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Tech News: 2019-02

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

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).

Meetings

  • Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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)

Ref

This is not really a single ref but is just a search on Science Direct. Better to use a PMID or DOI or ISBN and page number.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/phenobarbital

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:34, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Doc James Thank you, didn't realise, fixed. {{u|waddie96}} {talk} 15:42, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

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

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
  • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
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A message from K.M. Thorpe

Hi! Thank you for your help with my edits. I specified that I work for her not to be a reliable source but to be completely transparent. I will definitely use the request edit page and cite the source if I make any edits. Thanks again! --K.M. Thorpe (talk) 16:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC) K.M. Thorpe (talk) 16:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Aspects (talk) 23:32, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

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

Administrator changes

removed Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

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

Administrator changes

removed 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

  • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

Technical news

  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

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Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

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This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

  1. Section editing
    • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
    • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
  2. Loading overlay
    • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

  • Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
  • Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
  • Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
  • Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use.  The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

  • Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
  • Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

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The Signpost: 31 July 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

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

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

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

Administrator changes

added Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
readded Floquenbeam • Lectonar
removed DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

removed Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

removed Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Afc reject, etc.

Please note this tiny but very important edit. By using a "raw" speedy tag, you caused User talk:Selva2508 to appear in CAT:CSD which was not meant to happen. You did the same with User talk:91.206.0.63. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 12:57, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

RHaworth Ohhh, sorry didn't know that the message on a user's talk page showed the comment, and was trying to add speedy tag in one fell swoop. Apologies, won't happen again. {{u|waddie96}} {talk} 13:18, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

A message from Mayorgeneraljm

Mayorgeneraljm (talk) 17:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC) Hi! I saw you decline the page I was trying to create on wikipedia! Ok, Im new on this and I have honestly any idea of how it works and how to have it done! I just know this: The text I add is the text we used on our website which its explain and describe the Lost on You project! The media links are not build by us. Because our hard work and the importance of what we do all those magazines have talked about us. Is not the rolling stone but the person who doesn't know the magazines I mention then have quite a very small knowledge about electronic music.

Lost on You ( the record label) is a project created to help children from poor countries, and since we started in january 2018 we have been donating all the income from our music sales to help children around the world.

This may feel as a promotional page but isn't a promotional page! Our project deserves to have a page here cause each time you write Lost on You all you get is LP song!

I will ask you please to have a search about the project to understand it and to please help us to have a page here.

You are actually the second person who have said its feels like a promotional page but if you guys cant understand our purpose then I don't know what to say.

Help us to spread our mission.

Thank you

Mayorgeneraljm Your draft was deleted as it was unambiguous advertising or promotion. Try WP:YFA for help writing your first article. {{u|waddie96}} {talk} 10:00, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

A message from Onefunsite

Hi, thanks for taking a look at the page I tried to create: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:World_Adventure_Golf_Masters

I have now edited the page and added a number of reliable sources from around the web. Hopefully the page can be accepted. Thanks! Onefunsite (talk) 21:19, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Onefunsite Hi, so I made a lot of cleanup edits for you, removed peacock terms and unnecessary unencyclopedic info. See World Adventure Golf Masters for the article now published. {{u|waddie96}} {talk} 10:27, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

A message from Russolini1979

Hello, Waddie96! I am writing about page created by me. Draft:Ruslan Sabirly, which is declined by you. First I would like to thank you for your viewing. But, I would like to mark some points, which are no understandable to me.

1. In that page External Links (to social media accounts) deleted by some user, while in many page of celebrities like Tom Cruise has links to his social media accounts and it is ok for wikipedia community.

2. I had comment on that page: Symbol opinion vote.svg Comment: "face of... prestigious" SITH (talk) 19:45, 9 April 2019 (UTC) And deleted that phrases, and also peacock word. But now, you rejected submission: "This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject."

So please, could you show me exact sentences where used peacock terms, because i really can not see them. And i need help. I want to change but i can not find the issues which is the reason of rejection.

Will be glad for your help on both points. Tnank you in advance! :)

Russolini1979 (talk) 12:55, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Russolini1979 Hi, (1) social media accounts are not linked on wikipedia (see why at WP:Twitter-EL, WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK, and WP:SOCIALMEDIA), and no social media accounts are linked at Tom Cruise; (2) In general, the draft is not written in a neutral, formal, encyclopedic tone, see WP:MOS for help regarding this and try WP:BLOWITUP. Peacock terms: "intelligent family", WP:RS is needed for a claim like this. The article sounds more like an WP:ESSAY and somewhat WP:PROMO. {{u|waddie96}} {talk} 09:58, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi again. Actually, you are wrong with "no social media accounts are linked at Tom Cruise". There are all social media accounts on that page. Please, look at the bottom of page External links. Those are the same i did. :) So, why some persons can have links and some of them not? I think this is not right way. --Russolini1979 (talk) 18:13, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Russolini1979 Besides the social media accounts on your draft there are other issues that need fixing as mentioned above. {{u|waddie96}} {talk} 18:56, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

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A message from JelenaIlicVienna

Dear Waddie96, Regarding my article, you stated that the submission appears more like an advertisement and that there are not much reliable secondary sources.

First of it, I would like to draw your attention to this articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroclear

Clearstream is the German and Luxembourg CSD, Euroclear is the Belgian CSD and OeKB CSD is the Austrian CSD. The Central Securities Depository Regulation (reference 1 in my article) says that every CSD in a country has to apply for a certification. After the approvement of each Authority (in Austria it is the Financial Market Authority (FMA)), the company can act as the CSD of the country. By the way, why did you chance the name of the article to OeKB central securities depository, as this is wrong. The name of the austrian CSD is OeKB CSD, this is a fact (see also companies register, reference 10) and cannot be changed.

So my article has provable secondary facts about the company eg. the companies register(reference 10), it has the prove from the Austrian Financial Authority that it can act as an CSD (reference 8), it has the prove from the Austrian National Bank that OeKB CSD provides the securities account administration on T2S (reference 16), it has the prove of ECSDA that it is a member of the European central securities depositories (reference 23), it has the prove from the European Central Bank that OeKB CSD is in charge for the market practice in Austria. The scope of OeKB CSD in my article is similar to the scope of Clearstram and Euroclear. Therefore, this is no advertisment, the article describes only the tasks of the Austrian CSD, not more and not less. So please have a look at it again - if you want to change something, I am open for any discussion, but please do not decline the submission.

Thx a lot! Kind regards, Jelena

JelenaIlicVienna (talk) 08:43, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

I've deleted the spam and posted guidance on her talk page Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:28, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
@JelenaIlicVienna: I've restored your blanked talk page for future Wikipedians. The article was removed due to a copyright violation, please note that repeat offenders of copyright violations may be blocked from editing {{ping|waddie96}} {talk} 08:46, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

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Tina Keeper

I'm not convinced that enough time has passed yet to be sure that "Kitchikeesik" won't just rewrite the whole thing into an advertisement for her film work that almost completely obliterates her political career again, so I'm not yet prepared to drop it completely. I have dropped it from admin-only to extended-confirmed, however (autoconfirmed wouldn't work, as Kitchikeesik has already passed that bar.) Bearcat (talk) 17:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

@Bearcat: That's fine, I do wish to point out that your charged tone is directed at the wrong individual—if it should be directed to anyone at all. I so kindly thank you for lowering the page protection. I do strongly believe that admin-only should be used with a specific date of expiry and only in the most dire of situations. It is unfair to limit editing to the 513 active admins[1] and exclude the 127,866 active users indefinitely.[2] Best, {{ping|waddie96}} {talk} 17:58, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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A message from 178.172.239.99

Greetings, I write in regard to my edit to the Platoon movie page. Please check the links below with proof that Gordon is incorrect:

178.172.239.99 (talk) 10:29, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

A message from 5.157.71.6

Regarding my edits to the Angola Civil War page: I updated out of date clearance stats, added a clause stating that the 15 million figure was a pre-survey estimate (this is evident from the current citation), and removed obsolete and no longer useful information regarding staff numbers at a demining organisation. Happy to engage with you on this, if you are interested? 5.157.71.6 (talk) 11:30, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

NmVac4-A/C/Y/W-135

Hi Waddie96, I saw your revision deletion request. I have two problems with it: (1) The text may not be protected by copyright, see Copyright on the content of patents and in the context of patent prosecution and (2) it was not clear which revisions need deleting, you targeted some that are older than the patent claim. Could you try to piece this together and maybe comment at WT:CP? Thank you, —Kusma (t·c) 12:03, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

@Kusma: Hi there, I had no idea Copyright on the content of patents and in the context of patent prosecution existed. Also, it appears at first glance that the addition predates the patent but actually the patent US8501186B2 was first filed on 2009-05-05 as a priority to IN2009MU01184A. I will post a comment at WT:CP. {{ping|waddie96}} {talk} 16:09, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

For pitching in on Category:AfC pending submissions by age/Very old. -- Worldbruce (talk) 05:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
@Worldbruce: Thanks! {{ping|waddie96}} {talk} 07:33, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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Your Sig

Not sure what you've been doing with your signature, or what the intentions are, but templates (and especially parser functions) should not be used in signatures (for example Special:Diff/918858447 and Special:Diff/918855687). Primefac (talk) 19:35, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Primefac, I noticed the same things. Well, no, I didn't, cause I don't know all that technical stuff and I have no idea what it means, but I do know that it looks unnecessarily weird. Waddie96, there is no reward for others in what is in that signature. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 20:07, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
​​ Hmm, I didn't even realise that was happening, I was inserting a {{nbsp}} and that appears to be what was causing the parser functions to appear. Thanks for pointing that out. —comrade waddie96 ★ [ talk ] 00:08, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Just use ;nbsp? Primefac (talk) 01:06, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Visual Editor breakage

There is a serious bug in Visual Editor, when copy-pasting text into the article it destroys citations. Because of this there has been added a lot of bad content to List of benzodiazepines that needs to be deleted. In this diff search on "cite%20note". All that has to go, it's garbage data. I'll remove it, but suggest you re-add the citations you intended, but not using the copy-paste method, and/or not use VisualEditor. -- GreenC 21:38, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

@GreenC: Is there a report for this on phab? —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 10:39, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

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Help

I added float: right; width: 100px; to the tmbox's at the top of my talkpage but it doesn't seem to work —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 13:22, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

I don't think {{tmbox}} is the right template for this purpose. You'd probably have to check the underlying Lua module to be sure, but to me it appears that template already comes with some pre-defined formatting that you cannot override entirely. Maybe {{userbox}} or some other box template would work better? Huon (talk) 22:19, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Huon I have used {{userbox}} now, but how do I stack the two boxes without having to use {{clear}} which creates a whitespace above the table of contents? —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 07:00, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
WP:Userboxes gives various ways of grouping userboxes; using a table seems to give what you are looking for. Huon (talk) 15:19, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Huon thank you for your help! —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 15:24, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Celebritynetworth.com as a source

Hi Waddie96. I noticed that you recently used celebritynetworth.com as a source for biographical information in Jeffree Star. Please note that the general consensus as expressed at WP:RSN is that celebritynetworth.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks.--Ronz (talk) 17:08, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Ronz Thank you, apologies. —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 19:27, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.
  • In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
    • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
    • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
    • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
  • Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

  • Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
  • Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
  • Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

A message from Superpose LS

Dear Waddie96,you decline the page I was trying to create on wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Repeated_superposition_of_finite_strains). Thanks for taking a look at the page, but your comments are not specific enough. All sources in the article are articles in peer-reviewed high-level scientific journals. All sources are available online. Which sources on the topic of the article can you recommend as reliable? Superpose L.S. (talk) 16:53, 13 October 2019 (UTC)Superpose LS

@Superpose L.S.: As I mentioned in my comment, the refs used are mostly, if not all, work published by a single person. Yes they are all peer-reviewed WP:PRIMARY articles but we also need WP:SECONDARY and/or WP:TERTIARY articles by different authors. This may put undue weighting on the work of that single author (see WP:UNDUE). In addition, like I also said the title is too long (see WP:TITLE). Unfortunately, I do not have the will or time to search for recommendations for you, please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Locating_reliable_sources for guidance on finding more sources that are reliable. —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 17:34, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

thanks

....for your closings in gw/cc topic area today NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:18, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

NewsAndEventsGuy Thank you! comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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Swarm ty! comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 09:38, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Digital automated identification system

The proposed titles were based on a misunderstanding, and I objected as they are proper names and almost always capitalised - can the discussion be reopened and relisted? Peter James (talk) 22:13, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

@Peter James: Per WP:TM titles are not capitalised. If you wish to content the moves you may bring it up at Wikipedia:Move review. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 08:57, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
What WP:MOSTM actually says is "Capitalize trademarks, being proper names". I don't know if these are trademarks, but they are proper names.. Peter James (talk) 09:58, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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@TheEpTic: thanks comrade! comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 13:26, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

About 'Mothman' edition

It's all right. Probably it should be in some 'Trivia' chapter that doesn't exist at the page. WBR, 176.111.79.100 (talk) 21:38, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

I had to try to reverse the edit on Benevolent dictatorship but he slipped past me! Thanks tor helping Damien Swann (talk) 12:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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Templating

Hi there, this edit, where you appear to be reprimanding Panda619, doesn't seem terribly constructive to me. The recipient of the template has been here about 3 months, has fewer than 1000 edits and they have 0 edits to article Talk pages and only 8 edits on any other talk page. With that little exposure to common articles, I would absolutely consider them to be templatable. Note also that WP:DTR is not a Wikipedia behavioural guideline or policy, making it a relatively toothless warning anyway. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes WP:DTR is an essay not a policy, but it's something to keep in mind (not a "warning"). Templates can seem "patronising and uncivil", and "counterproductive in resolving the issue". Thank you for your opinion Cyphoidbomb. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 10:20, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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 Fixed comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 11:14, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

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White privilege

Hi, im intersted in getting closure on the white privilege discussion on the NPOV noticeboard. I wonder if archiving the discussion makes it less likely it will be closed? I would also welcome any thoughts you might have of getting it closed.Keith Johnston (talk) 18:05, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

@Keith Johnston: I didn't archive the discussion, it was automatically archived. I simply pointed it out for the person who'd like to close it themselves, which you are more than welcome to do. I do believe it's less likely to get closed now that it is archived, yes, but a lack of discussion is the reason it was archived automatically and, since it wasn't an RfC, a consensus was clearly not needed. It will probably be revisited if the need for consensus arises, but for the moment it appears that the need is not present. Determining consensus and closing it was not of interest to me. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 18:28, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Moving the archived discussion back to the page and pinning it to avoid automatic archival is the best option to keep the discussion open for further comments and eventual closure by an admin at WP:ANRFC. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 18:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Keith Johnston (talk) 18:34, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Edit warring at Surf culture

Thank you for volunteering to close the discussion at Talk:Surf culture. However, one of the editors involved has repeatedly deleted your comments there. If you don't want to get further involved in what is a pretty dumb edit war then I totally understand, I just wanted to let yo uknow. 61.10.67.14 (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

My word, I’d prefer to not be involved any further. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 08:14, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

  • On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
  • The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
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Desktop improvements prototype

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Regarding User:Akshay843

Hi there, and thanks for your anti-vandalism efforts. Just wanted to point out that in the case of User:Akshay843, the talk page templates don't thoroughly explain why he was reverted. Since he reached out for clarification, it's better to give a detailed explanation, rather than to just "refer to his talk page", where such a explanation doesn't exist. Please note that he/she acted in WP:AGF, and encourage the newcomers. Thanks, and happy editing! ◢   Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 09:17, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Sure thing comrade waddie96 (talk) 09:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Honesty, neutrality, fairness?

Hello, waddie96, vandal applies only on IP or registered users as well, I am learning, assuming good faith. Fairness, honesty, and neutrality must prevail; otherwise, what to say such vandal that Saqib has removed 12,837‎ bytes of well-sourced material from the article about Ehsan Sehgal without explanation and discussion, and get the article protected from IP. Who will execute rules that mostly apply to IPs - Talk page explains. Can you perform the tool here as well as you did for only one name removal? -Thanks🌹 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1C00:1604:BB00:459B:2CED:129E:AAB0 (talk) 11:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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