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June 2018

Hello, I'm ZfJames. I noticed that you recently removed content from Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —zfJames Please add {{ping|ZfJames}} to your reply (talk page, contribs) 22:59, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Overzealous tagging

You tagged User:Daask/sandbox/Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine for CSD with G1, G11, and G13. While this is virtually an empty page and therefore inadvertent deletion is not a big deal, I don't believe any of these criteria apply in this case. Please be more careful in the future. Daask (talk) 20:25, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:UAA reports on users with no edits

Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.

For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. So we add the {{wait}} tag to the report, it goes to WP:UAA/HP for a week or more, and must then be reviewed again to see if the account has since become active before removing it. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:35, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

By the same token, generally it is not a good use of your time to be welcoming users with no edits. The community has repeatedly rejected the idea of any sort of automatic welcoming before a single edit is made. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:37, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Draft:La Mirada Punks

Hello Susmuffin. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:La Mirada Punks, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not promotional at all. The article makes it clear that the gang is a group of criminals. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:29, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

User talk pages

Hello. I noticed you restored content to Dr.Koo's talk page with this edit. This is not generally done. Please take a few minutes to read WP:BLANKING and WP:Don't restore removed comments. As the user is blocked, I don't know if they'll undo your edit, or even see it. I'm going to leave it alone. It's up to you to decide if you want to revert yourself; I probably would, were I in the same position. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 12:45, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: User:Mohammad Aziz bin shafi ur rahman

Hello Susmuffin, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of User:Mohammad Aziz bin shafi ur rahman, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 14:09, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Political advocacy by Jamez42 / Susmuffin. The discussion is about the topic El Paraíso stampede. 2601:644:1:B7CB:D417:AECA:710A:207 (talk) 19:18, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Your signature

Please amend your custom signature so that is is clear who it belongs to, i.e. it should include your username. Thank you. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 11:52, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

@Susmuffin: I note you have edited plenty since DoRD left you this request. To clarify, this is per the username policy: A customised signature should make it easy to identify the username, to visit the user's talk-page, and preferably user page and are to identify you as a contributor. If your signature is unnecessarily confusing, editors may request that you change it; please note that signatures that link to, but do not display, the user's username (for example by signing with a nickname, as in User:Nickname or Nickname) can be confusing for editors (particularly newcomers). The actual username always appears in the page history, so using just the nickname on the relevant talk page can make your signed comments appear to be from a different person, which I think just about covers it. Many thanks, —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 18:21, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

I have resolved the issue. ―Susmuffin Talk 18:25, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

That's excellent news, many thanks. Happy editing / vandal kicking. —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 18:31, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018

Hello. Your recent edit to National University of Distance Education appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Your edit did not provide references to reliable sources to establish notability and status as an academic associated with the university. It is often less work to create the article first, then add the name to the list. Gab4gab (talk) 00:18, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Napa Valley Unified School District

Hello Susmuffin. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Napa Valley Unified School District, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: School districts have near-inherent notability per WP:GEOLAND, and educational institutions are exempt from A7. Thank you. Mz7 (talk) 23:58, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

ANI

The removed comments at ANI can be seen as PA's and edit warring over inclusion of them may not be the best idea. Also the attitude is they express will do you no favours.Slatersteven (talk) 12:10, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@Slatersteven: Is this comment directed at me, or User:Stefka Bulgaria?

Sorry yes.Slatersteven (talk) 12:35, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

"Nobody has ever helped their own cause in any way by participating at ANI. Even non-controversial edits have a way of getting people into trouble." power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:08, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit that you made to User talk:46.189.28.247 has been reverted or removed because it was a misuse of a warning or blocking template. Please use the user warnings sandbox for any tests you may want to do, or take a look at our introduction page to learn more about contributing to the encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 06:16, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Susmuffin, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Susmuffin! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from experienced editors like Cullen328 (talk). Visit the Teahouse We hope to see you there! Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:02, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Scientology

I tried one link, https://www.xenu.net/archive/books/bfm/bfm09.htm and it "refused to connect". It works as http://www.xenu.net/archive/books/bfm/bfm09.htm So rather than testing all of them, I undid the whole shebang. I see that user:KolbertBot paid the article a visit in June 2018, so I don't think many if any of the links should be made https. Please be more careful. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 08:17, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

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		For reverting vandalism and rooting out block evasion. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 03:09, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

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UAA reports on users with no edits

You speedily archived my message last time I posted here, which is generally taken as a sign that you read and understood it.[1] If that’s not the case please review it again, and maybe take another look at WP:UAAI as a decent number of your UAA reports get declined. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:19, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Susmuffin, did you have these same issues with your previous account(s)? Overzealous patrolling, minimal or no response to editors who raise concerns regarding your edits...that sort of thing? --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:33, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I have not used a another account to patrol, if that is what you are asking. No, I do not have a sockpuppet. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 19:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

It's absolutely clear that this is not your first account, what I'm wondering is if you had the same problems with your previous accounts that ended up in a block (making this block evasion), or if this is veering towards a failed clean start.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:45, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I did have another account that was last used in 2009, when I was 11 years old. I was never blocked and never made use of the clean start option, if that existed then. Honestly, I barely remember that I even had the account in the first place. If it would help, I can give you a link to the account's userpage. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 20:18, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

In my 11+ years on this site, as an admin and checkuser, I have never seen a legitimate new account make this as their third edit, less than an hour after creating their account. Having an account as a child nearly ten years ago can't explain your edit history. Just saying.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:59, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I found it here. I simply wanted to see what he was talking about. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 21:05, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Interesting.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:10, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Question

What do you think about removing webcomics from arts in vital article list? Polandball is enaugh vital in your opinion? Dawid2009 (talk) 18:22, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

I would avoid making any large removals from the Level 5 list at this point, as it is far from being completed. Also, I would categorise webcomics as a form of art. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 02:20, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

I agree that webcomics are form of art but we do not have listed Hetalia: Axis Powers which is much more vital webcomic than webcomics which are currently listed. I also mentioned Slender Man in disscussion due to fact that Crazy Frog and Slender Man clearly are more vital Internet phenomena than Polandball and at least on the same level what Hatsune Miku which is listed. We also need to remember that Deutch Wikipedia which has very rigorous deletionism for fictional creatures does not have articles about listed creatures such like Harry Potter (character), Darth Vader and has articles about Crazy Frog and Slender Man, so disscussion about including these creatures really would be valuable. Anyway if you still disagree that Slender Man and Crazy Frog can not be listed we can add other concept such like Pinocchio, Christmas elf, The Gingerbread Man but in this case creatures which are not described in German Wikipedia in my opinion also should be definietly removed

In my opinion we also should create new secion at social sciences about: Media franchises. Because we have currently various media franchises in diffrent places listed. At fictional characters Flash and Green Lantern do not fit to this section.

In my opionion we also should add to mythological creatures new section which would be titled: specific mythological creatures. And under this section subtitles: general (for creatures such like Wandering Jew currently listed at fiction and Tooth fairy currently listed at myths/religion), paranormal (for example for UFO which is not listed) ald cryptides (for Yeti, Big foot etc.)

I am also not sure Don Juan and Roland are fictional characters. There were some time ago disscussion about this type creatures. Anyway it seems to me that they are historical creatures near at the same level what Saint Nicholas and Blackbeard.

What do you think about my comments and ideas above? I hope you will replied. Cheers Dawid2009 (talk) 22:09, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2018

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• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

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Weird Signatures

Hi , today you closed and ANI discussion as a non-admin closure , but the timestamp on your signature shows 23rd August. How did that happen ? Kpgjhpjm 12:21, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

I copied and pasted a previous closure, and I must have forgotten to replace my old signature. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 17:17, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello, I'm Peaceray. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you unlinked one or more redlinks from Giacomo Casanova. Often redlinks can be helpful, so we don't remove them just because they are red. They help improve Wikipedia by attracting editors to create needed articles.

In addition, clicking on the "What links here" special link (in the Wikipedia Toolbox at left) on a missing article shows how many—and which—articles depend on that article being created. This can help prioritize article creation. Redlinks are useful! Please, only remove a redlink if you are pretty sure that it is to a non-notable topic and not likely ever to be created. Thanks! Peaceray (talk) 05:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [2]
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• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [3][4]

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• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [5][6]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

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FYI: Wikipedia:Teahouse#Suspect_in_vandalizing

That was not vandalism. Twinkle mistake, I guess. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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Recent changes

• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [7]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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Tech News: 2018-42

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Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [9]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [10]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [11]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [12]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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Books & Bytes, Issue 30

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Tech News: 2018-44

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [13]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [15][16]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2018-45

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• You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [17]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

Recent changes

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [19]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [20][21][22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [23]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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

Recent changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [24]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [25]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [26]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Harmless

Redirects in user space and draft space which are red links are totally harmless. Deleting them serves no useful purpose. Please find something more useful to do. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 20:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

I understand. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 01:45, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

Recent changes

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [27]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [28]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [29]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [30]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

• From the editor: Time for a truce

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

• News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

• Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

• In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

• Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

• Arbitration report: A long break ends

• Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

• Gallery: Intersections

• Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

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• Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

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Tech News: 2018-49

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

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [31]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [32]
• You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [33]
• When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [34][35]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [36][37]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [38]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [39][40]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [41]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [42]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [43]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

• OAWiki
• 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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Vandalism

I simply edited a topic about crusades. Why you deleted this? Historyk55635 (talk) 10:52, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

• From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

• Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

• Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

• News and notes: Some wishes do come true

• In the media: Political hijinks

• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

• WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

• Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

• Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

• Gallery: Sun and moon, water and stone

• Blog: News from the WMF

• Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

• Essay: Requests for medication

• From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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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. [44]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [45]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [46]
• 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

• 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. [47]

Changes later this week

• 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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18:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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

Recent changes

• You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [48][49]
• 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. [50][51]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [52]

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. [53]

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. [54]
• 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.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:55, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
	Your general fixes to citations and the like are super satisfying! ~Sıgehelmus♗(Tøk) 21:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 21:48, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Real edit

wikipedia is out of touch with reality i added the most important piece of information about this war and you just delete it 5.219.93.144 (talk) 20:31, 15 January 2019 (UTC) you have to change this policy

Hi,

I am trying to put a page up for my fans. I am Fred Batt the Demonologist with the TV show Most Haunted. On here I am spirit666 The main reason I am trying to make the page is because for so long it had a lot of wrong information on it and I wanted to correct it. How shall I go about doing this without it being deleted? Regards

Table code formatting

Hi! Of the many Dispenser edits you made recently, I noticed this one, which edited the page's table to have a |- placed directly before the table's headers. To me, this appears rather uncommon, and it didn't really change anything visibly, but is this the proper code formatting for tables? Regards. Lordtobi (✉) 09:34, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Help:Table seems to suggest that a |- is produced before the ! header when one selects "Insert a table." That is probably why Dispenser does this. I have tested this, and the results contradict Help:Table. Furthermore, the Manual of Style suggests that a |- is put before the ! header. I have no idea why the guides contradict with what "Insert a table" does. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 15:57, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

Caption

Header cell	Header cell
Content cell	Content cell

I see, thanks. Lordtobi (✉) 12:07, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Cosmetic genfixes

Hello! Please do not commit general fixes on an article when the changes are purely cosmetic. In this case, there's no need to change {{Cite web}} to {{cite web}}. (not watching, please {{ping}}) czar 18:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

My movie is a real movie.

My movie is a real movie, because I made it. You have an article on Vice. You should have an article on Viyce. Fraction7 (talk) 23:04, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

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. [55]

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. [56]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [57][58]
• 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. [59]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [60]
• 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

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Sry

Ok I’m don’t please don’t ban me Sandywaffles (talk) 08:18, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

USHMM

Thank you, I'm still unable to link there.Xx236 (talk) 09:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2019)

Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Assassination attempts Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Street fair • Vicki Gunvalson Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 January 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-05

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

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. [61]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

• Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

• In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

• News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

• In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

• Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

• Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

• Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

• Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes

• Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

• Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

• News from the WMF: News from WMF

• Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

• Essay: How

• Humour: Village pump

• From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2019)

A typical Finnish school meal lunch, served free of charge to all pupils. Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: School meal Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Assassination attempts • Street fair Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-06

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

Changes later this week

• It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [62]
• 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

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

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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Ellis O. Knox — Wikipage

So totally not trying to vandalize my great-grandfather’s page or anything. I see deadlink and all I was trying to do is update the link with the reference link at the bottom of the page, which is not a dead link, the website page moved, so I can share for Black History Month. Are you able to fix this. Permanent dead link isn’t great. Not sure what happened to the USC links that existed before but that’s neither here nor there. If you can fix this up since I’m clearly doing it wrong to the point of me being called a vandal, I would sincerely appreciate it. MarienneW (talk) 09:41, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

I have resolved a few issues. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 05:05, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

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Bearsden Choir.

I understood Wikipedia should not be taken as fully reliable as anyone can change it. I therefore was not looking for rules, and didn't notice anything in particular. I have been a member of Bearsden Choir since 1981 and was aware that some of the info already given was not completely accurate, and also of course , Andrew Nunn has been our Conductor since 2014. I do like things to be accurate, however, I just did it because it was possible at the time, I do not have time to read up, or give citations.

It will therefore have to remain absolutely out of date !!

Best wishes

Karine Davison

```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldwidewoman (talk • contribs) 01:10, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Reversed Edit to page 'Smino'

Hi there, you recently reversed my edit to the Smino page, in which I added the link to his official website. Was this an automated response? You wrote it "did not appear constructive," but I would disagree. Would you reconsider the reversal, or explain your decision? Amauroticnightingale (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:40, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2019)

Pondicherry is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pondicherry Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: School meal • Assassination attempts Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 February 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-07

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

Recent changes

• You can 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

• 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)

DrKnow changes

Hi, I made the changes because the entry was incorrect. I am the person who presented the series and I have never done O&G. Please rereplace my changes. I’m new to this, have I committed some mortal wiki-editing sin? Regards pAUL 101.98.29.19 (talk) 09:56, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2019)

Mixian rice noodles being cooked on a gas stove at a noodle restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan, China Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gas stove Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pondicherry • School meal Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 February 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Congratulations from WP:STiki!

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
	Congratulations, Susmuffin! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 06:26, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 18:09, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

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

Recent changes

• 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. [63]

Changes later this week

• 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

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [64]

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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

re: Recent edit to Adult adoption

Hi Susmuffin,

I changed "children" to "minor children" to better summarize the law to which it referred: The Adoption and Children Act (2002) states, "An application for an adoption order may only be made if the person to be adopted has not attained the age of 18 years on the date of the application."

The unedited statement was: "In the United Kingdom, only children may be adopted." Since all persons who had parents are children, saying "only children may be adopted" strikes me as tantamount to the trivial statement that "only persons may be adopted". However, that would include adult children as well and the statement would contradict the law it refers to. Consequently, I made the modification.

Perhaps the article should simply say "In the United Kingdom, only minors may be adopted" or adult adoption is not allowed in the United Kingdom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.76.199 (talk) 08:15, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.76.199 (talk) 08:03, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

The context makes it clear that "children" refers to people who are under the age of majority. However, I would not object to the replacement of "children" with "minors," as they are synonyms. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 03:52, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2019)

A cheeseburger at a restaurant Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Cheeseburger Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gas stove • Pondicherry Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 February 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-09

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

Recent changes

• There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [65]

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. [66]
• 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

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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)

Angle

Sorry about my revert, it was a glitch of the website. Clicked on the wrong thing. StaticVapor message me! 02:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

It happens. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 00:51, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

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

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

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

• From the editors: Help wanted (still)

• News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

• In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

• Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

• Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Binge-watching

• Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

• Gallery: Signed with pride

• Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

• Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

• From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

• Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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Manitowoc, Wisconsin nickname

Please see the following from Wikipedia: https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=List_of_city_nicknames_in_Wisconsin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pautzjam6 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

That page also lacks a source. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 21:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Need your opinion

Hello Sir, Please get a look on my article Biswajit Mohapatra ,it does not fall WP:ONEEVENT and WP:BLP1E now as i have expanded the article.Please help me to save the article that should be on Wikipedia in every possible way.Ishwar<sup>Talk</sup> 06:36, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2019)

Wanted posters in Japan, 2004 Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Wanted poster Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Cheeseburger • Gas stove Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-10

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

Changes later this week

• 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

• 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. [67][68]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2019)

Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Zipper Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Wanted poster • Cheeseburger Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-11

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

Recent changes

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

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. [69]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [70][71]

Changes later this week

• 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

• 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)

why did you remove the information that I added about Joseph Hill?

why you remove the information that I added? Olu faix (talk) 10:02, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

You did not provide a reliable source. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 15:54, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Nationalism

Regarding edit on nationalism page, that wrongly stated that annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation in 2014 was driven by Nationalism. "...More recently, nationalism was an important driver of the controversial annexation of Crimea by Russia..."

First of all, the annexation of territory of another country was an illegal act, as a result of occupation. So no controversy here, but obvious disregard of international law.

Secondly, Russian Federation is trying to resurrect Soviet Union, and there was nothing nationalistic about Soviet Union.

Thirdly, the only nationalism would be possible in Crimea would be nationalism of Crimean Tatars if they were trying to create national state. Annexation by Russian Federation is dictated by totally different drive - imperialism. Russian Federation itself, as a federation of Buryats, Bashkors, Komi, Sakha, Tuva, Dagestan,... and many others, that can only function by offering its subjects foremost imperialistic but not nationalistic ideas. And the occupation of Crimea is a clear result of such imperialistic tendencies in politics of Russian Federation.

Financial Times: Russia: Imperialism awakes

The Guardian: Putin’s desire for a new Russian empire won’t stop with Ukraine

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières: Three forms of Russian imperialism: Empire in Russian History

The Conversation: Russia’s imperial mindset dates back centuries – and it is here to stay

Congratulations from WP:STiki!

		The Bronze STiki Barnstar of Merit
		Congratulations, Susmuffin! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 5,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 13:38, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 18:11, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Archiving

Hi Susmuffin, as a matter of interest, why did you change one archive to another at the Holocaust? I sometimes use archive.is because the Internet Archive is often slow to load, and for a few days recently I wasn't able to load it at all. I don't mind which one is used, but I wondered whether you're aware of some reason archive.is ought to be replaced. SarahSV <sup>(talk)</sup> 18:41, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I only glanced at the change before leaving this. You didn't add the Internet Archive but expanded the URL. Is it better to use the long URLs than the short ones? SarahSV <sup>(talk)</sup> 18:47, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Apologies, "Fix dead links" did that on its own. Looking at the two links, the shortened one does load slightly faster. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 19:12, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

No worries. I see editors do this quite a lot (rmv archive.is, or change the URL), so I was wondering whether there was a problem with it or whether the script's default is to remove those links. I suppose I should start by looking at why the script treats them as dead links. Thank you. SarahSV <sup>(talk)</sup> 01:44, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

God is Dead

Thanks for your message. You have removed a citation from the above article and yet you have asked me to explain why this might be a problem. I'm a bit puzzled. Perhaps you would be kind enough to explain your reason for removing the citation. 82.27.90.157 (talk) 12:14, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

The citation was very vague. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 13:02, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

The Re-evaluation of Human Values is a central concept (prophecy) in Nietzsche's philosophy and can be found discussed in a number of his works. It concerns a hypothetical period of history that corresponds with what we today call post-modernity. Ecce Homo is only one such work - albeit a very important one - where the concept is discussed. 82.27.90.157 (talk) 13:20, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2019)

Many of the internal organs of the human body Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organ (anatomy) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Zipper • Wanted poster Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-12

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

Changes later this week

• When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [72][73]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [74]
• Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:44, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

My edits were relevant

My edits were relevant considering that the party/faction JKLF is a terrorist group. It has killed both soldiers & innocent civilians of my country, including women & children. It is relevant edit to call it a terrorist group. Furthermore, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen is a Pakistani terrorist group as designated by the US, EU, & India. There is not a shadow of a doubt when I edit an article calling them terrorists.

--Sumit kagrawal (talk) 08:42, 24 March 2019 (UTC) Sumit Agrawal

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2019)

Lady Gaga playing a keytar, which is a type of keyboard instrument Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Keyboard instrument Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Zipper Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-13

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

Recent changes

• The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [75]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [76]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [77]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [78]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Lyles, TN photographs

Thanks for your patience as I learn to use Wikipedia!

Most, if not all pictures, that I've seen on Wikipedia have been of high quality. Is there ever a time to use old, lesser quality photos from early 1900's in an article? I have seen an old photo of Lyell Station and a photo of a steam engine passing through Lyles. I couldn't find anything in The Tea Room about this topic. I don't want to contact the ladies who possess these if it is unlikely they could be used.

Thanks again, Abaker2019 (talk) 17:50, 30 March 2019 (UTC) 3/30/2018

Old images are perfectly fine. However, the article is a bit short. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 21:18, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Getting serious about humor
• News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
• In the media: Women's history month
• Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
• Featured content: Out of this world
• Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
• Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
• Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
• News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
• Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
• From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
• Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
• Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?
• In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
• Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
• Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2019)

The interior of a gym in The Netherlands, around 1900 Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gym Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Keyboard instrument • Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 1 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-14

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

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

You stopped my edit!

Hi

Dissapointed that you blocked my edit of this page - the song Mama's Little Girl has no explanation as to the song meaning and I believe that my edits should be applied and asked for comment on - short of asking Sir Paul or Heather Louise not sure what else can be done! Do me a favour go and listen to the song and think of the 5 year old Heather Louise at the farm on the Mull of Kintyre - this song must be about her! Some comment must be made about it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.15.222.57 (talk) 00:19, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2019)

Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Story of the Negro Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gym • Keyboard instrument Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [80][81]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [82]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [83]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [84]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [85]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [86]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [87]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [88][89]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

GB

Just to let you know, there is nothing good faith about this edit. They are a long term troll, User:DeepNikita. ~ GB fan 21:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2019)

Various dairy products: milk, feta cheese, yogurt and parmesan cheese (clockwise from upper-left) Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Dairy product Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Story of the Negro • Gym Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [90][91]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

My edit

Im sorry about that it is just that the evidence i provided was just entirely true and i didn’t know how to give reference. Could you please leave the edit up and i will learn how to add reference in the mean time. The information i have provided can be found in the David Attenborough documentary on South American invasive species which i watched on dailymotion.

Thankyou, from Ollypants Skeltona09095 (talk) 15:41, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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

Recent changes

• The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [92][93][94]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [95]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [96][97]

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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2019)

Gunilla Persson in 2013 Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gunilla Persson Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Biodegradable plastic • Dairy product Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-18

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

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now invites 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. [98][99]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [100]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [101]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [102]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [103]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [104]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

am i still blocked

am i still blocked

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2019)

Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Production logo Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gunilla Persson • Biodegradable plastic Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 May 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [105]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from WP:STiki!

		The Silver STiki Barnstar of Merit
		Congratulations, Susmuffin! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 10,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 23:34, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Regarding my edit in Wikipedia page.

That Pollard incident in his Wikipedia page is nice. But what I said or added is not nice ?. Do you follow cricket?. I follow it closely. What I said was correct and it can be added in his Wikipedia page. Shankraj914 (talk) 18:52, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2019)

Sashimi at a restaurant Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Sashimi Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Production logo • Gunilla Persson Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 May 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-20

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

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

“Final warning” level for first unconstructive edt

Hi Susmuffin, I saw that you gave an IP editor a final warning for vandalism despite it being their first edit. Was there anything in particular about the edit that warranted such a response? I’m just hoping you can explain. Thanks, Creamynaus (talk) 23:40, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

That edit was well beyond acceptable. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 23:50, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2019)

Ancient Greek letters painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Letter (alphabet) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sashimi • Production logo Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 May 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-21

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

Recent changes

• The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [106][107]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [108][109]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [110]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [111]

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13:04, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 33

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

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

Read the full newsletter

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Agung eruption 18 may 2019 is it a hoax

Seeing very nicely done youtube video released lately about Agung eruption may 18 2019... Searching through all possibilities to verify it and coming up with nothing. Appears to be fake. I live in Ubud bali but presently travelling in Thailand. Do you think its a hoax? Hope for your comment. Email me if you like. Pak Ulu : kunzangyabyum@yahoo.com

Mixed Gender Hurling

Thanks for the 'heads-up'. Agreed that the page 'looked' better previously, I should have been more succinct. I guess the page now gives the impression that something (Mixed Gender) exists which does not exist, in reality? Or, perhaps I've mis-understood what Wiki categorises as a 'Mixed Gender' sport? Let's work this out, together and build a better page for Hurling (and for Wiki!) Kind Regards. Sean

Thanks for the 'heads-up'. Agreed that the page 'looked' better previously, I should have been more succinct. I guess the page now gives the impression that something (Mixed Gender) exists which does not exist, in reality? Or, perhaps I've mis-understood what Wiki categorises as a 'Mixed Gender' sport? Let's work this out, together and build a better page for Hurling (and for Wiki!) Kind Regards.

Thanks for the 'heads-up'. Agreed that the page 'looked' better previously, I should have been more succinct. I guess the page now gives the impression that something (Mixed Gender) exists which does not exist, in reality? Or, perhaps I've mis-understood what Wiki categorises as a 'Mixed Gender' sport? Let's work this out, together and build a better page for Hurling (and for Wiki!) Kind Regards. SeanAmhlaoibh (talk) 21:45, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2019)

Josephine Bornebusch in 2013 Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Josephine Bornebusch Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • Sashimi Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 May 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-22

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

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [112][113]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

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Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that if anyone just removes a correct and perfect edit without considering its ture value, it will never be a great thing. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals left on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how can it be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you very much for your support.

Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that if anyone just removes a correct and perfect edit without considering its ture value, it will never be a great thing. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals left on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how it can be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you very much for your support. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoologist D.Roy (talk • contribs) 11:51, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that how anyone can remove a correct and perfect edit, without considering its true value. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how can it be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you so much for your support.

Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that how anyone can remove a correct and perfect edit, without considering its true value. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how can it be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you so much for your support. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoologist D.Roy (talk • contribs) 12:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Polly the Parrot

Hello, Susmuffin. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Polly the Parrot".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Snowycats (talk) 17:42, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2019)

The official logo of the latest HTML version, HTML5 Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: HTML Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Josephine Bornebusch • Letter (alphabet) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 June 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-23

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [114]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [115]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [116][117]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [118]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [119]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Template categorization

Hi, Susmuffin. Thank you for your Lovecraft userbox. Please keep in mind, that for templates, the categories should be wrapped using <noinclude></noinclude> tags. See WP:CAT#T for more information. —⁠andrybak (talk) 18:21, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

I understand. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 19:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2019)

Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Karla Faye Tucker Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: HTML • Josephine Bornebusch Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 June 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-24

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 create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [120][121]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [122]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [123]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [124]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Nephew Tommy

Hello, I am not sure why you think the article was better before or what measurement you are using to determine whether an article is good or not. The current article is in complete and outdated. I am new to updating wikipedia pages and everything is very foreign to me. The bio needs to be updated and Nephew Tommy himself requested that I update the image. Any insight or direction would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortheartllc (talk • contribs) 15:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

You put a reference directly above the infobox; it was unclear what its purpose was. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 16:27, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Gawker — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.34.3.201 (talk) 18:37, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2019)

Bookworm damage inside a book Hello, Susmuffin. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bookworm (insect) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Karla Faye Tucker • HTML Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 June 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [125]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [126]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [127]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [128]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Invite to RfC (Request for Comment) in Reagan article on Iran-Contra

Hi,

You're invited to an RfC on the question of, "Within the section on the Iran-Contra affair, should we include the aspect of drug trafficking on the part of some Nicaraguan Contras?"

Talk:Ronald_Reagan#rfc_85A761C

Thanks,

FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 15:59, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft

I'd be grateful for your thoughts on whether we should return the article to the version here, in the hope that we can start a constructive dialogue on any changes necessary. Regards, Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:29, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I support your plan. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 04:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft

I'd be grateful for your thoughts on whether we should return the article to the version here, in the hope that we can start a constructive dialogue on any changes necessary. Regards, Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:29, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I support your plan. ―Susmuffin <sup>Talk</sup> 04:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)