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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2016)

Hello, K6ka.

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

Helena Bergström

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Hoax • Three-martini lunch

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-12

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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10:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Editing Anna Camner page

Hello k6ka! I am trying to save the changes I made to the Anna Camner wiki page. I have added several reliable sources as links to Swedish publications that have reviewed the artist's work, and a link to a private art foundation which has given the artist an award, widely reviewed in Swedish media. I received a comment on my edits from someone here on Wiki, who deleted my changes, saying that my resources are not reliable. What more reliable sources than established Swedish paper and digital publications can I have? Thank you so much in advance for your kind help, Natalia Goldin Lundh Stocksund (talk) 17:05, 19 December 2016 (UTC)stocksund

Hi Stocksund. I haven't taken a look at the sources you have provided in question just yet, but if it helps, the guideline page on how to identify reliable sources can be found here. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:12, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
  • 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 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [6]
  • Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [7]

Problems

  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [8]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for reverting all that vandalism on my talk page. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 20:21, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas K6ka!!
Hi K6ka, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!

   –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 22:19, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

The 12 Days of Wikipedia
On the 12th day of Christmas Jimbo sent to me
12 BLPs
11 RFAs
10 New Users
9 Barn Stars
8 Admins Blocking
7 Socks Socking
6 Clerks Clerking
5. Check Users Checking
4 Over Sighters Hiding
3 GAs
2. Did You Knows
and an ARB in a pear tree.

-May your holiday season be filled with joy, laughter and good health. --Cameron11598 —Preceding undated comment added 00:50, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Ho Ho Ho!

You've been visited by the Christmas Trout.

Don't panic! Someone is just wishing you a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!

AlexEng(TALK) 05:11, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings!

Hello K6ka: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, -- Dane talk 08:18, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

Merry Christmas


Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 10:29, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:35, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!


—MRD2014 (Merry Christmas!) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

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16:34, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Hello K6ka: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, JustBerry (talk) 23:57, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2016)

World plate tectonics (click on map for more details)
Hello, K6ka.

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

Tectonics

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Helena Bergström • Hoax

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31.92.98.247

It's pretty clear he's just taking the piss, might want to hit him with a two or three. Assuming good faith is all well and good, but I'm pretty sure he's just playgrounding. HalfShadow 21:15, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

A recent that edit you have made.

Hello, you have recently corrected the change that i have made about 'Tyias Browning', the information that i have entered was strictly truth, i am made aware of this truth as i am a close friend of the subject and witnessed the grasps of religion hold him for some time now, i would ask that you reverse the changes you have made as many fans of football that are also christian may see the story of this man and his struggle and take inspiration. Yours Truly, TySuperfanTySuperFan (talk) 21:51, 31 December 2016 (UTC).

Hi TySuperFan. While you may be a close friend of the subject and may know them personally, on Wikipedia there is no way to properly verify this, as it is fairly easy to simply create an account and pretend to be someone (Much like Facebook and Twitter). Because it is easy for someone to do this, we require that all information added to our articles be properly sourced with a citation; claiming to be someone with credentials or claiming to know a subject personally isn't accepted as a source. This is especially important on articles about people who are alive; policy requires that everything added to such articles needs to be cited with a reliable source, and that any additions without a source can be removed right away. Unlike what many people think, Wikipedia isn't at the forefront of information and it only reports on information that has already been published elsewhere. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 21:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. epicgenius (talk) 00:22, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


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Unfortunately, a repeat of this didn't happen this year. Good luck on your RFA! I've supported it. epicgenius (talk) 00:22, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year K6ka!

Happy New Year!
Hello K6ka:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, JustBerry (talk) 00:24, 1 January 2017 (UTC)



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And, congrats in advance on the support votes! --JustBerry (talk) 00:24, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. -- Dane talk 02:20, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


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Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:19, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Class455 (talk | stand clear of the doors!) 18:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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And good luck with your RfA by the way! Class455 (talk | stand clear of the doors!) 18:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
—MRD2014 (Happy New Year!) 20:13, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 23:11, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Good luck with the RFA. I am sure you are keeping watch and know that I support you. Keep up your spirits; I think your nomination is on the right track. I know the content creation opposers have shown up but with any luck there will not be enough of them to sink your nomination. Many editors recognize your contributions and trustworthiness. I am sure you will be a great administrator. Donner60 (talk) 23:11, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2017)

Some of the Aeolian Islands
Hello, K6ka.

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

Aeolian Islands

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Tectonics • Helena Bergström

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Happy New Year K6ka!

Happy New Year!
K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and wonderful New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

--Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 12:30, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks to you.

Thanks for the cookies.Honourable and most respected,I am glad you welcomed me and now feeling wikipedia a great place because of some friendly interacting people.Since I a m new so have some queries.But on the top of list is modification of my user page.Like adding templates and boxes etc.I am pretty sure that you will not refuse me and help me like your brother. Sultan turk 00:54, 3 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faizan shahbaz mughal (talk • contribs)

Alteration of user groups

I have removed your membership in the "autpatrolled" group. This is not because you have misused it by creating problematic pages but rather because the admin who granted it seems to have done so out some misguided belief that you needed it when you clearly do not. I have noted as much in your log and hope you understand that this is not a comment on your work here, it simply appears that an admin granted you a user right that you did not need and should not have had. This will have no effect whatsoever on your ability to edit or create new pages. Beeblebrox (talk) 07:01, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

hi

im sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.33.67.127 (talk) 20:24, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Please create more information about this person

Hsueh Hsuan-yi..... HUI 99 (talk) 04:26, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Hang in there... you'll make it GABgab 15:37, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Wanted to add here. Impressed by your composure through the whole crazy week. Well done, and am absolutely confident you'll get through. Best. Lourdes 15:41, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For surviving this week and for all your help on ClueBot NG's talk page :) 5 albert square (talk) 19:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Misunderstandings

When people go that far to egregiously misunderstand you, as if they're looking for any reason to doubt you, it's best just to ignore them; not write a double paragraph and give them more fodder to work with. --v/r - TP 20:28, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

You're an admin! Congratulations!

ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 20:41, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your successful RfA. I expect you'll make productive use of your new rights! Dustin (talk) 20:42, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Congrats on passing your RFA. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 20:51, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

welcome to the mop corps

Congratulations on your successful RFA!
Since I have nothing better to do than put a big blue box on your talk page, allow me to use it to impart the words of wisdom
I received from the puppy after my RFA passed – almost ten long, sordid, why-didn't-I-find-a-better-hobby years ago:
  1. Remember you will always protect the wrong version. (I got nothing here. It's inevitable.)
  2. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. Without exception, you will pick the wrong one to do. (See #5.)
  3. Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. (You'll attract many more of those now, because mop. They must like to drink the dirty water in the bucket.)
  4. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block, because really, what else is there to live for?
  5. Remember that when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology.
    It will not be a personal attack because we are admins and, therefore, we are all rouge anyway.
  6. Finally, remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able.


Katietalk 21:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
DISCLAIMER: This humor does not reflect the official humor of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or Jimbo Wales, because if it did, it would be much, much better.
All rights released under GFDL.

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
For your first few admin actions, including blocking a compromised account (a somewhat subtle observation). Best wishes to you on your hop-accompanied journey! JustBerry (talk) 21:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
Congrats for passing your RFA. I'm sure you'll do well as an admin. Here's a special recognition for your hard work. epicgenius (talk) 21:28, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Gavin Rossdale

Hi! You semi-protected Gavin Rossdale - thank you! - but could you look at MidnightSilver (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who is a confirmed user and not affected by the protection and is reverting all attempts to stop their WP:BLP vandalism? Thanks! ◦ Trey Maturin 21:03, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. ◦ Trey Maturin 21:11, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey Trey Maturin. Thanks for the heads-up, it's my first day on the job as an admin and already I had to protect a page and block someone! *phew* —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 21:16, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
In at the deep end for you! Good luck with the mop! ◦ Trey Maturin 21:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Tackling reverts quicker than ever--nice work! JustBerry (talk) 00:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who participated in my RFA, whether you supported or opposed me, or remained neutral. I don't have the time to mash the "thank" button until it breaks, so I'll thank everyone with this message. Godspeed to all of you! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 21:00, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Regarding Ridiculous

Was about to revert my edit. Just a little joke. Kudos for beating me to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.87.102.223 (talk) 19:28, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2017)

Professional audio – pictured is a portable setup of various live audio production and recording equipment
Hello, K6ka.

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

Professional audio

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Aeolian Islands • Tectonics

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Spam Usernames

Hello. Some believe that the ACB template is too harsh for single offenses. Most people just don't understand the purpose of Wikipedia and they misunderstand. For those people, the {{uw-softerblock}} template exists to say the same thing in a nicer way.--v/r - TP 04:23, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Congratulations on becoming an admin! Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 13:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

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Problems

  • Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [13]

Changes this week

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

63.237.124.2

Hi K6ka,

Looking at this IP's block log, it looks like the previous block was for 2 years and you have blocked it for 3 months, (and the blocks up to that point had escalated fairly consistently). just wondering if you meant 3 years instead, but if not, then don't worry about changing it. Thanks! 172.58.41.48 (talk) 20:05, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Your RfA was successful

Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the Administrators' guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch on my talk page. WJBscribe (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Congrats..The admins' T-shirt for you. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 20:42, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I deleted your request

I'm sorry for deleting your request68.224.116.208 (talk) 03:21, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

No worries. You actually didn't delete my request (I didn't make any requests), but someone else's. Good to see everything's been restored now. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Email

I sent you a Signpost-related email. Thanks, Go Phightins! 04:06, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail

I sent you a couple of emails on the 9th, a few minutes before 11PM (UTC). davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 03:09, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

@Davidwr: Oh dear, I've been getting an awful lot of emails recently, and it looks like even Gmail can't handle the lot. I'll have a look. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:16, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the email reply. I've replied. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 04:44, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congrats! You did well despite one of the meanest and nastiest oppose votes I've seen for a long time. Welcome on board :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:55, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Well done. Have a read (and smile) at Wikipedia:What you won't learn in new admin school Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:36, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Good luck , and thanks for offering to step up. Govindaharihari (talk) 12:56, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Belated congratulations. I predicted the opposes but luckily they were not enough to bring down the RfA. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:42, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

IP questions

Are you ignoring all IPs on your talkpage? 80.132.85.187 (talk) 19:20, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

That's a fairly broad (and incorrect) statement to make. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:36, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
It was a question not a statement. Obviously Re:AIV. 80.132.92.27 (talk) 17:05, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

AIV

Re: 184.185.133.181. every single edit for over a year was vandalism. Was warned by ClueBot. Is most likely a school. What did I miss ? 80.132.88.108 (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Of course they keep going. Cluebot is doing a good job, though. 80.132.92.27 (talk) 18:17, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Award

A tesseract for you.
Hope you can play monopoly with it. It has 8 cubical faces. Brynda1231 [Talk Page] [Contribs] 14:53, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
I thought it was 800 cubical faces, i'm unsure if i'm right or wrong? ~ Junior5a (Talk) Cont 23:10, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2017)

Some of the human organs
Hello, K6ka.

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

Organ (anatomy)

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Professional audio • Aeolian Islands

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Tech News: 2017-03

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

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Problems

  • video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [15]

Changes this week

  • There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [16]
  • When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [17]
  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [18]
  • You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [19]
  • The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [20]
  • Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [21]
  • When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [22]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

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deleting content about myself

Hi - I'm trying to delete information on a page that was created about me...how do I do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolajriches (talk • contribs) 03:15, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

@Nicolajriches: I came across your removal of content and have left a message on your talk page with some suggestions. Triptothecottage (talk) 03:24, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Hi Nicolajriches. Articles on Wikipedia aren't "owned" by anyone, so no one person has complete or total control about what happens to that article; this includes the subject of the article itself, if the article is about a living person. That being said, if you have concerns about the article, please see this page for guidance. In all cases you may post your concerns on the article's talk page for other editors to see and comment on. If there are any unsourced material on your article, you are free to remove it since our policy on articles about living persons requires that everything be attributed to a reliable source; however, you can't simply remove or delete an article just because you no longer want it there. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:25, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2017)

Ghanaian nationalists celebrating the 50th anniversary of national independence in 2007
Hello, K6ka.

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

African nationalism

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Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Professional audio

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2016

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 9, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2016
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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-01

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Our goal to add filters to the Recent Changes page is going well. We will contact soon some communities - the ones where ORES is available as a Beta feature - to plan a possible trial.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

  • Revert notifications were not received on Wikidata. This is now fixed. [23]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

  • We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is welcome.
  • Communities which have allowed Flow trials with manual enabling (Hebrew Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia) will be asked if they want to switch to Beta feature activation. [24]
  • A small maintenance on Flow database will happen during week 4. No impact is expected. [25]

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18:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

SnilyDoe name change

Hi,

I requested for a name change from SnilyDoe to jayapradhavr. I got an email that you have looked at my request, and that I need to followup. Please tell me what needs to be done. Thank you.

Regards, Jayapradha — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.185.168.27 (talk) 19:07, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

SnilyDoe, your request was closed on 11 August 2015 because you failed to respond to it in time. In addition, it would appear that the username you requested was created almost a year after your request was closed, so your request unfortunately cannot be processed. If you still wish to have your username changed, please log in and file a new request. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:12, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [26]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

User:The Impetus

You may want to disable talkpage access for this user that you blocked. 172.56.39.190 (talk) 02:01, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

It would seem Acroterion got there first. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:35, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

I appreciate your diligence in monitoring vandalism on Wikipedia. I am a professor at Xavier University of Louisiana and am teaching two courses with Wikipedia. In one of these courses, Freshman Seminar, the students are testing boundaries and decided to contribute fake information to Angela Davis's page in attempt to prove their point that Wikipedia isn't reliable. I am exceptionally grateful for your work and the work of the community members like yourself you immediately corrected their misconception and I am happy to report that buy in for the utility of Wikipedia is already increasing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mosterbur (talk • contribs) 19:52, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2017)

Hello, K6ka.

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

Nvidia Shadowplay

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: African nationalism • Organ (anatomy)

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Tech News: 2017-05

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

Recent changes

  • The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [27]

Changes this week

  • ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [28]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [29][30]
  • The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

User:RobertPelloni

Hi K6ka. You did a username change for RobertPelloni per his request. Do you think WP:REALNAME is an issue here? The user states he is the same "Robert Pelloni" who designed Bob's Game. He also has a tendency to edit articles he as a COI with. So, it might not be too long before some else notices the similarity between username and real person and tags as a possible problem. Is there a way for Pelloni to verify he is who he says he is to avoid any misunderstandings? Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: WP:REALNAME suggests having the user email info-en@wikimedia.org; that would probably be the best course of action. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:02, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for taking a look. I will post that on the user's talk page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:49, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
  • Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
  • The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

174.126.145.186

I "block conflicted" with you on this IP. Feel free to reverse mine if you feel my duration was too harsh. -- ferret (talk) 23:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

@Ferret: Apparently "block conflict" is a word now (Should write WP:Block conflict someday). </joke> I don't mind, actually; one month will keep the user at bay long enough for them to get a new hobby. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you! You can hold me to that promise at WP:Rename too! *thumbs up* - Happy editing

Craig (talk) 03:57, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Username advice

Hi, I have a question regarding a similar username and don't really know much about username policy so thought I would ask here for some advice as I saw you edit the UAA page. I noticed Kosack1 appear today and wondered if there is any action that can be taken for this username? The user has made two edits, one of which was to Buzz Aldrin, which was reverted, a page I have reverted some vandalism on in the last few weeks (not sure if it's related). Thanks. Kosack (talk) 13:20, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

@Kosack: I've indeffed the user for attempted impersonation given their vandalism; they may have known you through your reverts on the Buzz Aldrin article. Some form of attempted impersonation did occur to me back in the days when I was still an immature but prolific and engaged vandal fighter in 2014... see this ANI thread for details. I was advised to just leave a note at UAA explaining the impersonation; if it's blatantly obvious that they're trying to mock you, I'm sure it'll be blocked right away. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 14:44, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your help. Kosack (talk) 15:01, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2017)

A high school in Malaysia
Hello, K6ka.

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

Secondary school

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Nvidia Shadowplay • African nationalism

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New language

I live in Canada but I'm a member of small national minority from Serbia and Croatia in Europe called Rusnaci (Rusyns, Ruthenians).

Our language is Slavic, but pretty different from other Rusyn variants of language. Linguists made special name for my nativa language: južnorusinski language (or: južnoruski language). My first logical duty could be to put my native language to the group of languages (left, bottom with title "Languages" ) and after that start with /Main_Page in južnorusinski language where I can put a lot of info and materials about:

južnorusinski language

južnorusinski literature (poetry, novel, short story) 

 -"-  mass media ( newspapers, magazines, annual books;  TV, Radio, Internet websites...)

 -"-   education: preschool, school, high school, Department of južnorusinski language and literature at University of Novi Sad, Serbia

  -"- GCI church (Greek Catholic church) - religious life

 -"-   Theater 

      Topographical use of južnorusinski language etc

I need /Main_page to open for start.

Can you help mi to do this? With advice, or tell me where I can find instruction how I can register a NEW language on Wikipedia G. Koljesar 02:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)Keresturec — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keresturec (talk • contribs)

Hi Keresturec. New language wikis are handled over at Meta; see this page on how to propose a new language wiki. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:54, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

  • The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [31]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [32]
  • There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [33]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [34][35]

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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

GettyResearchInstitute

Hi k6ka. I just wanted to let you know that I'm impressed with how you handled User talk:GettyResearchInstitute by using discussion rather than a block. I think this is a model of how username policy violations from good-faith editors should be handled. Mz7 (talk) 22:37, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2017)

The Sun and planets of the Solar System (distances not to scale) are examples of astronomical objects.
Hello, K6ka.

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

Astronomical object

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Secondary school • Nvidia Shadowplay

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Tech News: 2017-07

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

  • EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [36]

Problems

  • The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [37]
  • Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [38]

Changes this week

  • The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [39]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [40]
  • The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-02

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Flow satisfaction survey’s results are available. The survey provides useful data on what users like and don't like about Flow. This information will be helpful in discussions recently begun as part of the editing team's Annual Plan process. As the editing team investigates its priorities for next fiscal year (which begins in July), many ideas for improvements have been suggested, including projects to research the future of wiki discussions and to fix Flow's shortcomings.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

  • Flow notifications category in the Notification Preferences page will be changed from (in English) "Flow" to "Flow Discussion". Messages that have to be updated on TranslateWiki are echo-category-title-flow-discussion and echo-pref-tooltip-flow-discussion. [41]
  • Mentions were not recognized when more than one section is added during the same edit or when an new section was added and a change (new message or deletion) was done in another section. This is now solved. [42]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

  • Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. [43]
  • We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is still welcome, the conversation will be closed on February 28th.

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09:40, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2017)

Växjö surrounded by lakes, as seen from an airplane
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Växjö

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Astronomical object • Secondary school

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the February 2017 GOCE newsletter. The Guild has been busy since the last time your coordinators sent out a newsletter!

>>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<<

December blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 December; the themes were Requests and eliminating the November 2015 backlog. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine editors completed 29 articles. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all who took part.

January drive: The January drive was a great success. We set out to remove December 2015 and January and February 2016 from our backlog (195 articles), and by 22 January we had cleared those and had to add a third month (March 2016). At the end of the month we had almost cleared out that last month as well, for a total of 180 old articles removed from the backlog! We reduced our overall backlog by 337 articles, to a low of 1,465 articles, our second-lowest month-end total ever. We also handled all of the remaining requests from December 2016. Officially, 19 editors recorded 337 copy edits (over 679,000 words).

February blitz: The one-week February blitz, focusing on the remaining March 2016 backlog and January 2017 requests, ran from 12 to 18 February. Seven editors reduced the total in those two backlog segments from 32 to 10 articles, leaving us in good shape going in to the March drive.

Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 stepped aside as lead coordinator, remaining as coordinator and allowing Miniapolis to be the lead, and Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators. Thanks to all who participated!

Speaking of coordinators, congratulations to Jonesey95 on their well-deserved induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame. The plaque reads: "For dedicated service as lead coordinator (2014, 1 July – 31 December 2015 and all of 2016) and coordinator (1 January – 30 June 2015 and 1 January – 30 June 2017); exceptional template-creation work (considerably streamlining project administration), and their emphasis on keeping the GOCE a drama-free zone."

Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

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Tech News: 2017-08

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

Changes this week

  • Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [45]
  • There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [46]
  • OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [47]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2017)

Parallel goods traders queuing outside Sheung Shui Station in Hong Kong
Hello, K6ka.

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

Grey market

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Växjö • Astronomical object

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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On this day, 7 years ago...

Hey, K6ka. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Mz7 (talk) 04:22, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

  • On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [48]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [49]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [50]
  • The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [51][52]

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19:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2017

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13
Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
  • Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
  • A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:14, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
  • European Union Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
  • Japan 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
  • South Australia Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #17653

A user you have blocked has opened UTRS appeal #17653 on the Unblock Ticket Request System. The reviewing administrator, Just Chilling (talk · contribs), has requested your input:

yohohn (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Time: Mar 01, 2017 20:31:06

Message: How do you feel about offering them the 'second chance'?

Notes:

  • If you do not have an account on UTRS, you may create one at the administrator registration interface.
  • Alternatively, you can respond here and indicate whether you are supportive or opposed to an unblock for this user and your rationale, if applicable.

--UTRSBot (talk) 20:31, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

@Just Chilling: Greetings! Just so you are aware, I am not the original blocking admin for this user; you'll want Bbb23 instead. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:49, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Oops! That will teach me to trust the technology! Thx! Just Chilling (talk) 00:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2017)

Hello, K6ka.

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

Plastic explosive

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Grey market • Växjö

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2017-10

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 search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [53]
  • When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [54]

Problems

  • Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [55]
  • Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [56]

Changes this week

  • The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [57]
  • The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [58]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

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Clarification

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User talk:86.141.246.169

You blocked this user a few hours ago for going on a blanking rampage; they've since reverted your and my attempts to keep the shared IP template on their talk. I can't go to AIV because, since they're already blocked, the bot will automatically wipe my report. (For that matter, I can't find a policy or guideline on whether or not IP users can remove these notices.) CityOfSilver 18:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@CityOfSilver: WP:REMOVED says that these notices can't be removed; however, restoring these notices is also not a listed exception of 3RR. I initially revoked their talk page access, then thought twice and decided to restore it again. Since they're continuing their disruptive edits, I've decided to pull it for now. Requests to remove talk page access from a blocked user can be submitted to WP:ANI. Thanks for letting me know about this. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple

I do not know how to reply to your answer here, but my answer is yes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.120.213.134 (talk) 17:51, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, "Yes" to what? To respond to a question there, please log in to your account, click on the "Edit" button next to the title of your request, and then add your comments at the bottom of the editing window. The requests page works similarly to a talk page.
Since I don't know who you are (As you did not log in), nor do I even know what request you are referring to, I cannot do anything else at this time. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

WP:AIV

Can you help me to remove my ip for. This list? It;$ protected. 83.31.59.25 (talk) 22:15, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

I see that you have already filed a report at Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports#83.31.59.25 and an administrator has responded to your comments there. I'd have to ask the same question. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:19, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2017)

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Tech News: 2017-11

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 will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [59][60]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [61]
  • CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [62][63]

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2017)

The long-legged buzzard is an example of a bird of prey.
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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-03

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

We have focused all our efforts on the New filters for edit review. You will discover these filters on your wiki soon (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Future changes

  • We will release the ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽ beta option on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias March 28. This beta option adds powerful filtering and other tools as well as an improved filtering interface to the Recent Changes page (and Recent Changes Linked). To try out these new tools on these two wikis, go to the Beta tab of the Preferences page (after the 28th) and select ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽.
  • In the weeks following the initial release to Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias, the New Filters for Edit Review beta will go out to the following list of Wikipedias in waves (schedule to be done):
    • Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech Wikipedias and Wikidata. [64]
    • English Wikipedia. [65]
    • All other wikis. [66]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • <math> <hiero> <score> <syntax> <source> <ref> shortcuts are now working on Flow visual editing mode. Type a shortcut in the visual editing mode will open the control panel for the chosen option. [67]
    • Concerning <ref>, footnotes will be automatically included at the end of the message, unless if they are displayed elsewhere in the message by the appropriate template.
  • Flow has been removed from Metawiki. [68]

Future changes

  • The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It will be a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [69]

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Tech News: 2017-12

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 Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [70]
  • DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [71]
  • You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [72]
  • The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [73]
  • The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [74]

Problems

  • On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [75]

Changes this week

  • When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [76]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

User:2A00:1028:83BE:4392:E1F3:E4A8:FC01:A324

I think 2A00:1028:83BE:4392:E1F3:E4A8:FC01:A324 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) need his talk page access privileges reconsidered. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 01:06, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

@Jim1138: KTC has reconsidered, and they have reconsidered well. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:13, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2017)

The Czech philosopher Radovan Richta (1924–1983) originated the theory of technological evolution.
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