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I've undone this edit to madam bot's exclude list. Sites now need to be licensed under CC-BY-SA (and optionally GFDL as well) and GFDL by itself is no longer enough. See Wikipedia:Licensing update#Content restrictions - I'm sure this has been documented somewhere better but as per usual tying to find it is difficult (Wikipedia's help/information system is atrocious and must be a nightmare for new users but that's a discussion for another day).

RE Igloo

Hey,

Out of curiosity, which part of the privacy policy did I violate? And yes, I can move the script over to the Wikipedia namespace, something I was planning to do eventually, but never got around to doing. --Kangaroopowah 20:15, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

bump. I can't find anything in the privacy policy that says this. --Kangaroopowah 21:28, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

@Kangaroopower: Hi, sorry I missed your original message somehow. By loading external resources from github, it enables github to track users who are visiting Wikipedia, and get information like referer headers and their IP addresses. This is mainly important because there is no warning to a user that "By using this script, your information will be sent to a third-party site that may track you.". Overall, it's just easier to just serve the scripts from a wikipage or tool labs if absolutely necessary. Legoktm (talk) 22:30, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Ah, makes sense. Personally, I'd rather host it on labs, because I'm planning to add a backend to Igloo anyways. How would I go about doing this? --Kangaroopowah 03:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

wikitech:Nova Resource:Tools/Help is a good guide. Legoktm (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [1] [2]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [3] [4]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [5] [6] [7]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [8]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [9]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [10] [11]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [12]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [13] [14]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [15] [16]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [17] [18]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [19]

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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [20] [21] [22]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [23]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [24] [25]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [26]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [27]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [28]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [29]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [36]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [37]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [38]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [39]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Vandalism (again) at CS Universitatea Craiova (football)

Hello!

You semi-protected yesterday CS Universitatea Craiova (football), but the editor is now back, using a registered account this time (Roby Iliescu). He deleted information from the History section, the Kit manufacturer info, the Ownership and finances section etc. Referenced material was eliminated.

It seems that he used to edit the encyclopedia as WP:LOGGEDOUT for the extremely "dirty work" like removing clearly legitimate stuff (the infobox, uncontroversial categories, the squad of the team) or adding "funny text" ("People coming to the game and pretend to keep this team receives social assistance free." / "nickname = The Clone" / "Mircea Sandu fucks the mayor of Craiova Lia Olguța Vasilescu and give to her 2 millions of euros."): [40] [41]

While logged out he also disruptively removed CS Universitatea Craiova (football) from the list participating at 2014–15 Liga I: [42]

Can you please restore the stable version and sanction the editor?

Also, maybe you can take a look at Talk:CS_Universitatea_Craiova_(football)#Edit_requested_-_year_of_foundation 79.117.201.70 (talk) 14:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)