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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

Medical school class's Wikipedia contributions profiled as case study; and a remembrance of Ray Saintonge, Wikimedian since 2002

In the media: Wikipedia in the news

This edition's roundup of media coverage

Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

Nineteen articles, eleven lists, one portal and twelve pictures were promoted

Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

TRM, CUOS '16, R&I, RfC

Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

Four weeks of Wikipedia's most popular articles examined

Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

Titles with numbers now sort numerically, and a new tool to check how template parameters are used

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates

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Old EastEnders episodes.

@5 albert square: Hi 5 Albert Square, I was wondering if you had access to older EE episodes from 1990-2008. We are coming to the end of the episodes guides and have a few more writers/director to confirms or find User:Kelvin 101/List of missing data from year articles#90.27s. Thanks Kelvin 101 (talk) 15:10, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I'm afraid I don't, have you tried @AnemoneProjectors:?--5 albert square (talk) 18:23, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

This is for a project in my userspace anyway :-) anemone projectors 07:46, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

If you are still editing

Hello. As you are the last admin to block someone at AIV could you please block 97.86.249.114 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). It is the ref desk troll and he has been at it for some time. If you have logged off no worries hopefully someone will get him soon. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 01:20, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Done :)--5 albert square (talk) 01:23, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much. Along with the obnoxious edits I was tired of seeing red pings every few seconds :-) Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 01:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Now back as 71.233.193.180 (talk · contribs) desk may need temporary protection if you have the time. MarnetteD|Talk 01:29, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Done getting a little busy tonight!--5 albert square (talk) 01:36, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Yep, when this one gets going it can be a pain. Thanks yet again. MarnetteD|Talk 02:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1]

<slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [2]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Dynamic a-list

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Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump

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Tech News: 2016-41

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 show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [3]
The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [4]
Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [5]

Changes this week

Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.  [6]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [7]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Just want to ask a last question from an experienced admin

Hello albert, I am Mridul Sharma who's been dispute with krimuk90 for a couple. Now that you have blocked my account indefinitely what will happen to it after 10 or 15 years is that account will get site banned or something else after that ban will happen after 20 years is it will become unregistered or something else.Please answer my question. Please dont block my ip i am just asking one last question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.197.140.43 (talk) 09:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Nothing will happen to your account.--5 albert square (talk) 23:16, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

2600:8806:4800:5100:1010:4ADA:F1A3:D744

2600:8806:4800:5100:1010:4ADA:F1A3:D744 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Just a heads up that the trolling IP that you blocked earlier is now back on this IP. Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:F360:28AA:8490:C872:4D54 (talk) 23:55, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!--5 albert square (talk) 23:59, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection

Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities

In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

And this edition's roundup of media coverage

Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch

Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted

Traffic report: Debates and escapes

Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel

Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Deferred changes/Request for comment 2016

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Deferred changes/Request for comment 2016

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Tech News: 2016-42

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 newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [8]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [9]

Changes this week

There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [10]

Future changes

The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Special:UnusedCategories

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Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [11]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [12]
About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [13]
Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:1

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Tech News: 2016-44

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

Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [14]
Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [15]
The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [16]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [17]
Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [18]

Future changes

New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [19]

Miscellaneous

The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license

In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

Plus our roundup of recent media stories

Wikicup: WikiCup winners

Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled

Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist

Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure

Featured content: Cream of the crop

Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob

Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights

Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

A recap of recent research in our realm

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Tech News: 2016-45

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

Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [20]
First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [21]
.gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [22]
Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [23]

Changes this week

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [24]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [25][26][27]
Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)