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The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.
Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.
Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [1][2]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [3]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [4]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [5]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
... but all of but one of the links tagged in this edit have been archived already. There's no reason to tag those citations as dead links since the archives still exist. As for the last one, That website is still active, and the link still works. Imzadi 1979→01:58, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.
Per WP:MULTI this discussion is closed and will continue on the discussion where this is relevant. Please do not branch off discussion on multiple talk pages. A simple ping is sufficient. Thank you (t) Josve05a (c)02:44, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Before you start quoting words like 'conesensus' at me, you might be interested enough to check on the consensus that was decided by the community to actually get rid of the AfC system completely. And you may also like to adopt a less combatitive attitude. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:37, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Page scheduled for deletion (nitrous oxide emmisions)
I have made the appropriate changes to meet the copyright standards. I will also continually update this page as more information becomes available as well as making it more appealing i learn how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamie Thornberry (talk • contribs) 03:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.
During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.
The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...
The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
Hello, Josve05a. You have new messages at User talk:Josve05a/sandbox/Cyber. Message added 13:43, 29 June 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [10]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [11][12][13]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [14]
Problems
JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [15]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [16]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [17]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [18]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [19]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [20]
Hello, I am Jordan Hollywood's PR manager. Our article was deleted (Understandably, it was half empty), However I'm here with the artist and management from the label right now ready to fill in the rest of the page. May I ask that you either restore the page or send me the source code so I may fill it out completely.
I am not an administrator and can not delete, undelete, nor see deleted articles. You want to contact the admin you deleted your article at his or her talk page here. (t) Josve05a (c)15:09, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Request for the Removal of the Page titled as, 'Vikrant Bhargava'
Good Afternoon.
I am a representative of Vikrant Bhargava. I have been monitoring the site for quite a while and after waiting for some of the false information to be rectified. Vikrant Bhargava has requested for the removal of this site.
I've tried, in the process, you've accused me for vandalism.
Please could you remove it ASAP. To avoid any dispute.
Hello Apple9530.It is true that the subject are allowed n some cercomstances to ask for the deletion of an article about him or her to be deleted, governed by policies. You can not simply "blank" an article, that way will only be reverted. You need to send in an email to [email protected] describing in detail what you want and why you want it, remember to send links. I, personally, can not assume you are, or have the permission from the subject to act on his behalf, that's for the email-people (OTRS) to decide. Good luck. (t) Josve05a (c)15:27, 30 June 2015 (UTC)