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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [1]
- When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing
Tab
in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. PressingShift
andTab
in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [2]
Changes this week
- The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [3][4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #225
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- Discussions
- Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
- What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
- Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
- 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
- Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
- Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
- 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
- Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
- Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
- English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
- Query examples:
- People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
- The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
- Things named after Polish people (source)
- Drama schools by number of students (source)
- Average gestation period of genera (source)
- Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic
- Development
- RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
- Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
- Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
- Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
- Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
- We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
- Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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
- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [5]
- Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [6]
When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [7]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<maplink>
on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [8][9] - Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [10][11]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [12]
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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [13]
<maplink>
and<mapframe>
can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [14][15]
Changes this week
- The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [16]
A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [17][18]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #226
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
- Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
- Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
- Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
- How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
- #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
- Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
- How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
- Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
- Query examples:
- New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Development
- Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
- Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
- Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
- A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
- Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
- Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
- Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #227
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- Discussions
- We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
- New request for comments: Merging male and female labels
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
- Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
- Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
- Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
- Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
- #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Quality_process_on_Wikidata.svg/220px-Quality_process_on_Wikidata.svg.png)
- The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
- The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
- You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
- There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
- You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
- How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: list of embassies
- Development
- We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
- The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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
- Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [19][20]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.
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 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [21]
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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [22]
- When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [23]
- Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [24]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [25][26]
Changes this week
- There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [27]
Meetings
- You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [28]
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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [29]
<slippymap>
will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use<mapframe>
instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [30]
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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using
{{Special:RecentChanges}}
. You can now use tag filters by using{{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}
. [31] - The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [32]
- Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [33]
Changes this week
- Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
<!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. -->
[34] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like
http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-
must be replaced. You will have to write-{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-
instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [35]
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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Memories Malayalam Film ( 2013 )
[edit]Hi. Can you point me to the Redirects for discussion page for this? Deb (talk) 11:36, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Deb: Sure, Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 October 9#[List] Spaces and parentheses. --XXN, 13:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll fix the link then. Deb (talk) 15:26, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.
Problems
- Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [36]
- Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [37]
Changes this week
- There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [38]
Future changes
- The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.
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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
[edit]Hello, XXN. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
User page deletions
[edit]I have deleted all, or just about all, of the userpages which you tagged as being created by banned or blocked users. The pages all justified deletion as being inappropriate use of userpages (CSD:U5), but it is worth pointing out to you that a page created by a blocked user before his block is not deletable under the criterion you have been using. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 18:24, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Yep, U5 is a more appropriate criterion for most of them. --XXN, 18:29, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Can I add that G5 is not applicable if the blocked user hasn't edited their user page either - User:HENRY APPLEGATE for example contains useful information about the block and the LTA page for that user. U5 wouldn't be applicable either tagging inappropriate pages is an important job so thank you but please make sure that they are inappropriate within the speedy deletion criteria before tagging them. Nthep (talk) 18:41, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- I apologize for that inappropriate tag. --XXN, 12:16, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Certainly I would not delete User:HENRY APPLEGATE because, as you say, of the useful information there. But for the record the user has edited his page, but his edits have been removed. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 23:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- I'm going through the userpages of inactive, few edits only users you've tagged for speedy deletion and - because that's my job - deleting them. I must admit I don't really see why you are tagging them for deletion. It's not like they taking up server resources: the deleted pages are still there, and the tags and deletion records add more to them.
- Looks to me like busy work instead of actually improving encyclopedia content.
- If that's what floats your boat. I don't have any issue with it. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:48, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- When a page is deleted, all its old revisions move from the revision table of DB to the archive table. Thus we are keeping it clean, and perhaps somehow safe:) At least those pages tagged in last session were enormous (several hundreds of thousands of bytes each) and absolutelly useless. There are a lot of other similar pages to check and delete. They may contain inacceptable material. But, I should, probably, provide directly the full list of pages to you, instead of taggind them one by one. --XXN, 12:17, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- And here's a list > User:XXN/userpages to check (user pages with more than 10k bytes, where user has made less than 31 edits). --XXN, 12:32, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- I recognize that in one sense deletion here is pointless, as the pages remain filed in the server. Most (not quite all) of the pages are useless and all are incorrectly edited as being userpages. I just have a slightly obsessive urge to clean up as much as possible. However, going through several thousand pages is a daunting prospect. I will look at a reasonable selection of random samples and decide if a Twinkle deletion is reasonable; it is certainly possible. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 22:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Anthony Bradbury: Here is one shorter list with candidates for U2 - userpages of nonexistent users. Unfortunately I can't recommend batch deletion, because there are some false positives. But, with the help of Anomie's useridentifier.js script and enabled "popups" gadget, it may be easier to check them. --XXN, 23:52, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- I recognize that in one sense deletion here is pointless, as the pages remain filed in the server. Most (not quite all) of the pages are useless and all are incorrectly edited as being userpages. I just have a slightly obsessive urge to clean up as much as possible. However, going through several thousand pages is a daunting prospect. I will look at a reasonable selection of random samples and decide if a Twinkle deletion is reasonable; it is certainly possible. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 22:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Can I add that G5 is not applicable if the blocked user hasn't edited their user page either - User:HENRY APPLEGATE for example contains useful information about the block and the LTA page for that user. U5 wouldn't be applicable either tagging inappropriate pages is an important job so thank you but please make sure that they are inappropriate within the speedy deletion criteria before tagging them. Nthep (talk) 18:41, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Re: Overcategorization
[edit]I tend to feel that it is not, because the two categories have different parameters and serve different purposes. To wit: a person may have served in Parliament in the 20th century, but may also have been a politician in another capacity in the 21st century, or vice-versa. That's not the case now, to be sure, as I only just created the categories. But they can certainly stand more refinement. Also, I tend to feel like the "politicians-by-century" categories and the "politicians-by-parliament" categories tend to relate people via categories in different ways, which is useful. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:58, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
ANGPEREIRA27
[edit]You nominated ANGPEREIRA27 for deletion on the basis that there is no such user. I agree, but there is a user Angpereira27, so I moved the page. Do you disagree? My assumption is that the brand-new user tried to create a user page and did not know that usernames are case-sensitive. They haven't been around for a while so it may be moot but I still think it's best to move rather than delete.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:06, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
User:Gabor:My Promised Land
[edit]You nominated User:Gabor:My Promised Land for deletion on the basis that there is no such user. I agree, but there is a user Gabor~enwiki so I moved the page. Do you disagree?--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- But I agree it qualifies as U5 so I deleted it under the basis--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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User page deletion nominations
[edit]Please do not send inappropriate userpages to Miscellaneous for Deletion. Certainly there are a great number of userpages created here which qualify for deletion, as indeed do the ones you have flagged. But they all qualify for speedy deletion, either as CSD U5 (not webhost or inappropriate content) or as CSD G11 (promotion or advertising). It is helpful, and saves wasting admin and other users' time, if these pages are flagged correctly. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 13:01, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
- Not all of them are obvious cases for speedy deletion. At least those old article copies/drafts are not covered by speedy criteria, AFAIK. I already suspended my activity on this area (at least for some time) - there are too many pages to check and tag. XXN, 20:27, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: User:Yappers1000
[edit]Hello XXN. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Yappers1000, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 16:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Primefac: are you sure that the given reason is not valid? Is it ok to have comments of some other users in a user page? This is not the purpose of user pages, but of user talk pages;) XXN, 17:00, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
- Just because the page was created by someone else does not make it automatically eligible for deletion. I've blanked out the chatroom comments. Primefac (talk) 17:04, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi XXN, I noticed you are tagging a lot of files for transfer to Commons. Have you considered transferring them yourself? -FASTILY 01:24, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- I'm working on this (reviewing/transferring) currently, selectively; half of files I transfer, other part I just tag as eligible for transfer, and other goes to FFD. XXN, 01:45, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I understand. If you tag a file as eligible for transfer, then why not transfer it yourself? That would go a long way towards helping reduce the backlog at Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons :) -FASTILY 01:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Fastily: I have a page tagger script installed, and for some files it's just a one-click job for me to mark them as eligible for transfer to Commons, instead of spending up to few more minutes to do the transfer myself :) When I'll have some more free time I'll transfer some of them to Commons, but many of these text logos should be converted to SVG first... XXN, 14:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I understand. If you tag a file as eligible for transfer, then why not transfer it yourself? That would go a long way towards helping reduce the backlog at Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons :) -FASTILY 01:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Discussion at WT:NFCC#Possible NFCC exception
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Permission for File:RDG110951.jpg
[edit]Thanks for pointing out the permission problem with the photograph of myself on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RDG110951.jpg
The photograph was taken by my wife, and given to me for use on internet web pages etc. I cropped it and uploaded it for use on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Gill which I avoid editing (or even reading) as much as possible.
I have sent the standard email to [email protected] stating that I own the copyright and agree to publish ... I added the information: {{OTRS pending}}, volunteer response team Ticket#: 2017031410017777
Hope it can now stay where it is.
Please could you check these additions are correct Richard Gill (talk) 16:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Gill110951: Thank you! There is some backlog currently on OTRS permissions-en queue, and we'll have to wait until some OTRS agent will process this ticket and will confirm it. XXN, 16:28, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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- @Train2104: have you tested PROD on files? For me it's not working yet. Only for me? --XXN, 16:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- I wrote the template, so I know that works. Just tested with Twinkle and it looks fine. You may have to clear your cache? – Train2104 (t • c) 17:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- @Train2104: hmm... This is what I see. Those two options are grayed out and clicking the "Propose deletion" has no effect. Maybe it's not enabled for all users? --XXN, 17:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Assuming you can PROD articles with no problem, I'm not sure what's going on there. If it were disabled for you you wouldn't even be able to get to that window at all. Pinging @MusikAnimal:... – Train2104 (t • c) 17:33, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- @XXN: What browser / operating system are you using? It seems for you the issue is the main form ("work area") is not loading. The "PROD type" options are greyed out because only normal PROD applies to files. Could you also see if the PROD module properly loads on articles? — MusikAnimal talk 17:58, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- @MusikAnimal: Windows 7, Firefox. Disabled/re-enabled Twinkle in prefs, disabled all user scripts (to be sure there are no conflicts); didn't helped. In articles I never had problems with PROD; just found an article on which I can 'test' it, edit done[39].
- This is what the browser console shows me when I press on "Propose deletion" on file pages:[40]
- @XXN: What browser / operating system are you using? It seems for you the issue is the main form ("work area") is not loading. The "PROD type" options are greyed out because only normal PROD applies to files. Could you also see if the PROD module properly loads on articles? — MusikAnimal talk 17:58, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Assuming you can PROD articles with no problem, I'm not sure what's going on there. If it were disabled for you you wouldn't even be able to get to that window at all. Pinging @MusikAnimal:... – Train2104 (t • c) 17:33, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- @Train2104: hmm... This is what I see. Those two options are grayed out and clicking the "Propose deletion" has no effect. Maybe it's not enabled for all users? --XXN, 17:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- I wrote the template, so I know that works. Just tested with Twinkle and it looks fine. You may have to clear your cache? – Train2104 (t • c) 17:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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The TypeError this_recipeManager not always appeared. --XXN, 18:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Looks like it was a bug specific to Firefox. I've now made it hide the PROD options entirely when viewing a File, since as you know only normal PROD applies there. This in turn should fix the Firefox issue. Let me know if it is working for you now – keeping in mind it may take 5-10 minutes for the ResourceLoader cache to catch up. Sorry for not giving Firefox some love before deploying :) The errors you are seeing in the console, "this_recipeManager", etc., are apparently unrelated to Twinkle. Nonetheless thank you very much for checking that, as usually that's what pinpoints the issue! :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:44, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- @MusikAnimal: Now it works for me too (successfull edit). Thanks for fixing it! XXN, 19:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Request to revoke deletion tag from Vega Schools page
[edit]Hi User:XXN, It's too early to add deletion tag in Vega Schools. I have added some more detail and references. Request to remove this tag and give some time to add more information in this page. GKCH (talk)
- @Gokulchandola: Sorry but I will not remove my tag. I don't think the subject of this article is notable. The article can stay up to seven days with that tag. From my part, what can I do is to convert the PROD tag with a regular AFD discussion. --XXN, 20:04, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Please add a rationale to the PROD tag, if you don't convert it to AFD. – Train2104 (t • c) 21:14, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Done. --XXN, 21:23, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Please add a rationale to the PROD tag, if you don't convert it to AFD. – Train2104 (t • c) 21:14, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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I saw your message. At present it has a non-free license and ends up in Category:All non-free media, hence the reduce tag. I agree, it should survive as free (even on commons - where I am an admin as well) - commons has the similar c:template:PD-textlogo for such images. I'll leave it with you - your choices are...
- Leave as non-free, but reduce to 318 x 313
- Edit it to free image on Wikipedia (remove "Non-free use rationale 2" and replace with {{Information}}
- Move it to commons -or do the above and add {{copy to commons}}, and someone else will move it.
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- Moved to Commons. --XXN, 20:51, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hello, thank you for you work, but for the future, please remember to affix Template:Translated page to the talk page of articles you have translated from a foreign Wikipedia. Thank you :) Winner 42 Talk to me! 14:22, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
- For a stub of one phrase? Nah. FYI, I've contributed to the original article with more content than to the newly created stub here. --XXN, 14:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Please do not restore unsource or poorly sourced (primary source in this case) content on a BLP. Also, the website link in the external links section is redundant with the website link in the infobox. Thank you! Waggie (talk) 18:32, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hi @Waggie: just letting you know, I've restored removed content (and added few more), citing independent reliable sources. Thank you for your vigilance. You may want to check the article in its current state; but unfortunately all references are in Romanian, I hope this is not an inconvenience for you. Regarding that personal website link, you probably know about WP:INFOBOXPURPOSE - the purpose of an infobox is to summarize (and not supplant) the content that appears in the article (some users can prefer to hide any infoboxes in their own browsers). --XXN, 19:35, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hi XXN! Thanks for improving the article! I took a quick look over your changes, and did some cursory review of the sources. The article is most definitely improved now. Best wishes and thanks for collaborating! Waggie (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]I see that File:Elsa Cladera de Bravo has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Your main argumentation says "not anything which was published for official use is in the public domain". This photography of Elsa Cladera de Bravo was published in many newspapers (for almost 57 years ago) when Elsa Cladera de Bravo was a labour leader for the teachers in Bolivia and she was well known. The same image has been used as ilustration for the cover of her biography. I hope you take into consideration my explanation and do not delete this file on Elsa Cladera de Bravo. Yours sincerely Isadora 19:15, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Nadezhda Bravo Cladera: the file in question already was deleted. There is a process for undeleting deleted material upon request with valid arguments (WP:UND), but this is not the case. As I stated in the nomination for deletion There is no evidence that this photography really is in the public domain or free (under any other license). Licensing details are important on Wikipedia and related sites. The fact that image was widely used in newspapers or even on web it's not a valid argument if the license under which that file is available is not known. By default, all photographies are considered copyrighted if there is no evidence of contrary.
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[edit]Would you please explain what "No FOP in UA" means here and here? I figure that UA means Ukraine, but FOP is utterly uninformative. (I took those photos myself in 2008.) --Taivo (talk) 14:16, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
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- Thank you. Some people are proud of their personal photos and happy to share them on Wikipedia. Always providing the full template might smooth many a ruffled feather. --Taivo (talk) 19:29, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi, I'm Iulian2000! I don't understand what mistake did I make. Please let me know, as I corrected the outdated ortography of the Romanian language and replaced "Moldovans" with "Romanians" because it is scientifically proven that they are the same ethnic group. And also I saw that the Moldovan language is in fact the standard Romanian language, but written with the Cyrillic alphabet, so I changed the name for the article to be more accurate! I'm glad we can discuss and I'm waiting for your reply. Iulian2000 (talk) 16:53, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
- @Iulian2000: Hi. That's not an outdated ortography of Romanian, it's a valid ortography, the one which currently is used Moldova officially. There are no reasons to change it in articles related to Moldova.
- "... it is scientifically proven that they are the same ethnic group ..." - no, it isn't. It's something debatable and controversial. Please refrain making in future such changes.
- Moldovan is formally an official language of Transnistria. Let it be written so, instead of attributing some Cyrillic text to Romanian (a Latin-script language).
- And remember that the content and changes to articles must be based only on sources, not on personal opinions and conclusions. XXN, 17:31, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Well I found official sources from Moldova about the ortography change made by The Moldovan Education Ministry in the schools across the country. The letter "î" is used at the beginning of the word, while the letter "â" is used inside the word (exeption making the words obtained by derivation). These changes were made in 2016. Also, the newest official documents used in the Parliament and in the public institutions respect those rules. Now, the ortography used Romania and Republic of Moldova is identical. You can verify that. This is one of the sources: http://www.jc.md/scolile-din-r-moldova-vor-scrie-obligatoriu-cu-a-si-sunt-ce-prevad-regulile-sextil-puscariu-si-de-ce-le-au-anulat-sovieticii/. Iulian2000 (talk) 18:15, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
- Other institutions still use the old style ortography. The rule of Ministry of Education is not mandatory for all institutions in the country and the transition process will be long. Doing such individual changes in some articles it's not recommended without a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Moldova. XXN, 19:03, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
@XNN: I definetly agree with you, because even in Romania the old ortography is sometimes used by mistake. The transition is still happening for both countries. Another justification that I wanted to make is that the subject of the heritage of Romanians and Moldovans is debatable and controversial only in political context. By a making a simple comparison between the two we find that the language, culture and historic heritage are all Romanian. People of Moldova always tought that they are the same ethnic group with people of Wallachia, a reason for the unification between the two countries in the middle of XIX century, forming Romania. Unfortunately for them, East Moldova was already annexed by Russia from the year 1812, so the Romanians of this region were left behind with a process of russification starting. Even the first printed book in Moldova in XVII century is locally entitled "Carte românească de învățătură" and means "Romanian teaching book". The name "Moldovan" simply doesn't refer to a separate nation but to a person who is native to the Romanian province of Moldova. By a simple analogy, we cannot say that "Texans" are another nation, they're just Americans who were born in Texas. Even some pro-Russian and communist politicians from Republic of Moldova recognized that the nationality of this country's people is Romanian. For more details about what I mean, I got some sources: http://adevarul.ro/international/europa/jirinovski-moldovenii-romani-noi-rusii-le-am-dat-numele-moldoveni-romani-1_5561d986cfbe376e358a1f16/index.html, https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/sunt-moldovenii-romani-sau-nu-despre-teoria-moldovenismului, http://www.timpul.md/articol/de-ce-basarabenii-nu-(se-mandresc-ca)-sunt-romani-18270.html, http://www.ziarulnatiunea.ro/2011/12/06/de-ce-moldovenii-sunt-romani/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iulian2000 (talk • contribs)
- Please note that we are not doing original research on Wikipedia; instead we are just resuming the widely accepted conclusions, studies, and ideas. This is an official policy of Wikipedia. And until there is an ongoing Controversy over ethnic identity in Moldova we can't push only one point of view. XXN, 10:13, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]- Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up
- Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017
- In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
- Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
- Gallery: Wiki loving
- Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
- Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
- Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys
The Signpost: 16 January 2018
[edit]- News and notes: Communication is key
- In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media
- Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics
- Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
- Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers
- Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
- Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017
The Signpost: 5 February 2018
[edit]- Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
- Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles
- Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
- Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
- In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
- Humour: You really are in Wonderland
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The Signpost: 20 February 2018
[edit]- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
Bots Newsletter, March 2018
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![]() Greetings! Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.
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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
[edit]- News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
- Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
- Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
- Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs
- Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
- Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.
- Humour: WikiWorld Reruns
The Signpost: 26 April 2018
[edit]- From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again
- Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost
- In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
- In focus: Admin reports board under criticism
- Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
- Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
- Discussion report: The future of portals
- Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History