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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.
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [4]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [5]
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. [6]
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. [8]
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. [9][10]
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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Hi, you recently tagged the article Doubles curling for speedy deletion due to copyright infringement. In looking further at the website you cited [11], they reference the Mixed curling article that Doubles curling was just split from directly above the two paragraphs that match with this article. Therefore there is no copyright infringement because they got the text from Wikipedia, not the other way around. This speedy deletion is erroneous and should be removed. Thank you. - A202985 (talk) 21:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Mate
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Hi mate just interested. have you seen the series assassination of gianni versace. cheers mate — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8000:14C0:6D00:F196:6D0:6CD:1040 (talk) 13:23, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
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. [12][13]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Hi CAPTAIN_RAJU, Appreciate your work for anti-vandalism in Wikipedia. I have noticed that name of Ryan International Group of Institutions have been vandalized again in the infobox after you made changes and identified using STiki. How do you think this can be stopped? Abhsihek1990 (talk) 07:27, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Deletion Sorting
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Please see this discussion about deletion sorting: [14]. Your comments might be useful. Thanks. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:18, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments on copyright infringement. Will make corrections soon.History2049 (talk) 12:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Deletion sorting
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WP:AFD/USA reads 'This is a high level category for deletion sorting. Whenever possible, it is recommended for deletion discussions to be added to more specific categories, such as a state and/or relevant subject area.' If a AFD is already in some state deletion sorting, it does not go here too....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 09:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wholesomeness. Since you had some involvement with the Wholesomeness redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:46, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
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. [15][16][17]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [18]
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 sameAsmeta 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. [19][20]
My vandalism on the page "Kotlin (Programming language)"
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Hi!
I recently contributed to the "Kotlin (Programming language)" page. The page has many code example, as have the corresponding pages about other programming languages. Sometimes the code example ends with the execution of the code example. In that case the output of the command is always shown immediately after, which is logical. Here are two simple examples cut directly from the Kotlin page:
>>> 2+2
4
>>> println("Hello, World!")
Hello, World!
However, the Kotlin page has one example where the output of the command is not included:
>>> println("Kotlin".lastChar())
To help my fellow humans in their search for knowledge I added the correct output, naturally after having verified its correctness in the Kotlin environment:
>>> println("Kotlin".lastChar())
n
To avoid misunderstandings I carefully described the change in the comment field. To my great surprise my contribution was however soon hereafter identified as "vandalism" by you, who also reverted the change without any discussion.
I have difficulties understanding how my contribution can be vandalism, so I would appriciate if you could elaborate this.
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Hello, CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the month of February 2019. The edition includes details about these topics:
From A2K
Bagha Purana meet-up
Online session on quality improvement Wikimedia session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh Foundation, Pune
Wikisource workshop in Garware College of Commerce, Pune
Mini-MWT at VVIT (Feb 2019)
Gujarati Wikisource Workshop
Kannada Wiki SVG translation workshop
Wiki-workshop at AU Delhi
Please read the complete newsletter here. If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2019
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Hello, CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the month of March 2019. The edition includes details about these topics:
From A2K
Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
Wiki Awareness Program at Jhanduke
Content donation sessions with authors
SVG Translation Workshop at KBC
Wikipedia Workshop at KBP Engineering College
Work-plan submission
Please read the complete newsletter here. If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:47, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
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Hello CAPTAIN RAJU, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Yleem Poblete, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: United States government websites are in the public domain, so this is not a copyvio. Whether she is notable is another matter,. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #362
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common
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. [21][22]
Problems
Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [23]
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. [24]
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. [25]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [26]
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. [27]
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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the 5th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.
Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.
Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.
What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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How could i add pictures in Wikipedia?? Dhrubo442 (talk) 06:51, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
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The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.
So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
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Just a note to say that I would probably remove the Philippines delsort tag that you added to the above AfD - the only link with the Philippines is that the tour happens to start in Manila, but the group themselves are American. Richard3120 (talk) 17:10, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
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XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.
Arbitration
In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.
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