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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)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

• Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [21]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [22]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [23]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [24]
• You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [25]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [26]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [27]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
• New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [29]

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 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [30]

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17:53, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Courtship disorder for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Courtship disorder is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Courtship disorder until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — James Cantor (talk) 17:08, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

User talk:DK Whitey

It seems entirely plausible that DK Whitey is a real name, as Whitey does appear to exist as a surname (there's even a "Whitey's Ice Cream" out there). So unless there's any problematic editing I don't see a justification for maintaining the block. Would you be agreeable to an unblock? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:10, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Sure. Will do. -- The Anome (talk) 19:34, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 20:17, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [31]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (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 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [32]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [33]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Blood libel

Thank you for your comment on Galassi's talk page.

I see that you are an administrator. I went to WP:RPP earlier to ask for the article to be protected, and found that another editor had asked for semi-protection. As I wrote there, I think registered editors have been the problem recently and full protection would be more appropriate. Would you mind taking a look at WP:RPP#Blood libel? Thank you. 66.87.115.251 (talk) 19:06, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I've just cut the Gordian knot by removing the quote entirely. It's not usual for us to quote entire sentences from other encyclopedias. and it looks peculiar here. Hopefully, you and the other editors involved can now sort out your differences in some other way that doesn't involve relying on the exact wording used by the Britannica. -- The Anome (talk) 19:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't understand the problem with the Britannica quote, and I don't believe I've been involved in these reverts. Is removing the section the best option? I'm not sure, but I wish people would turn down the heat a little and discuss rather than revert. Thanks for keeping an eye out, though. Dave Dial (talk) 19:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

It seemed like the simplest thing to do without being seen to take sides. In any case, we should be sourcing our material from multiple WP:RS, not another encyclopedia, and certainly not quoting the Britannica verbatim without extraordinarily good reason. -- The Anome (talk) 19:58, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

You're probably right. I did try to get editors to realize the mistake of removing a word from a quote, as it seems as if all the registered editors did not seem to bother to look at what was being removed or why, just that an ip restored it. In any case, thanks again. Dave Dial (talk) 20:06, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both. Most registered editors should read WP:IPs are human too every once in a while. 66.87.115.251 (talk) 20:22, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
• The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

• There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

• Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
• No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

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Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.

The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

• Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible, 
  • Always give me the source editor, and 
  • Show me both editor tabs.  (This is the current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

Whatamidoing (WMF), 00:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Digon (disambiguation)

The article Digon (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unnecessary disambiguation page per WP:TWODABS.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 21:10, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Estellalup

Edit warring on Russian Roulette (song). Can you please block him/her? 115.164.189.113 (talk) 13:58, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

I'd check this IP's contribs. They're shopping... SQL^{Query me!} 08:31, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi

If you find time for it, please let your bot take a look at the article Gökskulla. Thank you.--BabbaQ (talk) 19:49, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

I've now linked it to the Swedish Wikipedia article sv:Gökskulla, which has coordinates. The coordinates should be imported from Wikidata in the next Wikidata import run, which should be sometime next week. -- The Anome (talk) 20:23, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

I know you have

I am in awe of your efforts to empty the cesspool and polish the remaining contents. If you achieve it I will stand by my comment. I have eaten humble pie before and will do so as often as necessary. Fiddle Faddle 19:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

@Timtrent: Thanks! I hope that this revision might be a reasonable starting point from which further progress can be made. There are certainly a reasonable number of mainstream news WP:RS out there, and there's probably academic coverage by now, but I haven't looked for that yet. It's a pity that Daubney's story is behind a paywall: despite all of its other issues, the Sunday Times' investigative journalism is usually pretty good. -- The Anome (talk) 19:53, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

I think it stands a chance. At present I am too critical of the topic to be able to view the words in an unbiased manner. Would you mind drawing my attention to it tomorrow, please? I will fulfil my promise to review my opinion then. Fiddle Faddle 19:57, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Tim. I know what you mean about the topic. It is, alas, a real thing, and meets the notability criteria. Rigorous application of NPOV is the best way to deal with this kind of topic. -- The Anome (talk) 20:00, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

I think you are doing a great job. You must have the keys to the turd polish cupboard! I do hope you are wearing good gloves. I shall sleep on it (not the turd, nor the polish) and see what a mess the potential claque makes of it after you go to sleep Fiddle Faddle 20:41, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Well, I never predicted this. I did, however, predict that a claque would arrive. I'm not really awake yet in terms of reviewing my opinion, but I do know that this topic area seems to attract more unusual people than I want to deal with. Fiddle Faddle 07:43, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I have kept my promise. Fiddle Faddle 10:26, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your efforts on that minefield of an article. Although I now believe the article will inevitably be either a pro-MGTOW manifesto or a significantly shorter anti-MGTOW hit piece, I applaud your hard work. Have a great new years! Reyk YO! 16:10, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, The Anome!

Happy New Year!

The Anome,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 19:54, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Landing Zone 1

You may be interested in a discussion on Talk:Landing Zone 1 re an article move you recently completed. Another editor expressed some concern, and I've weighed in. I think you might want to as well. Cheers. N2e (talk) 23:40, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Great cleanup

Thank you for the clean-up at Men Going Their Own Way. Sancho 04:46, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Request for your feedback, on an AE regarding ECIG Articles.

Hello, you are a recent editor of Electronic Cigarettes, I am asking for your input to an Arbitration Enforcement Request AE. Found here. If you have time I would appreciate your input. The items in question are listed out 1-8. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Mystery_Wolff
Thank you Mystery Wolff (talk) 03:52, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

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

• Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [34]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [35]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [36]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [37]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [38]
• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, 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. [39][40]

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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [41]
• The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [42][43]
• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [44][45]
• The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

hi

do you know how to change the map on Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa so that it will show Liberia is Ebola free, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: yes: but it looks like other people have made the necessary changes already. -- The Anome (talk) 10:59, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

JMO

Just my opinion but per this, I think the account should also be blocked as purely disruptive and talk page access blocked. These sorts of folks need to have no way of demanding attention. But that's my opinion, I'll defer to your judgement. Montanabw^(talk) 00:09, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

@Montanabw: Thanks for the heads-up. I've now changed the block to indefinite with talk page blocked, and removed their contributions. They are clearly WP:NOTHERE to build the encyclopedia. -- The Anome (talk) 07:32, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [46]
• Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [47]

Changes this week

• The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [48]
• MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [49]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Uhm P9

Before you move the page boldly, you should check talk page etc. No consensus. prokaryotes (talk) 14:15, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Discussion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planet_Nine_(2016_hypothesis)#Another_move prokaryotes (talk) 14:29, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

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

• You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [50][51]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [52]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [53]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [54]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [55]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [56]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Geodata adding

Hi! Currently just a question - could you do a one-time run at another Wikipedia with The Anomebot2 for adding {{coord}}? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 23:51, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

@Edgars2007: I'd be happy to. I would need to be granted bot permissions by the admins there, and, before that, to have a native speaker of that language help me with getting the proposed changes approved by that Wikipedia's community before I start. Please tell me more... -- The Anome (talk) 01:34, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

OK, as the initial answer is yes, we can talk further :) You don't have to worry about bot flag and such things, you would just need to run the bot. So the Wikipedia I'm interested in, is Latvian Wikipedia, we have some 65tk articles, so it won't be some very very big job. We have the same {{coord}} as enwiki does, template placement is also the same. I have some few questions:

1. Which articles will be affected? Does the bot go through some specific category and its subcategories or through the whole Wikipedia? The second option I think woulld be completely fine.
2. What is the source? Wikidata, other Wikipedias (if yes, then which - all or some specific?)... What else?

You can surely make some 20-30 test edits without bot flag. Then give me some time to discuss things with colleagues (one or few days), and if everything will be fine (I'm sure, it will be fine), then you can do complete run. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

@Edgars2007: Yes, Wikidata would be the source for these, and all of the coordinates would be marked "source:wikidata" to ease eventual integration with live sourcing of coordinates from Wikidata, something which still looks to be a couple of years off. I have a process to mine coordinates directly from databases like GNIS and GNS by cross-correlating them with the English Wikipedia category tree structure, but that has years of domain-specific hacks and heuristics in it, and would take too much work to adapt to the Latvian Wikipedia. The Wikidata database contains all, or almost all, of these, and also contains coordinates from other language Wikipedias: the overall quality of the Wikidata data is reasonably good. I believe the Latvian Wikipedia currently has 8881 articles with coordinates on Wikidata (lv:Kategorija:Koordinātas Vikidatos) and 916 without (lv:Kategorija:Koordinātas, kas nav Vikidatos), and a quick pass over the current Wikidata dump shows a total of 12674 entries which have both lvwiki articles and coordinates. Unless there are a large number of lvwiki articles with coordinates which have not yet been copied to Wikidata, the suggests that around 3000 articles remain to be geocoded using my bot -- which is really no problem at all to do.

However, I'll still need to do a bit of language-specific work. There are a few types of pages for which it's inappropriate for the bot to add coordinates to, such as redirects, disambiguation pages, and list articles. I also try to filter out articles on companies, people and other living things, extraterrestrial bodies, and long linear features like roads. Most of these checks are done at runtime, by inspecting article content: I'll need to see how many of these are easy to port to Latvian. -- The Anome (talk) 12:11, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

One of main reasons, why I'm asking your bot to do this: I'm trying to add coordinates at lvwiki articles, which are quite local (buildings, churches in Latvia etc.) and coords are not in Wikidata, and later ask WD bots to import them all. And I want to do less work - not adding coordinates, which can be added from other Wikipedias etc :) But yes, you can add coordinates from Wikidata first. Then we can see, what can be done more, right?

Adding data from databases is not so important. Adding them here for objects in Latvia at enwiki would be completely fine (then they can be imported to Wikidata, and then - to lvwiki :D ).

But if I would give you a list of coordinates, that could be added at Latvian Wikipedia? In such format: "article [separator] lat [separator] lon"? That also could work?

About language work (I'm lowercasing all search strings):

• redirects would contain "redirect" in page content (the same thing as at enwiki)
• disambigs would have {{disambig}} or {{nozīmju atdalīšana}}
• list articles would be a little bit harder. They could have category "%zskaitījum%" (% are wildcards)
• companies - hmm... also not so easy. They could have infobox "uzņēmuma infokaste" (or "uzņēmuma infokaste v2") or "infobox company"
• people - also not so easy. They could have category "%dzimušie%"
  • taxons have "biotakso" infobox

But actually, you don't have to worry so much about false positives. I can later check and remove them with AWB, if needed.

Looks good? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 12:55, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. That's exactly the information I wanted, and yes, if this works, we need not stop with Wikidata -- I can accept lists of coordinates in any format, provided that they are in compliance with Wikipedia's content policies. I'll work on this later this weekend. -- The Anome (talk) 13:25, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Yes, sure. When you're ready, then you can make those test edits. Thanks. Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:35, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi. Because of off-wiki commitments, this is probably going to slip to Wednesday/Thursday now. But I haven't forgotten you. -- The Anome (talk) 10:55, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

OK. I have a strategy. I'm going to just do some very simple missing/redirect/disambig/coordinates-already-there live checks on the lv: article at edit, and try to do the person/company/taxon etc. checks via Wikidata, something I've been looking at as a possibility for some time. While this will take a bit of time to write, test and debug, it should mean that the code will be much more portable for use with other languages in the future. -- The Anome (talk) 18:26, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

AnomeBot2 made a geodata mistake on Panopticons

Hi - this edit to Panopticons is incorrect. The article describes a collection of artworks each of which has different geolocations. Somehow your bot decided to take one of these geolocations and "promote" it to the status of being the geolocation for "Panopticons" itself, which is a mistake. (This mistake has led to a downstream error, where the wikidata entry has the "spuriously exact" coordinate, which causes errors when trying to match Wikidata up against other data sources (in this case, OpenStreetMap).) I'll reverse that edit. Please could you check that your bot won't make similar mistakes in other cases? All the best.--mcld (talk) 14:17, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that. This should have been caught by the existing blocking heuristics, but since it clearly wasn't, I'll check to see if they can be improved. -- The Anome (talk) 22:53, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

@Mcld: I've now added another rule to the bot to catch the particular set of coincidences that allowed that edit to go through. Thanks for the feedback.

If you're matching OpenStreetMap data up with Wikipedia's coordinates, I'd be very interested in hearing about what you're doing and how you're doing it. Wikipedia <-> OSM integration is the missing link in all of our geolocation work here, but AFAIK no-one's really found the right way to do it yet, because of the impedance mismatch between our conceptual model of the world and OSM's, problems with identifier stability, and difficulties with license compatibility. -- The Anome (talk) 10:46, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

I've also removed the claim on Wikidata, see https://www.wikidata.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Q7131478&action=history -- The Anome (talk) 10:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for updating your bot! The OSM<->Wikidata matching is not my work, but it's the work of another user on OpenStreetMap's UK mailing list. See the discussion here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2016-January/018328.html -- --mcld (talk) 20:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

Problems

• Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [57]
• Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [58][59]
• Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [60]

Changes this week

• The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [61]
• Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [62][63]
• The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [64]
• The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [65][66][67]
• The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [68][69]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (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 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /enwiki/api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [70]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Higgs boson closing

Not an expert on the issue here, but shouldn't the RFC template be removed from the section in Talk:Higgs_boson#if_energy_and_mass_are_equal.2C_higgs_bosons_would_be_the_opposite_of_light? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I didn't remove it because I wanted the RfC process to run its course: the header has now been removed after the RfC was closed. -- The Anome (talk) 10:33, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Ta

Just to say thanks for deleting things coming up at RfD. Can't do a WP thank for ém cos, er, they're deleted, but it is noticed. Si Trew (talk) 23:39, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Whiten

I just wanted to let you know that I recreated Whiten as a disambiguation. This was probably a case where deletion was inappropriate. While it might not have made sense at Mark Whiten, it was an {{R from surname}} with a hatnote to Whitening (disambiguation). I found a couple more uses, so disambiguation would almost certainly be the result at RFD. Just be careful in the future, Neelix G6's are only for "snow delete" cases and this one wasn't one of them. Anyway, I echo Si Trew's comments above for the rest of your deletions. Cheers, -- Tavix ^(talk) 14:29, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks -- I should have spotted that, I'll take a closer look next time. -- The Anome (talk) 14:56, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06

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

• Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [71]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [72]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [73]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [74][75]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [76][77]
• Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [78][79][80]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

zika virus

Anome, i saw you moved my full ref from the section replacing my crossref in the lede. The reason I do it reveresely is because

• the lede gets rewritten more often.
• I hate the refs in the lede! it is a disease, that makes editing real hard.

Alas, realizing that I am in the minority though and those abstract-browsing sheep of readers flag ordinary statements in teh lede with "ref needed" arrrgh!, I compromise, and crossref extraordinary claims (like this new, 3 d old one).... --Wuerzele (talk) 23:00, 13 February 2016 (UTC) kudos to being one of the 400 most active WP editors! (little me 4617)--Wuerzele (talk) 23:06, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-07

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

• You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [81]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [82]

Problems

• A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [83][84]

Changes this week

• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [85][86]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [87]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [88]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)