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Wikidata weekly summary #175

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I don't know how or why this happened to my userpage. And for some reason I am unable to edit the page to fix it. If you can, could you please put the previous edit (of when I myself edited the page, which was before I took a wiki-break).

thank you, Shirugaki (talk)

@Shirugaki: See the explanation at the foot of your user page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:21, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
•But I did not do it (as in the copy and pasting) Shirugaki (talk)

I don't know how or why this happened to my userpage. And for some reason I am unable to edit the page to fix it. If you can, could you please put the previous edit (of when I myself edited the page, which was before I took a wiki-break).

Here is a beetle that you may have as a token of my appreciation. PS this name is Monster.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shirugak (talk • contribs) 19:26, 15 September 2015‎

You'd need to ask an admin to restore that. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Help Needed

Hi @Pigsonthewing: , can you pls help me with a heading on my user page ? -- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan (talk) 09:42, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Done. I hope that's what you wanted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:50, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
thanks-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan (talk) 09:58, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

The Bugle: Issue CXIV, September 2015

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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. [1][2]
  • 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. [3][4][5][6]
  • 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. [7]
  • The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [8]

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. [9]
  • 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. [10][11]
  • UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [12]

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. [13]
  • 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. [14]
  • Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [15]

Meetings

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #176

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Quick David Gilmour question

You wouldn't happen to know the name of Gilmour's dog, would you? The dog is in the liner notes of his new album and has appeared in various video interviews. Since I'm a big fan of dogs in general, and Floyd/Gilmour, I've been wondering. Thanks, Dismas|(talk) 16:36, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

No idea, sorry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:10, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Polly Samson's website says they have "a Westie called Tiger and a lurcher caller Doris", if that helps. ‑ iridescent 17:15, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Hrm, no idea what a lurcher is, so I guess I'll look that up. But thank you, both. Dismas|(talk) 11:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Archive navigation

Good grief but some people are ignorant, short-sighted and selfish.

Incidentally, you're invited to join the Ten Year Society.  — Scott • talk 06:56, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@Scott: TfD is seriously broken; it often degrades to a simple vote, with no consideration of the arguments made. Just look at the recent debate over the farcical {{User online}}, for example. And thank you, but I'm already in the TYS. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:05, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
It looks like you meant {{Useronline}} [sic], and this TfD - having read it, I agree. That was an absolute joke. I've not spent much time at TfD, but it seems in that respect to be identical to RfD, which I spent a few months at last year before nearly losing the will to live. Perhaps our only hope is that the stubborn ones like us will simply outlast the people without any serious interest in producing a project for the long term. Also, glad to hear you're in.  — Scott • talk 11:45, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm here for the long haul. And, yes, {{Useronline}} (I've made a redirect, god help me). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:14, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
You may be interested in my request at User talk:Codename Lisa, given the close as keep. ~ RobTalk 06:42, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
@BU Rob13 and Scott: Thank you. I've commented there; much good it will do. We may as well stop pretending that TfD is anything but a simple vote count, at this rate. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:46, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
@BU Rob13 and Scott: And now Codename Lisa is removing posts from their talk page, mislabelling them as personal attacks, and making false allegations there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:33, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Molecule Models

On your page you state that you are a Wikipedian in Residence for the Royal Society of Chemistry.

This got me thinking, Do you know of any 'free' paper models of molecules that could be put on Commons as a resource?

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:20, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@Sfan00 IMG: Sorry, I don;t. I've just finished at the RSC, BTW. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:51, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

Question

Could you take a look at Template:Cfd result/sandbox and try to figure out why it won't transclude properly? It seems to substitute fine, but the lack of transclusion is confusing me. I must be missing something. ~ RobTalk 04:00, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

No idea, sorry - unless it's to do with the use of Safesubst? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:30, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Alakzi has responded to this query via email, and apparently the issue is related to the ! Magic words. It's fine for substitution though which is what's important. Thanks for looking! ~ RobTalk 23:51, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Ketelbey

See the thread on the MRG's page and do it properly. – SchroCat (talk) 20:27, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Already seen it. The assertions there are false. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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. [16]
  • UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [17]
  • You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [18]
  • When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [19]
  • You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [20]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [21]
  • 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. [22]

Problems

  • Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [23][24]

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. [25]
  • 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. [26]

Meetings

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)

Wikidata weekly summary #177

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Ping

Mentioned you in this discussion: [28] can you enlighten us all over there? Montanabw(talk) 03:12, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
  • Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
  • Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
  • Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

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Lisa Mckenzie

What's the thinking on the dashes in the publications? I can't say I have seen that before. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

|authormask= in {{Cite book}}, etc. Been there for years. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:10, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
OK, I don't use that one. I don't really think it's appropriate in that context as it is stated to be a list of her works. Can we have no dashes and no author name either? (It's also misplacing the date at the start) Philafrenzy (talk) 23:23, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
That's exactly the context for which it is intended. If you think the formatting is erroneous, raise an issue on the (combined) citation templates' talk page, and see whether there is consensus to use an alternative. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:25, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
authormask=0 works best I found when all the works are by the subject of the article. This seems to remove the dashes and move the date to the end. Philafrenzy (talk) 10:51, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of that option; thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:31, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2015

Thank you so much

...for patrolling my new page Joe Negri archives. I hope we meet some day. You seem to be a WP-celebrity. Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 22:45, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #178

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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. [29]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [30]

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. [31]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [32]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [33]

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

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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Thank you for editing Siri Derkert and thereby alerting me about the new status of the Person data template. :) w.carter-Talk 14:16, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Math banner

I see you have been adding {{WikiProject Mathematics}} to recently created articles. Did you notice that that template expands to a big banner message that says "don't use this template"? The correct template is {{maths rating}}. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:19, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, and I've already asked the project to fix this bug, so that the {{WikiProject [project name]}} model used all over Wikipedia works there too. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:23, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
You mean the discussion last august that degenerated into fixing the redirect target of list of mathematics articles and otherwise nothing happened? So you do know that (unless/until something changes) {{WikiProject Mathematics}} is the wrong template to use, and you're somehow using it anyway to make a point? —David Eppstein (talk) 05:55, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
It's the right template to use; it merely needs to configured to work correctly. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:13, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Creating a template

Andy, After a (long) discussion at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive1 about the status of a Banksy image, I think the issue is nearly resolved as I've copied the file back from commons (File:Banksy-ps.jpg) to wikipedia & renamed it to File:Banksy-ps2.jpg + added non free rationale etc. However Nikkimaria is suggesting I create the template Non-free graffiti on english wp. I've never created a template before and when I try to copy the template from commons I get all sorts of red links about autotranslate and other "gibberish". As you know more about templates than anyone else I know I was wondering if you could help?— Rod talk 15:20, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Done at {{Non-free graffiti}} - I coped {{Non-free logo}}. Please edit wording & links to suit your needs. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:05, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
@Rodw: Did you see this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Yep (and I gave you a "thanks" for it). The issue was resolved (hopefully to everyones satisfaction) at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive1, but closed as no consensus due to the lack of other comments. I don't know whether I can be bothered to renominate.— Rod talk 20:52, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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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. [34]

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. [35]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [36]

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)

Wikidata weekly summary #179

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The Bugle: Issue CXV, October 2015

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