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2		Ishanka De Alwis (talk)	Add sources
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154		Miss International Queen (talk)	Add sources
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17		STS-57 (talk)	Cleanup
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144		Mazars (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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562		Seagate Technology (talk)	Merge
205		Telecom Italia (talk)	Merge
28		STS-90 (talk)	Wikify
9		Perpetration-induced traumatic stress (talk)	Wikify
18		STS-81 (talk)	Wikify
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12		Trauma Systems Therapy (talk)	Orphan
3		Charles A. Morgan, III (talk)	Orphan
17		Charles Smith Olden (talk)	Stub
11		Gayesha Perera (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2016-49

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

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [1]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [2]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [3]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 01:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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2,128		Popeye (talk)	Add sources
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39		STS-51-D (talk)	Add sources
1,831		Orrin Hatch (talk)	Add sources
26		STS-36 (talk)	Add sources
24		STS-52 (talk)	Add sources
129		Criticism of Human Rights Watch (talk)	Cleanup
28		STS-91 (talk)	Cleanup
50		Same-sex marriage in New Jersey (talk)	Cleanup
1,262		Micromax Informatics (talk)	Expand
35		STS-98 (talk)	Expand
290		ITS launch vehicle (talk)	Expand
27		Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Ethiopia) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
30		Human rights in Venezuela (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
601		Soviet space program (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
648		Bruce Rauner (talk)	Merge
9		Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation (talk)	Merge
20		HP Atalla (talk)	Merge
1,072		Jason Chaffetz (talk)	Wikify
9		Vinu Udani Siriwardhana (talk)	Wikify
30		STS-101 (talk)	Wikify
2		Amauris Samartino Flores (talk)	Orphan
3		Francisco Usón (talk)	Orphan
9		Reshma Thakkar (talk)	Orphan
4		Miss Earth Trinidad and Tobago (talk)	Stub
10		Joseph D. Bedle (talk)	Stub
100		Madame Jeanette (talk)	Stub
11		Isaac Halstead Williamson (talk)	Stub
43		Adjuma (talk)	Stub
58		Mulato pepper (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2016-50

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

• Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [5]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [6]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [7]

Problems

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [8]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

• First place – $200
• Second & Third place – $50 each
• Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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83		Digital China (talk)	Add sources
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522		NTT DATA (talk)	Cleanup
142		HP Autonomy (talk)	Expand
17,879		Gmail (talk)	Expand
75		STS-118 (talk)	Expand
894		CGI Group (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,937		Booz Allen Hamilton (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,878		Wipro (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4,156		SoftBank Group (talk)	Merge
770		Computer Sciences Corporation (talk)	Merge
997		Stress (biology) (talk)	Merge
105		G. Sudhakaran (talk)	Wikify
102		Vicarious traumatization (talk)	Wikify
281		Mark Hurd (talk)	Wikify
9		Incident stress (talk)	Orphan
3		The Hospital Research Foundation (talk)	Orphan
11		Anxiety buffer disruption theory (talk)	Orphan
20		Servius Sulpicius Galba (praetor) (talk)	Stub
4		Muhammad Qadeer (talk)	Stub
4		Vicksburg, Colorado (talk)	Stub
18		Stephanie Siriwardhana (talk)	Stub
158		Wistron Corporation (talk)	Stub
665		HP Inc. (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
• 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 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [9]
• Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [10]

Problems

• Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [11]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

• Year in review: Looking back on 2016

• News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results

• Special report: German ArbCom implodes

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

• Featured content: The Christmas edition

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

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259		Ted Strickland (talk)	Add sources
38		Canceled Space Shuttle missions (talk)	Add sources
50		ProCurve (talk)	Cleanup
2,213		Amazon Web Services (talk)	Cleanup
78		Navajo Wars (talk)	Cleanup
10		Miss Monaco (talk)	Expand
77		STS-120 (talk)	Expand
19		Akron Racers (talk)	Expand
283		Brian Sandoval (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
248		Miss Malaysia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
565		Human rights in North Korea (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
543		CA Technologies (talk)	Merge
92		Miss Earth India (talk)	Merge
64		TippingPoint (talk)	Merge
161		Avoidance coping (talk)	Wikify
11		International Publishers Association (talk)	Wikify
239		Tata Teleservices (talk)	Wikify
19		HP Business Service Automation (talk)	Orphan
3		Parayakad, Alappuzha (talk)	Orphan
4		Kevin Gournay (talk)	Orphan
13		Trauma risk management (talk)	Stub
2		J. M. Bonney House (talk)	Stub
802		BBK Electronics (talk)	Stub
8		STS-61-M (talk)	Stub
2		World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention (talk)	Stub
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328		Harambee (talk)	Add sources
134		Miss Nepal (talk)	Add sources
38		Miss Curaçao (talk)	Add sources
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789		Spacecraft (talk)	Expand
46		Tanoan languages (talk)	Expand
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196		Shishito (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
116		Media proprietor (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10		Human rights in Northern Cyprus (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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1,045		Northeast India (talk)	Merge
88		HP Cloud (talk)	Wikify
232		Flashback (psychology) (talk)	Wikify
212		Suzlon (talk)	Wikify
10		Overgeneral autobiographical memory (talk)	Orphan
2		Camp Harding, Colorado (talk)	Orphan
6		RTTS (talk)	Orphan
153		Compal Electronics (talk)	Stub
12		Josiah Hardy (talk)	Stub
3		American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption (talk)	Stub
14		Avanti Marianne (talk)	Stub
14		George Sebastian Silzer (talk)	Stub
16		John Hamilton (New Jersey) (talk)	Stub

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