User talk:The Anome

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Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Apologies

Sorry about the other day. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 21:00, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm glad you're back. Regards, -- The Anome (talk) 12:02, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

I appreciate that, thanks. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 18:58, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Coord missing: Second Battle of the Hook

Hi, how was this determined? --Redrose64 (talk) 11:12, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure. With the categories currently given for the article, it should not have been tagged. The bot does not consider "involving" to be the same thing as "in", and even if it did, it would see both the UK and China listed, and would have rejected a direct association of the article with either. I will have to investigate further. -- The Anome (talk) 12:02, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I wondered if it was an uninitialised string, left holding a value from an earlier edit - but the previous one was United States, so that's not it. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:44, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I now remember what it was -- alas, it was my error; an earlier version of the code didn't properly check for word boundaries, and did confuse "involved" with "in", because it started with the letters "in". A change to the relevant regexp fixed this some time ago, and I then tracked down what I believed to be all the incorrect edits and fixed them by hand. It seems I missed at least one. -- The Anome (talk) 19:05, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Recent changes

• Superprotect has been removed. [1]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [2]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [3]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [4]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [6]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [7]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/71.166.107.186

The IP is obviously same pattern as Special:Contributions/71.166.99.78 (who has been blocked in 31 hours). 123.136.112.56 (talk) 13:31, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Blocking 71.166.96.0/20 to cover both of these. -- The Anome (talk) 15:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Insulated glazing

I just wanted to let you know that I removed the nomination you just made to RFD. It's actually a duplicate of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 November 10#Sextupleglazed glasses. I felt bad because I'm sure you put some effort into it, but please leave your comments there! Thanks, -- Tavix ^(talk) 17:58, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know. Please don't feel bad about deleting my unwitting duplicate RfD -- what matters is that the job gets done, no matter who does it. Kind regards, -- The Anome (talk) 18:08, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Doppelganger

Wow, I just blocked a new user who I thought was you... [8] -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:03, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@Fuzheado: I just spotted them: they seem to have done this just a moment earlier on the same article with the same MO: a near-miss copy of another editor's name, together with a copy of the user's user and talk pages. Thanks for blocking them. I've extended their block to cover editing their talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 20:05, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

I saw the vandal's username and thought the same thing. :) ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

• You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [9]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [10]
• The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
• Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [11]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [12][13]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Recent comments

I hope you don't mind, but I've moved your comments at Talk:Skyfall#Straw poll: billion vs millions to a better location where it will be seen when consensus is later determined. --GoneIn60 (talk) 15:06, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

ebola/west africa

thanks for the help/edits,,,its incredible, every time one thinks its over it (Ebola) pops up again, I doubt west Africa will get its "42 days countdown" (all countries included) for another 6 months...IMO--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:32, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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

• A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [14]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

• On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [15]
• Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [16]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [17][18]
• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [19]
• Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [20]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Noticeboard Religious harassment, Bias, and Violating NPOV Censorship by Admins

There is currently a discussion at noticeboard of discussion regarding Religious harassment, Bias, and Violating NPOV Censorship by Admins. The thread is Censorship of religious phrases and words in usernames and abuse by administrators.The discussion is about the topic Topic. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ILOVESATAN666 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I see you're having fun with this. -- The Anome (talk) 09:33, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Mrwallace05 new users

New users, NickiMinaj4life and 86.133.178.209 are obviously abusing accounts of Mrwallace05. 123.136.111.59 (talk) 11:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)