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Tech News: 2019-24

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

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [1][2]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [3]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [4]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [5]

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 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Palmer Street

On 11 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Palmer Street, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Palmer Street was the location of a secret British spy base that intercepted the communications of London's embassies? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Palmer Street. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Palmer Street), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Steven A. Cohen article

Hello. I am reaching out to you because you have edited the Steven A. Cohen article. I would like help with updating the article. Please visit the article talk page to review my suggested updates. Thanks! AlexReads (talk) 07:33, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redo Amitabh Chaudhry

Hi,

I have updated the article about - Amitabh Chaudhry with properly reference links and everything. please let me know if there is an issue.

You had redo my edit on this article on 9th. I am learning please help me with it.

Have had to revert again. Your editing is still far too promotional.Edwardx (talk) 10:14, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Amitabh Chaudhry - edited again properly.

Hi, I have edited his profile again. I am enjoying and learning Wikipedia. Hope this time I got it right. There is no promotion whatsoever. Please look into it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hitesh2617 (talk • contribs) 11:07, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

University of Cambodia

Hi I would like to kindly ask why you keep marking the university of Cambodia’s page as an advertisement. I have written it objectively and used a neutral tone (or strived to). Can you please let me know why you keep marking it as such? Thank you! TravisM416 (talk) 12:11, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, TravisM416. I have copied your comment to Talk:University of Cambodia and replied there, as it will make it easier for anyone else who might like to comment. Edwardx (talk) 17:16, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

COI issues? I have none?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kramarquez (talk • contribs) 13:19, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Kramarquez. I have just started Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#University_of_Cambodia, which you should read. Edwardx (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why would I have an alternate account? I have always made all my edits public under my username. I have no idea who the other account is. I also do not have a conflict of interest which is why I did not respond to the question as it didn’t relate to the situation. I’m trying to clean up this article and have the text be appropriate. I’ve deleted over half of it and would honestly like it to be done, so can you kindly point to the paragraph that is giving you trouble? Instead of just saying it’s excessive, I would greatly appreciate something concrete. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by TravisM416 (talk • contribs) 13:41, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, TravisM416. You need to respond to all of those issues at Talk:University of Cambodia, Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#University_of_Cambodia and User talk:TravisM416, as appropriate. Edwardx (talk) 14:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edwardx Thank you for your information. I have responded in the other places. Hope this helps clear things up! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TravisM416 (talk • contribs) 02:40, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again, TravisM416. Are you not employed by the University of Cambodia? You should declare your conflict of interest. Edwardx (talk) 10:07, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edwardx Hi I'm really not sure why you just keep pointing out that it's written like an advertisement and it's too excessive, but then you won't tell me which parts. I really would love to solve it and I want you to be happy with it as well. Instead, you won't give me any specific information so it's quite confusing. Please let me know what exactly I can do so you dont have to hear from me anymore :) Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TravisM416 (talk • contribs) 10:50, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edwardx And now I have the same question about Kao Kim Hourn's page. It's very neutral and sticks to the facts with sources. Can you kindly tell me which lines are promotional so that I can rectify it? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by TravisM416 (talk • contribs) 10:56, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edwardx Hi, so I have edited the page drastically and tried to comply with everything. I thought I had removed any bit of excessive information or promotional material, and then I waited for anyone to comment on the page for several days or add to the discussion. Can you please tell me why you put back on the tags so I can fix it? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.235.247.161 (talk) 12:07, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [6]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [7]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (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 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [9]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Florence Fang

On 18 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Florence Fang, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Florence Fang sees a dinosaur, she buys it for her Flintstones-themed house? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Florence Fang. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Florence Fang), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Sandy Schreier

On 23 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sandy Schreier, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sandy Schreier's clothing collection includes three Valentino outfits owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sandy Schreier. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sandy Schreier), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Pyramid Stage Barn Star of Glasto-wikiness

	The Pyramid Barnstar of Eternal Grooviness
	For volunteering to take photos of loads of acts!! See you there.— Rod ^talk 20:57, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly. "Groovy" really takes me back. You never hear that now, man. If you want to see some groovy people, check out what we used to watch Saturday mornings, after the cartoons, Soul Train. Edwardx (talk) 21:13, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Libro de los Epítomes

On 24 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Libro de los Epítomes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2019, Libro de los Epítomes, a library catalogue by Ferdinand Columbus, was rediscovered after nearly 500 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Libro de los Epítomes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Libro de los Epítomes), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-26

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

Problems

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [10]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!

July 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 127, 128 Check out what's happening in July at Women in Red... Virtual events: New topics: Sports / Education Geofocus: Microstates Continuing initiatives: Suffrage / #1day1woman Initiatives we support: Atari Women University of Edinburgh 1000 Women in Religion Editor feedback: Check out the conversations regarding Sports, Sports, Sports! Help us plan our future events at the Ideas Cafe Join the conversations on our talkpage Social media: Facebook / Instagram / Pinterest / Twitter Subscription options: Opt-in/Opt-out

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Edwardx,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

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Tech News: 2019-27

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 development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [12]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [13]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [15]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (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 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Corder

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A tag has been placed on Michael Corder 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. PoliceSheep99 (talk) 21:02, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [16]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [18]

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

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [19]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [20]

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20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VI, June 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Third round of cooperation with Hovhannes Toumanian Museum Australia report: Toodyaypedia, City of Canning, WoW2019, and the Pilbara Brazil report: Partnership with Football Museum brings visibility to entries about women’s soccer on Wikipedia Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref edit-athons and restrospective of +190 articles improved France report: Regular workshops Indonesia report: Introduction to Wikimedia Commons and Structured data Mexico report: Wiki Loves Mexico Netherlands report: Image donation; Wiki goes Caribbean meeting on slavery and plantations in Suriname; Dutch open public library data; Field study collaboration Wikimedia and Libraries Norway report: The International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 Poland report: Documentary photographs from National Archives and WikiPlato Serbia report: Continuation of residences Sweden report: Wikidata imports; Data roundtripping project UK report: Oxford and Coventry Updates USA report: LGBTQ+ Pride Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Development updates; GLAM focus area at the Wikimania Hackathon Wikidata report: Want new tools? We've got 'em! Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

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• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:21, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding RCB Bank page content

Dear Edwardx, I am contacting you with regards to the content published at RCB Bank's page. Some information there is inaccurate. I have been trying to amend it, but all changes have been removed despite the fact that I have provided trusted references. I appreciate if together we correct the factual information to improve the content. For example, it is stated that "As of 2018, VTB through its holdings and subsidiaries is the largest shareholder in RCB and continues to fund and guarantee most of RCB Bank's loans". In fact, VTB is not the largest shareholder of RCB Bank since August 23, 2017. https://cyprus-mail.com/2017/08/25/russias-otkritie-sells-rcb-bank-stake/

Suggested paragraph on the bank’s shareholding structure: In August 2017, the Bank’s management increased ownership of RCB to 49.9% by acquiring a $100 million stake (19.85%) in the Russian Otkritie Financial Corporation Bank. Following the acquisition, Crendaro Investments Limited, via which the Bank’s management own their shares, became RCB Bank’s largest shareholder. The rest 3.81% stake is held by Mitarva Limited. https://www.ft.com/content/25e88d88-88bf-11e7-8bb1-5ba57d47eff7 http://www.rcbcy.com/en/about-rcb/corporate-governance/shareholders/

I appreciate your cooperation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Be2u (talk • contribs) 16:52, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Charles Stapley

On 14 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charles Stapley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Charles Stapley played 26 different roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Stapley. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charles Stapley), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-29

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [21]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (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 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [22]

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15:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Tiny the Wonder

On 16 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tiny the Wonder, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Tiny the Wonder (pictured) could kill 200 an hour in London's rat-baiting pits? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tiny the Wonder. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tiny the Wonder), 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.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	I hereby present you with this barnstar for spotting Tiny the Wonder which achieved nearly 40,000 views. Philafrenzy (talk) 09:03, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are too kind. I have to thank the Museum of London for staging the exhibition, The Times for writing about it, Waitrose for a free copy without the paywall, and you for knocking the article into shape. Remarkable viewing figures - even Tiny in his heyday could not have managed that many in 24 hours. Edwardx (talk) 20:50, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You forgot to thank your agent and the Academy. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:14, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And "anyone else who knows me". Edwardx (talk) 22:43, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-30

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

• Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
• The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [23]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [24]

Changes later this week

• Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [25]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (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 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [26][27]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [28][29]
• Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
• The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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13:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Cypriot chief executives

A tag has been placed on Category:Cypriot chief executives requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. Liz ^Read! Talk! 01:41, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Edwardx,

This category is no longer empty and I have removed the CSD C1 tag from it. Let me know if you have any questions. Liz ^Read! Talk! 02:59, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Liz. Edwardx (talk) 08:57, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eva Mudocci has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, Edwardx. Eva Mudocci, 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!) 09:54, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

August 2019 at Women in Red

August 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 129, 130, 131 Check out what's happening in August at Women in Red... Virtual events: New: Film+Stage / Indigenous women / Millennial countries Continuing: Sports (through August 31st) / Suffrage / #1day1woman Editor feedback: Check out the conversation regarding: August's Indigenous Women event and the REDress Project Help us plan our future events at the Ideas Cafe Join the conversations on our talkpage Social media: Facebook / Instagram / Pinterest / Twitter Subscription options: Opt-in/Opt-out

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Tech News: 2019-31

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

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [30]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 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 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

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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Proposed deletion of Otherways

The article Otherways has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

lacks sufficient coverage in relaible sources. does not meet notability Fails WP:CORP

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 16:54, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Willard H. George

On 3 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Willard H. George, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hollywood furrier Willard H. George was known as "the chinchilla industry's greatest friend"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Willard H. George. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Willard H. George), 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.

valereee (talk) 00:02, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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. [31][32]

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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13:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Shi Wenbo

Hi Edwardx, Please take a look at Talk:Shi Wenbo, consider changing name to Sze Man Bok. Thanks, SWP13 (talk) 06:11, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: July 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VII, July 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Members of the National Assembly of Armenia Australia report: Staying warm over winter Germany report: Heidelberg symposium Indonesia report: Cultural Gardener Summer Project in Indonesia Ireland report: Collaboration with the PhotoIreland Foundation Italy report: Archeology in alpine valleys Norway report: Sámi place names – collaboration with the Sámi Várdobáiki Language Center Sweden report: More bibliographic data on Wikidata; National Library of Sweden; GLAM activities Wikimania UK report: Oxford and Coventry Updates Uganda report: #1Lib1Ref Uganda 2019 USA report: Summer meetups and Picnics Map the GLAM report: Visualising the status and the spread of a cultural collection in Wikipedia Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Other statements; Wikimania; blog posts on SDC Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 34, May–June 2019 Wikidata report: I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair WMF GLAM report: OpenGLAM, Wikimania and Structured Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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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. [33]
• 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. [34]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [35]

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)

Anoka Primrose Abeyrathne

Hi, I added a link to the Sustain Solutions website to the article as she is known for cofounding the organisation. Please can you explain why this needs to be trimmed? WP:LINKFARM says "There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to the external links section of an article." I am keeping an eye on the page as I started the COI Noticeboard discussion on it. TSventon (talk) 08:07, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]