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I will try to find more sources and fix the issue for Jyoti Arora

Thanks for the suggestion. Dial911 (talk) 09:18, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Unnamed section

Hello Please can you help improve it. Thanks. Kabusa16 (talk) 11:43, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Re: Ijele - The Traveler

I'm still working on the article to get it to standard. Thanks for the review

Aghachi7 (talk) 15:55, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

This (The X-Files) tagging as CSD A1

I've declined the speedy deletion tagged you placed on this article. It's clear from the article as it exists that this is an X Files episode. Also, I've confirmed through sources independent of Wikipedia that this episode is real. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:42, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award
		Well done on reviewing over 1000 articles in the last month! Thank you very much. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 18:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Ernst Schering Foundation

Hey Babymissfortune, thank you for your comments regarding the Ernst Schering Foundation. I fully agree with the issue regarding missing references, I had put a note on this in the talk page of the article - the article is a translation from the German equivalent. I am afraid I lack the references, but the content sounded reliable and is not really controversial, so I think with the notice that the article currently lacks references to neutral sources, it might attract others to provide them.

Regarding the general notability, the foundation was endowed very generously be European standards and the science prize it awards is among the more prestigious in Germany; also, a list of awardees already existed on the English wikipedia, so I think it is justified to explain the underlying art and science foundation with its own article. I hope you will agree and that the article won't end up getting deleted. Thank you! Biophil23 (talk) 08:58, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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

• On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Reverts

Hi. I saw your numerous reverts to my removal of redlinks. Per WP:AFD/AI#Carrying out the AfD close, if it is found that an article subject is not notable, redlinks are removed in most cases. Your summary of "link needed" or "still playing" is not an explanation for reverting since the content is not being deleted, only the link. Killiondude (talk) 17:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

@Killiondude: Yes I know that. But in most of the articles where you removed the link, redlinks are still needed/in practice. If you would scan the basketball teams, all players have wikilinks whether they have an article or not. The links are most important in the templates, to be able to distinguish which player is which. When you removed the link, all that remain is the surname. And people who will be able to see the template might say "who is this Caperal guy?" So yes, sometimes redlinks are still needed. If you really want to remove the link, you maybe should just remove the players' names as well, not just the link, so as to be consistent with the rest of the article. ^{Babymissfortune} 17:29, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Bridge the Divide

Thanks for letting me know! I'll see what I can do to improve the page! Uhtregorn (talk) 21:30, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

help me

how are you able to wikipedia so interactly. You are one of the great wikipedian. I salute you. I also read in school. I read in Budhanilkantha School. But anyways, you are great. You can progress very much in your life. 10:43, 9 January 2018 (UTC) OTserInW (talk) 10:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Voice FM 103.9

Hello Babymissfortune. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Voice FM 103.9, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 14:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Contested

Hi, I have contested the deletion of both my pages as I feel they both have a right to be on Wikipedia. The reason you have given of "not important enough to be on an encyclopedia" is invalid as he is a Radio Presenter. If you delete the page using this reason, you may as well delete all presenters.

I ask you kindly to remove deletion tags off both Joshua Dodd and Voice FM as they are clearly within the rules. Bigbrojd (talk) 14:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

@Bigbrojd: I am not the one who deletes pages. I am just someone files them for deletion. Just wait for an admin to respond. Thanks. ^{Babymissfortune} 15:03, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	For helping out with deletion sorting. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 00:52, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Redirectes Elia Maria Norelle Ilano

Can you provide the reason why you redirected that name to Ang Probinyasno? Mikelopez12 (talk) 11:30, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

@Mikelopez12: I provided it already. ^{Babymissfortune} 11:33, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Depth Chart

Hi Babymissfortune. Greg Slaughter is the current starting center of Brgy. Ginebra. Jericho De Guzman is on the reserve list. Also, Mark Caguioa is the 2nd SG of their team behind Scottie Thompson.

@Gayviewmahat: But you should always provide your source. That's what matters always. ^{Babymissfortune} 12:04, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Sudeshna Swayamprabha

Hello Babymissfortune. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Sudeshna Swayamprabha, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims coverage in reliable sources. Thank you. Sam Sailor 09:41, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

With a bylined article in The Daily Star featuring subject, we are well passed a lack of CCS. Please be careful. Sam Sailor 09:44, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Adam Dixon (hydroponics)

Hi, thanks for reviewing the page I created. The article has been nominated for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Dixon (hydroponics) due to lack of notability. I can see that you have some experience on this and wonder if you might want to contribute your opinion on the matter (with some urgency). Many thanks for your time. Zosimos102 (talk) 11:58, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Redirect Ninja

		Redirect Ninja
		I've seen you reviewing quite a few redirects during the NPP New Year Backlog Drive. Thanks! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 20:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: Thanks for this! I'll try to do well every time. ^{Babymissfortune} 00:47, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Hello Babymissfortune,

I noticed you marked an article as a stub using the {{stub}} template. Did you know that there are thousands of stub types that you can use to clarify what type of stub the article is? Properly categorizing stubs is important to the Wikipedia community because it helps various WikiProjects to identify articles that need expansion.

If you have questions about stub sorting, don't hesitate to ask! There is a wealth of stub information on the stub sorting WikiProject, and hundreds of stub sorters. Thanks!-- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 07:20, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Need help

Hi, you reviewed my article, thank you very much. Please see someone wants to delete in :( please tell them he is notable because you reviewed it after seeing something positive. Looking forward Romeo2259 (talk) 09:00, 21 January 2018 (UTC) Romeo2259 (talk) 09:00, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

@Romeo2259: "... he is notable because you reviewed it after seeing something positive. ..." — that is not true. Not because I reviewed it, I have sen something positive on the page. If you really think he is notable, post a message on the AfD of the page. ^{Babymissfortune} 09:06, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

I did that already, I would really appreciate if you say the same there and at least tell them it should be kept. I can update the article time to time to add more stuff.Romeo2259 (talk) 23:40, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [21][22]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Mass page review request/fyi

Hi, you recently reviewed some redirects (a handful) I made. Since then, I've made a few hundred more due to this effort. Just letting you know in case you wanted to do more!   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  01:35, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: I am currently working on these. Thanks for notifying me. :-) ^{Babymissfortune} 06:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for checking my redirect on Garibaldi mettwurst! I had some difficulties linking to the section within the other Australian page, so I'm glad it seems okay. Thank you so much!

SunnyBoi (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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 later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [25]

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

NPP backlog drive

Any chance you could give me a rough estimate for what the ratio of redirects to articles was for your reviews during the recent NPP backlog drive? I am trying to work out who did the most 'article' reviews (which will be a separate award to the top reviewers cup and the runner up cup). If you could let me know, that would be great. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 07:15, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: Sorry for the very late reply. I was busy at school and I had no time to review my patrol log to at least give an estimate. But as you have stated already at Talk:NPR, the bar set is about 1800 articles and I am very sure that I did not review that number of articles (I'm confident I reached at least a thousand though). ^{Babymissfortune} 14:22, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 5 February 2018

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Tech News: 2018-06

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

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [26]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [27]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [28]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [29]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [30]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [31]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [32]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [33]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [34][35]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dieter Lloyd Wexler, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
• Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. 20:32, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

		Runner Up New Page Reviewer
		For completing 2329 reviews during the 2018 NPP New Year Backlog Drive (the second highest number) please accept this Special Edition Barnstar as well as the Runner Up Cup. Thank you for helping out at New Page Patrol! There is still work to do to meet our long term goals, so I hope you will continue your great work. Cheers! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 03:44, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

		Unnecessarily Complicated Gears
		For maintaining a streak of over 500 reviews per week during the 2018 NPP New Year Backlog drive, you are awarded with the unnecessarily complicated gears. You truly are tireless! Keep up the good work. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 03:44, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [36][37][38]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [39]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [40]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [41]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [42]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [43][44]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [45]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [46]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [47][48]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [49]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

• News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators

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Tech News: 2018-09

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

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [50]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [51][52]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [53]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [54][55][56]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [57]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [58][59]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Need help with talking to user

I’ve tried to use User Talk:2A02:C7D:B925:5A00:8C:E3C5:7394:36C0 but can’t get through. This user keeps changing edits without reasons in edit summary of Hanggang Saan. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Hanggang_Saan The changes user made are not verified. Basically user is adding last names to characters when it is not true as far as the series is going. User is assuming they will marry their love team. I’ve reverted user’s edits the first time and tried to reach user unsuccessfully. The user changed the edits again a second time, again with no verified source and no edit summary. How can I warn or talk to the user?Pipamidalton (talk) 21:53, 1 March 2018 (UTC) Pipamidalton (talk) 21:53, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

@Pipamidalton: What do you mean as "you cannot reach the user"? I have found the link to his talk page and I have warned him regarding this. ^{Babymissfortune} 00:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

@Babymissfortune: thank you for doing that. When I try to reach out to an IP editor or any editor, I type User Talk:and the number and that normally gets me to the talk page. But I wasn’t able to do that successfully with 2A02:C7D:B925:5A00:8C:E3C5:7394:36C0. Instead it comes out with no results. Perhaps I’m doing it wrong? But your help is much appreciatedPipamidalton (talk) 06:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Pipamidalton You should have not capitalized the letter T in "Talk". It should be "User talk", not "User Talk", ^{Babymissfortune} 07:42, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

@Babymissfortune: i think the same user 90.206.117.29 but under a different IP address is at it again. See recent edits here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/90.206.117.29 same type of edits, adding non existent last names to major characters in the series without verified sources. I checked myself and the edits are wrong. Sounds like a fan rooting for love teams. I tried to warn them but again can’t find user talk:90.206.117.29, no matter if I don’t capitalize the “t” in talk. Your help again would be appreciated. If it continues, I’ll request for page protection. ThanksPipamidalton (talk) 03:34, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Pipamidalton Left a warning on the talk page. ^{Babymissfortune} 03:49, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Mass page review request/fyi (2)

I've made ~200 Taiwanese MRT/LRT 'Station' -> 'station' #Rs yesterday for consistency, to compliment the other 200 'Station' #Rs that already exist. FYI in case you're free to review them! Thanks again!   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:35, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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 make longer edit summaries. [60]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [61]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [62][63]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [64]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [65]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [66]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [67]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [68]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [69]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [70]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [71][72]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [73][74][75]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Review page Adamu Garba II

I created the page Adamu Garba II, come and review it when you're chanced Aghachi7 (talk) 06:29, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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Problems

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [76]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [77][78]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Re: Anonymous User 130.105.10.46

Good day Babymisfortune! I've been meaning to reach the administrators of Wikipedia for help regarding anonymous user 130.105.10.46. I saw that you reverted the user's edits and have left message for him to clarify his actions.

I would like to seek help regarding said user because, other than the fact that he removes content without an edit summary, the user seems to be targetting edits I've made. I've created a discussion on the affected pages, Ang Probinsyano and List of Ang Probinsyano guest stars but the user has not responded. It used to be that every time I add a content and reference, 130.105.10.46 would make it a point to remove it, all before 24 hours have passed since my edit, which then would have constituted edit warring. The user's pattern of editing is that whenever a new character appears on the show, either as a regular or guest, the user would add that entry then remove all other entries that I placed, especially references. I'd like to show proof here, sadly, I'm still learning my way around Wikipedia. In lieu of that, I'm respectfully directing attention to the edit history of the affected pages as pieces of evidence for the editing behavior of anonymous user 130.105.10.46.

Thank you! Gardo Versace (talk) 17:19, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Re: anonymous user

Good day Babymisfortune! I'm again asking for your help regarding the anonymous user subject of the discussion I posted on your user page. It appears that after having been warned of the removal of the references on the page Ang Probinsyano and List of Ang Probinsyano episodes without providing an edit summary, the said user did the same again using the IP address 130.105.10.206. As I have mentioned in the previous discussion, I have created started a discussion on the Ang Probinsyano page for the anonymous user to explain the removal of references. There has not been a reply and the anonymous user just keeps on removing references that have been added to peove the veracity of the entries. It is in my opinion that it is the same user doing the inexplicable removal of references as shown by the fact that not only are the IP addresses 130.105.10.206, 130.105.10.46, 130.105.10.170 very similar, they also show a unity of action in that the anonymous user constantly removes all references listed in the page.

The situation is all the more pressing in the case of the guest stars page as it was previously listed as a listcruft. I toiled long and hard to find references that would verify the correctness listed on the page, until the page was removed from the status of listcruft. Yet, despite this, said anonymous user constantly removes all references listed on the page. I humbly seek your help in addressing the situation with said anonymous user as the edits the user does is not only disruptive but counterproductive. Gardo Versace (talk) 15:57, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Dr. Sellappan Nirmala listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dr. Sellappan Nirmala. Since you had some involvement with the Dr. Sellappan Nirmala redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:58, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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 later this week

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [79] [80]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [81]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [82]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [83]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Kalavani 2

Babymiss, I denied your speedy for Kalavani 2. The context is quite clear, as it explicitly states that it's about an upcoming movie. A1 should only be used if you don't know how to search for more information, such as "He is awesome and his car is blue." In this case, I had no problem at all confirming that this is a real upcoming movie, seeing a handful of promotions and gossip about it.

Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 03:36, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Dieter Lloyd Wexler, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Tech News: 2018-14

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

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [84][85][86]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [87]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [88]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [89][90][91]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [92] [93]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [94]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [95]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [96]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [97][98]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Re: Anonymous User 130.105.10.172

Good day Babymissfortune!

I am posting on your talk page again to seek help for the protection of the entries in the Ang Probinsyano and List of Ang Probinsyano guest stars pages. As I have intimated in the previous discussions I left on your talk page, anonymous user 130.105.10.172 has a habit of removing all wikilinks and citations to both pages without any reason. And even if said anonymous user does decide to out a reason as to why he removes the wikilinks and the citations, it would still be disruptive and counterproductive to said pages as one of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia is that its articles are written from a neutral point of view, which calls for every article to be verifiable. By removing the anonymous user's removal of the citations, the verifiability of the entries on the page is negated. Also, again, as I have intimated in the previous discussions, the same anonymous user has the same modus operandi and switches between these IP addresses: 130.105.10.206, 130.105.10.46, 130.105.10.170.

Very recently, the anonymous user has become even bolder in his modus operandi. A mere 17 minutes after you reverted the edits that the anonymous user made, he again restored his edits; good thing L3X1 again reverted his edits and has likewise left a message on the anonymous user's talk page.

I humbly implore you Babymisfortune to conduct an investigation on the anonymous user, and if you find in your discretion that ot be proper, to sanction the said anonymous user by banning his IP Address from editing. Harsh it may seem, but it has become a recurring problem for the pages. These IP Addresses 130.105.10.206, 130.105.10.46, 130.105.10.170, 130.105.10.172 being identical and there being a unity of action between them, the removal of wikilinks and citations, lead to no other conclusion than that it is the same user performing the same counterproductive and disruptive edits over and over again in the said pages.

I am hoping that redress may be afforded for the anonymous user's repeated offense on said pages.

Thank you! Gardo Versace (talk) 07:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [99]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [100]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [101]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [102]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [103]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [104]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [105]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

F1 Grand Prix

Yes, for this way I put the date of the race (sunday) to be consistent with former articles.--79.50.250.127 (talk) 12:42, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

NPR Silver Award

		The New Page Reviewer's Silver Award
		For over 2000 new page reviews in the last year, thank you very much for your help at New Pages Patrol! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 23:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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 later this week

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [106]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [107][108]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [109]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [110]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)