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The Signpost: 18 July 2011
- In the news: Fine art; surreptitious sanitation; the politics of kyriarchic marginalization; brief news
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- Featured content: Historic last launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour; Teddy Roosevelt's threat to behead official; 18th-century London sex manual
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ACC Sand Request
Requesting ACC Sand access - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 13:51, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 25 July 2011
- Wikimedian in Residence interview: Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science: an interview with Daniel Mietchen
- Recent research: Talk page interactions; Wikipedia at the Open Knowledge Conference; Summer of Research
- WikiProject report: Musing with WikiProject Philosophy
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: New case opened; hyphens and dashes update; motion
- Technology report: Protocol-relative URLs; GSoC updates; bad news for SMW fans; brief news
A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks MTCD for protecting wiki's articles against vandalism attacks. Wiki is better cause of you. Raana.rizwan (talk) 20:21, 31 July 2011 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 01 August 2011
- In the news: Consensus of Wikipedia authors questioned about Shakespeare authorship; 10 biggest edit wars on Wikipedia; brief news
- Research interview: The Huggle Experiment: interview with the research team
- WikiProject report: Little Project, Big Heart — WikiProject Croatia
- Featured content: Featured pictures is back in town
- Arbitration report: Proposed decision submitted for one case
- Technology report: Developers descend on Haifa; wikitech-l discussions; brief news
CB3 down
A message on my talk page that should have been archived two days ago is still on my page. I'm guessing that means CB3 is down. --Nathan2055talk 16:19, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hey Nathan, thanks for alerting me to this, indeed CB3 crashed. Thanks again - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 17:10, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- When will CB3 be back up? Nathan2055talk 21:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- It's back up now :) Just give it chance to get round to you :) - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 22:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! --Nathan2055talk 22:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- It's back up now :) Just give it chance to get round to you :) - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 22:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- When will CB3 be back up? Nathan2055talk 21:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 08 August 2011
- News and notes: Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay
- In the news: Israeli news focuses on Wikimania; worldwide coverage of contributor decline and gender gap; brief news
- WikiProject report: Shooting the breeze with WikiProject Firearms
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Manipulation of BLPs case opened; one case comes to a close
- Technology report: Wikimania technology roundup; brief news
The Signpost: 15 August 2011
- Women and Wikipedia: New Research, WikiChix
- WikiProject report: The Oregonians
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Abortion case opened, two more still in progress
- Technology report: Forks, upload slowness and mobile redirection
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CBNG hasn't reverted anything for over 4 days
Hi! Title says it all. Big problem, or is it just that no-one's keeping watch? —SMALLJIM 09:07, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
- Update - Damian restarted it. —SMALLJIM 12:14, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
The Almighty ClueBot III has fallen
... and needs your help to get up. Thanks! --Σ talkcontribs 03:33, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
ClueBot's award page
Hey Rich!
Can you check ClueBot's award page please when you get the chance? For some reason someone removed all the coding from it a few days ago. I think I got all the coding back on there but not sure. It took me a bit of time to get it all looking correct!
Oh, and don't you love socks? Whilst ClueBot is not human and therefore not capable of visiting SPI, talkpage stalkers like me are perfectly capable of reporting on ClueBot's behalf! Imagine admitting that on the anti-vandal bot's page!--5 albert square (talk) 21:25, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
- On the sockpuppet bit, I know right! I took one look at that and did a
Facepalm - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 16:23, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- Me too! He probably thought he was being real smart by admitting that to ClueBot who can't do anything. He probably didn't realise that ClueBot's page is watched by half the anti-vandal fighters on here who would be only too happy to report it for the bot!--5 albert square (talk) 16:39, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 August 2011
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- Technology report: Engineering report, sprint, and more testers needed
The Signpost: 29 August 2011
- News and notes: Abuse filter on all Wikimedia sites; Foundation's report for July; editor survey results
- Recent research: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety
- Opinion essay: How an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Tennis
- Featured content: The best of the week
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- Technology report: The bugosphere, new mobile site and MediaWiki 1.18 close in on deployment
The Signpost: 05 September 2011
- News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive
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The Signpost: 12 September 2011
- News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canada, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked
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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
- MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [1]
- The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [2]
- You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [3]
- You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [4]
- It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [5]
- JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [6] [7]
- You can no longer use
document.writeon Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [8] [9]
- The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [10]
Problems
- More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [11]
- Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [12]
- Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [13]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
- UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [14]
- You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [15]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [16]
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The Signpost: 12 August 2015
- News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
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Cannot review edits for the dataset
Hi,
Are you aware that when you click on the link on ClueBot NG's talk page to review edits for the dataset that it is coming up "Error: Not Found"?--5 albert square (talk) 21:17, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- @5 albert square: Yes I am :( Google App Engine decided to kill it... I need to find out from Cobi how to get it back up. - RichT|C|E-Mail 22:38, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- No problems, whilst I'm here............are you also aware that ClueBot III is not archiving Jimbo Wales' talk page? I'm not sure why.--5 albert square (talk) 22:45, 16 August 2015 (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
- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [17] [18] [19]
- Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [20]
Problems
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [21] [22]
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [23]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
- You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [24]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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The Signpost: 19 August 2015
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A cheeseburger for you!
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I reward you this cheeseburger for leaving me nice and neutral messages on my talk page :)
Minionlover2015 (talk) 22:21, 21 August 2015 (UTC) |
A kitten for you!
A kitten for you, for being such a great user!
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
- Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [25]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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