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Books & Bytes - Issue 5

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Books & Bytes
Issue 5, March 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

  • New Visiting Scholar positions
  • TWL Branch on Arabic Wikipedia, microgrants program
  • Australian articles get a link to librarians
  • Spotlight: "7 Reasons Librarians Should Edit Wikipedia"

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The Bugle: Issue XCVII, April 2014

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Tech News: 2014-17

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

Tech News updates

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [2] [3]
  • Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [4] [5] [6] [7]
  • The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [8]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [9]

VisualEditor news

  • If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [10] [11]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [12] [13]
  • You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [14] [15] [16]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [17]
  • Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [18] [19]
  • The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [20] [21] [22] [23]
  • You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [24] [25]
  • You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [26] [27]
  • It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [28]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [29]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
  • There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [30]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Please, help to create or repair an Article on Igor Janev

Dear Rschen7754, can you, please, help to create or repair an Article on Igor Janev. Or at least create a Stub. I do not know how to do that. please see some useful links. Sincerely yours, User from Macedonia and Serbia Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=next&oldid=603995897 http://www.makemigration.com/ [31] http://www.answers.com/topic/igor-janev http://www.abebooks.co.uk/9788674192610/Diplomatija-8674192610/plp http://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C http://www.mia.mk/en/Inside/RenderSingleNews/289/105947751 http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/21668/45/ or http://www.makemigration.com/iselenistvoweb/index.php?page=iselenici&id=247&tip_iselenici=7 http://s241910817.onlinehome.us/html/articles/janev/janev.html http://www.mkd.mk/makedonija/politika/nekoj-go-brishe-igor-janev-od-vikipedija http://dobarglas.info/naslovna_v6.htm http://www.makedonskosonce.com/broevis/2008/sonce748.pdf/12_15_janev.pdf http://www.time.mk/c/61e6ad16de/janev-postoi-praven-lek-za-imeto.html http://www.makdenes.org/content/article/1956873.html http://www.mkd.mk/54357/makedonija/se-ceka-na-potpisot-na-ivanov-rezolucija-janev-on [32] LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE USE OF A PROVISIONAL NAME FOR MACEDONIA IN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM [33] citation:[34] http://books.google.rs/books?id=JkgVV0AKW4oC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=Igor+Janev&source=bl&ots=Oj3a_969Z_&sig=0RtIFcc3x2YFym3qoPU-JyhJ9dE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dNikUoqzKaaIzAP1hYCIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Igor%20Janev&f=false https://www.google.com/search?q=Igor+Janev&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1 http://macedonianhr.org.au/wip/images/stories/pdf/1252648063581.pdf http://www.etd.ceu.hu/2009/bajalski_borko.pdf http://sam.gov.tr/on-the-uns-legal-responsibility-for-the-irregular-admission-of-macedonia-to-un/ http://www.sar.org.ro/polsci/?p=264 http://www.makedonskosonce.com/broevis/2008/sonce713.pdf/16_17_janev.pdf http://www.crpm.org.mk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Policy-Brief-NatoMak.pdf http://denesen.mk/web/2013/08/31/janev-postoi-praven-lek-za-imeto/ https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553374/pop-AngelovMarijan.pdf?sequence=1 , p.77-78 http://www.mkd.mk/makedonija/politika/nekoj-go-brishe-igor-janev-od-vikipedija http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ccTLDs-TM.pdf , When we say US, p. 845, note 28. G. Ivanov, "Recalling that the International Court of Justice 1948 advisory opinion had determined that placing additional criteria on United Nations membership contravened the United Nations Charter", http://gadebate.un.org/67/former-yugoslav-republic-macedonia Thomas D. Grant, Admission to the United Nations, Martinus pub. , pp. 203-212 http://books.google.rs/books?id=5Uuv0NLNdZQC&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=Igor+Janev+Admission+to+the&source=bl&ots=6DgOwcDxtS&sig=4DlZpp7DCtAOeeMqhjvN0QviEl0&hl=sr&sa=X&ei=GERKU9ivOsXOtQaD9oGIDA&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Igor%20Janev%20Admission%20to%20the&f=false http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=sr&q=igor+janev&btnG= https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.news.macedonia/Gh9l8yZjA-Q http://books.google.rs/books?id=0k-9--x9EY4C&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=Igor+Janev&source=bl&ots=bLD1RW0O6x&sig=SV0Ts24V87pzMIjAJwh1tQDzk-E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sdakUtvhMaqVyAOGuoGYDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Igor%20Janev&f=false http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Igor_Janev

--93.87.96.88 (talk) 12:58, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-18

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
  • You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [35]

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [36]
  • VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [37]
  • VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [38]
  • The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [39]
  • CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [40] [41]
  • You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [42]

Problems

  • For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [43] [44]
  • On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [45] [46]

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07:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

May 10 Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon in LA

LA Meetup: May 10 Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

You have been invited to a meetup and edit-a-thon at the Junipero Serra Branch of the LA Public Library (4607 S. Main St., 90037) on Saturday, May 10, 2014 from 10 am to 4 pm! This event is sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association and aims to improve coverage of Asian Pacific American topics, particularly as they relate to southern California. Please RSVP here if you're interested.

I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:11, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

Tech News: 2014-19

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
  • The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [47]
  • It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [48]

VisualEditor news

  • External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [49]
  • The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [50]
  • You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [51]
  • There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [52][53]
  • Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [54] [55]
  • You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [56] [57]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [58]
  • You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
  • If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [59] [60]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Main Page appearance: Interstate 805

This is a note to let the main editors of Interstate 805 know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on May 18, 2014. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at present, please ask Bencherlite (talk · contribs). You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 18, 2014. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:

Interstate 805

Interstate 805 (I-805) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in Southern California, USA. It is a bypass of I-5, running along the eastern areas of the Greater San Diego region from San Ysidro to near Del Mar. From I-5 in San Ysidro (less than a mile north of the Mexico–U.S. border), I-805 then traverses through the cities of Chula Vista and National City before reentering San Diego. The freeway passes though the San Diego neighborhoods of North Park, Mission Valley, Clairemont, and University City before terminating at I-5 in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood near the Del Mar city limit. Planning for I-805 began in 1956, and the route was officially designated in 1959 before it was renumbered in the 1964 state highway renumbering. Construction started in 1967 and it was opened in 1975. Named the Jacob Dekema Freeway after the longtime head of the regional division of the California Department of Transportation, I-805 has been frequently cited for its complex engineering and architecture, including near I-8 on the Mission Valley Viaduct. High-occupancy toll lanes are under construction on both the northern and southern portions of the route. (Full article...)

You (and your talk-page stalkers) may also be interested to hear that there have been some changes at the TFA requests page recently. Nominators no longer need to calculate how many "points" an article has, the instructions have been simplified, and there's a new nomination system using templates based on those used for DYK suggestions. Please consider nominating another article, or commenting on an existing nomination, and leaving some feedback on your experience. Thank you. UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-20

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [61]
  • Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [62]

Future software changes

  • It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [63] [64]
  • You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [65] [66] [67] [68]
  • You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [69] [70]
  • The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [71]
  • The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [72] [73] [74]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [75]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [76]

Problems

  • There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [77] [78]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

LA edit-a-thons on May 23 and 31

LA meetups: Adrianne Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thons on May 23 and May 31

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

There are two LA edit-a-thons in memory of Adrianne Wadewitz, a prolific Wikipedia editor, in the coming weeks. Please join us May 23 at Occidental College and May 31 at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry to combat systemic bias and help further Adrianne's legacy. No experience needed! Please RSVP at the relevant page(s) if you plan to attend.

I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:28, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
  • The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [79] [80] [81]
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [82] [83]
  • VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [84] [85]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [86] [87]
  • VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [88] [89]
  • VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [90] [91]
  • VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [92]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [93] [94]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [97]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCVIII, May 2014

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AfC Invite Template

Hello Rschen7754,

Recently, I have created an invite template for AfC (Articles for Creation) to put on user talk pages to invite users to come help with the AfC backlog, as WikiProjects, such as Teahouse, have one too. Recently, when I was posting the template on the talk pages of editors I often work with, I was thinking about the inefficiency of this task. I asked in IRC #wikipedia-en-helpers if anyone was aware of a way to make this task more efficient: they suggested "mass messaging." At first, I thought it shouldn't be a problem - once people "sign up" to be on "AfC notifications," they will automatically receive updates on AfC backlog drives, etc. Then, what I came to realize was that there are only 48 mass senders at the moment on English Wikipedia. Let me be honest: I'm not familiar with writing bots, scripts, etc. to perform these tasks. I wanted to hear your opinion on what would be the best way to achieve my goal: notifying the Participants about AfC events, while not appearing to send consistent spam, of course. I am contacting you, as I saw your name listed a few times on the talk page of mass messaging. Do you think it would be appropriate to request mass messaging rights? Is there another way to achieve this goal? Please let me know. Note: I request that you please either ping me or leave a talkback on my talk page in case I forget to check back on this message. Thanks. --JustBerry (talk) 01:17, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Quite awkwardly, there is a template going out already for the backlog this month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Mass_message_senders#Requesting_mailing_for_June_AfC_BLD
However, my template is more general, not just for drives/next month. Is there any way I can coordinate this effort?

Art. creation on Igor Janev is limited only for adm. accounts. Why?

I found that an administrator had blocked creation of article on Igor Janev in the way that only Administrators of Wikipedia can create the article. I tried with my account to create article on Igor Janev, and it was impossible. It is my understanding that you limited creation of that article. If so, can you fix this problem. Prof. dr. Igor Janev exists, and he is the one of the most prominent intellectuals public figures in Macedonia. There are no reasons for such action by an administrator. Sincerely, -- 77.234.45.130 (talk) 08:59, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [98] [99] [100] [101]
  • A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [102] [103]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [104] [105]
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [106]
  • VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [107]

Future software changes

  • Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [108]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [109] [110]
  • Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [111] [112] [113]
  • You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [114] [115]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from April 2014

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [116]

VisualEditor news

  • Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [117]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [118] [119]
  • VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [120]
  • There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [121]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [128]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your participation

Rschen7754, I would like to take this moment and thank you for taking part in my RfA that happened a while ago. Although it didn't turn out as I had planned, I certainly appreciated all the comments and suggestions given by you and other people. I will learn from all of them and will hopefully run again someday when I'm fully ready. Thank you. TheGeneralUser (talk) 13:45, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 6

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

  • New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
  • TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
  • TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
  • New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

The Center Line: Spring 2014

Volume 7, Issue 2 • Spring 2014 • About the Newsletter
Departments
Features
State and national updates
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS
—MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 8 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of Imzadi1979

Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [129] [130]

VisualEditor news

  • You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [131] [132]
  • The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [133] [134] [135]
  • You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [136] [137]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [138]
  • You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [139]
  • On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [140] [141]
  • You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [142] [143]
  • Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [144] [145] [146]
  • You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [147] [148]
  • Hovercards will no longer flicker. [149]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

L.A. events on June 21 and July 6

Upcoming L.A. events: Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon (Saturday, June 21, 12-5pm) and Wiknic (Sunday, July 6, ~9:30am-4pm)

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The L.A. Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: an edit-a-thon sponsored by the online magazine East of Borneo, and the fourth annual Los Angeles Wiknic!

The East of Borneo event is an edit-a-thon that aims to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next chapter of their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, June 21, 2014 from 12pm to 5pm at 356 S. Mission Rd. (map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting.

The Wiknic is a part of the nationwide Great American Wiknic. We'll be grilling, getting to know each other better, and building the L.A. Wikipedia community! The event is tentatively planned for Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Sunday, July 6, 2014 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible!

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  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [150]
  • When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [151] [152]
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [153] [154] [155] [156]
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [157] [158] [159]

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  • Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [160]
  • You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [161]
  • You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [162] [163]
  • It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [164] [165]
  • Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [166]
  • The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [167]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
  • You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [168]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Question re SUL login

Hi Rschen, don't exactly know how I ended up here but thought you might be able to help. For some reason when I changed my username from Truthkeeper88 I lost my SUL login, and I really need to be able to edit files on Commons. I've posted a query about it somewhere else, but don't quite understand the answer. Can you point me to someone who can consolidate the old w/ the new acct or is this something you could do? Thanks. Victoria (tk) 22:38, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

@Victoriaearle: I'll have to take another look at this - the SUL unification process coming soon will change this, and I'm not sure I'm up to date on the latest developments. Feel free to drop another note here if I forget to follow up. --Rschen7754 08:36, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
I should probably wait. I've been aware of the SUL unification process - I believe it was just around the corner, when, last year I changed my name and got caught in this situation of not having a unified login. Anyway, let me know if you find out anything. No being able to edit files on Commons is getting to be a problem. Thanks. Victoria (tk) 20:24, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
@Victoriaearle: It seems that the global rename function will only rename entire accounts, and that the rest of the SUL unification process will come later. If you don't want to wait, you can go to commons:Commons:Changing username/Current requests (while logged in under Truthkeeper88) and file a request - you may need to confirm that you are the same person by posting something to your enwiki talk page under the Victoriaearle account. Hope this helps. --Rschen7754 23:42, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [169] [170]
  • When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [171] [172]
  • You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [173] [174]
  • You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [175] [176]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [177] [178]
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [179]
  • CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [180]
  • You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [181] [182]
  • An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [183]

Problems

  • On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
  • Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [184]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Re: Xaaladda maamul kaada

Hello! I don't speak Somali, can I help you in any way? -- Zanimum (talk) 22:56, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

@Zanimum: The translation can be found at m:Admin activity review/2013/Notice to inactive right holders, but in short, this is a message about your adminship on so.wikipedia, since you have not used it in 2 years. --Rschen7754 23:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes, go forth and de-admin. I barely remember getting this status. -- Zanimum (talk) 00:36, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 Done and thanks for your service! --Rschen7754 00:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Magic Words question

Hi Rschen, I saw you were an admin on Mediawiki.org so I thought you can probably answer my question as best as anyone. I'm messaging you here because I figure this is the project we are both the most active on. Alrighty, now to the point, Afer perusing mw:Help:Magic words and coming up short I was wondering if there is a Magic Word that acts like {{PAGESINCATEGORY:foocat}} but tells you the number of times a template/page is transcluded. Thanks for your time, —  dainomite   08:46, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

@Dainomite: Unfortunately my adminship there is limited to fighting spam (and is probably redundant to my steward bit), and I'm not a magic words expert. Sorry I can't be of more help. --Rschen7754 08:37, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Ah shucks. Thanks for your time Rschen. —  dainomite   04:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [185] [186]
  • A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [187] [188]
  • VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [189] [190] [191] [192]
  • Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [193] [194]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [195] [196]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [197]
  • All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [198] [199]
  • Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [200]
  • You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [201] [202]
  • You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [203]

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Salamundi (talk) 18:38, 29 June 2014 (UTC) Hi Rschen, I'm very new to this format, please bear with me. Two things:

1. I came here looking for advice on a topic and went to email you. On the webpage, you write "(use the Email user link on the left)." I cannot find this link on the left to which you refer.

2. The reason I was going to email you in the first place was I am looking for a good online source of information regarding specific roads. For example, for a given road, where it is, which cities/counties maintain it, how long it is, etc. Just basic data would be great. I'm interested in the area around Mountain View CA in case that matters. Any links/ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

If the email link does not appear, it is most likely because you have not set up (associated) an email address for your Wikipedia account. You do this via Preferences (at the top of the page when you are signed in). It may be just as simple to ask questions here, though. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:03, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
As far as your question, for general info, aaroads.com, cahighways.org, and caltrans.ca.gov. As the first two are not reliable sources for Wikipedia purposes, I use newspaper archives to write articles. --Rschen7754 21:19, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

50.174.103.46 (talk) 15:51, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Thanks, the email link now appears. Looking at the other links as well.

Hang on a minute

If you look at 183.219.59.106 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)), then User:Knowledgekid87 was clearly L'Aquotique, which was created only hours after the IP was blocked after an edit war. Please look at this. The behavior of that IP (which was determined to be Knowledgekid87) matches perfectly with the L'Aquotique socks. I'm just asking that you look into it. Thanks. 120.192.246.214 (talk) 23:02, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

User talk:120.192.246.214 has been blocked for being a sock of L'Aquotique using an open proxy. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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