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Proposed deletion of Fetish culture

The article Fetish culture has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

unsourced OR

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. The Dissident Aggressor 04:14, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

YomumXD

You forgot to leave a block message for User_talk:YomumXD. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 15:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

I've just done so. Thanks for the reminder! -- The Anome (talk) 15:54, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Move Discussion

Hi,

This is a notification to let you know that there is a requested move discussion ongoing at Talk:Hillary_Rodham_Clinton/April_2015_move_request#Requested_move. You are receiving this notification because you have previously participated in some capacity in naming discussions related to the article in question.

Thanks. And have a nice day. NickCT (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-18

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

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [1] [2]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [3]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [4]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [5]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [6]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [7]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [8]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [9]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [10]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

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 now chat with other users in Phabricator. [11]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [12] [13]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [14]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [15]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [16]

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15:18, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

New question raised regarding Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

Some opposers of this move have now contended that there is a "Critical fault in proposal evidence", which brings the opinions expressed into question. Please indicate if this assertion in any way affects your position with respect to the proposed move. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:36, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

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 now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [17] [18] [19]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [20]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [21] [22]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [23]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [24]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [25] [26]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [27]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [28]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [29]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:57, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21

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 watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [30]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [31]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [32]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [33] [34]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [35]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [36]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [37]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [38] [39]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [40]

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16:27, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

User:A Traitor

You blocked this new editor for a bad username. He or she is requesting unblock, claiming that this is the username he or she uses on all sites, that it isn't meant amiss, and the intention is to edit in good faith. I can see arguments on both sides in terms of whether this should be an allowable username, so I'd appreciate your commenting (on the user's talkpage is fine). Thanks, Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:59, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I've unblocked them. -- The Anome (talk) 07:49, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Category:Martyrs

Category:Martyrs, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.  Diako ^{«  Talk »} 11:07, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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

• Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [41]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [42]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [43] [44]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [45]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:42, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

an old ghost from 2005

Hi, you look like you should be very proud of your work on Wikipedia. In 2005, we warred on some edits I had made. I just wanted to say I'm sorry, and I majored in sociology. Your screenname comes from Emile Durkheim, right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smkatz (talk • contribs) 16:13, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

More bot follies

Yesterday, your bot added coordinates (from Wikidata) to Naukan people and German submarine U-666. I removed them from both articles—the former because it's about a people, not a place, and the latter because according to the article the sub disappeared mysteriously somewhere in the North Atlantic, not at a known location. I know the bot won't re-add {{coord missing}} if it's been removed from an article; is there some way to stop it from re-adding inappropriate Wikidata coordinates? Deor (talk) 10:46, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

It shouldn't do this, and usually won't. This was my fault: I re-scanned some articles to catch some cases that had failed to be coded because of a bug: in doing so, I made the bot ignore previous removals that had happened in the last couple of days, intending to catch any glitches by hand. Unfortunately, I missed those changes. The bot should now be back to working properly. -- The Anome (talk) 11:12, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Buffalo Metro Rail

It’s senseless and misleading to have a single-point coordinate for a 6½-mile-long line, so I’ve removed the {{coord}}. Useddenim (talk) 11:13, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:31, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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 this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [46] [47]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [48]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [49]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [50]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [51]

Future changes

• If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [52]

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18:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Domenico Scala (cinematographer)

Would you be so kind to add some text and quote your source? It's a substub now.Xx236 (talk) 11:53, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

I've made a start. I've also linked this article from as many of his films as I can find articles for here. -- The Anome (talk) 17:45, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-25

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

Recent changes

• Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [53]
• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [54]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [55]

Future changes

• Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [56]
• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [57] [58] [59]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Transracial

Hi The Anome, just double checking if you saw the discussion for you at Talk:Transracial. I'm considering adding Ethnic plastic surgery so holding back on that pending your potential undo and input. regards Widefox; talk 10:36, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

• No, I'm fine with my edit. If you want to revert it, that's up to you. -- The Anome (talk) 16:53, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

At least you have a sense of humor about it, unlike just about everyone else on that article. I appreciate that! Regards,--A21sauce (talk) 22:06, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Automated Certificate Management Environment

Hi. Thank you for creating the Automated Certificate Management Environment stub! It looks like a nice start. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 23:00, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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

• Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [60] [61]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [62]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [63] [64] [65]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [66] [67] [68]
• Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [69] [70] [71]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27

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

• Long lines in code blocks now look better. [72]
• You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [73]
• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [74]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [75] [76] [77]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [78]

Problems

• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [79]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
• You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [80]
• When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [81]
• If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [82]
• Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [83]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

• When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [84]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Sudden deletion of "Neutrois" redirect without discussion

See User talk:Ajfweb#Neutrois (please discuss there). Your sudden deletion without discussion of Neutrois, a redirect (not a stub), seems quite strange to me. —ajf (talk) 02:20, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28

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

• On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [85]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [86]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [87] [88]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [89]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Bot

Hi. Are you aware that these pages a bots tag to prevent The Anomebot2? Are these tags still necessary?

• Académie Royale de Danse
• Interdistrict Public School Choice Program
• Iowa's 10th congressional district
• Iowa's 11th congressional district
• Iowa's 1st congressional district
• Iowa's 2nd congressional district
• Iowa's 3rd congressional district
• Iowa's 4th congressional district
• Iowa's 5th congressional district
• Iowa's 6th congressional district
• Iowa's 7th congressional district
• Iowa's 8th congressional district
• Iowa's 9th congressional district

-- Magioladitis (talk) 16:23, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Ah. The bot wasn't obeying the robot exclusion protocol. I'll fix that tomorrow. -- The Anome (talk) 23:02, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

The Anome did you fix these? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:15, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

"Confederate flag" redirects

Hi Anome, I was going to take Confederate flag and its title-case equivalent to RfD. Redirecting them to Modern display of the Confederate flag instead of Flags of the Confederate States of America seems like pure recentism. When I saw that they were just retargeted, I thought I'd check in with you first and hear your rationale just in case. --BDD (talk) 14:00, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I don't think you'd have much luck with an RfD. The term "Confederate flag" is in very wide use, and it's meaning is clearly the stars-and-bars thing generally associated with nostalgia for the Confederacy: see https://www.google.com/search?q=confederate+flag&tbm=nws and https://www.google.com/search?q=confederate+flag&tbm=isch&source=lnms for examples of this being the common usage throughout the media and the Web in general. I think the thing is a vile symbol of racism and oppression. But the redirect is clearly appropriate. If you do put up an RfD for this, please do me the courtesy of pinging me to let me know. -- The Anome (talk) 14:34, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

I don't disagree that that one flag is the common name for "Confederate flag". What I think is wrong is redirecting that term to an article specifically about modern usage of the same. Look for an RfD at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 July 9 momentarily. (P.S. I don't disagree about what it represents.) --BDD (talk) 14:38, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Confederate flag listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Confederate flag. Since you had some involvement with the Confederate flag redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD (talk) 14:39, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-29

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 now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [90]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [91]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [92]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [93]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Washington Monument

I added a reference showing that a 1 mm geodetic precision is not meaningless. For more info see Talk:Washington Monument#Lat-lon precision. The coordinates have now been changed from NAD83(2011) to WGS84. — Joe Kress (talk) 16:45, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

'The Man on the Clapham Omnibus' and route 88

I have altered the wording of your edits on the London buses route 88 and 'man on the Clapham omnibus' pages to something more conservative. There doesn't seem to be any proof that route 88 or its historical equivalent was precisely what 19th-century writers/lawyers had in mind when referring to 'the Clapham omnibus'. The 1857 reference mentions the man on the knifeboard of 'the Clapham omnibus' being stuck in traffic on London Bridge. The 88 doesn't go to London Bridge, although I suppose a forerunner of today's route might have done (I can't seem to find a website that lists the details of early London bus routes). Also, on the MOTCO wiki page, it mentions a modern review of the legal phrase. A quote from this suggests that Lord Bowen (said to be the first person to have used the legal phrase in court, in the 1880s) may have had in mind a horse-drawn route from Knightsbridge to Clapham. I don't know how reliable that claim is but the modern equivalent of such a route would be the 137.

I used to live in Clapham and remember well when, in the 1990s, single-deck buses with 'the Clapham Omnibus' emblazoned on the side were introduced on route 88. I assumed at the time that it was done based on some historical research, but maybe it was just a marketing gimmick. Dubmill (talk) 10:16, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm grateful for the clarification. -- The Anome (talk) 10:28, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
• You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [94]

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 July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [95]

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03:06, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

ref. to Natural number

Your claim "the single-instruction zero-check argument does not apply" is not legitimely deriveable from "traditional FORTRAN-style loops typically count upward, not downward." How do you think FORTRAN loops and addressing schemes were compiled, and what of the resulting assembly code referred to what machine instructions? Let me assure you that a good deal of counting habits arose before FORTRAN even reached version IV, and that they arose from the heavy users of the zero-check instructions in assembly code. Certainly, HLL revealed the most of these error prone clerical details, but it was too late to remove the zero off again from counting and the history went on.
I certainly will not go searching for proof on the computer folklore, so I leave this as is, but you should know what you have deleted for what flaw in conclusion. Purgy (talk) 11:10, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I've been a reasonably old-school assembly programmer (IBM 360 / 6502 era), as well as having written microcode for bit-slice processors and, more lately, software for considerably more modern architectures, and I'm afraid I disagree with you: my recollection is that counting down to zero is not the normal idiom even in assembler for most looping-over-storage code, which is the common case for most processing loops. If you really care about saving cycles, you would loop unroll the code, eliminating the overhead almost entirely. But I can also conceive that you might be right. Given that there is a legitimate disagreement here. the burden of proof is currently on you to provide cites, as the citations given within the article do not currently provide any support for your additions. -- The Anome (talk) 12:17, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, here's a naive C loop, as compiled by gcc:

00000000004004bc <main>:
 4004bc:	55                   	push   %rbp
 4004bd:	48 89 e5             	mov    %rsp,%rbp
 4004c0:	48 83 ec 10          	sub    $0x10,%rsp
 4004c4:	c7 45 fc 00 00 00 00 	movl   $0x0,-0x4(%rbp)
 4004cb:	eb 09                	jmp    4004d6 <main+0x1a>
 4004cd:	e8 e4 ff ff ff       	callq  4004b6 <do_it>
 4004d2:	83 45 fc 01          	addl   $0x1,-0x4(%rbp)
 4004d6:	83 7d fc 13          	cmpl   $0x13,-0x4(%rbp)
 4004da:	7e f1                	jle    4004cd <main+0x11>
 4004dc:	c9                   	leaveq 
 4004dd:	c3                   	retq   
 4004de:	66 90                	xchg   %ax,%ax

Note the use of a comparison and branch, not a decrement-to-zero. This is a modern high-quality C compiler, and it compiles things in natural order. A similar exercise using a FORTRAN DO-loop seems to do something very similar. -- The Anome (talk) 12:26, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, cordial thanks for your open reply to my rather harsh sounding complaint, but as said, I'm not sufficiently interested in this to search for support of my remembrance. I have to admit that in the time period you refer to (systems/360), FORTRAN loops may have been compiled (by some compilers?) to upward counting instruction sequences, but the default counting direction of an index in a HLL has certainly no necessary connection to the counting direction at machine instruction level, and thus does not make your conclusion technically correct. Additionally, may I point you to the fact that no single /360 could have been sold without COBOL and FORTRAN, too, PL/I to the least, perhaps, i.e. HLLs (is this acronym still in use? High-Level-Language), and the aera of assembly programming has long been restricted to "hobbyists", seriously applied in time critical and "core" applications only (often for wrong reasons). I referred to my aera, that of 7040/7044, the early PDPs, to accumulators, to times, where a second index register already was considered a gigantic programming resource, and not to (pre-)CPUs and register stuffed architectures. Please, imagine machine instructions with only one address field! This was the time where "in-/de-crement and jump on zero/negative" had its high tide, and influenced rainmakers like E. Dijkstra to plead, absolutely counter-naturally, for starting to count at zero.

In case you have kids, best wishes to the zeroth, too. ;) Cheers. Purgy (talk) 09:29, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Birmingham station group

An article that you have been involved in editing—Birmingham station group —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Sammich28 (talk) 15:34, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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 now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [96]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [97]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [98]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [99]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [100]

Problems

• There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
• There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [101]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
• JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [102]

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 July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, good edit summary

Great work noting in the edit summary that you borrowed content from another wiki, for example this edit [103]. Thanks. This makes tracking copyright issues easier. Lucas559 (talk) 02:22, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome -- that was exactly the purpose of that edit comment. -- The Anome (talk) 09:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements.Lucas559 (talk) 02:22, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

That looks really good. We should probably use its output to compile a list of Wikipedia content-clone sites, which are likely to be the source of most of the false positives. -- The Anome (talk) 09:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32

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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [104]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [105] [106] [107] [108]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [109]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [110]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [111]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [112]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [113]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (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 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%).  There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. 

In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.  

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help.
• If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
• Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33

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. [114]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [115]
• 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. [116]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [117]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [118]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [119] [120]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [121] [122]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [123]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [124]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [125]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [126]

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. [127]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [128]

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. [129]

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14:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ocelloid

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Process stuff

Hey, I remember that we talked last year about the WMF's process (should that be in scare quotes?  ;-) for product development, and I thought you might be interested in the notes from a Wikimania discussion that my team posted at m:Community Engagement (Product)/Wikimania 2015. It may get turned into part of a proposal for a structured method of seeking community input during the product development process, so I'd be interested in seeing whether you have anything that you'd like to add. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:43, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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. [130] [131] [132]
• 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. [133]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [134] [135]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [136]

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. [137]

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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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Barquote

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Tech News: 2015-35

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. [138]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [139]

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

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [140][141]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [142]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [143]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [144]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (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 September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [145]

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21:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Page length

Hi,

Even before I posted this, your talk page is 404,190 bytes and has 205 sections. Please archive most of it - or I can get a bot to do it if you prefer. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:18, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi: I've now put what I hope is the correct incantation for bot archiving at the top of this page. Let's see if it works... -- The Anome (talk) 23:07, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nodular parenchyma

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Tech News: 2015-37

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 now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [146]
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [147]
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [148]

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [149]
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [150][151]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [152]
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [153][154]

Meetings

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Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [155]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [156][157]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cite isbn/978081087489

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Nomination of Thrombohemorrhagic event for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Rathfelder (talk) 22:27, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

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 now use the Wikidata query service. [158]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [159]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [160][161]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [162]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [163]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (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 September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [164]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [165]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Feudal

Hello The Anome,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Feudal for deletion, because it doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic content.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Brian heim composer (talk) 02:40, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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 now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [166][167]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [168][169][170][171]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [172]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [173]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [174]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [175][176]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [177]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [178]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [179]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [180]

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 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

User:The Anome/Airports missing coordinates

After determining the coordinates of Turnbull Field in PNG, I updated your User:The Anome/Airports missing coordinates page for that abandoned airport. In looking at other entries, I found several which have coordinates. I changed one, but then I thought I would contact you, and ask if you could update the list, and let me know when you are done. I could then look for coordinates for the ones still missing. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:31, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dthomsen8: I've now regenerated the list using Wikipedia:CatScan, which has now come back online after being out of service for some time. I haven't broken it down by country or added airport codes, though. -- The Anome (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

User:3TWisashite

... is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Evlekis (see also just blocked 5aliveunlikeTW and Sixnfinal) so I suggest removing talk page access, since he has a nasty habit of going berserk on his talkpage. Thomas.W ^talk 18:24, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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

• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [181]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [182]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [183]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [184]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [185]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [186]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [187]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [188][189]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [190]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [191]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [192]
• 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 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Airports without coordinates

I have made my own airports without coordinates list at User talk:Dthomsen8/Airports w/o coords with 124 entries and all the done ones deleted. Fanling Airstrip was previously done but not marked, so perhaps you should update your list.

I have been looking at every article, and improving what I can. Every airport article should say where it is or will be when constructed in the future, the references should be fixed with Reflinks or reFill tools, and the talk pages should have WikiProject templates. Hours of work with my new list have not allowed me to add even one more set of airport coordinates, which is discouraging, but I am just starting with the letter J on the list. Do you have any hints or advice on how to do it?--DThomsen8 (talk) 23:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [193]
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [194]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
• UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [195]
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [196]
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [197]

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 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

The Anomebot2 - Category:Victoria articles missing geocoordinate data has been renamed

Category:Victoria articles missing geocoordinate data has been renamed to Category:Victoria (Australia) articles missing geocoordinate data. Example bot update from today: CB Smith Reserve --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:51, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I have adjusted the bot code accordingly. -- The Anome (talk) 10:52, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Now verified to be working as specified: see this diff.  Done -- The Anome (talk) 11:25, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor update

This note is only delivered to English Wikipedia subscribers of the visual editor's newsletter.

The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.

This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.

We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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

• The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [198]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [199]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [200]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Brave Free Men?

Long time Vancian? Rc lacovara (talk) 02:01, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes. -- The Anome (talk) 11:37, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [201]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [202]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [203]
• The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [204]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [205]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [206][207][208][209]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Why list who is NOT affected?

Hi, you've reverted my edit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed to reinstate a list of vendors who are not affected. I'd like to understand your reasoning. The statement "TLS implementations other than OpenSSL are not affected" already implies these, and other, vendors are not affected. You wouldn't list, for example, all the people who are NOT running for president. 129.219.155.89 (talk) 16:49, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [210]
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [211][212]
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [213][214]
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [215]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links:  It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558)  These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads:  Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile:  Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. (T85630)  Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools:  You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925)  There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227 and T113354)  When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
• Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you can't read this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Mass admin actions

Hello, The Anome,
I've noticed lately a number of times when an admin had to do en masse an action, like your deletion of redirects created by TX6785. I don't expect it to come up much but I was wondering how this procedure is done. As a new admin, I do most actions manually, one at a time although I do use Twinkle. Can you tell me what steps to take if, for example, you need to do a mass rollback of a sock or trolls' edits? Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:43, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

If you go to a user's contributions page, a link to the page for the mass delete option is under the "User contributions" subheading. Be careful when using it! It's easy to over-delete if you're not careful -- I just managed to do exactly that, and have spent the last ten minutes or so cleaning up by hand. Regards, -- The Anome (talk) 15:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, The Anome. It would have to be an extreme situation to need to delete all contributions on the page but I'm glad I know how to do it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:25, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

You've deleted a number of helpful pages. Why did you delete Category:Nazi physicians in Auschwitz concentration camp? It's even mirrored on the German Wikipedia. - TX6785 (talk) 18:00, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know: I've restored it. While I've tried my best to separate your useful edits to articles from the mass redirect creations, I'm not infallible. If there are any other useful pages I've deleted, please let me know. -- The Anome (talk) 17:25, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Krejcarová Černá

What's up with this? You undeleted it without a rationale, so I wasn't clear what's going on; I discovered it in CAT:CSD, so I've removed the speedy template so someone doesn't unintentionally revert your undeletion. If you don't mind, instead of answering me, please just redelete it and then reundelete with a rationale. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 20:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi -- I've re-deleted it. I mistakenly recreated it after the mass-deletion of redirects mentioned in the section above, when I was going through the articles looking for accidental over-deletions. -- The Anome (talk) 17:30, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Redundant location coordinates

Hi Anome,
your Anomebot2 should check whether Template:Infobox settlement automatically draws coordinates from Wikidata, before adding it a second time. Can you make that possible?
THX, PanchoS (talk) 13:20, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

The bot should be checking for the presence of a geohack link in the rendered HTML of the page at edit time, so it should spot templates that generate this from wikidata, even if there's no coordinate template in the article text itself. If this is going wrong, I will investigate, and try to fix it. -- The Anome (talk) 15:20, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

OK, I'm not sure what's going on here; on the face of it, this should not have happened. I will have to investigate further. I wonder if this could be a page caching issue? -- The Anome (talk) 15:25, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Update: I will keep an eye on Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags to see if I can catch this happening again. -- The Anome (talk) 17:54, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

@PanchoS:: I've just done another Wikidata coordinate import, and so far no pages have yet appeared in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags. I hope the previous problems were just caused by a caching glitch. I will keep on checking to see if it recurs; if so, I can employ more heavy-weight real-time checks at the point of editing, by forcing page purges when inspecting page contents, but I don't want to do that yet because of the potential performance overhead and complexity. -- The Anome (talk) 19:10, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pinging me ;-)
No, I think if it generally works well and this was a singular case then it's not worth the pain. Just wanted you to know, in case there was a major problem. So everything's fine! Cheers, PanchoS (talk) 19:16, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [216]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [217]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [218]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [219]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

• A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [220]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [221]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry about the other day. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 21:00, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm glad you're back. Regards, -- The Anome (talk) 12:02, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

I appreciate that, thanks. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 18:58, 8 November 2015 (UTC)