User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2014/April

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Help with SPI

Can you comment at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheGeneralofWar. There is some confusion regarding your block of Urfinze (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and whether the sockmaster is User:Фаиз Махмудов or User:Jakandsig. Thanks.—Bagumba (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Don't wrry about it now. I took it up to ANI. I know you would respond, but it be too late because of timezones which I just realized right now. --THNX--Jerm729 (talk) 22:28, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future

The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: "Future of the Wikimedia Conference".

WikiProject report: Deutschland in English

This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.

Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.

Featured content: April Fools

The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.

Traffic report: Regressing to the mean

The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

Hydrogen Breath Test

If you look at the page for Hydrogen Breath Test it is an obvious commerical message for Commonwealth Laboratories. Why hasn't this been removed?98.216.34.164 (talk) 12:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I see that you have now removed the spammiest section; well done, that's exactly how wikipedia is supposed to work! Ged UK 11:25, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments

Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Law

This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.

Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

"I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."

Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes

Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.

Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Sorry for the impersonal nature

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- MisterShiney ✉ 15:29, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

As it's been archived now, I'll reply here, and sorry, I'm seldom on WP over the weekend. There were several reversions that weren't sourced, and on a reasonably quick look through it wasn't obvious that the sources were in another section. It got three months because it was the fourth protection in 2 months, each longer than the previous. At this stage I think protection is wise, but if there's consensus on the talk page that it should be unprotected, I'll look at it again. Alternatively, you're welcome to request another admin havea a look at it at RfPP, I've no problem with that. Ged UK 11:32, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

RT edit block

Hi Ged,

Could I ask you to look into this again? I'm not saying it shouldn't blocked but the current situation isn't ideal. The current wording has been changed by an IP who's (IMO) trying to fake a consensus on an active RfC. The current wording also has issues relating to the use of a mission statement, and the the assertion that the criticism is limited to the western media. Thanks --Trappedinburnley (talk) 13:03, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Any protected version is the wrong one. It shouldn't affect the RfC because people can link to diffs of different versions in teh discussions, and people can also of course run through the history as well. Ged UK 11:34, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

At the time it seemed like an error had occurred as the protection was requested to prevent a rule breaking editor from persisting and ended up leaving their changes in place. I'm not so offended by the situation to make a big deal out of it. I'm sure the RfC will still be unresolved by the time the edit protection expires, the associated SPI request seems to have postponed the argument for the time being. I confess that I don't have much experience with edit protection but I'm off to find out more because it seems that this article is a candidate for long term semi-protection.--Trappedinburnley (talk) 18:38, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.

Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do

Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!

News and notes: Wikimedian passes away

Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as "Cindamuse" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.

WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism

This week, we visited WikiProject Catholicism.

Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015

After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.

Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.

Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church

Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014

Did you know?

You can use VisualEditor to make redirects. First, remove any unwanted content from the page. Then go to the "Page options" menu (next to "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽") and choose the "Page settings" item. Click the box to "Redirect this page to". In the box, type in the name of the page that you want to redirect this page to.

You can also set or remove categories for the redirect in the "Page options" menu. Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on performance improvements, image settings, and preparation for a simplified citation template tool in its own menu.

In an oft-requested improvement, VisualEditor now displays red links (links to non-existent pages) in the proper color. Links to sister projects and external URLs are still the same blue as local links.
You can now open templates by double-clicking them or by selecting them and pressing Return. This also works for references, images, galleries, mathematical equations, and other "nodes".
VisualEditor has been disabled for pages that were created as translations of other pages using the Translate extension (common at Meta and MediaWiki.org). If a page has been marked for translation, you will see a warning if you try to edit it using VisualEditor.
When you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor, the full protection notice and most recent log entry are displayed. Blocked users see the standard message for blocked users.
The developers fixed a bug that caused links on sub-pages to point to the wrong location.
The size-changing controls in the advanced settings section of the media or image dialog were simplified further. VisualEditor's media dialog supports more image display styles, like borderless images.
If there is not enough space on your screen to display all of the tabs (for instance, if your browser window is too narrow), the second edit tab will now fold into the drop-down menu (where the "Move" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "Edit source" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "Edit source" and "View history" tabs after they moved into the drop-down menu.
After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed as an opt-in feature at Meta and on the French Wikinews.

Looking ahead: A new, locally controlled menu of citation templates will put citations immediately in front of users. You will soon be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) is being developed. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") will be offered as a Beta Feature soon. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Monday, 19 May 2014 at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this on your own page, subscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor#Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)