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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2015)

The amounts of fat types in selected foods Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Fat Geographical pole Adult Cereal Chicken sandwich History of pharmacy Previous selections: Nightlife • Sport • Buggy (automobile) Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:07, 22 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

• Hello Jim Carter:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 29 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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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. [1] [2]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [3]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [4] [5] [6]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [7] [8] [9]
• 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. [10] [11] [12]

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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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Co-op Pilot Results & Mentoring

Hey there! The Co-op has been on a hiatus for a bit, but we are planning on opening up shop again soon. When you're able, please read over and respond to this update on our talk page. We have favorable results from our final report regarding the pilot, and we are interested in seeing who is available to mentor when we reopen our space and begin to send out invites again. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2015)

A party in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox at a restaruant Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Party Arab cuisine Footwear Slogan Western literature Previous selections: Fat • Nightlife • Sport Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:07, 29 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

• Hello Jim Carter:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 30 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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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. [13]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [14]

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. [15] [16]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [17]

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)

Hello Sir.

User:Jim Carter Wrong Figures on PAF 1971 War Violation of Wikipedia policies @ WP:FAKE As per as the Indo-Pak War of 1971 Air War Section Neutral Claims is mentioned with Neutral Source. 54 IAF aircraft were lost (perhaps as many as 27 of them in air combat). Pakistan lost 72 aircraft (51 of them combat types, but admitting only 25 to enemy action). Of the Pakistani losses, at least 24 fell in air combat (although only 10 air combat losses were admitted, not including any F-6s, Mirage IIIs, or the six Jordanian F-104s which failed to return to their donors). But the imbalance in air losses was explained by the IAF's considerably higher sortie rate, and its emphasis on ground-attack missions. On the ground Pakistan suffered most, with 8,000 killed and 25,000 wounded while India lost 3,000 dead and 12,000 wounded. The loss of armoured vehicles was similarly imbalanced. This represented a major defeat for Pakistan. as per as Indo-Pak War of 1971 this same would be written in the Pakistan Air Force

I have even writed the same in the Talk:Pakistan Air Force but no one has replied even after 2 days. Sir I will request you to correct the figures of 1971 Air War on Pakistan Air Force as per as Indo-Pak War of 1971 ,

here in Pakistan Air Force, @1971 it is only written about the PAF loses on Eastern front, while IAF loses were of the total Aircraft lost in both eastern&western fronts is mentioned. Hence i will request you to correct the figures of 1971 Air War on Pakistan Air Force as per as Indo-Pak War of 1971 MCIWS (talk) 14:28, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

The above user is pov pushing that edit I reverted you on was pure pov secondly its got zero consensus and thirdly hes a sock user. Zadon19 (talk) 15:16, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2015)

Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam. Pictured is the Masjid al-Haram during Hajj, 2007. Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Holiest sites in Islam Rump steak Job Mario Kart Exhibition Staple food Previous selections: Party • Fat • Nightlife Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 18:00, 6 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

• Hello Jim Carter:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 31 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 09:16, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2015)

Kayaking in whitewater rapids Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Kayaking Hemispheres of the Earth Elephants in ancient China Oscar speech Bottled water Previous selections: Holiest sites in Islam • Party • Fat Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: Northamerica1000 (talk) 00:46, 13 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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

• You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [18]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [19]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [20]

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. [21]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Arb

My opinion is that this section [22] should be hatted because it was creating knowing the proposals could not be implemented, is just soapboxing about amnesty, and violates WP:POINT. Obviously, you should consult with others or simply make up your own mind, but I wanted to bring it to your attention as that case is already long enough. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 11:05, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Thanks for the advice, Dennis, but Jim has listed himself as temporarily inactive[23] as an arbcom clerk, due to some offline issues. --MelanieN (talk) 12:11, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement – discussion about changing project processes

• Hello Jim Carter:

A discussion is occurring at Change project processes regarding potential changes to the Today's articles for improvement Wikiproject. Your input is welcomed at the discussion.

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This week's articles for improvement (week 30, 2015)

Dessert is a typically sweet course that concludes an evening meal. Pictured is a chocolate-strawberry crumble ball. Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Dessert Home Taboo Post-production Aerosol spray General aviation Previous selections: Kayaking • Holiest sites in Islam • Party Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: Northamerica1000 (talk) on 04:00, 20 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

edit on Synthetic diamond page

Hi Jim, yesterday I tried to make an edit on the "Synthetic diamonds" page and it was declined, please check : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond . Could you please let me know the reason and explain how I could re-submit my edit?

Cactusfigure (talk) 07:12, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Cactusfigure! I saw your edit. The source you've used to support the information is not not reliable. You've to find reliable third party sources for the information you've added. Furthermore, the information you've added doesn't belongs to the lead of that article, it should be added with proper source in the appropriate section of the article. The introduction of an article should only contain necessary information about the subject in brief. Hope this helps! Jim Carter 11:16, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Jim, noted. Will try to make it crisper and catch hold of a better reference source. Thank you.

Cactusfigure (talk) 05:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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. [24]

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. [25]

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03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

This week's articles for improvement (week 31, 2015)

An example of an igloo Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Igloo Unmanned spaceflight Underground restaurant Haribo Voice acting Previous selections: Dessert • Kayaking • Holiest sites in Islam Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: Northamerica1000 (talk) 00:25, 27 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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

• You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [26]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [27]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [28]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [29]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [30]

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. [31]

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. [32]

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)

To change profile picture

Dear friend, please change the profile picture, plz upload picture taken in lecturing SOMASHEKAR22 (talk) 04:24, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, SOMASHEKAR22, I'm a bit confused. Can you explain what profile picture thingy you're talking about? Thanks! Jim Carter 04:36, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Akshardham Delhi Environmental Violations

Hello,

If you have time would you please take a look at this article: [33] and this discussion [34] and provide your input. I feel fresh eyes will bring proper clarity for this topic.

Thank you

Swamiblue (talk) 03:25, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

TAFI's List of articles

• Hello Jim Carter:

A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding potential changes to the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2015)

A farmhouse (bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland Hello, Jim Carter. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Farmhouse Music venue Social change Information Age Parable Previous selections: Igloo • Dessert • Kayaking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:18, 3 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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. [35]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [36] [37] [38] [39]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [40]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [41]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [42]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [43]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [44]

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)

TAFI List of articles purge, part II

• Hello Jim Carter:

A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding the removal of entries from the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.

Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 17:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2015)

Berries for sale at a farmers' market Hello, Jim Carter. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Berry Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Farmhouse • Igloo Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:27, 10 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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. [45]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [46]
• 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. [47]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [48]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [49]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [50] [51]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [52] [53]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [54]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [55]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [56]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [57]

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. [58]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [59]

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. [60]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2015)

Three plates of soufflés Hello, Jim Carter. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Soufflé Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Berry • Farmhouse Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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. [61] [62] [63]
• 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. [64]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [65] [66]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [67]

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. [68]

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)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2015)

Blenheim Palace, a famous English historic house Hello, Jim Carter. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Historic house Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Soufflé • Berry Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:12, 24 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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. [69]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [70]

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)

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2015)

A Old Colony Mennonite family observing the practice of plain dress Hello, Jim Carter. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Plain dress Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Historic house • Soufflé Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:10, 31 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2015-36

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

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [71][72]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [73]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [74]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [75]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (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 September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [76]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

MediaWiki Train the Trainer 2015 barnstar

MediaWiki Train the Trainer 2015 barnstar

This barnstar is awarded to you in recognition of your leadership and presentation skills in the MediaWiki Train the Trainer 2015 program. We hope to have enriched your Wiki-experience and would like to see active contribution from you towards MediaWiki and other scripts, gadgets and tools-related activities. Thank you once again for your enthusiastic participation. -- CIS-A2K (talk) 14:32, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

CVUA

Hi. The Counter Vandalism Unit is still very much an active project and users regularly ask for training. Please take a moment to update your trainer details at Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy/Instructors. If you are currently unable or no longer interested in being a trainer, please remove your details from the table. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:10, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2015)

Two high divers in mid-air Hello, Jim Carter. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: High diving Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Plain dress • Historic house Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Namaste

Sleeping Jim Carter Patrolled my page and that somehow interfered with my edit of that page! Thanks for patrolling. How are you Jim? --AmritasyaPutra^T 16:15, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Battling with real life troubles, as ever. Sorry for my late response, I didn't had a device until now. It appears you were able to convince our arbitrators, nice for you and for the project! I'm still mystified though, how did you convinced them? Anyway, nice to see you around again! Happy editing! Jim Carter 07:20, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Infrastructure scholarship from Wikimedia India

Dear talk page watchers and friends, I'm inclined to apply for a scholarship from Wikimedia Foundations' chapter, Wikimedia India, to get a grant for a Laptop. My talk page watcher might have noticed that lately my activity on Wikipedia has declined to almost 4-5 edits a month. I've gone through major hardships and financial struggles for the last 4ish months, which is one of the significant reason for my decreased activity on Wikipedia. Few intimate friends on Wikipedia might be aware of some of the problems I faced in the last few months. My mother was suffering from cancer until she passed away on 11 July this year. I had used most of the funds I saved, for her treatment, even selled off few most desired things of mine to gather funds, including the device (Laptop) which I used to access Wikipedia. After her death, I found myself in heavy financial debt when on 20 August, I lost another member (future family member perhaps) of my family. Both the blows were enough to give me a brain fever. Now, I'm left with enough time and energy for Wikipedia, but no money to buy another device, as one can understand that I'm under the grasp of heavy finiancial crisis. After considering all the ways, I'm thinking of requesting a scholarship to buy a Laptop, so that I can get back to my normal editing pattern and help Wikipedia in umpteen ways, from ArbCom related works to normal content writing; Another benefit is: I'm involved in offwiki Wikipedia related workshops as well, recently I've attended meta:MWTTT, so a Laptop will be of great help in future workshops. Anyhow, I'm writing all this here because before applying for scholarship, here, I need endorsement from my local community members to see if the local community thinks that I deserve the grant. Therefore, friends and talk page watchers, if you feel that I deserve the grant then please sign up below just to assure Wikimedia Indias' member that the grant (if they provide) will be helpful for the project. I'll not make the thread any larger by adding more details, its already large. But I wish to point out that this statement took me an hour to type, this edit is made from a mobile device and one could understand how much it troubles to edit Wikipedia from phone, Small screen vs fatty fingers. :-p Thanks! Jim Carter 16:19, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Endorsements

• please sign below if you feel that I'm eligible for the grant.
• --

Jim Carter 16:19, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• KieranTribe 13:34, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• Of course. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 13:38, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• With pleasure and support - . Buster Seven Talk 13:41, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• Writegeist (talk) 15:26, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• 100% support - I couldn't think of anyone more deserving than Jim! (Sorry I don't mean that in a dickish way but after reading the above I feel he needs it more than anyone). –Davey2010^Talk 15:42, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• Sure. Get back online soon and do a lot of good works. Best wishes. --Tito Dutta (talk) 13:57, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
• I've seen you around a lot, and I didn't realize you weren't able to edit actively. You really deserve this scholarship! MrWooHoo (talk) 03:27, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
• I strongly support your application. You do a lot for Wikipedia, in a lot of different areas, and Wikipedia has missed you during your absence the past few months. I hope this grant comes through - both to purchase a laptop, and to pay for internet access if necessary. --MelanieN (talk) 18:18, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
• I've got a bunch of spare laptops here that are fine for editing Wikipedia, and if nobody uses them they'll end up in the trash, or a charity shop. Who wants one? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:38, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
• Absolutely! Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:20, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks everyone, for your kind support! I've received the grant and I'm back on Wikipedia with my full strength. Hope to get on things quickly! Any major policy changes while I was away, Ritchie? Thanks again! Cheers, Jim Carter 07:42, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

I really appreciate the vote of confidence. Thanks to all members of the Committee. Regards Asgardian (talk) 04:14, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Of Mawra Hocane

Sir, please give the same advice (that you gave me) to the experienced user who tagged Mawra Hocane for speedy Deletion. Thanks.--NewMutants (talk) 11:17, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Truetraffik.in

You are probably right that {{db-corp}} should be used at Truetraffik.in but I removed your duplicate notification at User talk:Chakkalokesh before I saw the details. I guess that's ok—two speedies for the same article seemed excessive. I suppose I should find an article that Traffic generation tools (same author, and same promotional purpose) could redirect to, unless you think a speedy is warranted there. No need to reply or spend any more time on this. Johnuniq (talk) 10:54, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the message, Johnuniq, it appears Truetraffik.in is already gone. However, Traffic generation tools appears to be a case of borderline A11. I'll go ahead and tag it with prod as it doesn't appear blatantly promotional article. Cheers, Jim Carter 11:29, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Precious again

Indian topics
Thank you, Jim, for quality articles on Indian topics, such as Early Nationalists, for welcoming and warning, creating templates and scripts, for driving the project to connect "orphaned" articles to the encyclopedia, by invitation and award, for appreciation, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 990th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Ay, Gerda, nowadays I barely edit articles of Indic sphere. My last two GAs are related to African Americans. I think you should update your information. Thank you anyway, your appreciation helps the project run smoothly. Cheers, Jim Carter 07:57, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Coloni C4B

Hi Jim. FYI, I have redirected Coloni C4B to Coloni C4 while you develop the article in your userspace, to avoid a cross-namespace redirect. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 20:37, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that, DH85868993! Much appreciated. Jim Carter 08:00, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Gene93k

Hey there! Remember way back in May when you supported Gene93k to be Editor of the Week? He was finally presented with the award this week. It looks as if Buster tried to ping those of us who nominated or supported him, but the ping didn't work (at least in my case). You may want to go to Gene's talk page and congratulate him. MelanieN (talk) 16:10, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Jim Carter 14:59, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Potential CVU adoptee

Hi. I have been doing some ant-vandalism. I was wondering if you would adopt me. Thanks So said The Great Wiki Lord. (talk) 13:53, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi TheGreatWikiLord! I'm happy to adopt and instruct you. Please take a look at this page to know how I instruct new vandal patrollers. If you feel that my style of teaching suits you then please leave me a message here and I will create your "Academy" page. Best, Jim Carter 14:58, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

I am interested. Let's proceed forward. Thanks So said The Great Wiki Lord. (talk) 23:31, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello TheGreatWikiLord, I have started your academy page and have left there some tasks for you. Read the instructions on the page carefully and keep the page on your watchlist. Best, Jim Carter 13:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Editor of the week

A few more specific details might be welcome regarding the nominee, like how many years of editing, number of edits, apparently activity at DYK, and a few other things. Granted, I or others could add them myself, but I think it might work better if they were integrated into your nomination statement. John Carter (talk) 18:14, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

P.S. love the name, by the way. Great initials, too. ;) John Carter (talk) 18:25, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

@John Carter: I've added a few stats there, thanks! BTW which name? who's name? I'm a bit mystified. Jim Carter 13:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for your contributions. Relax and have a cup of coffee. :) Supdiop (T🔹C) 18:33, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Wilhelm Boden

Hey, I reviewed this, I just had a little trouble with the sources, as I mentioned on the template page. If you can show me the sentence in the German language ref that verifies the hook, I can probably verify it with a translator or something. Anyway, take your time and feel better! delldot ∇. 00:41, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Replied at the nomination page. Jim Carter 08:20, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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. [77]

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. [78]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [79]

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)

Arbitration case request declined

The Mark Marathon arbitration case request, which you were listed as a party to, has been declined by the Arbitration Committee. For the Arbitration Committee, Jim Carter 12:31, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. If it is to be re-filed with AN/I, as has been suggested by many, am I the one responsible for doing this? SBHarris 01:10, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Azel Backus

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:02, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Wilhelm Boden

Gatoclass (talk) 13:47, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Bei Bei

Gatoclass (talk) 01:02, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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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

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The 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). [80]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [81]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [82]
• 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. [83]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [84]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [85][86][87][88]

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

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Sinocorophium hangangense

Please continue.Xx236 (talk) 05:55, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

A page you started (Sinocorophium hangangense) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Sinocorophium hangangense, Jim Carter!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Keep in mind WP:MTAU and WP:NOTJOURNAL- Wiki articles should not contain needless jargon, and should be written for the general reader, not specialists. Also be wary of leaving {{in use}} on for too long- it may hinder improvement.

To reply, leave a comment on Animalparty's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

@Animalparty: Thanks for reviewing that article! Just an advise, I agree that there are certainly things that could be improved in the article, however, Wikipedia has no deadline. By placing the "in use" tag I made it aware that I'm still improving it, so it is reasonable that there maybe some flaws that are yet to be fixed. The last edit I made to that article was 93 minutes ago before you patrolled it, I really think you should have waited for me to remove that tag before you jump and place some unnecessary suggestions on my talk page. I'm a regular here, FWIW. From now I suggest you not to patrol articles which are tagged with "in use', unless the article is stale for several hours (more than 3hours is good). Though I know your suggestions were in good faith but few regulars may consider it irritating, not including me. Best, Jim Carter 18:52, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry if you found my suggestions unnecessary or bothersome. Perhaps I should have waited longer. The limited space in the Page patrol comment field necessitates brevity which may be received as curtness, which was unintended. I realize there is no deadline, but almost every article is in some stage of development, and open collaboration can more rapidly improve the encyclopedia. Given the specialized source material for this species, it can be a challenge to make information accurate yet accessible (I'm also a regular, and specialize in organisms for which there is little or no popular literature). I look forward to your improvements. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 19:20, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Don't be sorry, Animalparty, it's okay.  :) As I said, your suggestions were in good faith and good faithed editors are what we need more. Yeah, absolutely, I totally agree with you that open collaborations more rapidly improve the encyclopedia and I would really love to take your help in making the article more reader friendly, now that I realized you are a specialist in the subject. What I was trying to do after starting the article was to shape it before removing the in use tag. You see, how time consuming it is to understand the subject, writing about it and then make it sound less technical. Anyhow, I will be removing the tag now and would be glad if you could help me. Thanks! Jim Carter 19:45, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hi Jim Carter, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:50, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

• I'm making you autopatrolled for the same reason I made Liz before she passed RfA -- the numerous pages created as part of your ArbClerk work should not be flagged as "in need of patrolling". Perhaps this should be codified somewhere for you guys, that non-admin ArbClerks should be autopatrolled as a matter or convenience, but I'll let you figure this out amongst yourselves while I continue personally autopatrolling any non-admin ArbClerk I happen upon. ;) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:50, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Great suggestion, Salvidrim!. I'll make the suggestion on the clerks list.

I know when we were first dealing with the sprawling Arbitration Enforcement case, the clerks were given the ability to mass message because so many editors had offered statements and we had to notify them all. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:53, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Great suggestion indeed, Salvidrim!! However Liz maybe already aware that in many cases an arbcom trainee lost interest and resigned only months after joining the team. So my suggestion is that we give the autopatrolled flag only to the full clerks. FWIW, I'm still a trainee. Cheers! Jim Carter 19:11, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

The flag is cheap to add and cheap to remove -- and I've long held the belief that such userrights should be granted more leniently... as long as someone is trusted just enough not to create CSD'able articles, autopatrol can serve a purpose. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:39, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Just to note: Jim Carter is eligible for the autopatrolled flag in any case. He has created 29 mainspace articles, and the suggested requirement is now 25. So, thanks, Salvidrim! --MelanieN (talk) 19:55, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

CVU Academy: Training request

Hello there Jim Carter, I am TheCaliforniaKansan. I created this account over three years ago, and completely forgot the utility of Wikipedia. I became pretty active recently, and I soon discovered the inconvenient truth that lots of people like to vandalize Wikipedia... I work in the public sector, and it just makes me cringe when users attempt to defame living persons, post inaccurate information, or remove beneficial content. I would like to be trained by you, if you still have an opening. I recently checked out the CVU Academy page, and saw that there is training available to handle vandalism. Recently, I've only been doing so manually. I've also noticed that those who use STiki and Twinkle seem to combat vandalism in a more swift fashion. I have examined the other trainers, and frankly you seem to be the most qualified. The others who are accepting students are not as active as I would hope, and/or do not use both Twinkle and STiki. It would be an honor to be trained by you, please let me know if you are available. Truthfully, I would like to be able to improve Wikipedia in some other manner other than manually removing vandalism... Thank you for your consideration.
Best,
TheCaliforniaKansan (talk) 19:40, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi TheCaliforniaKansan! Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I've no problem to take you as a trainee. Please take a look at this page and let me know if you feel comfortable with the methods I use to teach trainees. If it suits you, let me know here, at my talk page, and I will be creating your academy page. Note: The last two trainees I adopted, didn't completed the course. This course is a bit time consuming, it may take at least 2 weeks to complete this course. So after considering all points, if you still wish to join the academy, do let me know, I would be glad to help you. :) Jim Carter 20:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

@Jim Carter:, I am sorry to hear that they did not complete the course. I am more than committed to completing the course and ultimately improving Wikipedia. I enjoy updating pages and preventing disruptive edits, and I highly doubt that I'll go down the same path as my predecessors. In short, I am committed and ready to begin training.
TheCaliforniaKansan (talk) 20:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

@TheCaliforniaKansan: Hi, thanks for understanding the problem. I have created your academy page here and left there some simple tasks for you. Please keep the page on your watchlist so that you don't miss new task additions. Don't feel reluctant to ask me questions here. All the best, Jim Carter 15:37, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

P. S. You don't need to ping me when you message me on my talk page i.e. here. Every user gets a notification if their talk page is altered by any user (except few bots). Cheers! Jim Carter 15:44, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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Changes this week

• 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. [89]
• 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. [90][91]
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [92][93]
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [94]

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18:04, 26 October 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.

Today's articles for improvement

• Hello Jim Carter:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 20 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

Sent by User:Northamerica1000 using mass messaging

Opinion poll

I feel that this is inappropriate. He puts himself out there. You respond with hints. Please take it seriously and be straightforward. The poll is a new thing. Please do not be disruptive. I have a long, long history of issues with you. This includes the horrible experience you gave me with the proposal in the first place when you mass messaged 1500 admins. Then you challenged the poll at its talk page when it started. You also have a history of inappropriate joking and remarks at actual RfAs. I strongly suggest considering the consequences of your posts and how they can affect things and make people feel. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:51, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Calm down, Anna Frodesiak, you don't have to be so defensive. I've retracted the thing which bothered you, but I'm still unsure why you thought it's disruptive. It is just a indication to the candidate, to let them know, why I have given them 6 out of 10; See WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY. Anyhow, you mean I've challenged the project by this and this? I'm unsure again, I just asked few normal questions. Then again, the mass-message thingy, you are aware that it was a good faith mistake long time ago. You say I have a history of inappropriate comments at RfA, please see WP:ASPERSION, as far I can remember, something such happened once about an year ago, in good faith. Anna, I really think you are biased when you comment anything related to me. Best wishes, Jim Carter 14:24, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

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Halloween cheer!

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Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – AmaryllisGardener ^talk 00:45, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for The Mother (Gorky novel)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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Recent changes

• You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [95]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [96]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [97]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [98]

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

• 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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

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. [99]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [100]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

EotW nominations

Hey, Jim. Hope all is well. Can you do me and WER a great favor and keep your eyes peeled for potential "Editors of the Week". Some of your previous candidates have achieved great things here at WP. I just want to be sure we don't run out of accepted candidates in a few weeks...which could happen. I invite any of your friendly stalkers to do the same. Thanks. Buster Seven Talk 16:16, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Jim. I appreciate you. Buster Seven Talk 16:58, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Will look out for more, thanks Buster7, for the note and appreciation! Jim Carter 17:00, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

...thinkin' out loud...

With what we have we should make it to the end of the year. That's Good. I was thinking of doing some kind of mass mailing or Holiday Greeting barnstar-like thing, around Christmas Time or New Years, to all the WER editors that have signed up (150 or so) over the past 3 years...wishing them and their families well etc...and mentioning EotW's constant need of nominations, of course. Is that something you can help me with, in about one month or so??? Buster Seven Talk 21:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Buster7: Just tell me what will be the content of the message, when exactly you wish me to send the message and I will do it on WER's behalf. The list is already here so no problem. This is indeed an excellent idea! Best, Jim Carter 08:00, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Draft:CHI St. Luke's Health

I noticed with interest your speedy on the Draft:CHI St. Luke's Health. I have been keeping an eye on this for severral days having been involved in the deletion process of the previous (near identical) version. I was wondering about starting an SPI but was worried about the ethics of calling out an editor who has only (apparently) edited a draft article. The previous article was deleted, if I recall correctly, on Copy-vio grounds but claims to notability looked paper thin and unsustainable. I will continue to watch with interest. Regards  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   21:51, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Velella: I randomly came to that page while patrolling recent changes. I'm not very aware of the background, it seems like that Draft was previously deleted on copy-vio grounds only. I don't know who had created that previous version of the page, I can't see deleted contributions, but I think you should keep a watch on their activity (Since you are aware about the background) and if you see same kind of disruption, we can think about SPI. Cheers! Jim Carter 11:45, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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 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. 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. 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 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:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

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.

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · logs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup Award

Awarded to Jim Carter for participating in the 2015 WikiCup. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 19:05, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Please make this correction

There was a 1960 movie called the circus of horrors that Donald Pleasence starred in that needs to be added to his list of movie roles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AF8D:D609:55E0:D9B:32E0:4AF8 (talk) 05:06, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, I've made that change on your behalf. Remember to cite references whenever you add information in any article. Best, Jim Carter 05:26, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

hey

dude im just trying to have fun and edit some random stuff on wiki ok so stop spoiling my fun i dont care if you have a wiki award for 'participation' they probably give those to anyone ok so stop or i will hack u--118.92.184.86 (talk) 06:21, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

• Please see: WP:NOTHERE. Thank you. Jim Carter 12:50, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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. [101]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [102]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [103]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [104]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [105]
• 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

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [106]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [107]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

		Happy Diwali!!!
		Sky full of fireworks, Mouth full of sweets, Home full of lamps, And festival full of sweet memories... Wishing You a Very Happy and Prosperous Diwali. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 04:23, 10 November 2015 (UTC) Send Diwali wishings by adding {{subst:Happy Diwali}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.

Welcome to STiki!

Hello, Jim Carter, and welcome to STiki! Thank you for your recent contributions using our tool. We at STiki hope you like using the tool and decide to continue using it in the future. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Information about STiki, including: Using STiki and its hotkeys Comparison with other tools Information about vandalism on Wikipedia Here are some pages which are a little more fun: The STiki leaderboard - See how you are faring against other STiki users! Userboxes - Do not hesitate to wear the STiki label with pride by choosing from a selection of userboxes! We hope you enjoy maintaining Wikipedia with STiki! If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions don't hesitate to drop a note over at the STiki talk page and we'll be more than happy to help. Again, welcome, and thanks! West.andrew.g (developer) and ‑Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:44, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Hey Jim. I hope you don't mind but I cut-n-pasted this thread and moved it to my sandbox to study. I have downloadedthe current version. What's next? Buster Seven Talk 14:11, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Nice to see that you want to use Stiki. Well, before I can say anything, I have to know which operating system you use. If you use Windows, you just have to unzip the .zip file and you will find something like STiki_2015_07_02.jar Double click it and Stiki should open. You just have to login from the jar application and recent changes will automatically get's loaded there. There are four options for every edit- "vandalism", "good faith", "pass" and "innocent". I hope you understand what those options mean, try to make some edits and if you face any problem, I'm here. If you use Unix, you just have to paste the following command in the terminal: "java -jar STiki_exec_[date].jar". Note that if you use Windows but don't have java installed; you should install java first since Stiki will not work with out Java. You can download it from here. Hope it helps! Jim Carter 15:23, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Jim. I use Windows 7. How do I "un-zip the file"? I am basically illiterate when it comes to tech stuff. I remember now that months ago Coretheapple tried to help set me up and I just gave up in frustration. I see the Stiki file in my Downloads but thats about it. Buster Seven Talk 17:36, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@Buster7: Simply just right click on the zip file. You will see a option like, "Extract here", click it. Now you will find that the "STiki_2015_07_02.jar" file is present in your "download" folder. Cut-and-paste it to some other folder, double click on that "STiki_2015_07_02.jar" file. It should start, if it won't, then probably you don't have java installed. Download and install java from the above link I mentioned. And there you go, you will be able to use it. Let me know you need help. Jim Carter 07:44, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

CVUA

Hi Jim.

Can i please be one of your CVUA students. I have made over 200 mainspace edits, and it was suggested by another user that i enrol on this course. I am from the UK and am available mostly on weekends, but sometimes available on weekdays evenings. Many thanks. Class455fan1 (talk) 13:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry Class455fan1, I'll be unable to help you with CVUA at the moment. I'm very preoccupied with some time consuming works, I advice you to seek any of the two mentors other than me listed here. Thank you for understanding! Jim Carter 07:53, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Wow

Haven't you done some great things here since I last saw you! Thanks for the barnstar, undeserved, but kind. I've just read a bunch of your DYK's, great stuff, keep it up. All the best -- Samir 15:16, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

@Samir: Great things? Um, well I've made plenty of good great friends here. All of them are really nice people, like you, and building the encyclopaedia, some what as well as bonus. ;) What about you, you've been absent for quite a long time, I hope to see you back again with your full strength as you use to be in 2006. Best, Jim Carter 17:07, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of List of writers who have returned the Sahitya Akademi Award

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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. [108]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [109]
• 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. [110]
• 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. [111][112]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

A. J. Ayer revision - here is why

You didn't do anything wrong. I just wanted to explain the "unexplained edits." After I added an external link to an interview by the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, I realized that it was already there. I went back and removed my own unnecessary addition. No other Wikiperson I've added it to has had already had a link to their own interviews. Ziva11 (talk) 05:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

reversion, Taylor article

Hi, Jim. Ragityman, here.

Thank you for recognizing that they are good faith edits. I re-edited some of the material, thinking I had goofed. I didn't notice that you had reverted me until I looked at the history. They ARE good faith edits. I'm just trying to help. Please read what I wrote on the talk page of each article to understand my objectives. If, after you read what I wrote, you STILL feel that it needs to be reverted, have at it. I won't interfere.

Look through the history as well, though. The information about his first wife, her singing career, and her parents, were there THREE TIMES. I only deleted two of them. I WILL go back and add the ref link, if you haven't already fixed it.

If you intend to create articles for all the red links, that is MUCH preferred to just unlinking. I'm all for that. I checked, though, and those links were created in July 2014. That's pretty old. I'd suggest you leave them unlinked until you at least have a stub. Otherwise, some other gnome will come through, and unlink them.

I can see that you have put a lot of time and energy into this article. I don't do edit-wars. There's plenty of work to go around, without us undoing each other's work, and I won't waste my time. Just read what I wrote, and if you don't agree, revert any or all of what I have done. But I have to tell you. I know, NOBODY likes unsolicited advice. But, if you are really going to get any satisfaction out of your work here on this project, you have to let it go. The terms of use, and the fine print on every single edit page will tell you that you cannot own your work on Wikipedia — not in the way you can on a blog or a magazine. When you create an article HERE, you are agreeing to let everyone who wants to help, help. It will ALWAYS be your creation, and the history shows that you created it. It also shows up in your stats. But in many ways Wikipedia is unique: this is a crowd-sourced project. Once it goes live, it's fair game. If you can't live with that, there are lots of other venues. But if you give it a chance, and put a little time into understanding WP conventions and customs, you can one day see some of YOUR creations become featured articles, DYK, or any number of other nice things.

By the way, I'm sorry that you're having health problems. Ain't none of us gonna get out of this world alive, but I don't like it for people to suffer, especially if they are helping to build Wikipedia. Hang in there. Rags (talk) 06:39, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

OOPS! Boy, do I look stupid, now.

I won't presume to delete anything from YOUR talk page (i've already presumed far too much), but if you woud like to delete any or all of my remarks, above, feel free. Rags (talk) 06:56, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Resilient Barnstar

It was not until few moments back that I realized you are the cleanstart of RJC! You have come so far and improved so much - this is amazing! It is so great to see editors learn and improve from their mistakes. If my memory serves me right, you had a really rocky start and to become what you have - it must not have been an easy task. I highly appreciate you getting on the right track and all the good work you have been doing ever since. I am really happy for you and I hope you'll continue the awesome work that you have been doing... Thanks for all your efforts in improving the pedia' - you are a valuable editor and an asset to the project. Your edits are greatly valued :) Keep up the good work! Yash! 17:08, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

I wholeheartedly agree with Yash!. I watched the mentioned "rocky start" and wasn't sure if you would fulfill your potential. But fulfill it you have...in fact, you have FAR surpassed what any observer could have guessed. You have been extremely helpful and a pleasure to work with. You are in my prayers regarding your health. Buster Seven Talk 17:46, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you very much for the kind praises, friends! It would certainly not have been an easy task if I wouldn't have got kind people like you, Buster & Yash, by my side. This means a lot! :) Jim Carter 15:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!!!

This is the first time I wish to talk to the editor of the item after reading the edition of James Joyce edited by you. It really provides me a lot imformation, so thank you very much and you have done a great job!!. -Reader from China. Elizabeth Hao (talk) 13:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Bot

Your offer is very generous, but the FLC process is already being taken care of by another editor. There was a conversation here, which led to a commitment to create a new bot for FLC. It will be great for all of us, and I'm excited that it will take less time to do closures. While I'm here, I hope you feel better and am leaving a comment at WP:TFLS about a possible date for the list you submitted. Giants2008 (Talk) 16:10, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [113]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Brush pot

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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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. [114]
• 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. [115]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [116][117]
• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [118]
• 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. [119]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Hi Jim, thanks for nominating me as Editor of the Week. Your kindness is greatly appreciated! Zanhe (talk) 23:35, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

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. [120]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [121]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [122]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [123]
• 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. [124]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [125]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [126]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [127]
• 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. [128]

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 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [129]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

YGM

Hello, Jim Carter. Please check your email – you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template. — BethNaught (talk) 21:16, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

@BethNaught: replied. Sorry for my late response. Thanks! Jim Carter 12:32, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Strad's put it up. If you still want to write a co-nom, here's your chance! Many thanks, BethNaught (talk) 18:51, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Done. All the best, Jim Carter 16:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [130]
• 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

• 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 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [131]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [132]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
May 2016 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls or vandals! All the best Gavin / – SchroCat (talk) 13:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Merry Merry, Jim Carter! At this wonderful time of year, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! May you have a delightful 2016! MarnetteD|Talk 14:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks...

...for your kind message - it's greatly appreciated. Best wishes of the season back at you - keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:15, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Hello Jim Carter: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:23, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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It's me again

Hello again Jim. I've already expressed my thanks to you, but given the success of my RfA I felt I wanted to do so again, and also to wish you very happy holidays. Excuse the brevity, I've done a lot of writing recently BethNaught (talk) 20:42, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations! And what an impressive turnout! Now that you're an admin, try not to blow up the encyclopedia. Jim Carter 04:57, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

P. S. Seems like the water's fine, should I throw my hat now? Jim Carter 04:57, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

John Cocke

John Cocke did receive National Medal of Technology, how can I add source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by In Heels (talk • contribs) 05:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello In Heels, thank you for your note. It did seems like John Cocke received the honor, according to this source. I've added the source in the article to support the claim. In future, you should always provide a source to support contentious materials that you add. You can see this how-to guide about adding references. Best, Jim Carter 05:32, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I've some experience with blogging but I don't have much experience here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by In Heels (talk • contribs) 08:12, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. Don't forget to add your signature whenever you comment on talk pages. To add signature, just place 4 tildes after your comment, like this: ~~~~ Best, Jim Carter 08:48, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

	Merry Christmas!!
	Hello, I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!    –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 16:15, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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

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) 06:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Telegram

Hello, Jim Carter. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 09:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

-- samtar ^whisper 09:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Replied, Samtar. Jim Carter 09:44, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

	Seasons Greetings
	Christmas! Christmas, everywhere, on every talk page, I do dispair Seasons being greeted and Wikibreaks told, but still time for a little more editing, for being WP:BOLD! So go on, go forth and enjoy beyond concern Your Wiki will be waiting for when you return. Buster Seven Talk 14:10, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

This card was designed by User:Samtar

Thanks for the many EotW nominations and seconds over the years. Your efforts and involvement have kept the Award viable and respected. Buster Seven Talk 13:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Buster7: It is my responsibility to recognized the unrecognized heros. Jim Carter 15:13, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom clerk

I ask that I be considered to apply to be an Arbitration Committee clerk. CatcherStorm ^talk 10:15, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry CatcherStorm, I'm not yet a full clerk. You may ask a full clerk for consideration. Ping Liz, Kevin. Jim Carter 11:17, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

@Liz: - CatcherStorm ^talk 11:19, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays... WAKE UPP!

		Season's Greetings
		Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Hafspajen (talk) 11:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm wide awake, Hafspajen. Best wishes to you too. Jim Carter 13:12, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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) 23:58, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Edits to Horace Pippin

Jim,

I was contacted at OTRS by editor Calvin Kelso, who recently tried to improve Horace Pippin. I see that you sent a welcome message to the editor, but the edits were reverted with the brief comment "problematic edits".

While I have some guesses as to the issues, I hope you will agree that the edit summary doesn't provide a lot of guidance. The editor has actually done a fair amount of research about the subject of the article, and I think can make some great additions to the article, with some guidance.

Could I persuade you to be more expansive regarding your concerns about the edits, so that you and I can help the editor?

(I'll leave it up to you whether this discussion should continue here, or on the talk page of the article.)--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:12, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2016!

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Hi Jim

Hi Jim, nice to have met you at Delhi. As I told, Mr. Yann is deleting all the images uploaded by me. He strongly decided to delete all the images. Look into this matter, and I will send you the images and try to upload them with appropriate method. Ahmed Nisar (talk) 10:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

2016

	Happy New Year 2016!
	Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 23:05, 30 December 2015 (UTC)    –

Happy New Year Jim Carter!

Happy New Year!

Jim Carter,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Class455fan1 (talk to me) 18:59, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Jim Carter!

Happy New Year!

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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:49, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Jim!

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Eddy Award

UserVquakr has received his award. Stop bu to congratulate him. Thanks~ Buster Seven Talk 20:42, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, Jim. I'm just posting to let you know that Abhishek Bachchan filmography – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for February 5. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 00:32, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [133]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [134]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [135]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [136]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [137]
• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, 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. [138][139]

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. [140]
• 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. [141][142]
• 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. [143][144]
• 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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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [145]
• 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. [146]

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. [147]
• 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. [148]
• 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

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of मंदाकिनी की आवाज़

Hello Jim Carter,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged मंदाकिनी की आवाज़ for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Ueutyi (talk) 11:22, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon starts in 24 hours

Hello,

Thanks a lot for signing up as a participant in the Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon. We want to inform you that this edit-a-thon will start in next 24 hours or so (25 January 0:00 UTC). Here are a few handy tips:

• ⓵ Before starting you may check the rules of the edit-a-thon once again.
• ⓶ A resource section has been started, you may check it here.
• ⓷ Report the articles you are creating and expanding. If a local event page has been created on your Wikipedia you may report it there, or you may report it on the Meta Wiki event page too. This is how you should add an article— go to the "participants" section where you have added you name, and beside that add the articles like this: Example (talk) (Articles: Article1, Article2, Article3, Article4). You don't need to update both on Meta and on your Wikipedia, update at any one place you want.
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Tech News: 2016-04

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 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. [149][150]
• 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. [151]

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. [152]
• 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. [153]
• 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. [154]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [155]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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GI edit-a-thon 2016 updates

Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon 2016 has started, here are a few updates:

1. More than 80 Wikipedians have joined this edit-a-thon
2. More than 35 articles have been created/expanded already (this may not be the exact number, see "Ideas" section #1 below)
3. Infobox geographical indication has been started on English Wikipedia. You may help to create a similar template for on your Wikipedia.

Become GI edit-a-thon language ambassador

If you are an experienced editor, become an ambassador. Ambassadors are community representatives and they will review articles created/expanded during this edit-a-thon, and perform a few other administrative tasks.

Translate the Meta event page

Please translate this event page into your own language. Event page has been started in Bengali, English and Telugu, please start a similar page on your event page too.

Ideas

1. Please report the articles you are creating or expanding here (or on your local Wikipedia, if there is an event page here). It'll be difficult for us to count or review articles unless you report it.
2. These articles may also be created or expanded:

• Geographical indication (en:Geographical indication)
• List of Geographical Indications in India (en:List of Geographical Indications in India)
• Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 (en:Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999)

See more ideas and share your own here.

Media coverages

Please see a few media coverages on this event: The Times of India, IndiaEducationDiary, The Hindu.

Further updates

Please keep checking the Meta-Wiki event page for latest updates.

All the best and keep on creating and expanding articles. :) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:46, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

• 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. [156]
• 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. [157][158]
• 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. [159]

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. [160]
• 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. [161][162]
• 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. [163]
• 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. [164][165][166]
• 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. [167][168]
• 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

• 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 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [169]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

7 more days to create or expand articles

Hello, thanks a lot for participating in Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon. We understand that perhaps 7 days (i.e. 25 January to 31 January) were not sufficient to write on a topic like this, and/or you may need some more time to create/improve articles, so let's extend this event for a few more days. The edit-a-thon will continue till 10 February 2016 and that means you have got 7 more days to create or expand articles (or imprpove the articles you have already created or expanded).

Rules

The rules remain unchanged. Please report your created or expanded articles.

Joining now

Editors, who have not joined this edit-a-thon, may also join now.

Reviewing articles

Reviewing of all articles should be done before the end of this month (i.e. February 2016). We'll keep you informed. You may also check the event page for more details.

Prizes/Awards

A special barnstar will be given to all the participants who will create or expand articles during this edit-a-thon. The editors, who will perform exceptionally well, may be given an Indic Geographical Indication product or object. However, please note, nothing other than the barnstar has been finalized or guaranteed. We'll keep you informed.

Questions?

Feel free to ask question(s) here. -- User:Titodutta (talk) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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) 05:57, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome! :) Jim Carter 08:03, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

thanks for meeting!

Hey there! It was really nice to get to spend some time hearing you tell us (Winifred and me) about your work and your motivation over video chat a few days ago. You inspired me! Thanks again! KLove (WMF) (talk) 13:22, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words, Katy, it means a lot! Jim Carter 15:59, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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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. [170]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [171]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [172]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [173][174]
• 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

• 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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [175][176]
• 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. [177][178][179]

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Tech News: 2016-07

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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [180]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [181]

Problems

• A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [182][183]

Changes this week

• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [184][185]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [186]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [187]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

GI edit-a-thon updates

Thank you for participating in the Geographical Indications in India edit-a-thon. The review of the articles have started and we hope that it'll finish in next 2-3 weeks.

1. Report articles: Please report all the articles you have created or expanded during the edit-a-thon here before 22 February.
2. Become an ambassador You are also encouraged to become an ambassador and review the articles submitted by your community.

Prizes/Awards

Prizes/awards have not been finalized still. These are the current ideas:

1. A special barnstar will be given to all the participants who will create or expand articles during this edit-a-thon;
2. GI special postcards may be sent to successful participants;
3. A selected number of Book voucher/Flipkart/Amazon coupons will be given to the editors who performed exceptionally during this edit-a-thon.

We'll keep you informed.

Train-a-Wikipedian

We also want to inform you about the program Train-a-Wikipedian. It is an empowerment program where groom Wikipedians and help them to become better editors. This trainings will mostly be online, we may conduct offline workshops/sessions as well. More than 10 editors from 5 Indic-language Wikipedias have already joined the program. We request you to have a look and consider joining. -- Titodutta (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:01, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Staten Island boat graveyard

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08

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

• Phabricator has been upgraded. [188][189]

Problems

• There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [190][191]

Changes this week

• After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [192]

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 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2016-09

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

• Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [193][194]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [195][196]

Changes this week

• On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [197]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [198]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [199]

Meetings

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [200]
• 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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by MPJ-DK (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), and Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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