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A cup of coffee for you!

Coffee can be nice. GAB^Hello! 23:35, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks :D 5 albert square (talk) 22:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 March 2016

Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

The Signpost speaks with the incoming WMF interim executive director.

News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

The outgoing ED to be honored at Davos.

In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

Piracy and controversy.

Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

Are readers exhausted?

Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

All of us can do better.

Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

The week in newly promoted content.

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

Motions from the Committee.

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

Discussing the upcoming Italian Wikimania.

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Tech News: 2016-13

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

MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [1] [2]

Problems

Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [3]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [4]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.

Future changes

Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [5]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

A surprise political announcement.

In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

Police haul away some article content.

WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

Rock out to this interview with project editors.

Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

¿Quién es más macho?

Featured content: A slow, slow week

Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

Set your Wayback Machine.

Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

Current research about Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down

A roundtable discussion about current Wikimedia issues.

Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

Using hashtags to track the results of Wikimedia outreach.

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Tech News: 2016-14

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

Recent changes

You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [6]
Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [7]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 28 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 17–23. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here!

May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in March, April, and May 2015, and all request articles, begins May 1. Sign up now!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis, and Baffle gab1978.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Please comment on Wikipedia:User pages/RfC for stale drafts policy restructuring

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Tech News: 2016-15

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

The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [8][9]
Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [10][11]
ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [12]
The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [13]

Problems

There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [15]

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 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [16]

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20:45, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016

Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

They do have plenty of time on their hands

News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

More turnover in the foundation

In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

Copyright laws, prisoners, and the future of technology

Featured content: This week's featured content

Please comment on Help talk:Citation Style 1

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Tech News: 2016-16

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

You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [17][18]
You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [19]
MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [20]

Changes this week

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [21]
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

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 April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

request your views on an article nominated for deletion

I'd request you to state your vote on [[22]] article for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.177.216.113 (talk) 11:19, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Page mover

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The Signpost: 24 April 2016

News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

Maybe the rover could find an ED on the moon...

Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

When is competing with Google not competing with Google?

Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

Help wanted!

Traffic report: Two for the price of one

What's better than one traffic report? Two!

Featured content: The double-sized edition

10 articles, 6 lists, and 11 pictures have been promoted in this cycle

Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

When it rains, it pours

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Tech News: 2016-17

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

Problems

Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [23]
When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [24]

Changes this week

Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [25]
It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [26]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [27]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

Wikimedia Switzerland board members involved in paid-editing firm

In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

More reports surface of pirates' new favorite database: Wikimedia Commons

Traffic report: Purple

Prince's death breaks traffic report records

Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks

Seven articles, six lists, and four pictures were promoted these weeks

Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

Arbitration news

Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

Making sense of Wikipedia's social network

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Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [28]

Problems

There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [29]

Changes this week

You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [30]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [31]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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Okc3993

Hi 5 albert square, I'm pretty sure Okc3993 is a sock of Diamese as per the block reasons of CanselLal4156 and Recc0044 - they all make the exact same edit -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:40, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Ah thank you @Samtar:, I had a feeling something wasn't right with the account, I just didn't know who's sock it was. I've gone ahead and blocked them. Thanks again!--5 albert square (talk) 08:47, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

No worries! Thanks for all the hard work you do

-- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:49, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks @Samtar:, it's nice to feel appreciated. You'd think they would try and be a little original sometimes though. I swear every sock targets Jimbo Wales' talk page!--5 albert square (talk) 15:41, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Claudette Hubbard

Hi. I tried to create a page for Claudette Hubbard since she is still on the List of EastEnders characters (2015 page, but it got deleted. Could you create one? --ForeverBoriSeddie187 (talk) 12:12, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

@AnemoneProjectors: you created the original redirect. Are you creating a page for Claudette in your userspace? Personally I'm in two minds as to whether or not she's notable enough for her own article yet.--5 albert square (talk) 12:34, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

She's on my list of articles to work on, but I haven't started it yet. I had completely missed the edit history of the redirect at Claudette Hubbard. The article that ForeverBoriSeddie187 (talk · contribs) and IP accounts had created was a copy/paste of the list entry, with no assertion as to her notability, seemingly no or very little extra work had been done, and no attribution had been given. I think she may be notable, but not as the list entry currently stands - we'd need to work on something to know for sure. My suggestion as always is to build on the list entry. anemone projectors 13:59, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

@ForeverBoriSeddie187: I would take note of what @AnemoneProjectors: has said above. If you like, I can move the article into your userspace, that way it would give you time to work on the article before it goes into the mainspace of Wikipedia. Would you like me to do this?--5 albert square (talk) 15:26, 8 May 2016 (UTC)