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Courcelles:

I am presently bound by an old ban that arose over controversy concerning the article Speed of light. This ban has led in recent years to actions brought by my addition of "See also" links, corrections of typos and other infractions of the ban that are not germane to disruption of WP. I think it may be time to broach the rescinding of this ban, and hope you can spell out how that can be done. I also would appreciate any advice you might have about the process.

Thanks for any help you can offer. Brews ohare (talk) 15:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

The only way to do this is to file a request at WP:ARCA, though I'm not sure it would go anywhere given last week's AE thread. Were I you, I'd wait a few months and file a request. Courcelles (talk) 20:37, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Why did you have to make an issue out of it when it was clear that I had already settled on this account and was using it exclusively, per WP:VALIDALT; "Clean start under a new name"? There was no disruption being caused. It did not violate WP:SOCK as there was no intent to mislead, deceive, vandalize or disrupt. You could have just left it alone and it wouldn't have been a problem. Instead, you made an issue out of something so minor and non-disruptive and sullied this accounts reputation forever. I took a very long time to settle on this username and you ruined it. My Little Question Can't be This Interesting (talk) 23:20, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

You were using 18 accounts, all to edit the same pages. Courcelles (talk) 17:40, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

A new reference tool

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Vacation

Saw you folks were headed out, and just wanted to drop a "have a good time" note. Leaving on the 12th myself for a while. Stay safe. — Ched :  ?  22:39, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Have fun! OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 15:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #153

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Tech News: 2015-16

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

Problems

  • Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [4] [5]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
  • Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [6] [7]
  • All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [8]

Meetings

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Kohs vandalism

Hi. In this post at Wikipediocracy, Greg links to this Google spreadsheet which appears to list the diffs for all of his experimental vandalism. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 02:51, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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

We also hope for 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 and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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

Featuring a keynote talk this month on Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-17

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

  • There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [9]
  • VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [10]
  • You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [11]
  • If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [12]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [13]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
  • Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [14] [15] [16]
  • If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [17]
  • You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [18]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [19] [20]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

pls unprotect my page

this is ms weir here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.185.135.199 (talk) 09:47, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #155

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Tech News: 2015-18

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

  • All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [21] [22]
  • You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [23]
  • There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [24]
  • You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [25]

Problems

  • Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [26]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
  • It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [27]
  • You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [28]
  • You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [29]
  • You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [30]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

University of Canterbury

You semi-protected University of Canterbury in January and blocked several accounts as {{checkuserblock-account}}. The semi expired recently and a new account started making the same edits so I have blocked it and renewed the protection. You might like to confirm the link between Bblblstr (talk · contribs) and the earlier accounts.-gadfium 19:52, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a look when I'm home on Tuesday. Checkyser and on my phone in a foreign country is not going to work in any useful manner. Courcelles (talk) 09:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Block looks good to me, but can't find any sleepers. Courcelles (talk) 19:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks.-gadfium 21:05, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Bom dia e bemvindo

I hope you enjoyed your holiday. There has been zero vandalism on Valentine's Day since it was unprotected apart from one contribution by our Brazilian friend. As both Passover and Easter are out of the way for another year please unprotect Easter. See the discussion at User talk:Lankiveil/Archive 9#Easter. 156.61.250.250 (talk) 10:42, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Trouble at Standard penetration test

Hi! Can you stop by Standard penetration test and have a look at the edits User:Yoshi123Yoshi has been making? I've tried to explain to him that he's placing undue weight on the material he wants to include, and that it's better to just summarize it and add it further down. Then he goes and adds it all back again. We're getting close to 3rr territory. Argyriou (talk) 04:53, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Also, unrelated except that it's hit the same article, someone from geotechdata.info has been spamming various articles related to geotechnical engineering. I've warned User talk:212.243.35.196, but this has been going on a while (I found another edit about a year old), from various IP addresses. Is there something that can be done other than just going through and cleaning up? Argyriou (talk) 04:53, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Seems like a matter for ANI to me. I just don't really have the time in the next 36 hours to deal with anything extra, sorry. Courcelles (talk) 00:55, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
I went to ANI about the spam, and Geni is now aware of that problem. Do you have any recommendation or advice about the other issue, which is much more a good-faith content dispute? Argyriou (talk) 17:08, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #156

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FYI

You checkuser-blocked Mrashid364 back in January. I've just indef'd Johndavid786 as a sock after an AIV report. Just thought you might want to look into it; I'm not familiar with the background, but the behavioural evidence is pretty conclusive. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:20, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

No sleepers (would have been unlikely to find any though, for reasons) Courcelles (talk) 01:43, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [31]
  • There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [32] [33]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [34]

Meetings

  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [35]
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [36]

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15:08, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by India The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Belarus Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:28, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 11

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Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
  • New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
  • Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

Read the full newsletter



MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:20, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to discussion

You have been cordially invited to discuss Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gymnastics#Major competitions and medal records for athletes following this and this discussions. Thanks for your quick and prompt response. --Osplace 13:01, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #157

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Tech News: 2015-20

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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [37] [38] [39]
  • You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [40]
  • The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [41] [42]

Problems

  • There was a problem that caused slow editing. [43]
  • Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [44]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [45] [46]
  • You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [47]
  • When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [48]
  • When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [49]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday June 10, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

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

This month will also feature on our agenda: recent and upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections.

We also hope for 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 and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 16:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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MIDDAYEXPRESS: supposed involvement in MUSLIM TERRORISM SUPPORT

Middayexpress is supporting Al-Shabaab?


Hi, I have read that you blocked user:Middayexpress in 2011. But this user is becoming more and more "a real problem" and should be blocked again. Anyway, I want to add the following information, in case you want to investigate the "Al-Shabaab-ISIS" issue & presence on Wikipedia. This investigation is being done even on the blog of Mappista59 (read: https://www.blogger.com/profile/17629549463392207787 ). Thanks anyway:


User:Middayexpress is a controversial user of English Wikipedia.

She is a Somali woman (according to user Chuckupd and others) living in the UK, probably in London, who is accused to be with "pathological behavior" while controlling in en.wiki all articles on Somalia. She has caused to abandon Wikipedia at least one user (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chuckupd), who wrote that "I'm not the only one being attacked (by Middayexpress) without mercy" and "Middayexpress, you are hopelessly insane " and finally "I give up on Wikipedia. Middayexpress has accused me with so many lies that it has become unbearably depressing. I'm not the only one being attacked without mercy. One of these days, I hope she will be banned and then I might consider returning here."


Another wiki user (Buckshot06 (talk) ) wrote that "Middayexpress is in long-standing, continual violation of WP:NPOV, continually rolls back edits that do not reflect his views (IDONTLIKEIT/Disruptive editing, plus WP:UNDUE over-positive views of the Somali situation), and continually attempts to WP:OWN a wide range of Somalia articles." And this statement was supported by User:Bobrayner, who wrote that "I share Buckshot06's concerns. However, I feel the problem may be more widespread, as I have seen Middayexpress doing the same kind of pov-pushing on other articles related to Somalia and the surrounding region".


Buckshot06 wrote (on 17 February 2014): "Middayexpress, I remain increasingly concerned about your distortions of sources in both these articles. Beyond the issue of the TFG's security forces in Mogadishu in December 2006-January 2007, these include putting words in the mouth of a senior Ethiopian official, who did not say that Ethiopia had 8,000 troops in Somalia in November 2013, distorting a meeting between Italian and Somali officials in 2012 into a claim that Somali had started rebuilding its air force in 2000-2010, and inventing aircraft numbers and entire aircraft from the Library of Congress Country Study. Why do you continually readd the SM-1019s that are not listed in the Country Study?".....and user Nick-D (talk) added:" I've noticed that your edits to these articles seem to put an unduly positive "spin" on things. For instance, in your most recent edit to the Somali Civil War article [1] you removed material sourced to a January 2013 academic journal article by Laura Hammond in which she argued that "[M]uch of rural Somalia remains in the hands of Al-Shabaab" and replaced it with more positive material sourced to a November 2012 news story which argues that 85% of the country was under government control at the time. You did not provide a rationale for this change (especially removing material outright rather than noting differing viewpoints) and I'm wondering why you made this change?"


User:Gobonobo added the negative comments that "Middayexpress can be a difficult editor to work with. Middayexpress tends to exert ownership over Somalia-related articles, employing an editing style that is combative and adversarial, often refactoring other's contributions and/or edit-warring to preserve their preferred version of an article. Sometimes Middayexpress exhibits tendentious behavior, removing sourced material that is critical of Somalia or Somali people". Additionally User:StoneProphet pinpointed that Middayexpress did "rampant cherry-picking of sources and content".


Middaexpress had fights from his first wiki-moments even with admins (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kwamikagami/old , who accused Middayexpress of "violating basic Wikipedia policy") and with many other users.


Middayexpress has even insulted users, like User:Sherurcij, who was called "racist" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Somalia_Affair&action=historysubmit&diff=303950062&oldid=303948740 ).


Middayexpress was "restricted" from posting by admin EdJohnston for some months in June 2010, after an edit-warring with user StoneProphet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Middayexpress/Archive_11).


User Baboon43 (talk) accused Middayexpress of meatpuppetry in a sockpuppet investigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Runehelmet/Archive ). He wrote:

"Middayexpress is a meatpuppet master for Runehelmet as seen on Runehelmets talk page once middayexpress began into a dispute with me he went over to call runehelmet into the discussion 27 and rune also does the same vice versa 28..These two individuals would rather have a page dominated by somali-centric material and seem to turn a blind eye on other ethnic groups as seen here 29..Gyrofrog does not enter discussion on a wide scale like Runehelmet does so that is not comparable..If an editor pushes pov and seems to take your side in a discussion always and you go invite him then that is not acceptable..also your example about you and runehelmet disagreeing on article doesnt matter because that article is strictly somali oriented(squabbling in your own pot)..runehelmet would rather tag team if possible based on his behavior & he prefers to tag team strictly with Middayexpress....User Runehelmet also seems like a meatpuppet for User_talk:Middayexpress as clearly seen on runehelmets talk page [6]..midday passes on articles for runehelmet to add on his watchlist clearing way for both users to appear on WP:OBSART and wp:CAN..it seems other users have brought up their behavior in previous discussion 7..middayexpress invites runehelmet to discussions which is also clearly seen on the talk page..they back each other to push consensus seen here [8] & [9]..also the only time Runehelmet seems to accept consensus in a dispute is if middayexpress enters the discussion as seen here [10] & [11]" Baboon43 (talk) 09:35, 26 November 2012 (UTC). Furthermore, it seems that user AcidSnow is a "meatpuppet" of Middayexpress, because he always defends her POVs in all the Somalia discussions and "fights".


User:Bricology found that Middaexpress was "hiding it in a long, dense and relatively undifferentiated timeline" the issue of poaching as a source of funds for the Somalian terrorist group Al-Shabaab. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)#Moving_on...). He even wrote: "Middayexpress, you either presume that you have the power to unilaterally change other editors' work or you misunderstand the relevant issue, or both".


This tentative to "help" the image of Al-Shabaab in Wikipedia (similar to the one denounced by user Nick-D ) raises doubts, and creates the possibility that Middayexpress has a supposed involvement in Muslim terrorism support. Indeed she has an astonishing knowledge of Al-Shabaab activity in the last years: this knowledge can only be possessed by an insider (or a closely-related insider) of this terrorist organization!


Furthermore, Middayexpress has shown a "fanatical hate" (similar to the one of members of Al-Shabaab) against Christianity in Somalia, as is clearly evidenced from her cancellation of serious bibliography and data in the voice "Roman Catholicism in Somalia" (https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Roman_Catholicism_in_Somalia&oldid=320544261): she has made disappear that "The Bishop of Mogadishu, Franco Filippini, declared in 1940 that there were about 40,000 Somali Catholics due to the work of missionaries in the rural regions of Juba and Shebelle, but WWII damaged in an irreversibly way most of the catholic missions in Italian Somalia.[1] ". She angrily (as a possible al-Shabaab member or sympathizer) denied her POV-caused disappearances (https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Roman_Catholicism_in_Somalia&oldid=320948362).


Middayexpress even attacked with continuous "malignity" user Oldsettler accusing him of sockpuppetry until she obtained the help of "wikimafia" user Vituzzu: she wanted and obtained to "decapitate without pity in Wikipedia" Oldsettler with the same kind of malignity & hate shown in Syria by ISIS terrorists. Oldsettler wrote "The malignity of this Middayexpress is unbelievable. Why against me? I have never done anything with him/her or against him/her, but -after obtaining to erase my dad's photo- now attacks me continuously repeating the same accusations again and again and again with his/her typical "byzantine phrases" full of the same things. I have read his/her 60 archives and I have found that he/she is a Somalian living in the UK (probably in the London area full of supporters of ISIS (read [46]) and that he/she has had "fightings" with many wikipedians. He/she has collected many blocks and menaces of blocks for his/her continuous edit-warrings and seems to promote muslim POVs in a way that remembers the religious fanatism: most important to me, he/she seems to "hate" colonialism and western colonialists, so probably he/she identifies me with the Italians who colonized Somalia....and this can explain his/her attacks against me."


Furthermore Vituzzu is known in the Italian wiki as one of the main bosses of the “Italian wikimafia”. Some websites denounce him, like “Wikiperle” (read in Italian : htp://wikiperle.blogspot.com/2013/05/wikipedia-mai-criticare-la-famiglia.html) and “Perle Complottiste” (read: http://complottismo.blogspot.com/search/label/Vituzzu?max-results=100 ) and so do many Italian wikiusers (read in Italian: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Amministratori/Riconferma_annuale/Vituzzu/3 ; http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Amministratori/Riconferma_annuale/Archivio/Archivio_riconferme_tacite/2012#Vituzzu ; http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Amministratori/Riconferma_annuale/Archivio/Archivio_riconferme_tacite/2013#Vituzzu ).

Vituzzu -he is from Calabria, the home of Ndrangheta (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/02/150224083921277.html)- has even been "blocked" many times in the Italian Wikipedia, even if he is an admin, and "strangely" survived without ever being banned (http://it.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?titl… ): but this could only be possible because of his powerful "mafia" relationships!).


This help from wikimafia Vituzzu could or seems to be related to the growing relationship between muslim terrorism organizations and the mafia against & inside the Christian Western industrial societies (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PZMgorG2ojMJ:www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201211/20121127ATT56707/20121127ATT56707EN.pdf+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us): may be it is even related -as a clear possible proof- to the Middayexpress supposed involvement in Muslim terrorism support. Also a possible link to Al-Kaeda cannot be excluded, because of the growing contacts between Somalian Al-Shabaab and ISIS (read: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/24/isis-reaches-out-to-somali-terror-group-al-shabaab/ ).


Indeed in London, between some members of the huge Somalian community, there it is a growing "hidden" support for Al-Shabaab; and Middaexpress seems to live there (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2964218/Somali-terror-group-Al-Shabaab-calls-Westgate-style-shopping-centre-attack-London-s-Oxford-Street-chilling-new-video.html ).


If interested in further in formation, please go to http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/north-london-boys — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.184.202 (talk) 21:36, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Support request with team editing experiment project

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

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #158

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-21

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
  • References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [50]
  • You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [51]
  • The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [52]
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [53] [54]
  • UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [55]
  • A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [56]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-22

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

  • VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [57]
  • Some Labs tools had issues last week. [58] [59]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #159

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

Norma (constellation)

You did a good job on Musca, so am selfishly asking if you could take alook at the GAN of Norma (constellation)...cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:47, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Sure, no problem, I'll give it a look tomorrow. Courcelles (talk) 21:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I was unexpectedly absent for a few days. Courcelles (talk) 19:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
No dramas - just grateful for a review :) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Email

Dear Courcelles; I didn't receive an email from ArbCom. What address did they send it to? Antonio calalacacalalaca loco Martin (haw haw) 4:32, May 27, 2015 (UTC)

Hi again. I found it now. It was just not under the Wikipedia header so that's why I did not find it. I can explain what happened. The house I rent is a house where many people live at, or stay (in fact tonight we have 6 people sleeping here plus the dogs) so many, many people have internet access through this computer, in fact, my dad, he does his edits from the same computer as me. My niece Isabel also has a Wikipedia membership that she created from here, but she doesn't come very often anymore so I know that was not her. So as far as "Pato Frances" now that one I don't know who made that but I suspect probably my sister or brother , or my mom, or one of my multiple nieces and nephews....the only ones I do not suspect of are my dad, my niece that has a user page, myself and my dog. All I can do is try to find out who did that because, even if he/she meant no harm to me or dad as far as Wikipedia is concerned, it still affects us. Sooo.....I guess I have not much else to say, and I do have to go get something from my room right now so the only thing left to say is, Thanks and God bless you! Antonio Cucaracha Venenosa Martin (haw haw!) 10:59, May 27, 2015 (UTC)

Smile

bzzt: "If after six months Gerda Arendt has not blocked under this motion" is probably not what you mean ;) - btw I have not been blocked (or even been warned), nor edit-warred, ever, - why should I now ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:52, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

It's fixed now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:56, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Oops. I read that maybe half a dozen times, changing a word here or there, and completely managed to miss something glaring. Courcelles (talk) 15:59, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #160

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

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Question

I don't understand your comment here, as you have just linked to his userpage on meta. Is there something I'm missing? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Oh, that makes no sense now, does it? At the time I made the comment, the page was deleted. Courcelles (talk) 14:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [61] [62]
  • If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [63]
  • When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [64]
  • The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [65]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [66]

Future changes

  • If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [67]

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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #161

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


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Tech News: 2015-23

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

  • Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [68]
  • Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [69]
  • Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [70] [71]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [72]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:35, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

My remedies

I left a sincere statement on the proposed decision talk page that I hope you'll read. I agree that I have been harsh with those I disagree with at times. I can adjust my tone so that this is no longer an issue. I almost never edit articles on subjects that I disagree with politically and have been somewhat overeager to defend those I do agree with. Over my ten plus years of work on this website a few of my articles have been on subjects that could be broadly construed as related to American Politics. Of course that would include 9/11 articles where I was at the forefront of keeping conspiracy theories at bay. I also as mentioned at the case talk page supported promotion of the Hillary Clinton article to FA even though I strongly disagree with her political platform. I cross party lines frequently in an effort to meet NPOV and while I may get it wrong at times, I'm anything but a threat to American Political articles. I have no topic bans nd haven't been blocked in 8 years. I'm dismayed that the bulk of my article work will be eliminated since so many of my articles could be conceived as having a relation to American Politics. Even my national park articles are in a way...my FA Yellowstone fires of 1988 were a highly politicized issue at that time. If the main issue based on the evidence isn't that I am a POV pusher or that I am ruining content but instead that I have a civility issue, a remedy along those lines would allow me to continue to contribute in a better way.--MONGO 05:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Something (offline) happened overnight, and I'm just a little shook up today. I'll get back on all this stuff tomorrow. Courcelles (talk) 21:27, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

WP:BE

Hi. Can you give me a bit of the back story on these two blocks? If I've found a likely sockpuppet, do I open an SPI or report it to you? --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 09:31, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

I pinged you, but just to wrap things up, I went ahead and started an SPI. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 06:45, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I've been a bit of a mess lately. Handled the SPI, good catch. Courcelles (talk) 20:16, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For the drafting arbitrators of the SPI block case decision. Pine✉ 19:27, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. That was the hardest case I've drafted yet. Courcelles (talk) 20:17, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #162

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

Wikidata weekly summary #162

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

Tech News: 2015-25

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

  • Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [73]
  • Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [74]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [76]
  • If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [77] [78] [79]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Bárður Hansen

Hi. You deleted the article Bárður Hansen in 2010. He has now played for the Faroe Islands national football team. Could you please undelete the article, if possible? Kind regards --EileenSanda (talk) 07:05, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 18:45, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #163

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-26

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

  • Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [80] [81]
  • You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [82]

Problems

  • On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [83] [84] [85]
  • On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [86] [87] [88]
  • Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [89] [90] [91]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday July 8, 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 will also feature on a review of past and upcoming editathons, including Black Lunch Table Editathon @ MoMA on July 13.

We also hope for 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 and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 05:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #164

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

Tech News: 2015-27

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

  • Long lines in code blocks now look better. [92]
  • You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [93]
  • When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [94]
  • The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [95] [96] [97]
  • You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [98]

Problems

  • JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [99]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
  • You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [100]
  • When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [101]
  • If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [102]
  • Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [103]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

  • When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [104]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

userification

When you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jihad Kandahar you wrote: "Userification happily done on request." The intelligence analysts allegations about the organization are addressed in An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict, 1978-2012, so I request that userification.

The book discusses Mohammed Nasim (Guantanamo captive 849), Mohammed Hashim, Rahmatullah Sangaryar, Bismullah (Guantanamo detainee 968). You deleted these articles when you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammed Nasim (Guantanamo captive 849). I request userification of these articles as well. Geo Swan (talk) 19:39, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

I fully give permission for another admin to do this, but I'm away from home until Sunday, and this is just more than I can manage from a phone or my tablet. Courcelles (talk) 20:07, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Recusal

Hi Courcelles. I'm a little confused by your statement here. You say your "fingerprints were over it", but I'm trying to work out what it is? Do you mean the injunction? If so, I'm concerned that you were involved in the injunction, then just as it passes, you recuse. Sorry to labour the point, but there's something in that timeline that really doesn't feel right. WormTT(talk) 10:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Wasn't the injunction I meant, I meant the history of the matter, specifically my comments on Adjwilly (can't remember the exact spelling of the username, or look it up on a phone) talk page. Even though he wasn't a named party, I was convinced to just get out of the way. Courcelles (talk) 20:22, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

SetupBuilder

I see that you have deleted a previous page about SetupBuilder. I would like to create a new one. SetupBuilder is listed under List_of_installation_software and is a major competitor to Wise and InstallShield, both of which have Wiki entries.

I am a user of the product, not associated with it in any other way. But I would like the product I use to have a page as do the others. The company's client roster includes one-third of the Fortune Global 500 so it is worthy of mention in my view.

Thank you for your consideration

http://setupbuilder.com/


Dsbglobal (talk) 08:47, 4 July 2015 (UTC)dsbglobal

Wikidata weekly summary #165

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

Tech News: 2015-28

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

  • On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [105]

Problems

  • The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [106]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
  • The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [107] [108]
  • You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [109]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library needs you!

We hope The Wikipedia Library has been a useful resource for your work. TWL is expanding rapidly and we need your help!

With only a couple hours per week, you can make a big difference for sharing knowledge. Please sign up and help us in one of these ways:

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You're invited to the Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania!

You were suggested as someone who might be interested in the Ally Skills Training Workshop at Wikimania! The workshop is designed to train Wikipedia admins to be more aware of sexism and is funded by an Inspire grant. The workshop will focus on teaching specific skills and techniques directly relevant to Wikipedia admins and editors, and in particular will teach people about the psychology of trolls. The workshop will be on Thursday July 16 from 2pm to 5pm in Don Diego 3.

If you are attending Wikimania, you are invited to apply to the Ally Skills Workshop! Space is limited and we may not be able to accept all applications, so apply now. More information, including a link to the application form, is here:

Ally Skills Workshop description and application form

People of all genders are welcome to attend. Unfortunately, travel scholarships for Wikimania are already closed and we don't know of any other sources of travel funding. If you know anyone else attending Wikimania who might be interested in attending this workshop, please encourage them to apply!

Thank you for your time,

Valerie Aurora (Instructor and Interim Executive Director of the Ada Initiative)

Valerietai (talk) 22:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Too bad I won't be anywhere near MEX this summer... Courcelles (talk) 00:14, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #166

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

Tech News: 2015-29

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [111]
  • There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [112]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [113]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Old maintenance question...

I nominated Batavia, NY μSA for deletion, and found this diff [114], where you closed via AWB. It looks like this might have been a prevalent problem given your comment, but I can't locate the discussion. Is there some reason this was kept? MSJapan (talk) 04:03, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

@MSJapan: See the old MFD at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 September 27. Courcelles (talk) 02:32, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! MSJapan (talk) 23:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 12

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
  • Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
  • Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
  • American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #167

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

Tech News: 2015-30

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
  • You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [115]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [116]

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03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
  • There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [122]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
  • JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [123]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #168

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

The Signpost: 22 July 2015

Sunday August 2: WikNYC Picnic

Sunday August 2, 1-7pm: WikNYC Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck.

1pm–7pm - come by any time! @ Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance (Prospect Park West and 15th St), immediately on the lawn to your left as you walk through the lovely lotus columns.
Subway: "F" train"F" express train​"G" train to 15th Street – Prospect Park (IND Culver Line)

We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 03:31, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

(Bonus event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednedsay, August 19)

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #169

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

Tech News: 2015-32

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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
    • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [124]
    • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [125] [126] [127] [128]
  • The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [129]
  • MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [130]
  • Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [131]

Problems

  • There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [132]
  • We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [133]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #170

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
    • Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
    • @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
    • Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
    • Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
    • Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
    • The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
    • The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
    • Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
    • Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
    • Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
    • Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
    • We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

August 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday August 19, 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.

We also hope for 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 and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:58, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-33

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

  • MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [134]
  • The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [135]
  • You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [136]
  • You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [137]
  • It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [138]
  • JavaScript authors:
  • The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [143]

Problems

  • More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [144]
  • Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [145]
  • Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [146]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [147]
  • You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [148]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [149]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 August 2015

Your assistance please... redux

In this reply you told me you would be away from the wikipedia for several days. You agreed to let me ask any other administrator to userify Mohammed Nasim (Guantanamo captive 849), Mohammed Hashim, Rahmatullah Sangaryar, Bismullah (Guantanamo detainee 968).

Given that the information, new to me, came from a book, not a breaking news story, I thought I could wait for you to return from your trip. It looks like you assumed someone else took care of the userification.

Do you still prefer me to go WP:DRV? Geo Swan (talk) 19:51, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought you would have either pinged another admin or gone to WP:REFUND (DRV would be if I objected to the action, I don't). Since you haven't, let me get to work... Courcelles (talk) 23:52, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
@Geo Swan: Done. Courcelles (talk) 23:58, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks
Could you restore the talk ages, as well? Geo Swan (talk) 06:25, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
The only thing beyond Wikiproject tagging and you saying you had changed a picture is a requested move on Talk:Bismullah (Guantanamo detainee 968). There really isn't anything useful in any of them. Courcelles (talk) 06:53, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

NeuLion

Since you protected Dialogic Inc. after the SPI was closed, would you be so kind as to take a look at WP:COIN#NeuLion? I filed it over a week ago, but no response so far. The activity on NeuLion is fairly stale now, so PP might not be worth it, but NeuLion seems to be PR/puffery stretching back to 2009, when NeuLion2009 created it. NPP must have been pretty bad then. —George8211 / T 14:37, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

  • Yeah, that's stale at this point, and the last account is autoconfirmed anyhow, so page protection wouldn't actually do much. (Dialogic I cleaned out a sock drawer, which made protection more useful.) Courcelles (talk) 03:56, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #171

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

Tech News: 2015-34

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

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [150] [151] [152]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [153]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [154] [155]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [156]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [157]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Confused

What do you mean when you said confirmed on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/thevideogameexpert? Gameroffun (talk) 23:19, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Archived SPI

When you archived WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Rakxit RapStaR something went wrong. the {{SPIpriorcases}} template isn't properly directing to the archive page. Any idea how to fix? WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:14, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

What is it I don't see?

Regarding my infoboxes parole to which you helped: I like cantatas to look like this (which you may have seen as TFA), therefore I tried to add an infobox in 2013 to one by Benjamin Britten, to improve the composer's works for the (then) upcoming centenary. It's on the talk, because it was reverted by Nikkimaria. We both edited the article before, which none of us started. - I suggested now to revive the infobox, - see talk, and see the article. How does what we have now help a reader (!) to understand at a glance where to put that article in time and place? - I am happy with all other discussions on the matter, btw. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

That's what I came for ;) - late here as I said at the other end. Did you know the curse on me mentioning granularity again? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Yeah, but what this needs is other opinions from someone who hasn't written proposed decisions and motions in this topic area. ;) Courcelles (talk) 22:24, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Do you know anybody without a bias when it comes to infoboxes? Two things I learned in the process: let go and patience. Next life I will possibly find out why infoboxes cause more conflict than images ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I know a lot of people whose opinion about infoboxes is not known -- likely the vast majority of users have never sat down and had a think about the things. The usual places should yield a couple. Courcelles (talk) 03:53, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

I think we had a misunderstanding. (Some days I feel more than others that I am not a native speaker.) When I said eyes I meant eyes, don't think I wanted you to comment. Just look. What I see: I added to an article in good faith. Imagine: there were options to react. It could have been ignored, or thanked for, or discussed. Instead it was reverted. A sum of these reverts made the infoboxes case. But what would life be without without it ;) - Life is too short to continue that "discussion", with the one voice of objection, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

ps: I just returned from a remarkable concert with Bach's cantata BWV 105. That is a different story. The creator of the article saying this, also banned and unable to defend his creation: I have no problem to respect that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

solved, I would say, by 4 more eyes on it, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Great! I wish I could share your interest in the classical music, but sadly I am quite tone deaf. Courcelles (talk) 04:05, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
You might still be open to the political overtones in this cantata, - the composer would have been 150 today, - he received a text offer he could not refuse ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Look and see, the piece is about awe of miraculous deeds, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:54, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
I had no idea someone so highly ranked in the Russian nobility; Royal patrons are common enough, but Royals who actually produce art. Fascinating. Courcelles (talk) 18:07, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
He appeared on stage in plays he wrote, pictured, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:07, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Today is the day that all operas by Verdi and Wagner have an infobox, did you know? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:06, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Fascinating. If the so-called "Great Infobox War" is over one way or the other, perhaps we will never see this back at Arbcom, something I rejoice in. Courcelles (talk) 17:37, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
I believe that without arbitration, we might have been there sooner, but never mind. I was late to the wars, miss victims (GFHandel most), wasn't in a single battle, was astonished about arbitration, requested to look into too many reverts of infoboxes (I named 59, numbered), deciding to restrict those who requested, possibly as the easier "solution"? Of the 59, there are still a few without (Bach and Verdi, for example), but most have been settled. On the Main page now a cantata without one, but I have no intention to take the bait, decided to find it amusing ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:40, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

On the Main page now: Carl Nielsen works which has not only an infobox but templated entries for the individual works, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:31, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

very nice, though I did find two things in the table that should be changed. I have no idea what the "FS" column is for. Also, the "time" column should be renamed "year" or "date", given the confusion with Time signature. Courcelles (talk) 23:39, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
"The FS catalogue was first compiled in 1965 by Dan Fog and Torben Schousboe.", infobox: "Catalogue FS 1 to 403", summarized in the lead as "other catalogue numbers". The correct label for "Time" would be "Composition period" - way too long. If you think it's unclear feel free to explain, but it is like that since the composer's 150th birthday 8 June. - I need sleep ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Another cantata is now a GA: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, after a long history from 2002 with several editors. I believe that our readers would be helped best if it had a detailed infobox as other GAs on the topic but one of the former editors disagrees, please look at the talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:06, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [158]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [159]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #172

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  1. ^ Tripodi, Paolo. The Colonial Legacy in Somalia. p. 66
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