having mixed date formats. Though personally I avoid the all numeric format wherever possible as they are ambiguous and many editors put them in wrongly. See MOS:Dates. Keith D (talk) 19:35, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

User: TheEpistle

Please can you help me review this page and make constructive criticism and comments on the Talk page: Bishnu Adhikari TheEpistle (talk) 11:29, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Date citation

Hi Keith, Your edit summary to Storm Shadow suggested I made a date cite error. Can you clarify the error? Having checked the MOS I fail to see one, but happy to discuss. Many thanks, Mark83 (talk) 12:08, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, the problem was with |date=June 25 1996 which gives a cite date error as month first dates need a comma after the day. Rather than adding the comma I took the opportunity to align with the rest of article that appears to use day first format. Keith D (talk) 12:13, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply & explanation. That issue is not clear from Template:Cite_news guidance. But good to know going forward. Many thanks, Mark83 (talk) 14:59, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

User: TheEpistle

1. Thank you so much User: Keith D. I have made the corrections, please I try google searching thee newly created page, can't seem to see any results, could the page be needed some form of approval? 2. Do autoconfirmed users publish directly into mainspace? or I have to pass through submitting drafts on Article Wizard? Many thanks.

Hello, usually new users create pages in Draft space and then they submit for Articles for creation process. But once you are autoconfirmed you can create articles directly in mainspace but they may get deleted if they are not suitable for inclusion. Try reading Help:Your first article for some tips and initial pointers about article content and suitability. On Google search for the article, it could take some time for Google to pick up new articles and changes to articles. Depends on the number of changes made since the last scan they made. Keith D (talk) 12:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Top Notch Constructive Criticism TheEpistle (talk) 17:56, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

• The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [53]
• Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [54]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [55]
• The font in the diffs will change. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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