User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2014/10

User_talk:Peter352#2nd_chance

Hi, King of Hearts. I read your message at User_talk:Peter352#2nd chance. I'm confused by it. I see no record of the user ever requesting an unblock. What prompted your message? Jason Quinn (talk) 00:45, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

I handle requests on WP:UTRS. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:47, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Ah, of course. Thanks for the reply. Jason Quinn (talk) 04:26, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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• You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1] [2]
• Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [3] [4]
• You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [5]
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• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
• If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [8] [9]
• We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [10]
• On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [11] [12]
• You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [13]
• 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [14]

Future changes

• You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [15]
• More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [16] [17]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Tombstoning listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Tombstoning. Since you had some involvement with the Tombstoning redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Fiddle Faddle 19:49, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [18] [19]
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• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [20]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [21]

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• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Quick question

Hello King of Hearts,

An SPI I filed awhile ago appears to be stale (see: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/E4024). Can you please check it out and let me know what you think? The reason why I come to you is because you've closed a previous SPI on the very same account. This time around, I've provided even more evidence. I would greatly appreciate it if you can just give it a quick glance. If not, happy editing! Étienne Dolet (talk) 01:23, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

The master

In Turkish Wikipedia they blocked me for about one year claiming I was User:Tapfereritter and then they said sorry, mistaken etc and lifted the block. I hope you won't do the same to me again here or to anyone else. Note that I never ever requested block revision etc. Neither do I request an answer. All the best. --E4024 (talk) 07:42, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/E4024

Hi King of Hearts. In closing the SPI, you mentioned lack of DUCK evidence. I thought that there were many examples of identical edits is many areas. What was the weakness of the evidence? Thank you for your time. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 06:41, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I wouldn't have asked for a check if I still would have blocked even with a negative result. While there's a significant overlap of interest and certain stylistic features, it really requires indisputable behavioral evidence to override negative technical evidence. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:35, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you King of Hearts for the clarification. I can see your point regarding overriding the negative CU evidence. All the best. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 17:25, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Though I respect King of Heart's decision as well, I would like to have his decision reviewed. If possible, what is the procedure to do so? Étienne Dolet (talk) 19:04, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

You can email the checkusers list for a reevaluation of the situation. They would be the best bet for weighing behavioral against technical evidence since they actually know the specifics. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:16, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Expiring on or before 25 October 2014

Korean Central Television and Madison De La Garza? --George Ho (talk) 05:45, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Due to the very low activity on both articles, I don't think it justifies reprotection. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:09, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43

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Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [26] [27]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [28]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [29]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [30]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [31] [32]

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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [33]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [34]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [35]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [36]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [37] [38] [39]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [40]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [41]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [42]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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