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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2015)

Hello, Rcsprinter123.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Musical composition

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Personal finance • Scottish mythology

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Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [1]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [2]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [3]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [4]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [5]

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 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Self-creation cosmology

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2015)

Costumed performers from the 2006 Bristol Renaissance Faire
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Costume

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Musical composition • Personal finance

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Tech News: 2015-42

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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [6]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [7]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [8]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Adoption

Hi will you adopt me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nms642 (talk • contribs) 13:45, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Nms642: I'm not doing that kind of thing at the moment. Rcsprinter123 (utter) 17:10, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Codey reasons

I'm afraid your edit summary wasn't particularly enlightening. Paradoctor (talk) 19:35, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

The script to review them works better with fewer articles in a request. This is why splitting a long one is beneficial. Rcsprinter123 (parlez) 19:04, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
@Rcsprinter123: Which script? The one at AfC reviewing instructions does not work for redirects. Paradoctor (talk) 20:52, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Well, it does for me. [9] Rcsprinter123 (face) 19:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Apologies

Hi Rcsprinter123, I wanted to apologize for yesterdays dramah, Seeing as we've never exactly gotten on with each other I shouldn't have nominated your page (nor Adams for that matter!), I was simply nominating bus related userpages.. I honestly wasn't trying to be a twat (contrary to popular belief ),
Had you nominated my crap I probably wouldn't have been a very happy bunny so it was wrong of me to nominate yours and I apologise for that. We all make mistakes unfortunately.
Anyway I'd imagine you're aware but you can go to WP:REFUND so not all's bad I guess :)
Anyway Thanks & Happy editing. –Davey2010Talk 14:09, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I appreciate the apology, Davey2010. It shows that this is a sincere project, not a rabble of childish brats. Let's try not to get under each other's feet in future. Rcsprinter123 (blab) 16:12, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
No worries, Agreed it's a much nicer place when everyone's cool with each other, life's too short for wars & grudges & all that!, Past is the past & all that :), Anyway thanks & Happy editing :) –Davey2010Talk 16:25, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2015)

Ice hockey is an example of a team sport. Pictured is an 1893 ice hockey match at Victoria Rink, Montreal.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Team sport

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Costume • Musical composition

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Tech News: 2015-43

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Recent changes

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Recurrent item icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The For technical readers icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [10]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [11]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [12]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [13]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [14]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [15][16][17][18]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!

The Invisible Barnstar
Thank you so much for reviewing 102 requests at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects today, if I've counted correctly. All the best, Mz7 (talk) 22:52, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! Rcsprinter123 (push) 16:32, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Vani Hari

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2015)

Models promoting Zombieland at San Diego Comic-con. A zombie comedy is a horror comedy subgenre that involves zombies.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Comedy horror

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Team sport • Costume

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Tech News: 2015-44

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [19]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [20][21]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [22][23]
  • Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [24]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

TAFI

I reviewed your latest nom. When you find time for it please review my latest noms at TAFI. Isabel Adrian and Josephine Bornebusch. Appreciate it.--BabbaQ (talk) 13:59, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take a look. Rcsprinter123 (message) 22:30, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

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A barnstar for you!

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The judges would like to congratulate you for making the 2nd round being in the top 16! Although you didn't make the top 9 of Round 2, we appreciate that you participated in the 2nd Annual GA Cup. We hope to see you next year! MrWooHoo (talk) 23:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2015)

Hello, Rcsprinter123.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Allegra Versace

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Previous selections: Comedy horror • Team sport

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Tech News: 2015-45

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

Recent changes

  • You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [25]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [26]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [27]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [28]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [29]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [30]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Administrator election reform RFC

[31] With your opposition to proposal F, are you saying that you can't be trusted with the unbundled tools you've already got? Peter James (talk) 21:22, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I was saying 'all or nothing' in regard to the current administrator toolset (block, delete, protect etc) which require a competent individual able to operate all of those to be an effective administrator. The unbundled tools such as rollback don't need such a high level of trust, as they can be removed easily, whereas a desysopping is comparatively difficult. Rcsprinter123 (state) 21:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Block, delete and protect will probably always require trust from the community, with an RFA or similar process, but there are many more rights not fully unbundled (the list is at Special:ListGroupRights), and some are already granted to non-administrators in specific groups (which can be removed easily) - such as bots or template editors - but could be made more widely available. Even the rights that require RFA could be requested separately, so an editor who is only requesting the rights necessary for requested moves can apply for those, consistent with the principle of least privilege, and (as I've already mentioned in the discussion) an editor could have reported many vandals for administrator attention but fail RFA because of inclusionism or deletionism at AFD, is that editor not to be trusted with the right to block? Peter James (talk) 22:38, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Yes. In real life, you wouldn't employ a manager and say "but don't do X and Y", you expect them to be able to do the whole job. Rcsprinter123 (reason) 23:05, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia administrators are not managers, and instead of 1,329 managers (many of whom are absent most of the time) with rights many will never need and no specific roles assigned to them, a business would probably employ specialists in different roles, each with the necessary privileges. Peter James (talk) 23:37, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

2015 GA Cup Wrap-Up

WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup - Finals/Wrap-Up


The second-ever GA Cup is now over! The competition officially ended Thursday. Congrats to everyone who participated, and especially to our finalists.

The winner of the 2nd GA Cup is Zwerg Nase! He earned 408 points, over 100 points more than he earned in all previous rounds. He tied with our second-place winner, Sturmvogel 66 with 367 points, in number of articles reviewed (24), and they earned almost the same points for reviewing articles that were in the queue the longest (Zwerg with 322, Sturmvogel with 326). Basically, they tied in points, but what made the different for Zwerg was the advantage he had in reviewing longer articles. It seems that the rule change of earning more realistic points for longer articles made a difference. All of our contestants should be proud of the work they were able to accomplish through the GA Cup. Congrats to these worthy opponents!

Our third and fourth place winners, Johanna and Tomandjerry211, also ran a close race, with 167 points and 147 points respectfully. We had one withdrawal; we found it interesting that competitors dropped out in Round 2 and 3 as well. One of the original judges and co-creator of this competition, User:Dom497 stepped down as judge during Round 3; as stated previously, we will miss his input and wish him the best.

The judges were pleased with our results, even though fewer users competed this time compared to our inaugural competition. We recognize that this might be due to holding the competition during the summer months. We intend on looking more closely when we should conduct this contest, as well as other aspects of the GA Cup. We've set up a feedback page for everyone's input about how we should conduct the contest and what rule changes should be made. If you have any ideas about how we can improve things, please visit it and give us your input.

Again, thanks to all and congratulations to our winners! Please stay tuned for the start of GA Cup #3.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar and MrWooHoo.

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WikiCup 2015: The results

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

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

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

A full list of our award winners are:

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

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WikiCup Award

Awarded to Rcsprinter123 for participating in the 2015 WikiCup. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 19:01, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). Legobot (talk) 00:03, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2015)

Marie Serneholt at the 48th Guldbagge Awards.
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Marie Serneholt

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Previous selections: Allegra Versace • Comedy horror

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TAFI talk

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Tech News: 2015-46

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

Recent changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [32]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [33]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [34]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [35]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [36]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

John Bickley

Can I ask on what grounds according to WP:RELIST you have re-listed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Bickley (UKIP)? The consensus seems pretty clear to me. AusLondonder (talk) 20:12, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

There are a number of !votes to keep, with arguments to counter the deletion camp. I can see it is likely to be "delete" overall, but until it is absolutely determined, another week of discussion while relisted can't hurt. The more people have a chance to comment, the more accurate the consensus will be, right? Rcsprinter123 (babble) 20:46, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
There are a few keep votes, but either accusing us all of some huge anti-UKIP conspiracy, and/or citing the fact that the Labour candidate in a forthcoming election has a page so therefore his UKIP opponent should as well. I note that none of these people are arguing that any of the other candidates should have an article - only Bickley. This is not based on any policy at all. The majority of the delete votes have cited policy requirements of politician articles. I am puzzled as to why this discussion should have been relisted given there are other AfDs started at the same time with far fewer contributors that have still been closed in one direction or the other. Frinton100 (talk) 21:11, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
PS. Also worth pointing out that delete/redirect outnumbers keep by about 3 to 1 with 14 votes cast.
I can't help wondering whether you either aren't happy with the consensus or want him to have an article for longer during the election period. Correct me if I'm wrong. AusLondonder (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
My personal preference for the outcome of this AfD has nothing to do with it. Rcsprinter123 (notify) 15:29, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2015)

A continuum of goods and services
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Goods and services

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Marie Serneholt • Allegra Versace

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Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [39]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [40]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [41]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [42][43]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Bot automation at Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement

Greetings WikiProject TAFI members!

Over the past two weeks, there has been extensive discussion on introducing bot automation to assist with maintenance of the Today's Articles for Improvement project. A bot has now been approved for trial and will carry out the weekly duties. The bots first run will occur around 00:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC) (midnight on Sunday).

If you have been assisting any of the weekly maintenance tasks, please refrain from doing so this week. The bot needs to be tested and proven it can do the job, and it only gets one chance per week. The tasks will include:

Updating the accomplishments and archiving selections is still done manually, along with daily tasks such as adding approved entries to the articles for improvement page. These will become automated in the near future.

We hope the bot proves to serve well, and by carrying out the routine housekeeping tasks we can boost the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the project. MusikBot thanks you for your service in helping with the weekly tasks in the past, and for your cooperation during this trial period :)

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2015)

Hello, Rcsprinter123.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Coffee production in Cuba

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Goods and services • Marie Serneholt

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Tech News: 2015-48

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

Recent changes

  • A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [44]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cold War II

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Cold War II. Legobot (talk) 00:03, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Adopting

Hey there! Did you remember that I have asked for adoption from you the last few months before? I am currently free now so you can adopt me! ;) (Check your archive if you have forgotten about it) Vincent60030 (talk) 11:41, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Vincent60030: I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not exactly doing the adoptions any more. I know you've waited, so you can find a list of other adopters at this page who might agree to take you up. Rcsprinter123 (rhapsodise) 12:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
@Rcsprinter123: Oh, but then why I see someone being adopted by you though? =p Vincent60030 (talk) 13:13, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Wherever you saw that, it was old and outdated. Rcsprinter123 (talk) 13:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Also, there's no need to use {{replyto}} on this page as I get a notification of any edits to it anyway. Rcsprinter123 (discuss) 13:58, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
OK, sure. ;) Vincent60030 (talk) 14:14, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2015)

The First Geneva Convention (1864) is one of the earliest formulations of international law.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

International law

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Previous selections: Coffee production in Cuba • Goods and services

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Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [45]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [46]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [47][48]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [49]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [50]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

The Center Line: November 2015

The Center Line
Volume 8, Issue 4 • November 2015 • About the Newsletter

—delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Imzadi1979 (talk) on 22:59, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-50

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

Recent changes

  • Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [51]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [52]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [53]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [54]
  • You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [55]
  • It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [56]
  • You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [57]
  • UploadWizard will look a bit different. [58]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
  • New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [59]

Meetings

Future changes

  • A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [60]

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2015)

Princess Leia with characteristic hairstyle cosplayed.
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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2015)

The word scandal is used a few times in several bibles like Douay–Rheims Bible.
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Changes this week

  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [61]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2015)

Hors d'oeuvre, also known as an appetizer or starter, is a food item served before the main courses of a meal.
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78.26's RFA Appreciation award

The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 01:25, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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Tech News

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Figureskatingfan (talk), and Godot13 (talk).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

M62 motorway

Thanks for your input on that GAN. I have decided to close it as not listed as I feel the situation there is problematic for several reasons, including that the article itself does not meet GA criteria. A note on your nomination. Anyone can nominate an article they feel meets the GA criteria, and I support that principle, and have taken on board GANs even from banned or blocked users. My view is it is the article we are reviewing, not the contributors or nominators. Sometimes, though, a nomination from someone not familiar with an article can result - as in this case - in a quick fail as there are issues which they may not be aware. This is not a reflection on you, and I don't want you to feel that you shouldn't nominate articles unless you are a significant contributor. Please do continue to seek out articles you feel are decent, and nominate them. However, I would say that it helps to have done a few reviews so you can get to closer grip with the requirements. If you haven't done any GA reviews, and would like some experience (and there is a huge backlog at WP:GAN), I'd be more than happy to walk you through a review. Let me know if you're interested. Regards SilkTork ✔Tea time 18:21, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

SilkTork: I have actually done several reviews, but thanks all the same for the advice and the review. I had thought that the article was close to meeting the criteria but you found, in your wisdom, that it wasn't, which is OK. Rcsprinter123 (jaw) 19:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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Season's Greetings and Happy New Year!

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This week's article for improvement (week 53, 2015)

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2016)

King Mswati III, the monarch of Swaziland, one of the Monarchies in Africa.
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WikiCup 2016: Game On!

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We are aware that in some areas the scoring bot’s numbers are a little bit off (i.e., overly generous) and are working to have that corrected as soon as possible.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:03, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

You asked me a question

You asked me a question about the Manchester photo a couple of days ago, and I wasn't quite sure what you were asking. I just wanted to follow up.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 10:34, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Jimbo Wales: The link says you requested to buy the photo, so I wondered why it might be reporting that. Did you just want one to hang on your wall? Rcsprinter123 (jive) 20:34, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Yes. I liked the photo and enjoyed the viral discussions around it. It seems like it would be fun to have hanging on the wall.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 10:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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Depictions of various deities on the entrance tower of Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore, dedicated to the Hindu goddess of rain; Mariamman.
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Tech News: 2016-02

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

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Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [66]

Changes this week

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [71]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [72][73]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [74][75]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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Wholesale replacement of maps

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2016)

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Chowder

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Tech News: 2016-03

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Recent changes

  • You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [76]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [77]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [78]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [79]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2016)

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Izakaya

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Tech News: 2016-04

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Recent changes

  • You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [80][81]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [82]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [83]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [84]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [85]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [86]

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2016)

The slaughtered swine (1652) by Barent Fabricius, a depiction of a killed animal
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Tech News: 2016-05

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Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [87]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [88][89]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [90]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [91]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [92][93]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [94]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [95][96][97]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [98][99]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [100]


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Invitation to the Google Doodle task force

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Thanks for your support

Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating and supporting at my RfA. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:00, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Human lightning rod not to scale Brianhe RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating at my RfA. Your support was very much appreciated even if I did get a bit scorched. Brianhe (talk) 07:52, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

AFD - Larry Sanders (Green Party)

Hi: you nominated Larry Sanders (Green Party) for deletion, I think. All responses seem to have been 'keep': could you please consider WP:Speedy keep? Thanks DrArsenal (talk) 00:59, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

The RfA has run its seven days now, so is due for closure soon anyway; as you say, it will be to keep. I would not be able to make the close personally due to being "involved" as its nominator, aside from a withdrawal close. Rcsprinter123 (parlez) 09:05, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2016)

Delivery trucks in San Salvador, El Salvador
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2016 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 3rd GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been two GA Cups; both were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 500 nominations listed and about 450 articles waiting to be reviewed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 3rd GA Cup will begin on March 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on July 31, 2016), but this may change based on participant numbers. There will be slight changes to the scoring system, based upon feedback we've received in the months since GA Cup #2. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same. We're also looking to spice up the competition a bit by running parallel competitions. Finally, there's a possibility of assisting a WikiProject Good Articles backlog drive in the last three weeks of February, before our competition. Please stay tuned for more information as we get it.

Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on February 20, 2015. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now!

If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar and MrWooHoo.

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Tech News: 2016-06

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

Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [101]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [102]
  • RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [103]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [104][105]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [106][107]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [108][109][110]

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2016)

An iceberg, which is relatively cold.
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Cold

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