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Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [1]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [2][3][4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [5]

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19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

GA topicon

I'm wondering why you have a GA topicon for Hong Kong, which passed GA long before you registered this account. Is this your first account? I noticed you also had another topicon for a Iggy something song too, but apparently it was removed since. Are these topicons errors? L293D (☎ • ✎) 17:19, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@L293D: Oh I thought that is for a GA you’ve contributed to. I’ll remove it. I have one previous account but I have abandoned it for 2 years. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 23:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Are You A Female? Anonymous Hidden (talk) 10:55, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

No ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 11:10, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Young Blood Transfusion Page

Hi, I have resubmitted the changes I made to the Young Blood Transfusion page with the references you requested. Can you check it for me. Thanks! --Hedgehogsrock (talk) 15:45, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

@Hedgehogsrock: No you didn't. There's an article for this already - Young blood transfusion. You think we will accept copy and pasted drafts? That's too naive. Write your own article and submit it instead. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 11:58, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm not trying to submit a new article. I'm trying to edit the existing one - Young blood transfusion. Maybe I'm not doing it in the right way, which doesn't make me naïve, just new to editing on Wikipedia. I thought people like you were here to help. If you would like to be more constructive, I would appreciate it. Basically, if you compare the two pages, you will see the changes I have made, along with all the necessary references (most of which are already on the page). --Hedgehogsrock (talk) 14:19, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

@Hedgehogsrock: Then why don't you edit the page directly? The page is not protected. Feel free to edit it by clicking the "Edit" button on upper right corner. In case you don't know, you have submitted the draft to Articles for Creation, a process which reviewers review submitted drafts and determine if they are suitable for being a mainspace article. I'm sorry if you feel offended. Regardless, I recommend you to join the Wikipedia adventure, a great "tutorial" for beginners, and please do not submit drafts to AfC like that anymore. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the Teahouse, the Help Desk or experienced users' talk pages. Happy editing. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 14:30, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Zvanyy Uzhin

Hello there, Have you noticed that this one is not a biography but an article about a TV show? You can not use BLPPROD on such articles. I guess it's an error from your end as BLPPROD is only for biographical articles with zero sourcing. Thanks. Hitro talk 14:04, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

@HitroMilanese: Oh seems I didn't notice that it is not a BLP but a TV show (I don't know why). Removed the BLPPROD tag. Thanks for your reminder. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 14:07, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Userpage

Can you Design my userpage more attractive and helpful too ? As i found that you're intrested to design userpage as per user request.  TheRedBox (Talk) 21:04, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2018)

The Equator on the world map of the Earth Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Equator Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Mongoloid • Civics Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 November 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Knockbeg category

Hi there, just spotted the category you created through AfC. I'm used to renaming articles, but not too sure about categories, but the spelling is Knockbeg College, which itself is a redirect. I'm not sure how to proceed. Thanks! Smirkybec (talk) 17:07, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

 Fixed ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 09:14, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018

鉴于所谓“共識(consensus)”问题，我停止对所有Ymblanter的照片修改，不过对所谓“分裂性的修改”，“個人圖片集”的指责，我很遗憾。--Tyg728 (talk) 03:33, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

(Translation) Regarding the “consensus” problem, I have stopped editing Ymblanter’s photos (??), but I feel disappointed about the accusations such as “disruptive editing” and “personal photo collection” ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 06:23, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tyg728: 讓我澄清一件事-你修改那些圖片是完全沒有問題的，但是如果有任何人反對你的改動而且想和你討論相關問題，你就不應該盲目地因自己喜好而堅持自己的決定和完全忽略別人的意見或想法（破壞性/分裂性的修改）。我們尋求的是共識（我已經解釋給你聽）。而且，英文維基百科有一個規則叫Three revert rule(WP:3RR)，限制一個用戶不能在24小時內回退三次在同一頁面作出的修改，違者將被暫時封禁。我建議你和Ymblanter好好討論一番才繼續修改吧。

(Translation) Let me make things clear - it is totally appropriate for you to be bold to change the photos, but if someone cintested your actions and want to discuss the matter with you, then you should not persist your own opinions and neglecting others’ thoughts (WP:DE). We should seek consensus (I’ve explained this to you). Also, there is a rule called the “Three revert rule” in English Wikipedia which forbiddens usersperforming 3 reverts on a single page within 24 hours, and violators will be sanctioned. I suggest you and Ymblanter to discuss before you edit anything. ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (alt) (talk to me) 06:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: 此车站的无柱站厅很有特色，增加站厅的照片，编辑中没有去除你的照片。How about this change?--Tyg728 (talk) 14:06, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

(Translation) @Ymblanter: The pillarless concourse of this station is special. [I] added a few photos of the concourse without removing yours. How about this change? ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 10:12, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-47

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

Recent changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [6]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [7]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [8]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Wow... you really amaze me by the amount of edits you could get done in a day. I wish I had the time but school really messes it all up. By the way, how's my progress? Your friend, – Yanjipy (talk) 03:37, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Yanjipy:. It's been a long time since we've last chatted. Thanks for you kind words. Since you aren't active recently, I can't say you have a huge progress. Hope you have fun at school. Cheers, ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 08:37, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #339

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

• Events
  • Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
  • Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
  • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
    • External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
    • External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Battles with location and date in Wikidata (source)
    • Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
    • Software-related companies founded by women (source)
    • Films based on video games (source)
  • Newest database reports: Vasily
  • Showcase items: Fugger

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
  • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
  • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
  • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
  • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
  • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
  • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
  • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
  • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
  • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
  • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Elaine Joyce

You said that you removed a fact about Elaine Joyce I wrote. Would be helpful if you'd tell me which one you felt had no citation. Everything I posted had citations.

Has Vijay (actor) article been compared to any Hollywood actors like Tom cruise rofl why then the unnecessary non neutral tag if it's sourced admin??

Why the unnecessary neutrality tag has been added to this article. I am new to wikipedia but if the sources are correct and mentioned as per the source why neutrality tag. Please explain??? my friend says This guy is biggest current superstar in south india nothing his mentioned about it and this article is still outdated and neutral. This guy has got numerous fans and some haters as well. It should've been added by a hater of him who doesnt like his growth since he has won a Iara international award. Kindly admis please remove unnecessary neutral tag. Many thanks. Weryops (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Responded at Talk:Vijay (actor). —KuyaBriBri^Talk 17:40, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

(watching)...second lesson of Wikipedia: When a seven-hour old account says "I'm new to wikipedia but", and proceeds to discuss guidelines and tags at length...they aint. Carry on  :) ——SerialNumber54129 18:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Cabal Approved

How can I get the stamp on the Wikipedia logo in my user/talk page?--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 02:56, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

{{tinc}} ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 02:57, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. But how can I get on the Wikipedia logo?--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 03:00, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I don't know. Having a tinc stamp on the Wikipedia logo is weird... ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 03:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Ok, I won't put it on the logo. :) --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 03:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

User Script

How is a User Script made?--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 03:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

See WP:US ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 03:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Template

I saw a template for "Fuck No" with an X in front of it. What's the template for "Fuck No"?--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 03:13, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

 Fuck no {{not done|Fuck no}} (probably the shortest code I can think of, there are many other ways to make that) ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 03:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks.--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 03:27, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Thegooduser/Status

How can I add a custom status? --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 03:34, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

This one only supports "online", "busy", "around", "offline" and "sleep", others are regarded as "Unknown". You may put a big notice box like "Status: YOUR STATUS HERE" with bold, italic or whatever font style you like, but you have to update it manually. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 03:37, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Good job with that, mate. I guess the lad was just mimicking you after all. MBlaze Lightning 07:13, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@MBlaze Lightning: Not really... I hurt an experienced editor. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 07:30, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

IP Banned

Hey mate, I was scrolling through a wikipedia post when an info box popped up and said I had 4 unread messages, and when I clicked on the link I noticed that it said my IP had been banned, for an edit on an article I had never seen. I thought you should know that this IP is not a real IP, just a VPN connected through the Psiphon3 application. As this IP will be recorded I will not write it down but I thought you should know that this is one (of many) IPs that are used by the Psiphon3 Application. Sorry for the inconvenience, and it doesn't affect me in any way (my IP will change again next time I connect) but I thought that it would be helpful for you. Thanks for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.38.60.98 (talk) 12:39, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)Yep, I always recommend the old "pretend it wasn't me that did the vandalism" routine. ——SerialNumber54129 12:44, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

And that seems to be working fine :) ―Abelmoschus Esculentus ^{talk / contribs} 15:19, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Userboxes

I've decided to no have userboxes, so I don't need this. Thank you for helping people. Aurornisxui (talk) 22:27, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Are you still making userboxes for others? If so, can you use this image https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stacks_view.jpg and say "Research is my superpower" ( without the quotes). Thanks Aurornisxui (talk) 20:18, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2018)

Siri is a virtual assistant part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, watchOS, macOS, HomePod, and tvOS operating systems. Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Siri Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Equator • Mongoloid Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 26 November 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2018-48

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

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [9]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [10]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [11]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [12]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Indefinite block

From the user posting this: Give me an indefinite global block. I'll be very proud. I've been told my edits were bad but back then that wasn't their intention. After all, no edit isn't vandalism (right now). Just give me no chances. I know that those edits were made not to vandalize or disrupt Wikipedia but treat me as a person deported from a major country.211.27.126.189 (talk) 10:25, 18 November 2018 (UTC) No jokes.211.27.126.189 (talk) 10:32, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

IPs should not be indefinitely blocked. Rules are rules and they ought to be followed. We seek consensus here. If you continue to edit without (against) consensus and refuse to participate in the discussion, then it is regarded as disruptive editing. You are proud of your incompetence in following simple rules and ask for sanctions as if you're the only rational one? ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 10:39, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

My point is that I feel like my edits have been looked too much on the negative side. I tried replying that those edits weren't made to make things bad (some vandalism on my talk page and admin noticeboard because those warnings made me quite angry is all I did to make something bad on Wikipedia on purpose) but that was pointless, contrary to what was expected from me.

BTW I don't have interest in a username (in case you thought it would be better which is quite reasonable), so I'm not sure how long I could be blocked for. Now it seems like IP accounts mostly stay unblocked, and when that's not the case, the block is usually very short (maybe over within 24 hours of coming into effect).

PS 123.243.100.66 as an IP account for Wikipedia is also the same person in real life.

Finally, I don't feel so angry now that I've been typing so much but I need something on my talk page or at least very easy accessible. A way to tell whether an edit meant for the better is actually for the better. IF you've seen empty information on games in the 2018 World Chess Championship (as in the Wikipedia page), that thing I want to get will probably dissuade me from putting such information on the same or similar articles every again. In fact, I think an edit from me or 123.243.100.66 should always be assumed as good faith (what I mean when talking about an edit which doesn't actually improve, but has no bad intention).211.27.126.189 (talk) 10:56, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for expressing your opinion. Although your edits are made in good faith, as I've said before - they must adhere to policies. I totally understand why you added those frameworks in World Chess Championship 2018, but since Fbergo objected your edit, and you continued to revert neglecting the opposition (thus violated the three revert rule), CaradhrasAiguo took the most appropriate action - report to the edit warring noticeboard.

In case you don't know, <!-- TEXT --> act as a reminder or note, readers cannot see the "TEXT" as it is hidden.

The article appears to be a current event, many editors are paying attention to it, so there is no need to remind yourself add the missing information as soon as possible where the events have not happened yet. Please be mindful. Regarding the IP address indefinite block, see here. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 11:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

I have no interest in adding the framework now that its pointless given a few users disagree. Lesson learned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.126.189 (talk) 11:37, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Unfortunately, your report is still at the edit warring noticeboard. Good luck ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 11:39, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

I've seen the report but I think I don't need a block (in my opinion, and you're not the user reporting me).211.27.126.189 (talk) 11:46, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

What do you mean by "I don't need a block"? It should be the reviewing administrator who decides whether or not to block, not yourself. You are welcome to comment in it. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 11:48, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm not trying to officially decide whether I'll be blocked (which doesn't even make any sense).211.27.126.189 (talk) 11:54, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

My block is over, and I think your username (no offence) is also a scientific name. Right?211.27.126.189 (talk) 09:31, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Not that scientific. I just like it. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 10:15, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Hope you can really learn from your block and edit constructively. Happy editing. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 10:18, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

BTW I used a user talk page to send someone a link to a related article talk page and said it was spam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.126.189 (talk) 09:18, 27 November 2018 (UTC)