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Irving Layton

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Hello, Checkingfax -- I was just reading the article about Irving Layton, after reading the article on Leonard Cohen, and I made a few copy-edits. I noticed that there are several external links in the article. I don't know what to do about them. I wonder if you could take a look at the article and do something. Thank you.  – Corinne (talk) 18:16, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

2fa page

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Hey Checkingfax, just wanted to let you know that the help page for 2FA has been moved to meta at meta:Help:Two-factor authentication. If you wanted to continue to expand the page, you can do so there. Thanks for your help and understanding, -- Ajraddatz (talk) 22:05, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2016)

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A woman wearing a dress
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Dress

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Wikidata weekly summary #235

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
    • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
  • Development
    • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
    • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
    • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
    • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
    • Analysed queries used with Listeria
    • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
    • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
    • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
    • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
    • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-46

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

  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [1]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [2]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-11

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Our quarterly goal is to add filters to the Recent Changes page, that show ORES good-faith and damaging tests and filters around new users. The work on this is proceeding mostly as planned. We hope it shall be available as a Beta feature (only on wikis where ORES is available as a Beta feature) before the end of the quarter.

Edit Review Improvements [More information]

Recent changes

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Notifications concerning Flow are no longer all grouped together in your preferences. The "Edits to my talk page" category will now include Flow notifications about your user talk page (if your user talk page uses Flow), and the "Mentions" category will now include mentions on Flow pages. Previously, all notifications related to Flow were grouped together in the "Structured Discussion" category. [6]
  • The orange bar will now also be displayed when a message is posted on a your user talk page if your talk page uses Flow; previously, it was only displayed if you had a wikitext talk page. [7]

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16:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2016)

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A cleaning sponge
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Sponge (material)

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Wikidata weekly summary #236

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
    • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
    • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
    • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
    • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
    • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
    • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
    • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
    • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
    • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
    • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-47

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

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [8]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [9]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [10]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [11][12][13]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [14]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [15]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Hello, Checkingfax. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Jesse Cook

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Checkingfax,

The trouble with the entries for Jesse Cook et al. is that many editors don't seem to know what Flamenco is.

Briefly, it's the folk music of the Andalusian Gypsies, with a substantial non-Gypsy contribution also, and a less-substantial contribution from Latin America (estilos de ida y vuelta). All Flamenco may be classified by traditional styles, as the movements of Bach suites may be classified as minuets, sarabandes, courantes etc.

The Gypsy styles all fall broadly into the following forms: soleares, tientos, or seguiriyas; and the non-Gypsy styles are usually some form of fandango (with a few exceptions such as farruca). The rumba is only considered a flamenco form tangentially, and falls into the estilos de ida y vuelta category.

Corollary: albums consisting entirely of rumbas and/or vaguely-Spanish-sounding pieces are not Flamenco. Please note that I'm not saying they aren't good music. This includes all albums I've heard by Ottmar Liebert, Jesse Cook, and many others.

To those who disagree with me I say: listen to the album that started the whole thing, Fuente y caudal, which contains Paco de Lucía's big hit, the rumba Entre Dos Aguas. The other tracks are Flamenco!

(I should perhaps add that I was the flamenco correspondent for Classical Guitar magazine for twenty years, and for Guitar International for twelve years before that.)

Hope this clarifies my edit. Paul Magnussen (talk) 00:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016 at Women in Red

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December 2016

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Women in Aviation and Women in the Military
Our geographical topic of the month is
Caribbean Women
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2016)

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Homework

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Previous selections: Sponge (material) • Dress

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2016-48

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 this week

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [16]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [17]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  •   Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [18][19]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Everybody is invited to the November 30 Bay Area WikiSalon

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
 

Details and RSVP here.

See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Tahiti

Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, Checkingfax -- I was just looking at the article on Tahiti, and I made a few copy-edits. I was reading the caption of an image showing a banknote, in the section Tahiti#Twentieth century to present. The caption reads:

  • A one-franc World War II banknote (1943), printed in Papeete, depicting the outline of Tahiti (rev).

I looked and looked at the image and could not find any outline of Tahiti, so I clicked on the image. Then I saw the reverse side of the banknote, which clearly shows the outline of Tahiti. Then I looked at the caption again, and saw "(rev)", which I suppose means on the reverse, but (a) not everyone will notice or realize that, and (b) what is the point of mentioning "depicting the outline of Tahiti" when one does not see the outline? I'm wondering if there is a way to show both sides of the banknote, and, if not, whether we should just take out "depicting the outline of Tahiti (rev)" from the caption.  – Corinne (talk) 16:41, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Corinne. The image wikilink had a purposeful CSS crop to remove the bottom half of the banknote. I removed that extra coding as you can see. I sized it to 1.8 times the normal thumbnail size. If you think that is too big you can downsize it by changing the 1.8 to whatever looks right to you, or you can remove the upright= parameter entirely. For accessibility reasons I removed the hard image sizing such as 400px or 500px, etc. from other images.
I feel that the graphical layout of this article is still a bit of a hot mess. Also, if I walked on any of your edits, feel free to restore them. Let me know what you think. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 18:36, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the image, putting the reverse side of the image in, and writing a good caption. I reduced the size of the image to 1.1 percent. I put "CE" after the years. "AD" is the only one for which the placement before or after the year is optional. All the others go after the years. Tahiti seems like a beautiful place.  – Corinne (talk) 03:10, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2016)

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Three Martinis
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Three-martini lunch

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Wikidata weekly summary #238

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
    • RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
    • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
    • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
    • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
    • Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
    • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2016-49

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

  • You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [20]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [21]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [22]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [23]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
 
 

Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful!

>>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating!

September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words).

October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page.

Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

>>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

  1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
  2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
  3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
  4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
  5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 01:09, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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