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Tech News: 2019-41

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  • There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [2]

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  • The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
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15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox military unit

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Hi... Could you please so kind to participate in request for comment on Template talk:Infobox military unit. Looking forward to your input. Thanks.(Ckfasdf (talk) 09:40, 8 October 2019 (UTC))

This Month in GLAM: September 2019

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2019-10-09 Coventry University

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Hello

Hi Andy ... Hellomoto987 (talk) 10:59, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, when are you be available to answer random questions regarding Wikipedia editing? Eruditionis (talk) 11:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy - as requested, here is a sentence. Ad3340 (talk) 11:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy, Hope you are well! Natasha marin (talk) 11:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Nadja Malacrida

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On 12 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nadja Malacrida, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nadja Malacrida said in a Vim advertisement that it was "no use having new ideas of decoration if you have old ideas of dirt"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nadja Malacrida. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nadja Malacrida), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:41, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #386

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
  • Development
    • Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
    • A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
    • Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
    • Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
    • Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
    • Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
    • Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2019-42

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [4]
  • In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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23:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Want Help

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I have created a page,The Game of Votes. But this page is not showing on google. Please tell me what is the problem?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Virenderthind2019 (talk • contribs) 10:36, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

@Virenderthind2019: It may be because there were no links to it from other pages. I've added one, from the page about the author. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:09, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Sir, In Hidden categories,this page is under Category:All Wikipedia articles needing clarification ,Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from October 2019 Why this article is under these categories?? Even page has been reviewed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Virenderthind2019 (talk • contribs) 11:17, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

@Virenderthind2019: There's no need to call me "Sir". The categories are because of the template (which displays the suffix "vague") after the sentence "The book highlights the vital role played by the digital and technology platforms in the election outcomes in India as well as globally while showcasing the entire gamut of key players in the electoral field.". Someone added that because they feel the point needs to be more clearly explained. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:30, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Andy, I disagree with your assessment of the article. Virenderthind2019 asked the same question on User talk:1997kB#Page is not showing on google. I see only one good source. V has ignored my response and gone shopping for a more agreeable opinion. Cabayi (talk) 12:07, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

@Cabayi: What specifically do you disagree with? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:13, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
There's only one good source so it doesn't meet WP:NBOOK, the same reasoning I gave on the other thread. Cabayi (talk) 12:34, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
@Cabayi: Please point out where I said the article meets WP:NBOOK. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
In failing to mark it as {{more references}} or asking for any improvement to the sources when you
  • Marked as reviewed on 15 October 2019 by Pigsonthewing (talk | contribs)
-- Cabayi (talk) 13:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
So nowhere, then. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:12, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
So straight from your approval at review to a PROD. If you're OK with that then so am I. Cabayi (talk) 14:44, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
@Cabayi:Thanks Sir, for giving such information.But, what will happen ?if it doesn't meet WP:NBOOK . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Virenderthind2019 (talk • contribs) 12:45, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Someone may (or will) propose the article for deletion. Cabayi (talk) 13:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
@Cabayi: But Sir, there are so many articles,which are still on wikipedia without references. Example: Vikalpahin nahin hai duniya

Please look at this and please make understand me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Virenderthind2019 (talk • contribs) 13:50, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

OK, Vikalpahin nahin hai duniya has been proposed for deletion, Special:Permalink/921398925. Cabayi (talk) 14:44, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Infobox settlement wrappers - PT

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There used to be two type-specific wrappers PT municipality and PT parish. Markussep merged them - he seems to be the only one creating more and more country during the last years. As expected, he with some waiting time he added a third type to the wrapper, namely PT CIM [5]. Municipalities of Portugal are the basic foundation and stable for decades, if not centuries. The non-Markussep-way would either to cover them with a type-specific wrapper or directly with infobox settlement. 78.54.192.129 (talk) 17:29, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43

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

Recent changes

  •   The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [6]

Problems

  • There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [7]
  • The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
  • Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

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14:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #387

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
    • Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
    • Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
    • You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file
  • Development
    • Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
    • Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
    • research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
    • enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Hay Mills Rotor Station, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Ministry of Civil Aviation (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:40, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

CommonSpirit Health Page

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Hi Andy, I'm attempting to have the draft:CommonSpirit Health page get reviewed. Would you be willing to review and accept the submission? This page was created upon request by an editor to replace the current redirect to Dignity Health Thank you Jeremy at A+P (talk) 15:00, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Infobox name lang parms

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Hi. I'm trying to figure out the correct way to handle names in multiple languages in Infoboxes.

For example, Raub, Pahang, had unadorned Arabic and Chinese (which variant?) crammed into the name parm with <br /> separators, which seemed wrong. Template:Infobox_settlement/doc says to use {{Lang}}, but I don't see it saying how/where or give an example.

As you can see, I put the Arabic name wrapped in {{lang-ar}} in native_name, and put the Chinese name wrapped in {{lang-zh}} in other_name. I didn't use native_name_lang at all because it didn't provide the "Arabic:" prefix, and so would be inconsistent with the Chinese name.

Alternatively, I could have wrapped the Chinese name in {{lang|zh}} instead of {{lang-zh}} (i.e. eliminating the "Chinese:" prefix) and then used |native_name=ﺭءﺍﻭﺏ‎ and |native_name_lang=ar.

Another choice would be a {{Ubl}} list of {{lang-xx}}-wrapped names in the native_name parm.

I searched a bit, but couldn't find a direct answer, so since you're often involved in discussions of the subject, can you can give me a clue? Thanks! —[AlanM1(talk)]— 20:03, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2019

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This Month in Education

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Thank you

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October
 
... with thanks from QAI

... for article improvement in October! - I have a peer review open, DYK? Clara Schumann, 60 years of recitals, and what a life! See my talk today for great music that we sang yesterday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44

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

Recent changes

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
  • Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [9][10]
  • You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
  •   OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [11][12]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [13]
  •   Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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16:16, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

New Wikimedian in Residence table and map

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Hi Andy. Could you add start and end months in wikidata for your WiR roles? Otherwise wikidata can't calculate the duration. A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence (draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:34, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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