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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2014 == |
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'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 79 - November 2014 <br /> |
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2014|October issue]] |
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<br /><center><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small><br/> |
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; Project News |
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* Welcome to the seventy ninth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. |
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* Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,461 last month to 11,606 on October 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 83. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,422 articles. |
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{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty three Yorkshire featured articles: |
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[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[HMS Endeavour]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]] • [[Abe Waddington]] • [[Æthelwold ætheling]] |
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{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists: |
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[[York City F.C. Clubman of the Year]] • [[List of York City F.C. managers]] • [[List of York City F.C. players]] • [[List of York City F.C. seasons]] • [[List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of York City F.C. records and statistics]] • [[List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of Scarborough F.C. seasons]] • [[List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys]] • [[List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]] |
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'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed. |
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; Article Activity |
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There has been no article activity to report on this month. |
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<!--{{icon|FAN}} [[Æthelwold ætheling]] promoted to FA on '''September 5th'''<br />--> |
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; Member News |
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There are 75 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There is no change in the project membership since the October newsletter: |
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The number of |
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[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low. |
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;Thanks |
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* A very big {{Thank you}} to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. |
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* To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. |
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* To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs. |
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* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]]. |
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{{Great}} |
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<div style="float: center; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div> |
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; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] |
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|align=center|As of 25 October 2014, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner. |
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{{Thank}} |
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<small>Written by {{noping|Keith D}} • Template by {{noping|Jza84}} | '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/November 2014|Single-Page View]]</small>'''</div> |
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'''Would you like to write the next newsletter for [[WP:YORKS]]?? Please nominate yourself at [[WT:YORKS]]! New editors are always welcome!''' |
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; Aims |
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After discussion at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]] in April 2008. |
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'''Specific aims''' for the project are:- |
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*To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below) |
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*To recruit more active editors (See Member News) |
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*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status |
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*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good article]] status |
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*To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below) |
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*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members |
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and apropos of the above a '''2010 New Year''' article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised. |
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;'''Priority Articles''' |
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The '''top priority articles''' that have been identified to date are as follows - |
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* [[Bradford]] • [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] • [[Henry Moore]] • [[Kingston upon Hull]] • [[Leeds]] • [[North Yorkshire]] • [[Ripon]] • [[Sheffield]] • [[South Yorkshire]] • [[Wakefield]] • [[West Yorkshire]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[York]] • [[Yorkshire]] • [[Yorkshire and the Humber]] |
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The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. |
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;Sheffield Editathon 22 November 2014 |
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There will be an editathon on Saturday 22 November in [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Sheffield_1|Sheffield]], the theme is ''historical authors and printers from the Yorkshire region''. Project members would be very welcome either to join them on the day or make suggestions on the project page. |
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;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project''' |
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The November 2014 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page. |
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|[[South Yorkshire Coalfield]] |
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|[[Dearne and Dove Canal]] |
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|[[RAF Pocklington]] |
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|[[Harold Wilson]] |
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|[[Spring Hall]] |
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Please nominate future articles for improvement at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]. |
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; '''Please bear in mind...''' |
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[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Yorkshire.html '''clean-up listing'''] which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. |
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*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|watchlist]] to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible. |
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*''Moves''<br />Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly. |
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; '''Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...''' |
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Welcome!
Hello, Keith D, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [1]
- There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [2]
- There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [3]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [4]
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
- VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [5] [6] [7]
- VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [8]
- VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [9]
- The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [10]
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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [11]
- You can no longer use the
insource:keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [12] [13]
Problems
- There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [14]
- Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [15] [16] [17]
- HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
- Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the
<indicator>tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [18] [19] - VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [20]
- The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
- After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [26] [27] [28]
Future changes
- The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [29]
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [30] [31]
- The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [32]
- Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
- You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
- You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [33]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
- You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [34] [35]
- The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [36]
- The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [37]
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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