User talk:GermanJoe
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"conflict of interest"
Hey GermanJoe,
Is this where I discuss issues? I would like to understand more about why you deleted mt edit on applications of virtual reality. Please let me know.--Jay Santarossa (talk) 18:38, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi GermanJoe, I understand the reason why you left the conflict of interest message on my page, maybe I was not be just clarify in my edit. This is my first change on Wikipedia, but only be just clarify I do not in any way represent or work with the people behind the distribution I written on in the page Arch Linux!! I helped to contribute to the page, because this information about is missing! I will change the section again, feel free to edit the description or make it more solid. If there's anything else, feel free to reach out. Best --Chrepl (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2019 (UTC)chrepl
- Hello @Chrepl:, thank you for clarifying that you have no conflict of interest. As you probably assumed, the notice was meant as an info "just in case" and non-COI editors can safely ignore it. But regarding the removed article edit: please do not restore it. Entries in such Wikipedia lists are usually limited to "notable" topics (in Wikipedia's sense of the term). Simply put, entries should usually have a Wikipedia article written first before they are added to related lists. These lists are not supposed to be 100 percent comprehensive, but should only include major notable entries (from an encyclopedic PoV) - to avoid bloating the list with minor and secondary entries. More information about list inclusion and other list usages is available at WP:CSC. The definition of "notability" is described at WP:GNG.
- Please feel free to ask me if you have any further questions, or you can post at WP:Teahouse (a good forum for new editors). I'll also post some generic basic links with further info on your user talkpage. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 18:20, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hi @GermanJoe: thanks for your clearly answer and providing me more information. I understood. I didn't know about that Wikipedia articles should be written first before they are added to related lists. Thanks for the further info. Maybe a stupid question, but if I have any further questions so I should write it on the talk page or give it any possible private talk? Best regards. Chrepl (talk) 18:45, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Chrepl: Almost all conversation is held on public talkpages like these, so feel free to start a new thread here (or at Teahouse) if you have any question. If you have a specific suggestion or concern about article content though, the article's associated talkpage at
Talk:article name heremight be the better place for content-related discussions - so other editors interested in the same article can join in. GermanJoe (talk) 19:32, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Chrepl: Almost all conversation is held on public talkpages like these, so feel free to start a new thread here (or at Teahouse) if you have any question. If you have a specific suggestion or concern about article content though, the article's associated talkpage at
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
- The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.
Problems
- File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [1][2]
- Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [5]
- The Wikidata
wbeditentityAPI endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [6]
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13:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [7][8]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [9]
- There is now a field called
depictson Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [10] - Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [11][12]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [13]
Changes later this week
- Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [15][16]
- The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [17]
- Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [18]
Problems
- Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [19]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Question regarding Wikidata link between en-Wiki and de-Wiki. Kept in German for convenience. GermanJoe (talk) 20:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Ich habe gesehen, dass du im Artikel Market garden zuletzt editiert hast, und dass du Deutsch sprichst. Damit bist du mein erster Ansprechpartner. Der Artikel Market garden ist über Interwikilinks mit dem Artikel de:Nutzgarten verbunden. Das macht keinen Sinn, denn "Nutzgarten" (Selbstversorgung) ist so ziemlich das Gegenteil von "Market garden" (Verkauf der Produkte). Ich habe versucht, das zu entfernen, aber es gelang mir nicht. Kannst du mir weiterhelfen? --Rennrigor (talk) 19:16, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Hallo @Rennrigor:, von der rein technischen Seite wäre das kein Problem. Diese Links werden in Wikidata vorgehalten und editiert (ein "Wikidata" Link sollte irgendwo unter "Tools" auf der Artikel-Seite zu finden sein - die direkte URL ist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143970, jeder kann dort ähnlich wie in Wikipedia konstruktiv editieren).
- Aber vom inhaltlichen her bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher: Du hast natürlich recht, das die Themen unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte und Definitionen haben. Aber trotzdem gibt es einige inhaltliche Schnittmengen und die Begriffe sind zumindest verwandt. Über Wikidata verlinkte Themen zwischen unterschiedlich strukturierten Wikipedias können nicht immer absolut analog sein um perfekte 1:1 Verbindungen zu ermöglichen, manchmal führt so ein Link auch "nur" zu einem eng verwandten Thema.
- Du kannst das Problem mit dieser ungenauen Verlinking gerne auch auf Talk:Market garden (oder auf de-Wiki) ansprechen, um Feedback von anderen Editoren zu bekommen. Bitte poste solche Meldungen aber, falls irgend möglich, auf en-Wiki in Englisch. GermanJoe (talk) 20:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Ich habe das schon so versucht, wie du es beschrieben hast. Dabei bekomme ich aber die Fehlermeldung, dass das nicht geht, weil man einen Interwikilink nur löschen kann, wenn die entsprechende lokale Seite gelöscht oder verschoben wurde. Die Idee hinter dem ganzen ist, dass in der de-WP ein Artikel de:Marktgarten entstehen soll, weil eben "Market garden" und "Nutzgarten" zwar Ähnlichkeiten aufweisen, aber grundsätzlich grundverschiedene Dinge sind. --Rennrigor (talk) 21:14, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Rennrigor: OK, das mit dem geplanten neuen Artikel in de-Wiki war nicht klar. Wahrscheinlich wäre es dann am besten erstmal einen kleinen "Marktgarten"-Artikel mit Quellen auf de-Wiki zu schreiben, und das Thema dort sauber von anderen verwandten Themen zu differenzieren. Solange sollte der nicht perfekte Link aber meines Erachtens bestehen bleiben. Besser ein ungenauer Link als gar kein Link :). GermanJoe (talk) 21:53, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Ok. Auf Talk:Market garden habe ich trotzdem schon mal angesprochen. Danke für deine Hinweise. --Rennrigor (talk) 21:55, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Rennrigor: OK, das mit dem geplanten neuen Artikel in de-Wiki war nicht klar. Wahrscheinlich wäre es dann am besten erstmal einen kleinen "Marktgarten"-Artikel mit Quellen auf de-Wiki zu schreiben, und das Thema dort sauber von anderen verwandten Themen zu differenzieren. Solange sollte der nicht perfekte Link aber meines Erachtens bestehen bleiben. Besser ein ungenauer Link als gar kein Link :). GermanJoe (talk) 21:53, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
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Edits to Mixed Reality
Apologies if I'm contacting you the wrong way via this talk page. Just wanted to explain the issue at hand.
With respect to the image added 6/15/19 which you eliminated as redundant. First, I agree that the caption was redundant. My bad. I was intending to just give a historical reference to support this image. While the caption was not needed, the image itself does not seem redundant. The issue is this: currently there is no image on the Mixed Reality page that actually shows mixed reality.
The main image is pretty far off: Mixed_reality#/media/File:Mrfops.jpg as it does not depict mixed reality. It just shows standard Virtual Reality, and not even a good example of that. Mixed reality combines real and virtual. That is I recommended this image: Augmented_reality#/media/File:Virtual-Fixtures-USAF-AR.jpg If you have a better image that shows real and virtual mixed reality, that is fine. You should insert that. But currently it seems to me like a mistake to have a Mixed Reality page with no images on the page that depict the core concept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.215.3.62 (talk) 20:18, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, thank you for asking about this disputed edit. I agree with you, that the current image is not ideal. But the new image is already used in 5 or more other articles (in various file versions). Using it again and again gives undue weight to 1 researcher and his work. While significant, he certainly is not the only researcher and developer in this topic area. I would suggest to keep the sub-optimal long-standing image for now, but to look for another MR-related image to replace it. It's not an urgent issue (imo) and Wikipedia has no deadlines, but an improvement of the image would be nice. A last quick tip: if you have article-related concerns or suggestions, the best place for discussions is usually the article's talkpage at Talk:article name. GermanJoe (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [20]
Changes later this week
- MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with
[[File:Filename.midi]]. Lateroverride_midiandoverride_audiowill stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [21] - A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [22]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old
wgEnableAPIandwgEnableWriteAPIvalues. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [23]
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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [24]
- Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [25]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Task management software comparison chart
Sorry this is my first attempt at an edit. I don't have any relationships with the software vendors I added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_management. I had emailed various vendors to provide a nice chart comparing their software to others and none of them had a chart to help me decide what task management software was for me. I left it as incomplete hoping that others would hop on to add additional information. --Rgeoghan (talk) 18:19, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- Hello @Rgeoghan:, thank you for the clarification. Such technical comparisons should be based on independent sources and focus on notable products (with an existing Wikipedia article). Such lists are generally very difficult to create and maintain - partly due to lack of independent sources, partly due to information becoming outdated over time. A lot of "comparisons" created 7-10 years ago are simply no longer useful, actual or reliable. Also, as an encyclopedic project Wikipedia is not really supposed to serve as product guide for customers. For these reasons I'd recommend against creating a technical comparison as your first major contribution. On the other hand, a lot of articles about IT-related topics need additional independent references and sourced updates from knowledgeable editors if you'd like to give Wikipedia-editing a try in your area of interest. Please feel free to ask me or at WP:Teahouse, if you have any further questions. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 18:47, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Exception to removal of comments
I removed the comments legit, due to their bad faith carrying on attempts by editors to carry on a legal (court) fight removing the university from any display as explained in both edit summaries. Please remove the AfD nomination as well for this reason as I can't. Thanks. 2001:8003:594A:6800:E548:78F9:A5F7:C787 (talk) 22:59, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- Your removal of another editor's message based on mere allegations without clear and verifiable evidence is absolutely inappropriate (see also WP:TPG). And even if the request was made in error (no stance either way), you should not delete such messages. Of course you are welcome to respond to allegedly wrong messages in a civil manner to point out perceived problems. Anyway, I'll let other editors or an admin handle further steps to resolve this. And no, I will certainly not remove the nomination based on your unverified assumption about the other editor's motives. GermanJoe (talk) 23:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- Look at the history of the edits on the articles and you'll think again I would state! 2001:8003:594A:6800:E548:78F9:A5F7:C787 (talk) 23:46, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Some baklava for you!
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Thank you! Lewistheeditor (talk) 23:42, 24 June 2019 (UTC) |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [26]
Problems
- Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [27]
- Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [28]
Changes later this week
- You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [29]
- There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey GermanJoe,
Thank you for your message regarding the nature of my edit on the applications of virtual reality. I have no bias opinion on the matter and am just trying to help fill out the lead paragraph. After reading over the edit I can see how the first 2 sentences may come across as making VR seem potenitally better than it is. I'm curious, is this the reason you took my edits down? If so, I understand and will try to rewrite the first 2 sentences or take them out. Please let me know, as this is my first interaction with someone not agreeing with my edits. thank you (talk) 18:20, 2 July 2019 (UTC) User:JaySantarossa
- Hello @JaySantarossa:, thank you for your interest in improving this article (I have moved your question in a new thread down - new threads generally should be added at the bottom of talkpages). Regarding your question: yes, the main concern was certainly the section's non-neutral, slightly promotional tone as mentioned in my first edit summary. I hope you don't mind a few additional quick tips regarding editing in general and lead changes in particular:
- The tone should be completely dispassionate and uninvolved. Try to focus on "dry" objective facts and avoid any subjective assessments and qualifiers - especially in the lead section.
- If you need to include a subjective assessment to provide some context (occasionally), such an edit must be sourced and attributed to a high-quality expert source.
- The lead section should only summarize what is already in the article's main body. Generally speaking, you should try to avoid introducing new facts and aspects that are not already covered further down in more detail. You'll find a detailed guideline about editing lead sections at MOS:LEAD.
- Usually you don't need sources in the lead for common summary information that is already sourced in the main body. But you should source quotations, possibly controversial statements and extraordinary claims in the lead.
- I hope these tips are helpful, but please feel free to ask anytime if something is unclear (WP:Teahouse is also a good forum for advice). Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 18:36, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Regarding link insertion
Hello,
Why you always remove links from Wikipedia? ? There are many links which are not that much useful still you all keep it in as a reference link or external link.
I am also providing useful information to the readers. I don't want to do spam.
Kindly check my all links they all are useful. I will never provide a spam link to Wikipedia and readers.
Thank you! ! Sukriti maurya (talk) 18:39, 3 July 2019 (UTC)