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2020 articles

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Nice work on the 2020 election articles, don't want to seem like I am trying to infringe on your work, I created Pennsylvania and South Carolina because of my connections to those two states. Nice work on the Marriott strike article as well!--MainlyTwelve (talk) 17:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@MainlyTwelve: Thanks, I appreciate your help. Thank you for adding the Elections WikiProject tags and expanded many of the articles. Your creation of the Pennsylviania and South Carolina articles looks good. MarkZusab (talk) 19:21, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Knight Benson

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Hello and thank you for the article Mary Knight Benson. This will certainly assist people who search for her on Wikipedia.Hu Nhu (talk) 22:05, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hu Nhu: Of course, I was glad to help you and add it to the page Mary Benson. If you have any other questions or concerns about Wikipedia, feel free to ask. MarkZusab (talk) 22:23, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Elektron redirects

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Space Pioneer Award
Thank you for building the Elektron redirects! Neopeius (talk) 02:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Russell the Sheep moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Russell the Sheep, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. Furthermore, please ensure that you do not closely paraphrase sources without attribution, as was done here. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DannyS712 (talk) 02:10, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: Would you mind telling me how the article could be improved? It contains no unreferenced information and uses several reliable and independent sources. Additionally the "close paraphrasing" without attribution you show is actually quotations within the article under the Reception section. (e.g. The New York Times stated ".......").MarkZusab (talk) 02:22, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@MarkZusab: it is referenced, but it also appears that you may have copied or paraphrased the content form a different source that you didn't cite (Barnes and Noble). Furthermore, the sources don't seem to demonstrate that the book is notable, but rather that it just recieved reviews. I suggest either citing the B&N page or rephrasing the reception section, as well as filling in the plot. --DannyS712 (talk) 02:29, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@DannyS712:I did not use the Barnes and Noble website while creating this article and I'm having a hard time finding any possible sentences that could have been close paraphrased in the article. Additionally, per WP:NBOOK, a book is notable if "The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself. This can include published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries, bestseller lists, and reviews. This excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book." MarkZusab (talk) 02:47, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Then I apologize. I shouldn't have moved it, and you are welcome to move it back. Sorry --DannyS712 (talk) 02:51, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@DannyS712:Thank you for apologizing and understanding. I was unable to move the page back to the same title, but I moved it to Russell the Sheep (book) and requested a technical move at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. MarkZusab (talk) 03:02, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Opinion polling for the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries

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Hello, MarkZusab,

Thanks for creating Opinion polling for the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Please add your references.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Boleyn}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

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Boleyn (→talk) 08:07, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Boleyn: The page does actually have references, listed in the tables under the "poll source" column. This style of citations is used in similar articles with opinion polling results, such as Opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Another user has already removed the unreferenced tag. However, if you think that the citation style of using footnotes is better across polling articles, I would be happy to change them. MarkZusab (talk) 15:46, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, sorry, MarkZusab. Personally I didn't spot them (probably just stupidity on my part) but other readers may also find it difficult. I don't know what the guidelines are on this way of referencing, but have no big objections. Boleyn (talk) 20:13, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Marriott Hotels strike

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Hi, I noticed that you removed the CSD tag because you rewrote the text. In the future, please don't remove the CSD tag because, at minimum, administrators need to delete the revisions that hold the infringing text. I have added the copyvio tag back so that those revisions can be removed. Thank you. Citrivescence (talk) 13:37, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #346

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
    • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
    • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
    • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

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


Tech News: 2019-02

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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.

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

  • RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]
  • Advanced item codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
  • Advanced item On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

  • Advanced item In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

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18:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #347

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
    • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
    • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
    • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
  • Development
    • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
    • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
    • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
    • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
    • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
    • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
    • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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


Tech News: 2019-03

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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

  • You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [5][6]
  • You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
  • Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [7][8]
  • Advanced item Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [9]

Problems

  • When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

  • You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
  • Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [11]
  • Advanced item The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:55, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Wojak

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i am writing to ask why you undid my repair of a word phrase from "an conservative" to (the correct) "a conservative"? it appears you have introduced an error into Wikipedia, so i will leave it to you to undo your mistake. :^) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.44.162.140 (talk) 17:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

74.44.162.140, I apologize as I made that revert in error. I was under the impression that you were changing "a" to "an" and not the other way around. I have changed it back to your addition and one once again am sincerely sorry for my mistake. I will ensure this does not happen again. MarkZusab (talk) 21:44, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Dermophis donaldtrumpi

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On 17 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dermophis donaldtrumpi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the man who named a nearly blind amphibian Dermophis donaldtrumpi did so to raise awareness of Donald Trump's policies on climate change? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dermophis donaldtrumpi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dermophis donaldtrumpi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:02, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #348

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
    • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
    • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
    • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
    • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
    • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
    • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
    • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
    • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
    • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
    • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

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Tech News: 2019-04

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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.

Tech News

  • Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [12]

Recent changes

  • The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
  • https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

  • When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [13]
  • MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [14][15]
  • Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [17]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

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20:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Donald Trum listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Donald Trum. Since you had some involvement with the Donald Trum redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. MB 18:43, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dnald Trump listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dnald Trump. Since you had some involvement with the Dnald Trump redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. MB 18:48, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nameless

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I appreciate your catching my error with responsibility, but I really don't like quotation marks around the names of my citations. Is there some reason they are necessary, with a simple name? deisenbe (talk) 02:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Deisenbe: They are not necessary, but were merely added as a side effect of using the visual editor for part of my edit. I have removed them and personally don't see a need for them. This was the first time it was brought to my attention.
According to Help:Referencing_for_beginners#Refname_rules, "Quotation marks are optional if the only characters used are letters A–Z, a–z, digits 0–9, and the symbols !$%&()*,-.:;<@[]^_`{|}~. That is, all printable ASCII characters except #"'/=>?\". MarkZusab (talk) 02:49, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'm still working on categories and links to the article. deisenbe (talk) 02:52, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's another thing I would like you to not do

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I post citations like this (look at the code):

Lee, Benjamin (January 25, 2019). "'Secrets will eat you up' – inside the shocking Michael Jackson documentary". The Guardian.

Collapsing makes them less legible, therefore less useful, and I cannot see what is gained by collapsing them, except to make the code look prettier. deisenbe (talk) 14:57, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize, as I did not intentionally mean to collapse citations. It was unintentionally done by the Wikipedia:VisualEditor. I will try to ensure that this doesn't occur in the future. MarkZusab (talk) 15:48, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be of any assistance with this?

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14396

It's pretty important, at least to me. deisenbe (talk) 16:00, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Re-assessment of Alibaba Group

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Hey Mark! I was wondering if you can re-assess Alibaba Group on behalf of WikiProject Internet. I had massively reorganized and improve the article, and I was wondering if the article is improved enough so it can advance to B status from its C status. Thank you! - Josephua (talk) 23:57, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Normal Google Search Brings the Talk Page and not Article Page (Sam Enrico Williams)

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MarkZusabWhen I do normal google search, it is the talk page that appears and not the article page. Kindly help.Christopher Odhiambo (talk) 01:34, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DAB banners

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Hi, it's generally preferable not to create talk pages if all they are going to contain is the {{WP Disambiguation}} banner. You can see the template's documentation for the reason why. There's no need to worry about any pages you've already created. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 13:38, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Uanfala, thank you for notifying me about this and I will avoid doing it in the future. MarkZusab (talk) 16:41, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #349

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Started development on Shape Expressions
    • Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
    • Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
    • Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
    • Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

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


Tech News: 2019-05

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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

Problems

  • When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [18]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2019

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This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 1 • January 2019

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

Copying drafts

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Hi could you please explain why you’ve copied this draft directly into main space with no attribution? Praxidicae (talk) 20:33, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

and here.Praxidicae (talk) 20:41, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Praxidicae, you can also see my reply below. The topic of the article and many of the references were the same, but it was not directly copied into the mainspace. I realize that it would have been better to move the original draft and then improve it from there, instead of creating a new article. Additionally, I am struggling to see what you are trying to point out with The Chronicles of Kale article. I am unaware of there ever being a draft of the same topic, and could not find one when I looked. Someone once created Draft:Aya Knight on an unnotable author, but that is about a separate topic and doesn't share anything except a list of books in the The Chronicles of Kale series. MarkZusab (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can you explain the 3 others? As far as Element AI, it is nearly word for word the same in the first iteration. Praxidicae (talk) 16:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean by "the 3 others"? MarkZusab (talk) 16:36, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
New Jersey Hills Media Group - created by you December 2018, Draft created by HamishMc (a declared paid editor) a few months prior, Draft:Under a Red Sky created Nov 2018, Under a Red Sky - created by you Jan 2019. Africa Policy Institute by you, since deleted, created December 2018 is word for word the same as Draft:Africa Policy Institute by an udeclared paid editor, Munenejohn in November 2018. Draft:Cristin Claas created in 2018, Cristin Claas by you in Dec 2018, which ironically was also heavily edited by it's original creator. Draft created November 15 2018, your mainspace article Nov 20, 2018. I can keep going, if you'd like. While no one person owns content on Wikipedia, it's a really unbecoming to take someone else's work in progress without notice or attribution and even more concerning given some of this looks like it's for the original creator to avoid ACPERM. This still leaves my original question open. Praxidicae (talk) 17:25, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
For New Jersey Hills Media Group, Under a Red Sky, Roberto McCausland Dieppa, and Cristin Claas, all of the articles existed previously existed in draft space. I created the articles in the mainspace independently, finding sources and writing the articles from scratch. The draft articles had been either poorly/not referenced, showed unclear notability and or had been denied at AfC. You can see that the articles I had created were referenced, asserted notability, and were significantly more structured that the denied drafts.
For Africa Policy Institute, the original drafts were overly promotional, spam-like, under referenced, and had unclear notability. I created a three-sentence referenced stub as an article, believing that it would serve better than an draft continuously getting denied and spammed at AfC. The full text of the article was specifically "The Africa Policy Institute (API) is a non-governmental pan-African think tank specializing in security, governance, and foreign policy. It is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya and maintains networks across Africa. The current president of the Africa Policy Institute is Peter Kagwanja."
I had no intention to help users avoid WP:ACPERM and I was unaware of the undeclared status of any editors. I had the mindset if an article was fit to be on Wikipedia, it was better for someone to create an article than see it be continuously denied at AfC. While creating an article about the same thing a draft is about and not notifying the creator of the draft was inapt and frowned upon, it is was not done maliciously and I will refrain from doing it in the future. I apologize for any disturbance that my actions may have caused. MarkZusab (talk) 18:10, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Did you use my work without attribution?

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Three days ago you created the Element AI page, and it is remarkably similar to a draft I submitted 6 weeks ago. In fact, much of the language is the same, and you even used the same sources for stories that were published in many separate outlets. Did you use my work without attribution? If so, why? Was it inadvertent?

Sorry, I see another editor has already raised this. I'm still curious Phend020 (talk) 20:43, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Information icon Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Element AI a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Element AI. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 20:52, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Phend020, when I created the article, I did use some of the sources referenced in your draft, along with other ones that I found. The topic of the article and many of the references were the same, but it was not directly copied into the mainspace. I did not intentionally mean to copy your work and I realize that it would have been better to move your original draft and then improve it from there, instead of creating a new article. However, you do have a severe conflict of interest with the article due to being employed by the company. MarkZusab (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

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* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:50, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

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Proposed deletion of Early Works: A Collection of Poetry

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Notice

The article Early Works: A Collection of Poetry has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

(PROD corrected from User: Omaharodeo) Does not meet WP:N. Book was self-published and received no significant coverage. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dylan Geick (2nd nomination).

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Closeapple (talk) 12:12, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I have created Early Works: A Collection of Poetry as a redirect and merged it into Dylan Geick. MarkZusab (talk) 16:38, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

added Enterprisey • JJMC89
readded BorgQueen
removed Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes

removedEnterprisey

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
  • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.
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Tech News: 2019-06

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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.

Changes later this week

  • It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [19]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).

Meetings

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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #350

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

My profile wikipedia

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Hi Mark,

Thank you for making my wikipedia page...I can help you for editing the page and Ill now sent you my clubs through my carrer

BC Osjecki Sokol 2010-2013 BC Vrijednosnice Osijek 2014 BC Zagreb 2014-2016 BC Hermes Analitica 2016 half season BC Gorica 2017 half season BC Alkar Sinj 2017 half season BC Borovo 2018 half season And now KK Vardar 2018-2019 season

Hope you will see my message and edit the page...

Greeting,Dino Radoš Dino rados 12 (talk) 21:34, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please add me on facebook or instagram that we can talk about this 😀 Dino rados 12 (talk) 21:47, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dino rados 12: I created the article Dino Radoš on December 15, 2018 after seeing a new editor (you) ask for it to be created at the WP:Teahouse (here). It appears that you are the subject of the article and have a severe conflict of interest with the article. You should read WP:COI and if you want to make changes to the page, post an edit request with reliable sources on the article's talk page. Additionally, the article is not your "profile" or "your page" and no one "owns" a Wikipedia article. I will not engage in any off-Wikipedia contact with you. Please ask at the Teahouse if you have any general Wikipedia questions. MarkZusab (talk) 00:17, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-07

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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

  • You can use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).

Meetings

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18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #351

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
    • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
    • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
    • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
    • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
    • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
    • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
    • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
    • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
    • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
    • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

Nomination of Astral Chain for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Astral Chain is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astral Chain until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. —teb728 t c 11:56, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Two Kings (book series)

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If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Two Kings (book series), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. MrOllie (talk) 17:44, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #352

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

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


Tech News: 2019-08

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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

  • When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [20]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [21]

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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Moves to draftspace

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Hello. I appreciate your efforts in moving undersourced articles to draftspace so far. If it helps, scripts like User:Evad37/MoveToDraft will help ease the process. Jalen D. Folf (talk) 23:47, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JalenFolf: Thank you. I appreciate your advice and will look into using a script in the future. MarkZusab (talk) 00:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Talk to us about talking

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" icon depicting two speech Bubbles"

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

  1. First, sign up your group here.
  2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
  3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
    1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
    2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
    3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
    4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
    5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
  4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

article stubs

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Though Heidi Blanck is unquestionably notable a sa member of the NAS, it is much more useful to the readers if even the initial article is a little more complete--a fuller biography and especially,the most cited papers so we can see her significance..As friendly advice, consider if you are perhaps going to a little too quickly. DGG ( talk ) 10:11, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DGG, thanks for bringing this up here. I do have plans and several sources for expanding the article, which I plan to do shortly. I will remember that there is NORUSH. MarkZusab (talk) 21:32, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #353

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
    • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
    • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
    • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
    • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
    • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
    • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
    • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
    • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

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

Tech News: 2019-09

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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

Changes later this week

  • When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [23]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:17, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • New and expanded partners
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!

Read the full newsletter

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This Month in Education: February 2019

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This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 2 • February 2019

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Back numbers are here.
What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg
2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

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Proposed deletion of Andreas Zivy

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You stated that the biographed person has no right to ask for deletion of his own article. I find this highly questionable as it was himself who wanted to be on Wikipedia on the first place, so why would he not have the right to have his article being deleted again? Please reconsider and if you still do not agree, please let me know what I can do to have this article deleted? Thank you. Reto4455

Wikidata weekly summary #354

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
    • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
    • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
    • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
    • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
    • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
    • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
    • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
    • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
    • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
    • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
    • Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
    • Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
    • Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
    • Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
    • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
    • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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


Tech News: 2019-10

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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.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
  • The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [25][26]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Meaning of Marxism

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Thanks for that. Care to tell how you found those reviews? I came up empty on standard, books and scholar googling... --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:45, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Elmidae: I actually just used Google, searching for variations of the book title and the author's last name, along with adding "review" or "book review" to my search. MarkZusab (talk) 23:53, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Most peculiar. I'm not even in some Southern Hemisphere search bubble for once... ah well. Cheers :) --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:22, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History) has been reviewed!

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Thanks for creating It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History.

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

I redirected your article to an existing article on the same book. Per WP:SUBTITLES and WP:CONCISE, subtitles are often omitted. Feel free to expand at It Ended Badly. Cheers!

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Animalparty}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

--Animalparty! (talk) 23:22, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Jan Mencwel for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jan Mencwel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan Mencwel until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:25, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #355

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Dimon2711
    • Closed request for adminship: Esteban16, welcome onboard!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
    • A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
    • Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users

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



Tech News: 2019-11

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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

Problems

  • Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
  • Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [27]
  • Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [28][29]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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