User talk:OwenBlacker/Archive 12
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- ✗ Not done Sorry, no. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 12:22, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
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Tone policing
Want to work on this sometime this month? --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 01:10, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Guerillero: I don't tend to collaborate on articles much and it's not really an area I edit, to be honest. I mean, I could, but I'm not sure I'd be very good at it and the time I spend here varies wildly according to what's going on in my life. So, erm, maybe? :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:25, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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- @Ed Erhart (WMF): Sorry, I have seen your email; I've been doing a handful of things the last few days and should be able to get back to you on Thursday or Friday :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
- No worries, Owen—we went ahead and published at the end of the 26th. Apologies. :-/ Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 05:45, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Ed Erhart (WMF): No problem. Sorry, it's an area I don't know a huge amount about, tbh. My editing time tends to steer clear of controversial topics. Where was it you published? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 07:50, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Ah awesome; I'll go look :-) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 09:04, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- The Wikimedia Blog! We're mainly a public-facing outlet, but one of my personal goals (having been in the community for eons) is telling Wikipedians' on-wiki stories to the world. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 08:15, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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- ✗ Not done. If it were a coherent RfC I'd consider it. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 09:46, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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Sorry for edit conflict there, I'm trying to tone down those colours simultaneously with you getting extra row in. I'll let you work out best option there ;)--Nilfanion (talk) 08:27, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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Please don't "fix" redirects
I saw from your post to Template talk:Infobox person that you've been bypassing redirects with pipes. For several reasons why it's not a good idea, please see WP:NOTBROKEN. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:03, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
- Don't worry. I know which kinds of redirects should not be bypassed, thanks. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 23:12, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
- Okay. This was the one that made me wonder, but I now conclude that you didn't like the capitalisation of FOX, right? That would have been a better edit summary than "bypassed redirect to Fox Broadcasting Company". Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
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Documentation concerning Notifications types has been updated. That page is ready for translations. [1]
For developers, how to create a new Notification type has been updated. [2]- Tools owners will be notified when OAuth app changes state. [3]
- When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [4]
- Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [5]
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. Now you can get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This is an opt-in option in your preferences. [6][7]
- On Notifications, the badge is colored if you have some notifications. If you see these notifications, the badge will turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [8]
Problems
- For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. It has been fixed. [9][10]
- When a title was created with some wikitext inside of it, Notifications were not linking that title when they were mentioned. This is now fixed. [11]
- Some Notifications messages were not supporting
{{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [12]
Future changes
- On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore. [13]
Flow [ More information · Help pages ]
Recent changes
- Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia. [14]
- A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016. [15]
- Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font. [16]
- It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it. [17]
- It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel. [18]
Problems
- It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation. [19]
- Some Flow messages were not supporting
{{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [20]
Future changes
- Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process. [21]
- Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow. [22]
Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]
Recent changes
- Informations about Edit Review Improvements project have been published. That page is ready for translations. [23]
- ReviewStream feed product description is available. ReviewStream is a machine-readable feed that’s designed to be used by a variety of edit-review tools.
Future changes
- Some improvements will be done to Special:RecentChanges, by adding new filters based on ORES.
- Some tests are done with users to refine the design of those filters. You can volunteer for such tests. [24]
- Communities that already have ORES
goodfaithanddamagingfilters enabled will be contacted to try that change as a Beta feature. [25]
Miscellaneous
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Please comment on Talk:Red Shirts (Southern United States)
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- Done — OwenBlacker (Talk) 07:21, 3 November 2016
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
Our quarterly goal is to add filters to the Recent Changes page, that show ORES good-faith and damaging tests and filters around new users. The work on this is proceeding mostly as planned. We hope it shall be available as a Beta feature (only on wikis where ORES is available as a Beta feature) before the end of the quarter.
Edit Review Improvements [More information]
Recent changes
- The filters design prototype for Special:RecentChanges is now stable. Development of these filters will now start. [26][27]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Notifications concerning Flow are no longer all grouped together in your preferences. The "Edits to my talk page" category will now include Flow notifications about your user talk page (if your user talk page uses Flow), and the "Mentions" category will now include mentions on Flow pages. Previously, all notifications related to Flow were grouped together in the "Structured Discussion" category. [28]
- The orange bar will now also be displayed when a message is posted on a your user talk page if your talk page uses Flow; previously, it was only displayed if you had a wikitext talk page. [29]
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Please comment on Talk:California
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, OwenBlacker. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Bobbi Campbell
Hello! Your submission of Bobbi Campbell at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 11:22, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Bobbi Campbell
On 1 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bobbi Campbell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bobbi Campbell. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bobbi Campbell), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Please comment on Talk:Johor Bahru
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
A decision has been made about how the Recent Changes filtering scheme will affect current ORES beta feature users. When this new filtering system rolls out as part of the beta, it will replace the current ORES display on the Recent Changes page. That means the automatic color coding, the red “r” symbol and the “hide probably good edits” filter will go away, to be replaced by the new, more nuanced set of filters and user-defined color coding. All other pages that have ORES features, like Watchlist and Related Changes, will remain as they are now for ORES beta users. We think those pages could also benefit from the new filtering system. But we'll wait to see how users react to the beta test—and make any necessary changes—before we start spreading the new UI around. That's the plan as it currently stands. As always, please let us know if you have any thoughts, in any language.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- The Filters for Special:RecentChanges description page is now finished and ready for translation.
- On wikis that use ORES, new colors have been chosen for damaging changes displayed on a list of changes. [30]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Problems
- Sometimes, after marking an important number of cross-wiki notifications as read, the counter remained at 1. This is now fixed. [31]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Due to a bug, it was not possible to activate Flow on user talk pages as a Beta feature. This is possible again for wikis that have that feature. [32]
- Flow boards can be moved without constraints. However, this requires the move-Flow-board right. [33]
Miscellaneous
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Please comment on Talk:North Korea
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All the best for 2017!
Hello OwenBlacker,
Enjoy the Winter Solstice and the Christmas and holiday season.
Thank you for all your good work during 2016 in maintaining, improving and expanding Wikipedia.
All the best for 2017! Cheers, — Gareth Griffith-Jones | The Welsh | Buzzard | 16:31, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
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.location error in entry for the film Local Hero
Mr Blacker: I was just reading the entry for the film Local Hero and my memory tells me that the HQ location in Houston of Knox Oil was not One Shell Plaza but the building now known as the JP Morgan Chase Tower http://www.chasetower.com/ To confirm, I have viewed the trailer (in lieu of accessing the film itself) which has a brief shot of Felix Happer in the plaza of this building at 1:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4WQZbGMrl4. I'm not an editor but when I saw your name I decided to contact you in case you're interested in checking it out. I've been an off-and-on follower of yours on various social media over the years, which prompted me to approach you about this. Forgive me for bothering you with such a small detail...the problem may originate with IMDB which shows the incorrect location. Happy Christmas/best for the new year, Claude Glover. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.19.8.75 (talk) 17:41, 23 December 2016 (UTC)