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- 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. [1]
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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Dennis Lennon
On 2 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dennis Lennon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dennis Lennon hoped his design for the interior of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (pictured) would be the "setting for the world's best party"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dennis Lennon. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dennis Lennon), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Kenmont Primary
It's not a given that it passes WP:GEOFEAT - "Buildings, including private residences and commercial developments may be notable as a result of their historic, social, economic, or architectural importance, but they require significant coverage by reliable, third-party sources to establish notability." - Lets have the discussion at Talk. Fob.schools (talk) 12:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Please read the first part: "Artificial geographical features that are officially assigned the status of cultural heritage or national heritage, or of any other protected status on a national level and which verifiable information beyond simple statistics are available are presumed to be notable." The school is a listed building. Edwardx (talk) 12:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Its not an artificial geographical feature. Its a building. Let's have the discussion at the appropriate venue which is where I started it. The facts are in dispute. We need to discuss it. Asserting/reverting your opinion is not collaborative. Please revert your removal of the template or it goes to WP:ANI Fob.schools (talk) 12:26, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Please note that I had already copied this discussion to Talk:Kenmont Primary School before your response immediately above. That is where you should have started this in the first place. In any event, "artificial geographical feature" includes buildings. Edwardx (talk) 12:35, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Its not an appropriate place to start such a discussion. Its a not very well frequented tiny outpost of the WP universe. When starting a discussion, especially in relation to {{merge school}} the appropriate location is in the destination of the proposed merge. Thats why it is linked from the template. 100s if 1000s of other editors have done this before us, and thats why the template works. Its an invitation to discuss. But you have removed any pointer to the discussion from the article page itself. Which some might call vandalism. The discussion about the merge is taking place at Talk:Kensal Green. Please revert your deletion of the template and engage in the merge discussion. I really dont want to go to ANI. Fob.schools (talk) 12:59, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Please note that I had already copied this discussion to Talk:Kenmont Primary School before your response immediately above. That is where you should have started this in the first place. In any event, "artificial geographical feature" includes buildings. Edwardx (talk) 12:35, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Its not an artificial geographical feature. Its a building. Let's have the discussion at the appropriate venue which is where I started it. The facts are in dispute. We need to discuss it. Asserting/reverting your opinion is not collaborative. Please revert your removal of the template or it goes to WP:ANI Fob.schools (talk) 12:26, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --Fob.schools (talk) 13:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Expunge
Please do a manual revision and expunge hide my IP: (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quantom122 (talk • contribs) 13:10, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Quantom122 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- You will need to contact an admin to do that. Please read Wikipedia:Revision deletion. Edwardx (talk) 13:55, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
Note: This thread had been removed by Quantom122, without (I assume) Edwardx's consent. I have restored it (and redacted some content in the process) without prejudice to Edwardx dealing with the thread as they see fit. AGK ■ 23:08, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
Discussion on Layla Moran talk page
There is a rather spirited discussion currently ongoing at Talk:Layla Moran#Domestic Violence. Seeing as you are an experienced editor that recently edited the page, I would appreciate if you could chime in with your view, in the interests of finding a consensus one way or the other. Domeditrix (talk) 09:52, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
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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. [2][3]
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. [4]
- A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [5]
- Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [6]
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. [7]
- The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [8]
- 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. [9] - 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. [10][11]
- 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)
This Month in GLAM: March 2019
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Your draft article, Draft:F. Scott Frazier
Hello, Edwardx. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "F. Scott Frazier".
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.
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 21:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for Libro de los Epítomes
Good stuff! 2001:14BA:980E:7700:0:0:0:8EA (talk) 04:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Wolfgang Baldus
On 11 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wolfgang Baldus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wolfgang Baldus. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Wolfgang Baldus), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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DYK nomination of Ehud Arye Laniado
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DYK nomination of William Marshall Cazalet
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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 theWikibaseQualityConstraintsconstraint checking API works. [12][13] - You can test the
depictsproperty for structured data on Commons.
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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Tiny the Wonder
Hello! Your submission of Tiny the Wonder at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! MWright96 (talk) 19:48, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| For creating the original article Tiny the Wonder. Aquataste (talk) 19:27, 21 April 2019 (UTC) |
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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. [14][15][16]
- The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [17]
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. [18][19]
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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: October 2019
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Speedy deletion nomination of Patricia Moreira
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A tag has been placed on Patricia Moreira requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Dorsetonian (talk) 18:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- As author of the article, you should not delete the speedy deletion tag. Dorsetonian (talk) 18:49, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry Dorsetonian, I was working too fast and thinking about PRODs. Edwardx (talk) 18:55, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Not a problem
. I'm sorry, I don't see notability here. But in order to give time for third- (and hopefully more) party discussion, I will swap the CSD nomination for AfD. Dorsetonian (talk) 19:34, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Not a problem
- Sorry Dorsetonian, I was working too fast and thinking about PRODs. Edwardx (talk) 18:55, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Patricia Moreira for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Patricia Moreira is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patricia Moreira until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Dorsetonian (talk) 19:39, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Birth date Mary Boone
Hello Edwardx,
I don't understand why you undid my edit regarding the birth date of Mary Boone. Do you consider the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) as a primary source? The article already lists it at the bottom, so why do not use the information from there?
Best regards,
Sidhant Kapoor
Just a friendly heads up on Sidhant Kapoor. I declined your speedy request because there are claims of importance (in fact, claims of the higher standard of notability) and it's not fundamentally an advert. If you still think this should be deleted, AfD is the way to go (because I will contest a PROD).----Fabrictramp | talk to me 14:47, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
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Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauthdatabase. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [20]
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- 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 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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| For your terrific work overall on the business-related articles. Also, thanks for writing missing biographies of billionaires/CEOs around the world. Please continue the good work. Störm (talk) 17:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC) |
Books & Bytes – Issue 36
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019
- #1Lib1Ref January 2020
- #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings
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Chase Coleman III
You recently updated Chase Coleman III's occupation in the lead and infobox sections from "investor" to "hedge fund manager". I highlighted the inaccuracies of this in a previous talk page note. Would you consider reverting this update? NinaSpezz (talk) 16:39, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
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Changes later this week
- The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [21]
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [22]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [23]
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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
December events with WIR
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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
Isobel D. Thornley has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Edwardx. Isobel D. Thornley, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know
. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:01, 30 November 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
- Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 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 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [24]
- The
{{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns""(empty string). When you read a page it returns"-"(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [25]
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16:58, 2 December 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
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [26]
- There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 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 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [27]
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: November 2019
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Miklós Palencsár
Hello Edwardx, I hope you are well.
I would like to know why Miklós Palencsár's page was deleted after 5 years been on, and what should I do to get the page back on?
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alencar.rossoni (talk • contribs) 16:05, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Warwick Road, Earl's Court
On 13 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Warwick Road, Earl's Court, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that there have been calls for the Warwick Road Estate (pictured) in London's Earl's Court to be listed to prevent it from demolition? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Warwick Road, Earl's Court. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Warwick Road, Earl's Court), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Nomination of Alexander C. Taylor for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alexander C. Taylor is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander C. Taylor until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Praxidicae (talk) 18:07, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Christopher Harborne has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Edwardx. Christopher Harborne, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:01, 16 December 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.
Problems
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [28]
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [29]
Changes later this week
- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [30]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 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 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [31]
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Season's Greetings
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| Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Mystical Nativity (Filippo Lippi) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 16:39, 17 December 2019 (UTC) |
Marco Streng has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Edwardx. Marco Streng, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:01, 18 December 2019 (UTC)