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Editor of the Week seeking nominations (and a new facilitator)

The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.

The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?

Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!

In addition, the WikiProject is seeking a new facilitator/coordinator to handle the logistics of the award. Please contact L235 if you are interested in helping with the logistics of running the award in any capacity. Remove your name from here to unsubscribe from further EotW-related messages. Thanks, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:19, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Good call. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:22, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your articles on the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Afernand74 (talk) 20:02, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

HSA

The office records archive from Hawaii State Archives is back in order. Besides the office records there are lot of interesting resources including a thirty-two card record of the kingdom's army commission from 1861 to 1892[1].--KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:53, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

March Madness 2017

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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No editing on 19 April and 3 May 2017 from 14:00 to 14:30 UTC

Hello, all.

Due to the server switch project, all of the wikis will be in read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on two days soon:

• Wednesday, 19 April 2017, starting at 14:00 UTC
• Wednesday, 3 May 2017 (two weeks later), starting at 14:00 UTC

Those who remember last year's similar project already know the drill: Please share the news with your friends and favorite bot ops (it's possible that a bot or two will need to be restarted), don't try to save something important at the last possible second (because you might lose your work), and could someone make sure that the IRC help channels are aware of this event?

If you are a MediaWiki hacker, then please note that the normal deployment schedule has been canceled during both of those weeks.

There is more information at m:Tech/Server switch 2017. There will be official announcements shortly beforehand. If you have questions/problems/ideas, then please ping me. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D and Hawkeye7 look at air power and nuclear weaponry Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on Australia's part in the advance on the Hindenburg Line Timeline: This month in World War I

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

NRHP document referencing

Monument of States pic from article & main page

Hi Maile66, I noticed the great DYK with photo on main page for your article Monument of States. Great work! In this edit I tried refining the NRHP registration document reference to include the authors and date of preparation, but find that it messes up the article somewhat, as you have multiple notes referring to it as "Dept. of the Interior" as if that is the author. Especially as it is a DYK on the main page, I don't want to add unnecessary confusion, so in the next edit I reverted myself.

But, it is general practice now in NRHP articles for the authors and date of preparation, which appear in Section 11 of the NRHP Registration form (in older cases, labelled NRHP Inventory/Nomination instead), to be used in the reference. The Department of the Interior is the "author" perhaps of the blank form, but not of the filled-out content. It would be more specific to identify the National Park Service, which is within the Department of the Interior, but that would still be misleading. Only very few NRHP nomination documents, most from back in the 1960s, were filled out by National Park Service employees. The majority are by private parties, sometimes consultants working on behalf of a property owner. There are also many filled in by state or local government staff, which applies in the Monument of States NRHP document. Section 11 is on page 4, and shows "Estabrook, Desiree; Hart, Michael, Florida State Historic Preservation Office staff" in the "Form prepared by" field. What I would do, personally, is show "Desiree Estabrook and Michael Hart" as authors, without mentioning the Florida SHPO. Your approach has some merit in showing an institutional aspect of the authorship, while the way I do it completely omits that.

For example, the following is a typical reference used by me in another article: <ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=87001429}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: South Metter Residential Historic District |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author=Janice E. Adams and Richard Cloues |date=1988 |accessdate=April 9, 2017 }} With {{NRHP url|id=87001429|photos=y|title=36 photos from 1986}}.</ref>

Would you see your way to revising your referencing in the article? Either way, thank you for your contribution of the article, and I hope you will continue your great work. Cheers, --doncram 16:49, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed you started to do that on this article. Sometimes you can't read the name of the person filling out the form, which is how I started just saying it was Dept. of Interior. On this particular article? I'll take care of it later today. Thanks for mentioning. — Maile (talk) 17:03, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

@Doncram: Hi, I stumbled on this conversation somehow and I want to thank you for pointing out this format for NRHP citations. I'm going to start using it when I have to cite an NRHP document. Its so much better than the "recommended" cite format for those that I've seen in the help pages. (That one doesn't include author or date, or a separate photos link). Have you thought about building a template around the whole thing to make it even easier? Something like {{NHRPmagic|87001429|South Metter Residential Historic District|Janice E. Adams|1988|April 9, 2017|36|1986}} to expand to what you have above? Just a thought. I'm not an expert on template building so I don't know how hard that might be, nor what the rules are on getting something like that past the various gatekeepers. --Krelnik (talk) 12:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [2]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [3]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [4]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Chocorua Island Chapel

On 16 April 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chocorua Island Chapel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chocorua Island Chapel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Chocorua Island Chapel), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:04, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Delete

Please, delete my User:Green Zero/common.js . --— Green Zero обг 12:17, 16 April 2017 (UTC)