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The Signpost: 02 September 2015

Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia

Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.

News and notes: Flow placed on ice

The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.

Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments

A conflict regarding fundraising banners on the Italian Wikipedia is resolved.

Featured content: Brawny

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 August to 24 August.

In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage

Also vital statistics regarding Ja Rule.

Traffic report: You didn't miss much

The late-summer smash success of Straight Outta Compton remains the chief talking point of the English-speaking world, interrupted only by the welcome return of a Google Doodle.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Tech News: 2015-37

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 now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [1]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [2]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [3]

Problems

There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [4]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [5][6]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [7]
The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [8][9]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [10]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [11][12]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

Gallery: Being Welsh

The National Library is now releasing some of the nation's most treasured collections to Wikimedia Commons for everyone to use and enjoy.

Featured content: Killed by flying debris

Tony1 interviews a prolific featured content participant, Ian Rose.

Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity

Fram tells us why DYK is a problem.

News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article

First bot-created article generated from Wikidata; the Orange Bar of Doom has finally met its doom; active editor numbers still on the rise; arbitrator to resign; ne templates added in wake of Orangemoody case

Traffic report: Mass media production traffic

This week's theme in popular articles revolved entirely around mass media productions.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined

A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week

Tech News: 2015-38

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 now use the Wikidata query service. [13]
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [14]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [15][16]

Problems

There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [17]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [18]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [19]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [20]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Nissan Skyline

Sir I did NOT mess with the Nissan Skyline page. Is someone hacking my account? Is it Chris Pine? I assume it is. I am blocked for something I did NOT fdo. What is this and why am I being falsely accused? Please let me know what's going on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.134.253 (talk) 19:30, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

On Wikipedia's commitment to open access and its obligations to readers and editors.

News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?

WMF CFO to depart, notifications come and go, and questions about the possible editing by a recently arrested terrorism suspect.

In the media: Is there life on Mars?

Probably not. Also, Whitehall still editing Wikipedia.

Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?

This week's featured content.

Traffic report: Another week

No particular trends to spot in this week's top article traffic.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Tech News: 2015-39

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 now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [21][22]
Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [23][24][25][26]
More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [28]

Problems

Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [29]
Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [30][31]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [32]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [33]
You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [34]
Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [35]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

PETA launches a copyright lawsuit over the infamous photograph.

Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

No, really, just stop.

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

This week's featured content.

WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

This time of year features the Latin Grammy Awards, so here for an interview are WikiProject Latin music.

Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.

This week, drug lord and wannabe Bolivar Pablo Escobar was joined by a whole host of somewhat more primetime-friendly political insurgents.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Tech News: 2015-40

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

In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [36]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [37]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [38]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [39]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [40]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [41]
MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [42]

Problems

Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [43][44]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [45]
The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [46]

Meetings

You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [47]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2015

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania

A year of fundraising and a controversial decision.

In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism

More Wikipedia editing in the news.

Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators

Low numbers of active admins and high standards for adminship make a troubling combination.

Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?

A look at newly published Wikipedia research.

Tech news: Tech news in brief

Community technical news

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [48]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [49]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [50]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [51]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [52]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor update

This note is only delivered to English Wikipedia subscribers of the visual editor's newsletter.

The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.

This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.

We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 October 2015

Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption

Kazakhstan and Wikipedia: A marriage made in hell.

Traffic report: Reality is for losers

English speakers, like most of humanity, are primarily a northern-hemispheric people, and as autumn draws close and the days grow shorter, as a group we tend to huddle around our flickering screens and remember what matters: TV, movies, sports and, of course, crazy doomsday prophecies.

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Some of Wikipedia's newest featured content.

Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

These winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2015 contest were shared with the Social Media mailing list recently.

Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs

A new case was opened for ArbCom as the Genetically modified organisms case was accepted and opened on 28 September.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

A reproduced version of the Wikimedia tech newsletter.

In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?

A summary of Wikimedia's mentions in the media.

Tech News: 2015-42

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

The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [53]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [54]
Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [55]

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

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2015

Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

We believe that human interaction can only make Wikipedia stronger.

WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States

Three days at the US National Archives.

Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence

The news coverage we usually see about Wikipedia is neither in-depth, nor specialized, nor systematic.

News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

Everyone's talking about money.

Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death

For the second consecutive week, the most viewed article had less than one million views, the only two weeks that has happened in all of 2015.

Featured content: A fistful of dollars

This week's featured content.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid

On September 25, 26 and 27, Wikimedia Spain celebrated its third Wikimedia Conference at the Colegio Mayor Universitario Isabel de España in Madrid.

Tech News: 2015-43

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

Recent changes

Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [56]

Problems

A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [57]
Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [58]
The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [59]

Changes this week

Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [60]
Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [61][62][63][64]

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

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 October 2015

Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

Time to clean up our mess.

News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched

District court judge decrees that the WMF lacks standing.

In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"

"The lunatics are running the asylum."

Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

Examining the conflict and its participants.

Featured content: A more balanced week

October 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter

September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar!

The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there!

Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [65]
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [66][67]
When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [68][69]
Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [70]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Lor. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! Lor^Talk 23:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227 and T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you can't read this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2015

From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help

A call for volunteers.

News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles

The community reacts to another milestone.

In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA

The week's news coverage about the encyclopedia.

Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying

Gangs of bullies and trolls rove the internet and make life difficult for the rest of us.

Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement

A divisive case before the Committee opens.

Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth

What's this all aboot, eh?

Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

New research about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things

This week's featured content.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Community letter: Five million articles

The community celebrates.

Tech News: 2015-45

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

You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [71]
If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [72]
Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [73]

Problems

On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [74]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [75]
Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [76]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey

The WMF wants your ideas for technical improvements.

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

WMF funding and the death and life of a controversial feature.

In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

The difficulties of verifying encyclopedia content.

Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

The week in article traffic.

Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket

This week's featured content.

Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony

Wikipedia received the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for global cooperation on October 23.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Superprotect has been removed. [77]
You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [78]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [79]

Problems

Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [80]

Changes this week

Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [81]
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. [82]
The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [83]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed

Assessing the end of a controversial feature.

Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee

It's that time of the year again.

Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review

Fallout from a recent security breach.

Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling

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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. [84]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [85]
The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [86]
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. [87][88]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Lor,

Hi Lor, I came to explain that that first edit on Who Is Fancy was merely a beachhead for some larger revisions, but I see that you've already reverted your reversion so, no worries. Thanks for keeping an eye out! Tony-Bonanza (talk) 04:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@Tony-Bonanza: I didn't have any problem with your Edit, just a slight mistake while using Huggle :) Lor^Talk 04:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

La Luz Revert

Hi there, I figured I might have been going about it incorrectly. But I am the author of the current content at La Luz as well as this page La Luz (band). As of now, the information on both is basically duplicated. I was assuming that by putting a redirect in for the La Luz (band) landing and removing the outdated content would be the best way to do it? Please let me know if you think I am in error or if there's a better way to do this. Thanks!--Shark2000br (talk) 03:23, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Shark2000br: I can see what you mean, but a few things:

You are not the owner of any page on Wikipedia, so generally in most cases you can't just make big removals and edits of the page such as moves without discussion.
I do see how the pages are nearly duplicates. What i would suggest is that you ask an Administrator to perform a a history merge of the two pages, and point La Luz (band) to La Luz with a redirect. if someone contests the move, then discuss the move and get consensus on Talk:La Luz (band) or Talk:La Luz.

I hope this helps, if you have any questions feel free to ask them below. Happy Editing :) Lor^Talk 03:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:07, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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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.
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Future changes

From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [89]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 November 2015

Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

Our annual election coverage.

In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

Icelandic Wikipedia hits 400K articles; how do Wikipedia editors stay neutral?

Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world

Discussions around the encyclopedia.

Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running

Updates on the Committee. You know, besides the election.

Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales

The week in Featured Content.

Traffic report: Darkness and light

Paris and Diwali.

WС (rарреr)

Why are you reverting the blanking? The article creator has probably realized the shouldn't have created the article. Blanking an article by the creator when he or she is the only significant contributor is seen as a request to delete the article. Rather than restoring an article that is under investigation for potential copyright problems just speedy it as author requested and save the trouble. Meters (talk) 08:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@Meters: Oops, i must have not notice that they were the creator when reverting. I'll remove the warnings from their Talk page.. Lor^Talk 08:05, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

No biggie. It just seemed very odd to be restoring what was probably copyvio material that the author was trying to get rid of. I was just letting yo know why I jumped in. Meters (talk) 08:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@Meters: Yeah, I'm guessing that Huggle didn't show enough of the history for me to notice. And only seeing the diff didn't help either. Anyway, thanks for telling me :) Lor^Talk 08:12, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Privately contacting you.

I was wondering if I could have your email to talk to you about something. Anonymous4106 (talk) 05:56, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

@Anonymous4106: You can email me at Special:EmailUser/Lor Lor^Talk 09:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry

My brother went on my iPhone I truly apologize for this is a service for people to learn Thetruestatement (talk) 02:27, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

@Thetruestatement: It is fine, but to prevent your brother from using your phone again, i would suggest setting (or changing) your passcode on your Phone. If you wish to not use this account anymore, you can Vanish from Wikipedia, but your account cannot be deleted for legal reasons. Lor^Talk 02:35, 28 November 2015 (UTC)