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I saw, cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:53, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Yup, Muong Nha to Mường Nhà, Muong Phang to Mường Phăng, Muong Pon to Mường Pồn.♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm done for today now.♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:35, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hey there! I just wanted touch bases with you on the above mentioned article. Before making major edits to articles, please make sure to check the talk page to make sure that it is not a current educational assignment. I have no discrepancy with your edits to the article. However, they usurp the professor's instructions and the educational process of the course. Essentially, the edits that you made are assignments in the POL 214: U.S. Political Parties course at Illinois State University. The student may now either be required to take on a different article as his assignment or covertly sit back knowing that he has all the answers for the final quiz. ;) On another note, if you are ever interested in participating in the U.S./Global Educational Program, we could always use more Ambassadors. The application process can be found here. Let me know if you have any questions. Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 15:37, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Well, I certainly didn't intend to interfere in a course, I was just building an encyclopedia! Seriously, though, I was aware of the course, even if I wasn't thinking of it when I made the edits (see User talk:Sgelbman#Citation templates). It's just that when I see a new editor improving an article I've got on my watchlist, I try to help out a little, especially when I notice such a glaring hole in our categorization scheme while I'm at it. At any rate, that articles still doesn't have much on Republican Party of Iowa, so there should be plenty of room for improvement.
If you really want to avoid such edits, you could consider using an editnotice on the pages of the articles. (I don't know how you'd word it, though, since you'd want to communicate both "don't make edits the student is going to make anyway" and "we don't WP:OWN the article, please feel free to edit it.")
I'll think about applying for that program, thanks for considering me, but am currently involved in a rather large project (only a few hundred edits to go, but they take a while). Perhaps when I've finished that. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:51, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- As a side note, I've created a sample edit notice at User:Philosopher/Template Test if you want to play around with it. The edit notice for that page transludes the page itself as its own edit notice, except for the parts in <noinclude> tags, for ease of editing and testing. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hey, I didn't sense any odd tone in your comments. No worries. In no way do I think you set out to mess with the student's head or anything outside of merely improving the article. I think a template is honestly a good idea and one that I want to propose to the program. There's a somewhat fine line between "don't make edits" and "we don't own". We'd definitely have to come up with something appropriate. I personally don't think that there's anything wrong with gnomish work, but we have had professors and students become somewhat put off by the program, when "in their opinion", editors don't seem to support the coursework and directions of the professor to teach according to the semester's timeline. The Education Program is continuing to progress and tweak as we go along. I think some thought that the talk page template would suffice, but obviously not. As a side note, I have a sincere question. (Please forgive my ignorance.) Why would the Democratic Party article need information about the Republican Party? What do you feel is missing? Let me know and I'll be sure to mention it to the student. Thanks and Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 08:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops! When I said "doesn't have much on" I meant "isn't much better quality-wise than". With regard to a talk-page template message, well, a) people are used to ignoring them and b) with poorly-developed articles (and thank goodness someone is developing them!) there often isn't enough of import on the talk pages to make them worth checking in the first place. An editnotice is in-your-face, which means they should be used sparingly, but which also makes them close to ideal for your purposes, imho. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:45, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Re:GA nomination for Finally Home
Hey, thanks for telling me. I wasn't aware someone could self-check against that criteria. Thanks, and see you around! Toa Nidhiki05 14:07, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, that makes sense. Thanks! Toa Nidhiki05 14:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Category creation
Hello Philospher, Any assistance you are able to render regarding the WP maps banner is greatly appreciated - it's all pushing the limit of my wiki abilities :)
Incidentally you look to have made that change live (rather than hidden inside <(!)-- -->) so now the banners link to non existant categories. EdwardLane (talk) 17:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- No, that one was intentional. I'm going to add a documentation page and create the categories shortly, so I didn't see the point of hiding them. (The workgroups are hidden, though.) The tool isn't working, but the category has some preloaded data for the categories. I'll get them done, but it may take a few minutes. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:03, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks ever so much EdwardLane (talk) 18:06, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Hmm ok looks like I still don't understand something - I was trying to add this to the WikiProject Maps page, but it's a redlink
| Maps articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| FL
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| FM
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169 | 169 | |||||
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2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 15 | ||
| B | 4 | 17 | 17 | 41 | 26 | 105 | |
| C | 2 | 51 | 36 | 154 | 102 | 345 | |
| Start | 2 | 82 | 82 | 540 | 333 | 1,039 | |
| Stub | 36 | 25 | 248 | 284 | 593 | ||
| List | 3 | 3 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 38 | |
| Category | 761 | 761 | |||||
| Disambig | 2 | 2 | |||||
| File | 4,256 | 4,256 | |||||
| Portal | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Project | 32 | 32 | |||||
| Redirect | 3 | 2 | 24 | 203 | 232 | ||
| Template | 3 | 3,445 | 3,448 | ||||
| NA | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Other | 9 | 9 | |||||
| Assessed | 8 | 196 | 171 | 1,048 | 8,885 | 749 | 11,057 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 8 | 196 | 171 | 1,048 | 8,885 | 751 | 11,059 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,478 | Ω = 4.98 | |||||
Basing that on what I see here Wikipedia:WikiProject_Volcanoes/Assessment#Statistics
I've been around the houses with Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot including going to the web form and running that (thought it didn't include Maps in the dropdown menu- and I had to enter that by hand). I've visited the webform and used it fine for other projects and not had any problems (though I've always selected them from the dropdown). Also a quick look at the Template itself shows this category Category:Automatically assessed Maps articles doesn't exist yet.EdwardLane (talk) 18:37, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm still getting the categories I created ready - I missed something. I'll get to those shortly. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:40, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- It should be done. The proper assessment link should be Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Maps articles by quality statistics. If I missed something, let me know, but it should be done. Oh, and you're probably going to want to update {{WikiProject Maps/doc}} with examples from your project - right now all of the examples are from the Iowa project, which is better than nothing, but ... --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:06, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Nearly there - the table itself on that link doesn't exist though. :) EdwardLane (talk) 19:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- I know, but the Iowa version of User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Maps was created by the bot itself, so I don't know that it would be a good idea to create it. Running that webform doesn't seem to make it, but perhaps the scheduled run will? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- OK, than makes sense, thanks very much - I'll keep an eye on it - and if it doesn't pop up in the next few days I'll chase the WP 1.0 bot people. EdwardLane (talk) 19:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds like a plan! By the way, there's a second red link on the Assessment page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Assessment) that should also be created by the bot. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:29, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- And thanks for the barnstar! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:33, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're very welcome, couldn't have got this up and running without you. EdwardLane (talk) 19:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- And thanks for the barnstar! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:33, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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Could you please check more on the missile pics which the uploader claims are free use and taken by the ISPR? How is it a copyright infringement? Mar4d (talk) 05:28, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. To make things simple, let's just use File:BaburCruise.jpg as our example. The image states that copyright is probably held by the ISPR, but that it is assumed that it is free use. That assumption appears to be made on the basis that the image was released to the public and is used by others on the internet. However, without an explicit copyright release, we cannot use the image. Releasing an image to the public, as with a publicity photo, is not a release of copyright, nor is publication on a website. Likewise, others' usage is not evidence of a release because they could be using it under a claim of fair use or they could be violating copyright themselves. Barring a specific source for the image and an explicit copyright release, we have to assume that the image is fully copyrighted. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:43, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Were you going to throw county borders/names on here? Otherwise we could easily color File:Iowa counties map.png or File:Blank Iowa county map.png since the districts are entire county based and not all crazy gerrymandering. CTJF83 00:34, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- A good point. Unfortunately, since 99 isn't divisible by 4, there are either 2 or 4 counties which are split, so it isn't quite that simple, though it is definitely doable. Ultimately, though, the current file is just a temporary placeholder until the National Atlas updates its database so we can generate a map like the last one.
- Ideally, I'd like to put the county borders on the Iowa Senate and Iowa House ones too, but I'm not quite sure how to do that yet. As a side note, I've just put a request in at the Graphics Lab on Commons for a list of better "map colors" for all three maps to improve visibility. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 00:47, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- They don't have to have an equal number of counties, just an (almost) equal population. Counties in the east have more population, then those in the west, so there are few counties in eastern districts then western. But we can wait for the atlas ones too. CTJF83 01:30, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- You're right, of course. At any rate, there are split counties. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:13, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- Which? :) CTJF83 04:36, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- You've got to be kidding me.
I wonder why I thought they'd split them, then. Oh, well; I suppose I'll get right on making/altering that map. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:50, 13 November 2011 (UTC) - Actually, rather than File:Face-blush.svg, perhaps I should have used
Facepalm . My bad. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:04, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- And it's done. File:Iowa Congressional Districts with Counties, 2012-2022.svg. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:49, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- Looks great! Thanks!...in your defense, most states split counties for districts, and Iowa does split counties for State House and Senate :) CTJF83 16:34, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- And it's done. File:Iowa Congressional Districts with Counties, 2012-2022.svg. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:49, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- You've got to be kidding me.
- Which? :) CTJF83 04:36, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- You're right, of course. At any rate, there are split counties. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:13, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- They don't have to have an equal number of counties, just an (almost) equal population. Counties in the east have more population, then those in the west, so there are few counties in eastern districts then western. But we can wait for the atlas ones too. CTJF83 01:30, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your input on various student edits and in particular, those of User:Masuhi, under the direction of her professor, User:Sgelbman. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. That said, if you have questions about instructions made by a professor, please make sure to contact him/her through email to share your concerns, rather than through the talk page interface. It is important that we allow the professor to work with his/her students through a specified curriculum. Offering correction to the professor on the talk page, may give the impression that we are either undermining or not supporting the university and the course. Conversing through email allows the professor to make revisions to the curriculum, while saving face with the students. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 21:12, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, it's always cool to see people interested in building the encyclopedia! If your comment is in regard to logos, I responded on your talk page. If you are referring to the copyright comment, I felt (and still feel) that a direct and immediate correction was correct, since copyright violation is something Wikipedia takes seriously. Ed. note: rephrased somewhat. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 11:16, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Afghans in Pakistan
Hi, can you please look at the edits of Mar4d (talk · contribs) in the Afghans in Pakistan. He is editing with strong anti-Afghan POV, trying to make Afghan refugees living in Pakistan look very bad and make his own Pakistanis look good. Everytime I neutralize his edits he keeps reverting and I'm not in the mood for this childish revert war game. So far he has reverted my edits more than 5 times in less than 24 hours. Thanks.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 16:46, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- The thread for this is at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Afghans in Pakistan. Mar4d (talk) 17:17, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, the POV-warrior Mar4d again came to revert my edits. I started a nice discussion at the talk page Talk:Afghans in Pakistan#Distorting and falsifying but he refuses to explain anything but rather revert or start edit-war.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 21:55, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
- I am a not quite sure that he is still simply edit-warring, since he has only edited once since the block expired, which isn't enough to indicate either edit-warring or non-edit-warring to me. Still, I left a note on Mar4d's page asking him to explain on the talk page why he thinks his version is better. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:29, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
- His editing in Afghans in Pakistan is disruptive. He is on an anti-Afghan crusade, googling news reports on Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, in which he picks all the bad reports that mention anything negative about Afghan refugees. Even if the news report is speaking about a couple of individuals, he uses it against all the 3 million Afghans.[1] This is pure racism and descrimination as well as W:POV, and his entire edits to the Afghans in Pakistan article is one big W:OR used to make one point, that Afghan refugees are criminals, gunmen, disease infested evil doers, which is against the rules of Wikipedia. This Pakistani POV-warrior wants the Afghans in Pakistan article to present ALL the negative things about Afghans so that people who read it will look at Afghans with disgust. He is basically trying to say with his words that Pakistan is a country like the West (see this copyright infringement of his[2] [3] [4]), all of its 180 milllion people are educated and very good people, and that all the problems in Pakistan are because of the 3 million Afghan refugees. This is pure nonsense, nearly all the Afghan refugees lived and live in isolated refugee camps in the mountains near the Afghan border (click on the official UNHCR map for details) and the majority of them don't to go much into Pakistani cities. I'm an expert on this region and that's why I don't provide you with source to convince you. If you look at all the major terrorism related incidents world wide, nearly all of them involved Pakistanis (i.e. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aimal Qazi, Faisal Shahzad, Aafia Siddiqui, Ramzi Yousef, 7 July 2005 London bombings....) and if you look at all the biggest international crooks you'll find many Pakistanis among them (i.e. Agha Hasan Abedi, founder of Bank of Credit and Commerce International) but Mar4d wants to blame the poor Afghan refugees. These refugees all day think about getting their family fed.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 16:35, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
- The issue was already raised at the NPOV noticeboard, as mentioned above, so I'm not going to get any more involved at present. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 10:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
- His editing in Afghans in Pakistan is disruptive. He is on an anti-Afghan crusade, googling news reports on Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, in which he picks all the bad reports that mention anything negative about Afghan refugees. Even if the news report is speaking about a couple of individuals, he uses it against all the 3 million Afghans.[1] This is pure racism and descrimination as well as W:POV, and his entire edits to the Afghans in Pakistan article is one big W:OR used to make one point, that Afghan refugees are criminals, gunmen, disease infested evil doers, which is against the rules of Wikipedia. This Pakistani POV-warrior wants the Afghans in Pakistan article to present ALL the negative things about Afghans so that people who read it will look at Afghans with disgust. He is basically trying to say with his words that Pakistan is a country like the West (see this copyright infringement of his[2] [3] [4]), all of its 180 milllion people are educated and very good people, and that all the problems in Pakistan are because of the 3 million Afghan refugees. This is pure nonsense, nearly all the Afghan refugees lived and live in isolated refugee camps in the mountains near the Afghan border (click on the official UNHCR map for details) and the majority of them don't to go much into Pakistani cities. I'm an expert on this region and that's why I don't provide you with source to convince you. If you look at all the major terrorism related incidents world wide, nearly all of them involved Pakistanis (i.e. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aimal Qazi, Faisal Shahzad, Aafia Siddiqui, Ramzi Yousef, 7 July 2005 London bombings....) and if you look at all the biggest international crooks you'll find many Pakistanis among them (i.e. Agha Hasan Abedi, founder of Bank of Credit and Commerce International) but Mar4d wants to blame the poor Afghan refugees. These refugees all day think about getting their family fed.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 16:35, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for creating the redirect. Whether the original article gets deleted or not, I dislike the aesthetics of an article existing, but a minor spelling variant showing an "Article deleted" message. Personally I'm not opposed to the prod deletion since it's unreferenced, hence impossible for any expansion on the topic. I did a little googling including on books.google.com, but found no concrete references at all, other than to American History X, which was a surprise. Comet Tuttle (talk) 02:10, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
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I am wondering if you are going to semi the article or should I ask someone else?..Modernist (talk) 05:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- I'll do it, one more question first (at that page). Sorry I hadn't noticed your response yet. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:43, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks :)...Modernist (talk) 05:45, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
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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
- Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
- MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [14]
- A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.
Problems
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [15]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
- The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The
pipropparameter has been renamed toprpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [16]
Future changes
- The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [17]
- The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.
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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
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
- iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.
Problems
- Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class
.vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [18]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
- The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [19]
- A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
- You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.
Future changes
- The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [20]
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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
Technical news
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
Arbitration
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
Miscellaneous
- Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
- The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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 more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
- Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The
hiddenproperty will no longer say an entry isimplicitfor unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the valuefalsefor visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [21] - A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.
Future changes
- You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [22]
- The JavaScript variables
wgExtraSignatureNamespaces,wgLegalTitleChars, andwgIllegalFileCharswill soon be removed frommw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [23] - The JavaScript variables
wgCookiePrefix,wgCookieDomain,wgCookiePath, andwgCookieExpirationwill soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead usemw.cookiefrom the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [24]
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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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 later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).
- The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.
Meetings
- You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.
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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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
- Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
- 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
- Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).
Future changes
- Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [25]
- The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [26]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.
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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
Technical news
- Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.
Arbitration
- GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
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 limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [27]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).
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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
- Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
- Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
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
- Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [28][29]
Changes later this week
- Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [30]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.
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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
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
- Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "
stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.
Problems
- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [31]
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [32]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
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 later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
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 later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
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
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project. - The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008),
action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [33] - An old ResourceLoader module,
jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch tomediawiki.storageinstead. [34]
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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall
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In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) | ||
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Iowa political party templates
A tag has been placed on Category:Iowa political party templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Qwerfjkltalk 07:17, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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 are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
[[WB:]]will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]]namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [35]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [36]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [37]
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia