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Wikidata weekly summary #184

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #183

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Belarus Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to United States Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your work in relisting AfD discussions, which helps to keep matters in order. North America1000 07:18, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Graciano Rocchigiani / declined RfPP

Greetings. I recently tried to get the article for Graciano Rocchigiani protected, since an old "friend" of mine (under yet another IP) has made a beeline for it by reverting my cleanup edits. In fact, you recently had to PP two articles to ward them off: 1, 2. My RfPP for Rocchigiani was declined on the basis that the IP had not been given a warning. However, this is what tends to happen whenever anyone interacts with them: 3, 4, 5, etc. etc. It's always the same old diatribe—falsely labelling my edits as vandalism (when they themselves are not averse to a bit of actual vandalism: 6), not adhering to basic MOS, insisting on one format without consensus, etc. A generic message on their talk page is highly unlikely to achieve anything, so I'd like to take you up on that offer you made about the "liberal use" of SPP. Would be much appreciated. Or, since their edit pattern is so predictable, would it not be advisable for me to open up an SPI each time? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 04:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

It got PP'ed in the end, but it won't be the last time. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:35, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [8]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [9]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [10]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [11]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [12]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [13]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #182

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

5 Million: We celebrate your contribution

We couldn't have done it without you
Well, maybe. But the encyclopedia would not be as good.

Celebrate

Smallbones(smalltalk) 13:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon

Two options for this Sunday: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for one of two edit-a-thons this Sunday, just bring your laptop and an interest in participating!

No special knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia knowledge is required, and there will be Wikipedia training workshops for new folks.

Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History

  • 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
  • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sun Nov 22

Join at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the American Soviet Jewry movement.

Women In Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences

  • 7 World Trade Center - 40th Floor
  • 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Sun Nov 22

Join at the NY Academy of Sciences, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists. Note that seating is limited for the Women in Science event, as well as signing up on-wiki, please RSVP by email.

Bonus event:

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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Parole II

Inspired by the topic: I am so far pleased with the progress of my parole, suggesting infoboxes on the article talk. Most were taken by no objection, some after discussions. The only exception is Joseph (opera), infamous by having "ruined" my friend's RfA (but - as I was consoled - if that discussion had not existed people would have found another reason). Do you see a consensus? In other words, how important is the peace of an editor? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:34, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

In case you get to it, compare Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, TFA, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Forget that, we have bigger problems now. I was reminded by your simple accept statement to the request that I have "mess" on my user page (2012, well before the infobox revert case) and "amnesty" on my talk. The thought crossed my mind that a general amnesty for all victims of the GGTF case might solve a few problems, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:10, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

  • Interesting idea, the GGTF case was just a utter mess all around, but I think mass-reverting the entire thing would be a bigger mess than we have right now. (And in all candor, I'm not sure there are any elegant solutions now, and if there are, my 2 AM brain isn't going to be finding them...) Courcelles (talk) 06:02, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
What would be difficult in unbanning the banned and lift the (utterly absurd in my eyes) restrictions? - I had a dream (and will write a template): fight/close/fill the gender gap by writing articles on women. One is pictured on the Main page now, hook idea by me;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Template for the dream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Next radical dream: I noticed with a feeling of almost horror, that a candidate for featured article was deleted, reasoning that it was created by an alleged sock who was blocked. It's restored, and the block is on AN, because appeals to arbcom ("not a sock") were not answered. I met the author in question as an excellent content contributor, and am concerned about the deletion of valuable content (only one article was restored, to my knowledge) and the block of someone who could create more. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I see (in the navbox, - what an elegant way!) that a few more articles have been restored, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Redirect of Space exploration technologies toSpaceX and protection of redirect

Hi Courcelles, I'm overawed by what you have done for Wikipedia however I think this redirect is wrong :) I agreed there is a need to protect the redirect (as you have done) due to the persistent edit changes by an editor who wishes to overemphasis skyhook technology. Nevertheless, I'm troubled that the subject Space exploration technologies redirects to one company, albeit I very important company in this field and at the cutting edge of this field. I believe the term Space exploration technologies does warrant a stand alone article but not being an experienced editor and not having time to write (sorry about that) I feel it could be more appropriately redirected to Outline of space technology instead. Thanks for your time. Johnscotaus (talk) 04:15, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

I see why it was done, the SpaceX article begins "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)", which makes the redirect at least justifiable. If you'd like to send it to WP:RFD, I'd happily tag the page. Courcelles (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

VampireProject23

Hi, just thought I would give you the heads up that the user VampireProject23 has copied your user page and thus falsely claiming to be an admin etc. I'm sure there is a policy for such false representation, but I cant find it and have to go to work now so thought I'd just let you know. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 14:37, 31 October 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. [14]
  • 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. [15]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [16][17]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [18]
  • 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. [19]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

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) 14:16, 24 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

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [20]

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20:26, 23 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) 13:45, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

The Signpost: 02 December 2015

Tech News: 2015-50

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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

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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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #187

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Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon

Wednesday December 9, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project!

We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Bonus events, RSVP now for our upcoming editathons:

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Some questions if you have time...

Since once again people seem to be ignoring (what I would consider) the more problematic issues with checkuser pronouncements, could you answer a few questions (within your ability - without disclosing any private data) about the recent ColonelHenry/JacktheVicar issue? I am not interested in if he is a sock or not - except to the extent of how that may be confirmed. Mike V heavily indicated the Checkuser came back as a match based on technical data, however the WMF's privacy and data rentention policies indicate that the information which the Checkuser tool uses to determine that should have been deleted/anonymised given the length of time since ColonelHenry was active. Can you confirm what the type of information was used to give a positive result? Was it a match based on private/non-public data (such as useragent strings which should have been purged), semi-public (and always retained) like IP addresses edited from (although the WMF's policy indicates ColonelHenry's IP as a registered user should not have been kept that long either) or behavioural? Someone has also mentioned there was the prospect of previous checkuser results run aginst unrecorded (in the SPI archives) IP/Socks that may have been run against in the past (overlapping with CH/JTV's editing windows - however again previous checkuser's run against CH should have been purged by now).
The reason I am looking at this is because this is the second (overt) incidence in recent times (the first being where WMUK staff members abused their checkuser access) that indicates either private/non-public data on editors is being kept far longer than the WMF's policies allow for, or that Checkusers are (and unfortunately I have no way of softening this) over-stating the results of their investigations. -edit- Just noticed the limited time banner at the top, if you dont have time to respond in detail could you point me at a third party unrelated to the current issues? I did actually explicitly ask for what information was available in the WMUK case for them to run a check against given the 3 years since the original editor's activity, however I never got a straight answer as either they didnt understand what I was getting at, or were being deliberately evasive. Thank you for your time. Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
If you can wait until the 13th, I can try to give you a detailed response, but I only get three hours of Internet here in San Juan, and may not find more for a few days. I'm not involved in the colonelhenry stuff, so any CU should be able to help you. Courcelles (talk) 22:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
No I don't mind waiting, would rather the incidental arguments die down anyway. This is a busy week and Fallout 4 is the hitting on the 10th, so by the 13th is fine Only in death does duty end (talk) 22:40, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Home, though digging out of a two mountains, one of laundry, one of email. Courcelles (talk) 22:47, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
My father, while living in Darwin, used to holiday in Kuta. He'd arrive at the airport with a small carry-on consisting of 1) a pair of shorts 2) a paperback 3) an extra pair of flip flops and 4) his passport. Though it raised some eyebrows at security when he had no baggage to check he'd tell them "if you need more than this, you're doing it wrong". --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 23:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Fourteen days, multiple formal dinners, four countries, two continents, stormy weather, and nearly 10,000 kilometers require more than a single carry-on, much to my annoyance at schlepping it around. The only saving grace was not coming home with more than I started with. Actually, given a door destroyed a shirt, I had less coming home! Courcelles (talk) 03:56, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
When I was in Australia formal dining meant putting on a shirt.... I need to set up a dedicated sandbox page so no hurry. The latest brouhaha at ANI is dying down now but it appears I still have to match wits with the unarmed for a bit. Only in death does duty end (talk) 06:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
I have updated with some follow-on questions. No hurry at all, I understand you may not have the information or be able to get it, just something I am looking into. If it helps, the results/conclusions will not be posted anywhere other than on-here or meta. (I have already had one email from someone who shall remain anonymouse asking what I was doing) Unfortunately you drew the short straw because I am pretty certain you are neither involved with any issues nor even suspected of misdoings by anyone :) Only in death does duty end (talk) 12:34, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Another update. Regards. Only in death does duty end (talk) 10:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Juelz Ventura

Could you please restore the Juelz Ventura wiki page? She meets the requirements for notable pornographic actresses as per pornographic actors guidelines.|}} More specifically point 2. as she has won multiple AVN awards (http://cltampa.com/dailyloaf/archives/2012/01/23/the-2012-avn-award-winners-a-review-of-the-best-in-adult-entertainment#.Vl3Szr9fA3g). As per point 3, she has also made mainstream appearances such as in the music video for "Killing You" by "Asking Alexandria" and on "The Morning After Podcast (http://themorningafterpodcast.com/)

Tech News: 2015-51

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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

Future changes

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #188

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

Books and Bytes - Issue 14

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
  • Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
  • Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

Read the full newsletter

The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2015



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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) 17:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

James Cantor, other than a vandalism revert five years ago, I don't appear to be connected with this article at all? Courcelles (talk) 19:30, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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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)

Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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Thank you

For banning me from participating in the Kevin Gorman arbitration case. I hope, however, that you did not intend this as a punishment but as a reprieve. The real sanction is on the participating members of the case, whom I send my best wishes with a metaphorical release of peaceful white doves in their honor. Here's wishing you all the best for 2016. Viriditas (talk) 03:47, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

absolutely no punishment intended. If you have something you decide you do want to submit, both arbcom-l and my personal email are open. Courcelles (talk) 05:43, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the invite, but I was totally serious! I'm thankful to not be involved in this anymore. Viriditas (talk) 08:45, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
A totally understandable feeling for anyone getting involved in the arbitration process! Courcelles (talk) 13:42, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

#wikipedia-en-admins IRC channel access

Hi, Courcelles. I posted a request for access to the admins' IRC channel (now that I've decided to come to terms with IRC, after almost three years with the mop :-)), but don't know how closely it's watched. Can you wave a wand or something so I can access the channel? I'm on #wikipedia-en, #wikipedia-en-clerks (for ArbCom) and #wikipedia-en-help. Thanks for any help and all the best, Miniapolis 00:12, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

My wife has the relevant permissions, so I've pinged her to look and help my clueless self. Courcelles (talk) 00:35, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks very much; I should've signed up (although I didn't know what I was doing :-)) when I passed RfA. All the best, Miniapolis 01:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
... and it's all good now; I'm just waiting for the cloak. Thanks again and all the best, Miniapolis 14:39, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 December 2015

FINAL NOTICE: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by TOMORROW

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to send one final follow-up on a message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information, and specifically to the OTRS system.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

Even if you have signed the confidentiality agreement for functionaries (general agreement), you must also sign the OTRS agreement to retain your OTRS access.

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnum@wikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

If you wish to stop receiving these notices, you may remove yourself from this list. Please note that doing so will not prevent you from losing OTRS rights and access after the 31 December 2015 deadline.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 09:31, 31 December 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to other languages. • Help

URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information, and specifically to the OTRS system.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

Even if you have signed the confidentiality agreement for functionaries (general agreement), you must also sign the OTRS agreement to retain your OTRS access.

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnum@wikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

If you wish to stop receiving these notices, you may remove yourself from this list. Please note that doing so will not prevent you from losing OTRS rights and access after the 31 December 2015 deadline.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

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URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information, and specifically to the OTRS system.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

Even if you have signed the confidentiality agreement for functionaries (general agreement), you must also sign the OTRS agreement to retain your OTRS access.

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnum@wikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

If you wish to stop receiving these notices, you may remove yourself from this list. Please note that doing so will not prevent you from losing OTRS rights and access after the 31 December 2015 deadline.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 21:48, 27 December 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to other languages. • Help

URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information, and specifically to the OTRS system.

Even though you have signed the confidentiality agreement for functionaries (general agreement), you must also sign the OTRS agreement to retain your OTRS access. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GVarnum-WMF (talk • contribs) 20:15, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnum@wikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

If you wish to stop receiving these notices, you may remove yourself from this list. Please note that doing so will not prevent you from losing OTRS rights and access after the 31 December 2015 deadline.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:07, 26 December 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to other languages. • Help

Reminder: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information, and specifically to the OTRS system.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnum@wikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

If you wish to stop receiving these notices, you may remove yourself from this list. Please note that doing so will not prevent you from losing OTRS rights and access after the 31 December 2015 deadline.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

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