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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection

Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities

In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

And this edition's roundup of media coverage

Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch

Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted

Traffic report: Debates and escapes

Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel

Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2016)

NASA researchers at Glenn Research Center conducting tests on aircraft engine noise in 1967

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Noise

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

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. [1]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [2]

Changes this week

There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [3]

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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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-42

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

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. [4]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [5]

Changes this week

There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [6]

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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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2016)

The attic at a factory

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Attic

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Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [7]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [8]
About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [9]
Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2016)

Street food vendors at a roadside market just outside of Hua Hin District, Thailand

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Street food

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Tech News: 2016-44

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

Recent changes

Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [10]
Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [11]
The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [12]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [13]
Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [14]

Future changes

New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [15]

Miscellaneous

The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Mail

Hello, Class455. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi I don't have email enabled so I can't view it. Class455 (talk) 19:57, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Which is why I couldn't send it :p ...but I couldn't get the {{IYHEETIWHEY}} template to work. Otherwise it would have said {{If You Had Email Enabled Then I Would Have Emailed You}} No worries! My question was resolved in any case. Happy Hallows. _Muffled ^Pocketed 20:04, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi Oh I see. The reason why I don't have email enabled is to avoid being impersonated by trolls and to avoid being sent spam by vandals. Happy Halloween to you too, my friend :) Class455 (talk) 20:10, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license

In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

Plus our roundup of recent media stories

Wikicup: WikiCup winners

Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled

Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist

Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure

Featured content: Cream of the crop

Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob

Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights

Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

A recap of recent research in our realm

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What constitutes a notable bus route?

I was hoping we could create a taskforce or a group of editors to come up with a Wikiproject guideline on bus route notability. jcc (tea and biscuits) 18:39, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Jcc Let's do it! A task force for bus routes is very much needed. Me and you could be the task force leaders or whatever it's called ;). There was one created by Jeni, but that seems to be dead to be honest. Class455 (talk) 19:39, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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1,858	Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh (talk)	Stub
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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2016)

A sword dance performance

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Sword dance

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Tech News: 2016-45

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

Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [16]
First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [17]
.gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [18]
Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [19]

Changes this week

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [20]

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [21][22][23]
Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

RailUK Forum

Clue - Class 414 ). Mjroots (talk) 15:42, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Mjroots we must've bumped into each other without realising. I'm pretty sure I've seen you about there. You could probably guess who I am over there. Class455 (talk) 23:31, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers

Hi Class455,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2016)

A woman wearing a dress

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Dress

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Tech News: 2016-46

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

When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [24]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [25]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Magic links might not work in the future. [26]

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

The Challenge Series

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Sent to users at Northamerica1000/Mailing list using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 19 November 2016 (UTC).

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37	London Sovereign (talk)	Expand
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273	Van Nuys (talk)	Wikify
45	Capital punishment in Wyoming (talk)	Wikify
247	Rahama Sadau (talk)	Wikify
4	Barry Ferns (talk)	Orphan
2	359th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (talk)	Orphan
2	Abba b. Martha (talk)	Orphan
54	Parker Square (talk)	Stub
694	Sandilands tram stop (talk)	Stub
4	Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base (talk)	Stub
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Runcorn and User:Davida002

Hello. Sorry to pre-empt your warning to this user. The user has been warned many times (including by myself) in the past about his or her behaviour on this article, and I think the time for decisive action to stop it is now here. I've blocked him or her for one week. Let's see if that changes his or her behaviour. Sorry to "take over" from you in this way. I hope you don't mind. DDStretch (talk) 20:41, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ddstretch:Don't worry about it mate. What I was going to do was see if he edit warred any further than I would have reported to AN3. But it's good that you blocked him to prevent further disruption. If he continues when his block expires, don't feel afraid to block indefinitely! Class455 (talk) 22:48, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2016)

A cleaning sponge

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Sponge (material)

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Tech News: 2016-47

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

Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [27]
You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [28]
The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [29]

Changes this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [30][31][32]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [33]
Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [34]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Class455. 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)

Done. Class455 (talk) 09:25, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

An overview of the English Wikipedia ArbCom election; brief notes as Asian and African initiatives wind down

In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

Election prompts media to explore themes important to Wikipedians, including news literacy, privacy, and data security

Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

115,000 images were submitted as part of the annual competition.

Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

A sampling of photo submissions to the annual photography campaign

Featured content: Featured mix

Eight articles, two lists and nine pictures were promoted

Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review

Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

Empowering volunteers and local chapters to engage with fundraising would yield varied benefits

Traffic report: President-elect Trump

Someone is likely to dominate traffic for a long time

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2016)

Homework may include mathematical exercises

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Homework

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [35]
When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [36]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [37][38]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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@Class455 and Patient Zero: Can you correct the sentence with a period on that section I edited then he reverted it? KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 23:02, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

@KGirlTrucker81 and Patient Zero: This edit war is getting a bit petty now guys, especially over a full stop, so please stop! Anyway, KGirlTrucker81, it does say on the edit notice of my user page that you may edit my user page only if you are editing constructively, which you did, but you should let me know on my talk page that you've performed the edit (I should have put that on my edit notice, but I really did not see this whole thing coming!), which is why Patient Zero reverted you. But anyway, I will change it, and I'll alter my edit notice to make sure this thing does not happen again. But KGirlTrucker81, I do appreciate others correcting my userpage (and some typos in any comments I make), but please take note that most other users do not like others editing their userpage, even if it is minor (I honestly have no clue why). I fell into this trap once and now I know. Thank you both. Class455 (talk) 23:17, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

I only explained them in the edit summary. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 23:36, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

KGirlTrucker81 I understand, and I did see this, but only after spotting it on my watchlist. Leaving a message here is a lot better, because I get the "orange bar of death" (as Mjroots calls it) as soon as I log on notifying me that there is a new message on my talk page, and therefore I can see and respond to the change. Class455 (talk) 23:48, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

KGirl has hit 3 reverts now. I will not be reverting further following your acceptance of the edit. One more thing though, KGirlTrucker81: getting funny about templates really doesn't look good. But yes, I acknowledge the whole thing was rather ridiculous, and I shouldn't have reverted in all fairness. I was simply doing what I thought was right. Patient Zero^talk 10:13, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Patient Zero Don't worry about it man, we all make the odd mistake bro 😊. Hope you're well! Class455 (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm doing good. I have my mock exams next week! Hope college is going well for you. :-) Patient Zero^talk 08:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)