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The Signpost: 31 July 2019

• News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

• In the media: Politics starts getting rough

• Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

• Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

• Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

• News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

• Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

• Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

• Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

• In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper

Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab • SD0001's Watchlist title updater • Yair rand's UserBlind

Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter • Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks

Enterprisey: edit section on hover • Search shortcuts • superjump

ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js • MMSLink.js

DannyS712's Global watchlist • SD0001's StubSorter

After a discussion, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to

User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and Wugapodes is maintaining it.

Pending requests

• A script to fill in {{Template:Infobox journal}}
• A tool to simplify merging articles
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox

RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Wikidata weekly summary #376

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
  • Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
  • Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
  • OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
  • New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
    • External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
    • External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID
  • Query examples:
    • French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
    • Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
    • Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
    • Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
    • Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
  • Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
  • Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
  • EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
  • Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
  • Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
  • Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
  • Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
  • Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
  • Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
  • Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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FFU

Hi Masumrezarock100, You recently commented on Wikipedia:Files_for_upload#Update_for_Seal_of_Washoe_County,_Nevada, Would you mind if I overwrite the seal as as can be seen here it's more used than their '07 one,
I thought it'd be rude to just upload without asking you so thought I'd ask before overwriting,
FWIW a few American articles have seals although admittedly I don't really know what purpose they serve but meh,
Anyway thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:11, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

@Davey2010: I certainly wouldn't mind at all. I wasn't clear about licensing information, so I didn't upload it. Feel free to review the request. :) Masum Reza^📞 20:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Okie dokie thank you :), I'll go ahead and rename it, Happy editing :), –Davey2010^Talk 00:41, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Non-free content

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Non-free content. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	This is for your valuable efforts in contributing to Wikipedia. I appreciate your efforts. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 13:34, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Yajamana bo

Don't you think yajamana earned nearly beyond logic dude 280crs from 600 screens?? Wtf dude Pawan Chandra N (talk) 18:17, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2019)

The human body has several organs. Hello, Masumrezarock100. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organ (anatomy) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Butter churning in Nepal • Flea market Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 August 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

French to English Translation

Thank you so much for your help! I appreciate your time. I think the best option is for me to go with a certified editor/host who can possibly translate the French page for me. I have not yet figured how to continue a conversation on a talk page so I am sorry for the new thread. Thank you again. (PoojaCucumber (talk) 15:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)) PoojaCucumber

Tech News: 2019-32

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

• A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [1][2]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Legobot (talk) 04:28, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Vespers of 1640

Selva morale ... is known as the Vespers of 1640 by whom? It's a great collection of much much more than vespers, - looks misleading to me, and I'd drop it altogether. It could be mentioned somewhere in the text, under legacy (which needs to come eventually). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Now that you mentioned it, it does look misleading. I removed the text, but kept the link because I think it's related to the article. Masum Reza^📞 14:19, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I agree. Only after I wrote this did I notice that someone else wrote it ;) - Thank you for helping with the article, - a fascinating subject! I will learn to make short comments, to avoid edit conflicts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Supreme Wiki-service.

		The GNU Barnstar
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this barnstar in recognition of your uncanny sense of timing in replacing the non-PD cover of A Different Pond with a PD version just as I had started writing an explanation to the unfortunate, but now fortunate, nominator as to why they couldn't use it. Supreme Wiki-service - thank you. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Hello Gog the Mild, Thanks for the barnstar and for your kind words. It means a lot to me that my contributions are appreciated by other editors. :) But I'd like to say that I didn't replace the non-PD cover with a PD version. The previous book cover was non-free and it was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. It wasn't certainly an "Own work ". So I nominated the copyrighted file for speedy deletion there. I uploaded another widely used cover here with appropriate fair use rationale as I couldn't find any free replacement. Masum Reza^📞 22:59, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Now you are baffling a poor, simple, content-creating editor with Wiki-jargon. Having read that twice, it still seems the semantic equivalent of what I said. You see why I am so happy that you stepped in. (Actually, I kind of understand, and that's what I was alluding to in my clearly over-simplistic message.) In any event, I am sure that your work is much appreciated; it's just that most editor's forget to tell you so. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:10, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Natsuo moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Natsuo, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. PATH SLOPU 12:49, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

@Path slopu: Wait. It's a disambiguation (name index) page, that's why I didn't add any sources. It's like Itsuki. It's just a list. It doesn't need any sources. Would you mind self-reverting? Masum Reza^📞 12:53, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi greetings, sorry for the inappropriate move. I agree with you. I'll try to self revert it after the original page get deleted ( we can't perform a move when that page exist. This is for preserving the actual history of the page). I am not a page mover, so I can't swap pages' titles. So please wait for some time or approach any other user with page mover right. Please see Moving redirect pages, WP:MOR. Thank you.PATH SLOPU 13:17, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

@Path slopu: No worries. We all make mistakes. I already moved it back to mainspace. I don't have autopatrolled so I would like you to patrol the page. Thanks. Masum Reza^📞 13:22, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for moving back. I reviewed the page.PATH SLOPU 13:29, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

mobilemorelinks

Hey, why don't it works? ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:54, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

@1997kB: Please import this script using your minerva.js. I am importing it in my minerva.js. Then navigate to the bottom of an article and you will see the links. Reply here if you are still facing problems. Masum Reza^📞 15:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Well I am importing it to common.js, wouldn't that will work? I have FR's undo installed in common.js, which works fine. Wondering if it's possible to make it common.js compatible. Thanks :) ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:08, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

@1997kB: The thing is, Mobile scripts sometimes load unreliably if loaded in skins other than Minerva. That's why I made it only minerva compatible. I will try to make it compatible with common.js. But for the time being you need to move this script to your minerva.js to use it. Masum Reza^📞 15:20, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! I will wait for that. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

@1997kB: I updated this script and fixed this bug. It now supports common.js. Masum Reza^📞 20:29, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Still not working. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:38, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

@1997kB: Unexpected. I am importing it using my common.js and it works fine. What browser you are using? Have you purged your cache? Try visiting a random article using the mobile website and scroll to the bottom and wait for the script to load. It only works on minerva skin. Masum Reza^📞 04:46, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

@1997kB:You have the wrong code in your common.js. Please uninstall and install it again. Masum Reza^📞 04:49, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

You currently have this code in your common.js.

importScript('Masumrezarock100/mobilemorelinks.js'); // Backlink: [[Masumrezarock100/mobilemorelinks.js]]

It should be

importScript('User:Masumrezarock100/mobilemorelinks.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Masumrezarock100/mobilemorelinks.js]]

. This was the real problem from the very beginning. I am embarrassed that I didn't notice it. Masum Reza^📞 04:59, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Ah, bug with ScriptInstaller. Thank you for help! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 05:54, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

@1997kB: Now that you've fixed the code, I don't think there will be any problems. Please reply if you're still facing problems. Masum Reza^📞 06:05, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Israel Shamir

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2019)

Hello, Masumrezarock100. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Great Spirit Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Butter churning in Nepal Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 August 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Teamwork

		The Half Barnstar
		By the authority vested in me by myself I present this pair of half barnstars jointly and severally to Masumrezarock100 and Barkeep49 in recognition of their fine editing and admirable teamwork on A Different Pond; which resulted in its promotion to Good Article. You are both fine examples of what Wikipedia is about. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:45, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. All I did was fixing minor things pointed by you. You are the one who deserve a barnstar. Masum Reza^📞 20:52, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

You are clearly a very modest editor. My favourite sort. And now I have one. Thank you. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations Masumrezarock100 - nice work on the article! GirthSummit _(blether) 23:28, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. But I really didn't do much. Masum Reza^📞 14:53, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Hey- kindly help

Hi,

I don’t have any issues that page i have created has got paid remark but i just wanna tell you that this is really not done. Did not took any money to do that and i never knew that people give money to create a page. But i wanna tell you that I created his page he is very famous beaurocrate. I am really not happy and leaving wikkipedia 🙏🏻 Hitesh2617 (talk) 09:36, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I understand that you are not paid. But according to you, the subject of the article Anand Kumar himself asked you to move his page. If you have external relationships with a subject of the article, it means that you have a conflict of interest. Our policies require you to disclose your COI even if you are not paid. Please declare your conflict of interest first on your userpage. Masum Reza^📞 14:49, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

@Hitesh2617: Pinging you. Masum Reza^📞 14:50, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #377

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
  • "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
    • External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
    • External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
    • Map of offshore windfarms (source)
    • Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)

• Development
  • Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
  • Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
  • Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
  • Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [3]
• Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [4]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [5]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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18:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis

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User:Usetest/sandbox

Hey, I reverted your edits at User:Usetest/sandbox. Speedy deletion based on WP:PROMO has been declined by an admin (who said it was probably a test), so there is no reason to blank the page. --MrClog (talk) 18:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. But it looked like ambiguous promotion to me. Masum Reza^📞 18:54, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

Edit summary content is visible in:

• User contributions
• Recent changes
• Watchlists
• Revision differences
• IRC channels
• Related changes
• New pages list
• Article editing history

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:17, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Thanks for informing me. What edit are you referring to? I usually give edit summary when making non-minor changes to articles. If you are talking about my edits to talk pages, I have to say that I don't usually give edit summary when replying because I see no point. Masum Reza^📞 00:41, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

This is a classic example of why a ES is necessary. Not using edit summjaries is just lazy and unhelpful. That's why we have the template message above. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:35, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

@Kudpung: I admit that I am lazy, lazier than anyone else. The diff you mentioned is of a reply. What or what kind of edit summary I should use? It would be helpful if you tell me. To be honest, flow talk pages are much better in my opinion since it doesn't have a field to write down an edit summary. Masum Reza^📞 01:42, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Where it's helpful is where people are working from their watchlists or from page histories. It saves having to load the page to find out what the edit was about. A quick glance at this may give you an idea. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:15, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

I see. I don't usually edit via computer and when I do, I use WP:WIKI+. The source editor on mobile doesn't remind you to give an edit summary nor Wiki+. I will try to give edit summary from now on. Masum Reza^📞 05:03, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #378

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin

• Events
  • Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
  • ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
  • You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
  • QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
  • New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
    • Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
    • Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
    • External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
    • External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
  • Query examples:
    • Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
    • Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
    • Islands in Germany (source)
    • Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
    • Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Danish numerals
    • Danish hyphenation

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
  • Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
  • More work on the the production Termbox service
  • tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
  • adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:51, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

"Любе" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Любе. Since you had some involvement with the Любе redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:39, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2019)

Hello, Masumrezarock100. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bianca Wahlgren Ingrosso Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Great Spirit • Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 August 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Categorization

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Tech News: 2019-34

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

Tech News

• There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

• Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
• Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [6]

Changes later this week

• Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (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 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
• Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [8]

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15:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Using OOUI themes Apex and WikimediaUI together

Hey, I saw your question on IRC earlier about OOUI themes. Unfortunately it is not possible to have widgets using both themes on a single page at the same time – the CSS required for the other theme is not loaded at all, and if you were to load it, they would conflict (styles for both themes would apply together). The only way to use a different theme is to switch to a different MediaWiki skin in your preferences (Apex is used by MonoBook, and WikimediaUI by all other skins). Sorry :( Matma Rex talk 15:27, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Meghan Murphy

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"Katerini City, City of Katerini, Saint Catherine, Greece, St. Catherine, Greece" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Katerini City, City of Katerini, Saint Catherine, Greece, St. Catherine, Greece. Since you had some involvement with the Katerini City, City of Katerini, Saint Catherine, Greece, St. Catherine, Greece redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 17:43, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

BamZ412’s Signature

Sorry, Masumrezarock100 but I can’t change my signature back in July because it’s an archive. May you excuse me for a moment, I need to redirect the July archive before reverting it back to modify my signature. Thanks. BamZ412(Talk) 15:47, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (broadcasting)

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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2019)

Pitchforks Hello, Masumrezarock100. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pitchfork Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Bianca Wahlgren Ingrosso • Great Spirit Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 26 August 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #379

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
  • Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
  • Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals (Q66665412) by User:Stevenliuyi
  • New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
  • Random finds from WikiProject Random
  • Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
  • Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
  • The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
    • External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
    • Future figure skating competitions
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions
    • French ships whose name start with an A (source)
    • Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
    • Lunar crater

• Development
  • Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
  • Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
  • Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
  • Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
  • Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for the edit summary, I've gone ahead and added the FFU template to file talkpages of all accepted files,
That'll teach me for not reading the page!,
Anyway thanks again, –Dave | Davey2010^Talk 22:23, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

In regards to this - I don't mind adding FFU templates (as required) but I'm not going to be adding all Wikiproject templates ,,,, You're more than welcome to add these yourself but as per FFU there is no requirement to add these - I used to close AFDs regularly many moons ago but was never expected to add any Wikiproject templates.... same applies here, Thanks. –Dave | Davey2010^Talk 22:37, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Thanks for doing adding ffu templates. :) Adding WikiProject banners to the talk pages, is not a requirement, but it is helpful when someone lists the file for discussion on FFD. AAbot will include the file name in WikiProjects' article alerts page and it will attract more editors to the discussion. Also when you upload a file on Commons, try to include a permanent link to the FFU page, like I did here since you are uploading the file on someone else's behalf. It is helpful for finding the upload requester. Again, it's also not required. Masum Reza^📞 22:44, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

No worries :), I just wish I read the page in the first place instead of being a smart ass and thinking I know all lol,

Ah thanks for that I'll try to do that in future, Thanks, –Dave | Davey2010^Talk 22:46, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:White genocide conspiracy theory

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

• News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

• In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

• In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

• Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

• Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

• Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

• Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

• Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

• News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

• Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:41, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Timeless Newsletter • Issue 5

Newsletter • August 2019

Welcome to the fifth and final issue of the Timeless newsletter!

Progress was made. True story.

I am happy to announce that after about a year, this delightful project in which absolutely nothing has gone according to plan is coming to a close. Or at least, the grant-funded portion is. Which means we will now be resuming our regular schedule of random whims-based development, you probably won't notice any difference whatsoever unless you use MonoBook, and there's a report.

What's new from the past two months:

A lot less than we'd hoped, frankly. We:

• Fixed various bugs, some of which even weren't for stuff I'd just broken two patches previously.
• Resolved sundry compatibility issues for other extensions, templates onwiki, whatever, largely by removing dumb crap from the css.
• Implemented some shiny new features you'll probably hate or just never use or actually see, like click-toggled dropdowns, icons everywhere, and options to select a default layout or set an image for the site header wordmark.
• Brought the total number of open tasks on the Timeless workboard down to 70.

We also wound up with:

• Patches resulting in RelatedArticles working in MonoBook, and FlaggedRevisions showing up in Minerva, unless someone actually managed to turn that off as well. (Blame T181242.) It's possible we went a little overboard with the whole 'let's close all the tasks!' sprint.
• An unfortunate repeated discovery that themes (the Night/Winter variants I keep insisting will happen at some point) are still pretty far off on the horizon. Um.
• Possibly a quite a few more bugs coming your way. This month, and especially the past week, have been a bit of a mess, development-wise. While hopefully none of the worse issues make it to production, please keep the reports coming for whatever you do find and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Y'all've been amazing about this, and it's really appreciated.

And I guess that's that. I'm really bad at reporting, and this is a report. For the purposes of the grant, this was a requirement, but do you want me to keep trying to send these out?

-— Isarra ༆ 18:08, 31 August 2019 (UTC)