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WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.
We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [2]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [3]
Problems
Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [4]
Changes this week
Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [6]
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
You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [8]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [9]
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [10]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [11][12]
@Hamish59: I know this is circular referencing, but it is the information I had while I did the dabbing. On Sherwood Rangers YeomanryEdward Orlando Kellett is listed in the infobox under "|notable_commanders=" (3rd name). (Plus the tool I use displayed 0 bars for it being South and a circular link-icon for this. See User:Dispenser/Dab solver.) So, by using simple backlinking, more article links pointed for it to be Sherwood than South. Feel free to revert my dabbing if you disagree that this is sufficient. (t) Josve05a (c)14:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that, Josve05a. I have done some searching around and found him on this as Sherwood Rangers. I will cite this and remove the clarify template. Cheers. Hamish59 (talk) 14:35, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Josve05a, you may be able to answer a technical question that I have regarding links, or perhaps point me in the right direction.
I am currently working on M Battery Royal Horse Artillery and I want to see "What links here". Problem is, this article is included on a template Template:Royal Horse Artillery so when I hit the "What links here" I get links to all the other articles on the template. I only want to see which articles link explicitly to M Battery Royal Horse Artillery rather than through the template. Is there a technique to do this? A "What links here, but not through a template" function?
Thank you very much for getting back to me so quickly, Josve05a. I tried what you suggested, but it does not appear to make any difference. I still get all the template-linked articles. Hamish59 (talk) 09:31, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
@Hamish59: Ah, I see what you mean, I misunderstood earlier. Sorry for not responding earlier. I don't know a way currently, but I have a person I will ask later today who I think can help out. (t) Josve05a (c)20:30, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
@Hamish59: The great user Dispenser did an SQL-query which resulted in this:
mysql> SELECT page_title
-> FROM pagelinks
-> JOIN page ON page_id=pl_from
-> LEFT JOIN templatelinks ON tl_from=pl_from
-> AND tl_namespace=10 AND tl_title="Royal_Horse_Artillery"
-> WHERE pl_namespace=0 AND pl_title="M_Battery_Royal_Horse_Artillery"
-> AND tl_from IS NULL AND page_namespace=0
-> GROUP BY page_id
-> LIMIT 10;
+-----------------------------------+
| page_title |
+-----------------------------------+
| Anglo-Egyptian_War |
| List_of_Royal_Artillery_Batteries |
| 1st_(Peshawar)_Division |
| 1st_(Risalpur)_Cavalry_Brigade |
| M_Battery,_Royal_Horse_Artillery |
| 10th_Indian_Cavalry_Brigade |
+-----------------------------------+
6 rows in set (0.06 sec)
Not to worry. I do not want to waste anyone's time on this, just thought there might be a standard way of doing this. Thank you very much for your help. Hamish59 (talk) 20:56, 20 November 2015 (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
A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.
Changes this week
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.
Problems
On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [15]
Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [16]
Changes this week
Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [17][18]
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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