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Thanks for uploading File:Martin Fowler 4.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

~~Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 00:20, 5 November 2015 (UTC)~~

Ignore this, the image is back in the article. - JuneGloom07 Talk 03:00, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

The image was never removed, but the description page of this and the other image in the article both say it's not in use. This is really strange. I've left a message on Sfan00 IMG's talk page. –anemone projectors– 08:08, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, it's in use... Quite why it's saying it's not is beyond me. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

I actually logged in because that page gets targeted by a sock who has a habit of removing the image and I thought that's what happened here. I'm still thinking that may have triggered it and maybe it wasn't corrected when it was reverted? 5 albert square (talk) 03:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey

The WMF wants your ideas for technical improvements.

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

WMF funding and the death and life of a controversial feature.

In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

The difficulties of verifying encyclopedia content.

Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

The week in article traffic.

Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket

This week's featured content.

Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony

Wikipedia received the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for global cooperation on October 23.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Superprotect has been removed. [1]
You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [2]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [3]

Problems

Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [4]

Changes this week

Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [6]
The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [7]

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17:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Security review RfC

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed

Assessing the end of a controversial feature.

Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee

It's that time of the year again.

Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review

Fallout from a recent security breach.

Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [8]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [9]
The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [10]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [11][12]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Non-administrator Arbitrators RfC

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Further revdel please?

Hello, and thanks for hiding a revision at User talk:ClueBot Commons. I wavered over whether to bother someone with a revdel request, in the end decided to just not draw attention to it, but I appreciate your looking at it. In order to hide the offending comment completely, please would you also consider hiding the subsequent revision by SineBot? Thanks. – Wdchk (talk) 16:26, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I must have missed that, currently on holiday so editing from a mobile device! It was also 1am here at the time, I guess that's what happens when I edit that late lol! 5 albert square (talk) 23:59, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Community portal

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

Our annual election coverage.

In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

Icelandic Wikipedia hits 400K articles; how do Wikipedia editors stay neutral?

Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world

Discussions around the encyclopedia.

Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running

Updates on the Committee. You know, besides the election.

Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales

The week in Featured Content.

Traffic report: Darkness and light

Paris and Diwali.

Tech News: 2015-48

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

A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [13]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone

Wikidata is set to become the main open data repository worldwide.

News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations

Updates on the Wikimedia Foundation.

In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia

The worldwide community wins a prestigious award while the Russian community struggles with government interference.

Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films

Scholarly research about Wikipedia and related projects.

Featured content: Caves and stuff

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [14]
Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [15]

Changes this week

Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [16][17]
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [18]
Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [19]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Non-free content

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

Issues of quality and verifiability threaten the project.

News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

How the community can have its say on two important matters.

In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

Concerns about Wikidata and WMF fundraising.

Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

The new Netflix series heads the list.

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Newly promoted featured content.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Did you know

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Mrwallace05 socks

New socks NickiMinaj4life and 86.133.178.209 are obviously the same editing any pop song pages as previous sock Y45ed. (I think he/she is not doing any rock band album or song pages, as well as the Beatles.) 123.136.106.74 (talk) 00:36, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello,

Given the sheer volume of socks created recently, I would strongly suggest that you raise this as a sockpuppet investigation. They will be able to confirm if these accounts are related and if there are any other sleeping accounts. I am pinging in @Callanecc: to this conversation as they are the most recent CheckUser to deal with this editor. --5 albert square (talk) 00:49, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Username Liability

Hi there!

I see you are an active user on Wikipedia and I wondered: Is my username a familiarity with any persons?

Please get back to me as I am worried about myself as a user and editor.

Many thanks. ShannonBrightCole (talk) 00:54, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi @ShannonBrightCole:,

Welcome to Wikipedia!

We would always suggest exercising caution when creating an account in your real name, this is because it increases the potential for harassment especially if you edit in controversial areas. Even if you change your username, a record of your previous username remains permanently.

We would also suggest that you do not edit under a name that is likely to imply that you are (or are related to) a specific, identifiable person, unless it is your real name. If you have the same name as a well-known person to whom you are unrelated, and are using your real name, you should state clearly on your userpage that you are unrelated to the well-known person.

I would suggest that you read WP:REALNAME as that offers further guidance. I hope this helps you.--5 albert square (talk) 01:06, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi @5 albert square:,

Thanks for your help! I am soon going read through the terms and conditions of my username on Wikipedia very soon!

Before reading, I would like to ask a quick question: Is it a problem that I did not insert spaces in my username? I am using my real name but I was anxious that my user may be reported as I did not hyphen my double-barrelled surname. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShannonBrightCole (talk • contribs)

Hi @ShannonBrightCole:,

I am not aware that would cause any issues for User:DeltaQuadBot. You will find that bot reports any username issues to WP:UAA. I hope this helps you.--5 albert square (talk) 01:26, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

Recent changes

Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [20]

Problems

Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [21]

Changes this week

You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [22]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [23]
You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [24]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [25]
You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [26]
UploadWizard will look a bit different. [27]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [28]

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 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes