User talk:Zppix/2018/January

Please comment on Talk:Current members of the United States Senate

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Move

Hi, Why did you move Talk:Wallingford railway station to Talk:Wallinford railway station (England) ? .... It was a typo and a typo I fixed on the 30th Dec ..... Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:02, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Good catch, I didn't notice, ill fix asap --Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 18:01, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Appears it was already fixed --Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 18:01, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Yeah sorry it was fixed sometime today but I was just wondering why it was moved to that name in the first place ?, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Unintentional typo on my part when moving thats all, also if a typo is fixed in a move request please be sure to update the template :) Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 18:57, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Ah right sorry I didn't know if you used a script or something that caused it, Okie dokie no worries thanks for your help :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:18, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Davey2010 Do n't apolgize for my screw up, I should of paid more attention to what I was doing... anyway i do sometimes use scripts to carry out page mover-type tasks, such as Andy's pageswap, aswell as the direct move link in the req moves templates that are the talk pages. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 19:34, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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 Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Move review for British School of Osteopathy

An editor has asked for a Move review of British School of Osteopathy. Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. House1090 (talk) 00:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Bahar Mustafa race row incident

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Nick Robinson

I'm in UK, and agree with the result of the discussion at Talk:Nick Robinson (journalist)#Requested move 6 January 2018.

You may, however, have overlooked WP:FIXDABLINKS. Your move broke 119 links. I've seen much worse, but someone is going to have to fix them. Narky Blert (talk) 04:22, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Yikes! I must have somehow managed to forgot to clean that up... I normally try to get as many links fixed as possible and I guess I got sidetracked, Ill look into fixing that when I get time Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 17:39, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Planet Earth

Please could you reverse your close at Talk:Planet Earth (1986 series)#Requested move 10 January 2018 and move to the alternatives suggested and agreed upon. --woodensuperman 10:37, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Carroll Quigley

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Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [21][22]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

16:19:28, 23 January 2018 review of submission by Ndfiz

• Ndfiz (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Symphoniacs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Zppix, Thank you for your recent review! Many of the sources listed are in German, but several do seem to fit my understanding of the guidelines of notability as reliable, secondary and independent sources. There are three substantial articles from major German journalistic sources: Seuddeutsche Zeitung (the largest print news media in Germany) (source 1), Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag (Berlin based weekly paper focusing on local issues) (source 13), Abendzeitung-Meunchen (Munich based daily paper) (source 17). Other independent industry sources, such as Austrian Charts (source 31), Musicline (source 30), iTunesCharts (source 29) are used to verify chart position or other small factual things. I included many other sources from German TV networks and media groups such as ZDF, ProSeiben, RBB and Universal Music Germany as background on specific concerts or events. Are these too close to the subject to include as sources? Would you be able to help me understand better which sources are problematic? Ndfiz (talk) 16:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC) Ndfiz (talk) 16:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:2018 in science

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Relisting unopposed technical RMs

FWIW, standard procedure for unopposed RMs is to treat them as though they had been listed as uncontroversial technical requests and wait for an admin to move the page, or perhaps actively request an admin to close it; non-admins relisting in the hope that some further discussion will be generated, as you did at Talk:Princess Kishi, is not generally recommended. Please keep this in mind in the future. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:16, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Will do Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 22:29, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Vicksburg

Really? The !votes were nearly evenly split and the supposed evidence provided was faulty. As I pointed out the siege article gets more page views than the city and the campaign about half as much. [25] That pretty much completely undercuts any claim of primary topic. older ≠ wiser 23:34, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Consensus is not a count of votes, its based upon the arguments made, and the closers judgement of policy. --Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 00:11, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Your close did not say what policy considerations you made. There is no validity to the claim it is primary topic based on page views. older ≠ wiser 11:16, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Terrible close, should have been at the very least relisted. I have vacated it and relisted. 16:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I have also vacated the close at Talk:Allison Williams (actress). 16:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Also, I highly suggest reading through the literature about RM closes again. You don't close an RM as  Done or  Not done, you close them as moved or not moved (or no consensus). 16:43, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Apologies for posting four times, but I just finished going through all of your RM closes for January. You started off well, but those last two closes where the consensus wasn't immediately obvious (and/or unanimous) were very poor indeed. Consider this a warning to be more careful in the future, and if there's anything other than a unanimous vote please make an attempt to leave the reasoning behind your actions. Primefac (talk) 16:52, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [26]

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)