User talk:Matthewrb/Archive/2016/June

The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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Tech News: 2016-23

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

• MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [1][2]

Changes this week

• The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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136		Privacy issues of social networking sites (talk)						Merge
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71		The Ballad of the Sad Café (talk)						Wikify
5		Daily Basharat (talk)						Orphan
7		Alex Lu (talk)						Orphan
3		Adalbert von Mörsberg (talk)						Orphan
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15		R Is for Rocket (talk)						Stub
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Tech News: 2016-24

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 wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [4]
• Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [5][6][7][8]

Changes this week

• You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [9]
• It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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12		University Airport (talk)						Cleanup
524		Land-grant university (talk)						Cleanup
6		Observatory chronometer (talk)						Cleanup
5,897		Cate Blanchett (talk)						Expand
1,507		Superman in film (talk)						Expand
245		Fredzilla (talk)						Expand
37		Residential colleges of Rice University (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
237		Colonial colleges (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
156		Banky W. (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
6		Czapek & Cie (talk)						Merge
284		Chronometer watch (talk)						Merge
14,076		Star Wars (talk)						Merge
434		Swatch (talk)						Wikify
177		Aero (chocolate) (talk)						Wikify
31		Truly Strong Universities (talk)						Wikify
31		Jessica Lessin (talk)						Orphan
18		Alfred Rewane (talk)						Orphan
3		Alan Feldman Public School (talk)						Orphan
9		Ray Bradbury (short story collection) (talk)						Stub
10		The Wilderness (short story) (talk)						Stub
55		Charles Keating III (talk)						Stub
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TFL notification

Hi, Matthew. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Space Shuttle missions – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 27. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:23, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

@Giants2008: Sorry, I thought I responded but I guess I didn't. Looks good to me, thank you! ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Drop me a note} 20:05, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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Tech News: 2016-25

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

• Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [11]

Changes this week

• The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [12][13]
• Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [14]
• When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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66		Hershey Trust Company (talk)						Merge
4,363		Social media (talk)						Merge
13		Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (talk)						Wikify
183		YouTube Rewind (talk)						Wikify
6		National Institute of Geological Sciences (talk)						Wikify
2		Antonio Preto (talk)						Orphan
2		Ahmad Zia Azimi (talk)						Orphan
3		Anđelina Radić (talk)						Orphan
95		Biraj Bhatta (talk)						Stub
17		Embroidery (short story) (talk)						Stub
31		Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (talk)						Stub
88		Candy bar (talk)						Stub
110		Nathan Greno (talk)						Stub
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Rescheduled Colorado Wiknic

The Great Colorado Wiknic 2016 has been rescheduled from June 26 to August 7 due to a conflict with Wikimania 2016. My apologies for the inconvenience. I hope you can join us on Sunday afternoon, August 7. Yours aye,  Buaidh  21:55, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-26

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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [16]
• The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [17]
• A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [18]

Problems

• The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [19][20]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [21]

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 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [22]
• An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [23]
• The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [24][25][26]
• From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [27]
• Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [28]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

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2,201		Space Shuttle (talk)						Add sources
5,213		International Space Station (talk)						Add sources
46		Canceled Space Shuttle missions (talk)						Add sources
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731		2010s (talk)						Add sources
18		STS-59 (talk)						Cleanup
159		Hale and Pace (talk)						Cleanup
1,180		Amnesty International (talk)						Cleanup
1,419		Ant-Man (Scott Lang) (talk)						Expand
55		STS-120 (talk)						Expand
45		STS-80 (talk)						Expand
423		Shishito (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,467		Kingdom of the Netherlands (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
476		Soviet space program (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
216		Attitude control (talk)						Merge
54		IBM AP-101 (talk)						Merge
70		Human-rating certification (talk)						Merge
194		M.I (talk)						Wikify
383		Hot sauce (talk)						Wikify
1,586		Soap opera (talk)						Wikify
6		Alan Epstein (talk)						Orphan
4		Ashif Shaikh (talk)						Orphan
2		Andromachus of Cyprus (talk)						Orphan
27		Ralph Torres (talk)						Stub
20		Ptichka (Buran-class spacecraft) (talk)						Stub
30		Cinemax (Asia) (talk)						Stub
9		STS-61-M (talk)						Stub
40		STS-62-A (talk)						Stub
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You are invited to the Great Colorado Wiknic

The Great Colorado Wiknic 2016

Who: All Wikipedia and Wikimedia users and their families and friends are invited.

What: The Great Colorado Wiknic 2016.

When: Sunday afternoon, June 26, 2015, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm MDT.

Where: The Wiknic will be held at our home in Arvada. Please contact Buaidh for further information or assistance.

Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many folks to expect. You can subscribe to our Wikimedia Colorado e-mail list to receive e-mail notice of future Wikimedia Colorado activities.

Sponsor: WikiProject Colorado

Your hosts: Buaidh & BikeSally
(You can unsubscribe from future invitations to Wikimedia Colorado events by removing your name from the Wikimedia Colorado event invitation list.)

12:00, 26 June 2016 (UTC)