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Hello, It's gonna be awesome, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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About your edit on Yellow Line (Kaohsiung MRT)
In English Wikipedia, ROC has the same meaning as Taiwan, which is different from Chinese Wikipedia. So it is needless to show ROC and Taiwan at the same time.
Template:related portals2 is commonly used in portal pages. In articles, it is better to add Template:portal bar or Template:portal box.
Portals Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taoyuan, Underground does not exist in English Wikipedia now. In my opinion, we had better create these portal page before putting them on article pages.--星巴克女王 (talk) 14:48, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi there. I noticed that you've been working on translating the amphetamine article for the Chinese Wikipedia. Since I realize the source code of that article can be very hard to navigate, feel free to ask me if you have any questions. Also, I'd be happy to translate the image text in {{Amphetamine pharmacodynamics}} and {{Psychostimulant addiction}} to Chinese (I'm assuming the article is written in written vernacular Chinese - I'm not familiar with the language; forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong ) if you're interested and can provide me with the relevant translations for the existing image text. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 02:16, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
我覺得Taiwanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry捐款資訊的資料, 不適合放在維基百科的條目中（中文條目及英文條目都不適合）, 對一般看維基百科要了解此組織的人而言, 這個不是必要的資料, 若有意要捐助此組織的人, 自然會到組織的網站上找相關資訊--Wolfch (talk) 19:02, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Draft:心動家族兒童青少年關懷協會 to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. Wolfch (talk) 14:48, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I understand the desire to just hit the infobox or the lead, but please update the body of the article with well sourced content. If - and only if - in light of everything else in the article, it belongs in the lead, please then summarize the new content in lead. The infobox is a yet higher-level summary, please think a second time about whether the new material should or should not go in the infobox. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 21:24, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oh! Thank you so much! It's not a summary of systematic review, however, I perceive NEJM as an excellent publisher and their primary findings have high potential to be replicated by other researches. Please feel free to let me know if there exist logical flaws among my belief. Thank you--It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬07:01, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Ways to improve Susan Shur-Fen Gau
Hi, I'm Gatemansgc. It's gonna be awesome, thanks for creating Susan Shur-Fen Gau!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. While this is far better than a machine translation, it still needs a copyedit in places. However this seems like a good article to have on Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions!
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.
Hello, It's gonna be awesome. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Recent changes
Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [3]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [4][5]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [6][7]
Hello, It's gonna be awesome. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "心理教育".
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Recent changes
The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [9]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [10]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. pseudonymJake Brockmantalk07:35, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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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
WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [11]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [12]
When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [14]
Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [15]
Changes later this week
When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [16][17]
On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [18]
When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [19]
When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [21]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes
Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [22]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [25]
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [26]
Changes later this week
Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [27]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes
Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.
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Recent changes
When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [28]
Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [29]
Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [30]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 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 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [31]
Problems
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [32][33]
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [34][35]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [37][38]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
Meetings
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Recent changes
CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [39]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [40]
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 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [41]
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 now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [42]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [43]
Problems
Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [44]
Changes later this week
The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [45]
AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [46]
Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [47]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [48]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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
There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [49][50]
There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [51][52]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [53]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [55]
Problems
UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [56]
You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [57]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
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 added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [59]
Problems
Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [60]
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [61]
<maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [62]
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [63]
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [64]
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [65]
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [66]
Problems
You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [67]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (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 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (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 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [70][71]
Problems
New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [72][73]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (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 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [75]
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
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 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [76]
Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [77]
Changes later this week
When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [78]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).
Meetings
There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [79]
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (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 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [80]
Problems
Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [81]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [82][83]
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 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [84]
Changes later this week
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [85]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (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 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [86]
Problems
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [87][88][89]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (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 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [90]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [91]
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 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [92]
The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [93]
Hello, It's gonna be awesome. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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.
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
On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [94]
Changes later this week
The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [95]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [96]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (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 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warningUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [97]
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
Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [98]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [100]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [101][102]
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 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (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 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [103][104]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [105]
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
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Recent changes
Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [106][107]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [108]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.
Problems
<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [109]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (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 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [110]
Hello It's gonna be awesome, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:09, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
An article you recently created, Clinical judgement, 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. Jack Frost (talk) 11:36, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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 writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
Recent changes
RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [111]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [112]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [113]
On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.
Problems
In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [114]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).
Meetings
Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [117][118]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [119]
Problems
When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [120]
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [121]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15
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
Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [122]
Recent changes
The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [123]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [124][125]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [126]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [128]
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 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
This request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.
I just got bullied by two administrators on Chinese Wikipedia. Chinese Wikipedia has sometimes been a non-rule based community because some administrators were strongly supported and elected by certain groups formed by Wikipedians who have low awareness of the importance of rules, independence, and self-consciousness and are disposed to dismiss the mistakes in favour of their ideology, probably because they're all from a region that treats laws like saying the one thing and the enforcement will do another. As a result, the law is not equally applied to everyone in Chinese Wikipedia. The said admins, more than often, act as his own group members' protector. These admins don't need to really know the rules on Wikipedia before they're highly supported.
From Techyan's words (Sorry, it's in Chinese.) , we know this block is definitely not made out of Procedural Justice.
However, when I tried to explain how did it go on my talk page. I was then blocked from editing or clearly disclosing further truth that can hugely reveal his friend 's apparent misjudgement and weak understanding of Wikipedia rules. I call they friends because it's a highly unusual action. Everyone on Chinese Wikipedia can understand it's a highly controversial block done by Techyan. Mys 721tx, as an admin, suddenly joined the dispute to add fuel to the fire for no any explanation is extremely unusual.
Block done by Mys 721tx：22:23, 30 January 2019 Mys 721tx管 (talk | contribs) changed block settings for It's gonna be awesome (talk | contribs)with an expiration time of 1 month (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (滥用讨论页 Talk page abuse)
How could I get blocked just because I tried to cite an url to support my claim??
Mys 721tx's action is a very obvious abuse of his given privilege on Wikipedia as an admin. Very very shocking!
Could any admin who can read Chinese kindly help address this issue? Deeply appreciated!
I admit that I made some faults during the time I was still a beginner and an not well treated ADHD. Nevertheless, I am no longer a beginner nor severe ADHD. Those two admins should not judge based on their impression without looking into the matter. Although I can understand they're grown up in a place where application of laws is significantly depending on who the law will be applied to, it just should not be the case in democratic rule-based world.
If I am a troublemaker, I would not be the top ten medical article contributor. I swear without full confidence, I would not come here to ask for help.
It's time to save Chinese Wikipedia, many great candidates running for adminstrationship failed to qualify simply because they didn't have enough active supporters to vote during a short given time. However, when there came a candidate nominated by the specific group, the candidate would have no doubt win more than 50 votes to become a new administrator. This is just unfair. They should not do things like how their government does. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬17:16, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Good night from Taiwan. This appeal is not emergency so just take your time to investigate and ask me questions. Thanks again for your time and effort, I will try my best to reply to your questions and help make the project in Chinese really reflect the beliefs and values of Wikimedia foundation that we all share. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬17:27, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Let me add this, no other admin in Chinese Wikipedia dares to get involved in this matter because those admins might then ask his group members to recall the admin whose judgement is against the group's will. The group members really enjoy the unfair advantages brought by the huge number of unified opinion voters among their belonging groups! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬17:47, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
English admins have no power on other wikis - and other wikis have different policies and guidelines. Your best solution would be to write to info-zh@wikimedia.org (in Chinese). Ronhjones (Talk)17:52, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Just a plus, I have been wondering how those PRC users visit Wikipedia in spite of the dramatically growing stronger Fire Wall and strict punishment over past few months in PRC. cool --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬18:06, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(In my understanding, you said "I agree with your opinion and can feel your feeling but I hope you to keep calm. By saying others won't help.") I appreciate your guidance and support! 🙏 --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬09:16, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ronhjones: The source of It's gonna be awesome's local block in Chinese Wikipedia is his/her uncivilize, inappropriate joke toward User:Wolfch. If his attack towards Techyan and Mys_721tx continues, please report back to zh:WP:VIP, thank you. Best regards, 云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 12:54, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I did not get what you'd like to convey through these sentences above, so do this. You describe Wolfch's opinion as "該該叫" (=the unpleasant sound coming from crows, etc.), and delete it after 19 minutes, which shows that you are intended to offend Wolfch. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 13:07, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is ridiculous. why your group had to shut my chance to explain by blocking my all edit rights? Your group's question here is the perfect demonstration of abusive block. Perfect demonstration of blocking before investigation. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬13:21, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Are you questioning me on behalf of Techyan and Mys_721tx? Who granted you the power to act like an admin to question me? By your strong tone, it's highly likely there is a real life COI in the real world between you and those controversial admins. Stop such behaviors, if everyone recruits Wikipedians to vote for an administrator in their own favour, Wikipedia would never be the same! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬13:12, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Real-life COI? Excuse me, the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Don't accuse others with no evidence, and don't attack to others. I have found out that communicating with you is useless, meaningless and time-wasting. Wish you a happy Spring Festival and a happy family. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 13:19, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (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 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
This <ref name="ScienceDirect">{{cite web | title=Diltiazem| website=ScienceDirect | url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/diltiazem | access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref> is not a reference but simple a link to a search term. We should reference the PMID or ISBN rather than a search term. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:19, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation. I have done so for the above article. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Thanks, — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 14:11, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, Thanks for this new article. I believe the article is a copyright violation of Medline. While many areas of Medline are public domain, the copright statement of the website explicitly excludes ADAM and the encyclopaedia. They are indeed copyrighted. Therefore, the statement saying that public domain information is used is incorrect. I have raised a copyvio revision deletion and redirected to the main article about Urine for now. pseudonymJake Brockmantalk10:03, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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 use the amboxCSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (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 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Your addition to Donath-Landsteiner hemolytic anemia has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 20:38, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the advise Diannaa a beautiful girl I believe. Well... in this case, the problem was close paraphrasing that was difficult to detect in consciousness. Additionally, by Earwig's Copyvio Detector：Violation is Unlikely. The overlaps are mostly due to terminologies. Hopefully, you would understand. However, I will try to improve my skill. Regards. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬20:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [131]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (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 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [132]
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Neurogenic shock, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Extremities (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.
1) We tend to use "people with" rather than "patient"
2) We use very few caps.
3) Best just to stick with review articles or major medication organizations per WP:MEDRS
About "Negative impact......treated early in time." in article Shock_(circulatory)
Hi,
In the "cause" section of arttcle Shock_(circulatory), there is "Negative impact by shock is reversible if it's recognized and treated early in time." It is about the result of shock, not about the cause of shock. I think it would be better in "management" section instead of the "cause".
Think
--Wolfch (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
An article you recently created, is not in English and serves no purpose in its current form on the Ennglish Wikipedia. List of hospitals by yearly earnings in Taiwan, does not have any sources or 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. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:36, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [134]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (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 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Secondary cold agglutinin syndrome requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326213/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.
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. CASSIOPEIA(talk)08:10, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Vasodilatory shock requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/cardiogenic-shock. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.
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. CASSIOPEIA(talk)08:13, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (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 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [135][136]
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
Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatementsLua function or the #statementsparser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [137]
Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [138][139]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [140][141]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (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 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [142]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.
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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [143]
Problems
There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [144]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [145]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [146]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (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 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
^"High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)". Texas Heart Institute (Tertiary source). Retrieved 2019-03-29. Enlarged heart. High blood pressure increases the amount of work for your heart. Like any heavily exercised muscle in your body, your heart grows bigger (enlarges) to handle the extra workload. The bigger your heart is, the more it demands oxygen-rich blood but the less able it is to maintain proper blood flow. As a result, you feel weak and tired and are not able to exercise or perform physical activities. Without treatment, your heart failure will only get worse.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [147]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).
Meetings
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Recent changes
More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [151]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [152]
Changes later this week
When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [153]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [155]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [156][157]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.
Hello, Mr. Awsome: I notice that in your recent edits to Piracetam, you show a difficulty with idiomatic English. I will have to re-edit that article to repair your inability in English. Use of a dictionary and extra caution are advised to make useful edits.--2601:648:8200:7C9A:9DE3:2A9D:2903:1BC5 (talk) 20:40, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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
All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [158][159]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.
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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [160][161][162]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [163]
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 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikipedia articles will have the sameAsmeta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [164][165]
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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [166][167]
Problems
Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [168]
Changes later this week
You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [169]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [170]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [171]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [172]
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Hemolytic anemia into Hemolysis. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 15:32, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oh! Thanks for letting me know it. I will now correct it and will try to remember this rule in the future when I copy a paragraph-sized content from other articles. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬15:39, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [173]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).
Meetings
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Your addition to Piracetam has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 00:46, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I see in a recent addition to Hemolysis you included material from a webpage that is available under a Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 11:42, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).
Meetings
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Thanks for educating. My original idea was that I used it there for enriching the number of citations that would, in turn, reinforce the certainty of the assertion on the article. And I thought that paper published by the pediatric association has been included in many systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Thirdly, it's a paper from an excellent expert. Thanks again for teaching. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬11:21, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [175][176]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [177][178]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (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 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [179]
The Wikidata wbeditentityAPI endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [180]
Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN.
While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
Then click on "templates",
Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
If the article is available in Pubmed Central, you have to add the pmc parameter manually -- click on "show additional fields" in the template and you will see the "pmc" field. Please add just the number and don't include "PMC".
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [181][182]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).
Meetings
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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).
I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that
the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
@Boing! said Zebedee: I wrote it in progress under my namespace and didn't ask English Wikipedia to solve the problem. Rather, I wrote it under my namespace as part of my preparation to submit it to the Foundation given MediaWiki's citation friendly user interface. Maybe there's a misunderstanding. An indefinite block should not be the first measure. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬16:04, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keeping in mind IGBA has a few thousands edits here, I am not sure if this is fair to ban him indef over one count of transgression. Viztor (talk) 16:49, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, people. But before I can make the promise, I think I need to finish the course of figuring out the scope of "similar material" by reading through related policies and guidelines. It will take some time probably a few days. All in all, I appreciate all the feedback you guys gave that would motivate me a lot to become a better person to others. Thanks! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬18:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest an unblock request should include some retraction of the user's explicit statements that certain zhwiki admins are backed by the CCP, which included a list of requests for deadminship (it's a thing on zhwiki) and compilation of many of the administrators' personal details, and assurances that that won't be repeated. See WP:POLEMIC. Also, we don't have a speedy criterion for blatant advocacy; the fact those pages were not speedy deleted means nothing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:38, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the feedback. I promise to find time tomorrow to carefully learn & absorb knowledge from your messages. I am about to sleep. I am grateful for your time and education. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬18:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Boing! said Zebedee and Ivanvector:, I would like to promise that I will try my best to abide by WP:POLEMIC in the future. Also, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to Wikipedia and the mentioned admins in Chinese Wikipedia. What I learned from this incident is that I shouldn't have steadfastly appointed my fingers at some people when the evidence was not 100% indicative. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬16:13, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.
I would like to promise that I will try my best to abide by WP:POLEMIC in the future.
I would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to Wikipedia and the mentioned admins in Chinese Wikipedia.
What I learned from this incident is that I shouldn't have steadfastly appointed my fingers at some people when the evidence was not 100% suggestive of what it seemed to me and some others in addition to Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks#Avoiding_personal_attacks:As a matter of polite and effective discourse...Editors should be civil and adhere to good etiquette when describing disagreements, which I agree but sometimes find it difficult to thoroughly follow as it doesn't have a standard and over-sticking to which may make me leave people with the impression of being hypocritical. But even so, I will keep learning to talk things politely and non-hypocritically.
I would like to clarify that the sources for the article were available in public such as their User pages, their interviews with news media, etc. I have been committed to Wikipedia's policy by securely/firmly/steadfastly/greatly [note 1] respecting people's private info and always will be.
Finally, I would like to thank the involved admins, Wikipedians, and, lastly, the Wikipedia community for your kind understandings and helping me grow.
@Ivanvector:: since Category:Requests_for_unblock stating that "Per the blocking policy and block appeals guidelines, unless exceptional or expedient circumstances apply, administrators should not unblock a user without prior discussion with the blocking admin", would you mind to give some suggestion to my unblock request? Thank you. I would like to further explain that my "I would like to promise that I will try my best to abide by WP:POLEMIC in the future." is based on my belief that nothing in the world is 100% or 0 %. It doesn't mean I refused to change. Rather it means that I promised that the probability for such behavior to happen would be extremely low. I think my unblock request meets your prior demand I'd suggest an unblock request should include some retraction of the user's explicit statements that certain zhwiki admins are backed by the CCP, which included a list of requests for deadminship (it's a thing on zhwiki) and compilation of many of the administrators' personal details, and assurances that that won't be repeated. See WP:POLEMIC. People should be given chance to learn. No one in the world is perfect. Regards. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬15:42, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is a promising step, I think, but I think you also need to address the pages you created with respect to WP:NOTADVOCACY. Specifically: that Wikipedia is not to be used to promote your political opinions or to compile original research, including synthesizing unrelated sources to suggest a conclusion that is not given by those sources. We tolerate some criticism of Wikipedia when done constructively and in good faith (see for example User:Ritchie333/SPI considered harmful, User:W. Frank/Accusations of collaboration: 3RR hurts Wikipedia, User:Martinp23/ArbCom isn't God), but we will not tolerate attacks on individuals. If you're planning to publish such criticism, I suggest you tread very carefully, or consider doing so on your own website and not linking to it from here.
Furthermore, although this block was in my own capacity as administrator, it arose from a community discussion, and I think it should therefore be subject to community review. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:09, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivanvector: As an uninvolved user in the dispute, I do have faith in this editor. As seen in his editing record on both zh and en wiki, he is here to contribute. What he did is extremely inapproriate, however, I do beleive it is an honest mistake as he claimed, he might believed he is doing whatever he can to make wikipedia better, though not through calm and well-reasoned ways. On the other note, he does listen to what the community said, and instead of request an unblock immediately, he replied to the above comment and said he decided to learn more about the policy, and made the request a week later, so I believe that he honestly means what he said and he did study about the policy. So instead of punishing a long time contributor who made a mistake, why don't we just WP:ROPEViztor (talk) 19:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivanvector:Specifically: that Wikipedia is not to be used to promote your political opinions or to compile original research, including synthesizing unrelated sources to suggest a conclusion that is not given by those sources. We tolerate some criticism of Wikipedia when done constructively and in good faith (see for example User:Ritchie333/SPI considered harmful, User:W. Frank/Accusations of collaboration: 3RR hurts Wikipedia, User:Martinp23/ArbCom isn't God), but we will not tolerate attacks on individuals. If you're planning to publish such criticism, I suggest you tread very carefully, or consider doing so on your own website and not linking to it from here. Yes, I understand and will try my best to abide by what you suggested. Thanks for teaching. Regards. @Viztor: Thank you for your warm support! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬08:50, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming good faith here that you've understood what I wrote and why you were blocked, and noting that Viztor has kindly vouched for you. I would like you to have a quick look at WP:ROPE, but tl;dr: if you are to find yourself in this spot again, it's not likely you will be unblocked. Please ask for help or advice if you need it, and best wishes. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:05, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Dear, Sir/Madam. Thank you very much for your suggestion. I would ask for help or advice before I am about to write something regarding/targeting other Wikipedian. I promise the recurrence of such things will be very low but I can't guarantee a zero recurrence ever after since I am still impulsive sometimes, a characteristic I was born with by nature, in addition to the fact that the cut-off of personal attack is blurry. Anyway, what is certain is that I gonna keep making progress to be a better person to others.[1] All the best! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬15:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
References
^"30 Ways to Be a Nicer Person". Skilled at Life. Disclaimer: I, as It's gonna be awesome, partly agree with some written in this article. 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2019-06-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
References
^wording adjusted since I am not a native EN speaker and have no idea which word is more suitable and fit.
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation. I have done so for the above article. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Thanks, — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 12:25, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [184]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [185]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [186][187]
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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. [188]
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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. [190][191]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [192]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [193]
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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. [194]
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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. [195]
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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. [196]
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. [197]
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).
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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. [198]
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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. [199]
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. [200]
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The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [201]
Problems
Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [202]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [203]
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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. [204]
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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. [205]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [206]
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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. [207]
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Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [208]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [209]
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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. [210]
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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).
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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. [212]
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The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [213]
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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. [214]
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).
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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. [215][216]
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I understand that I was blocked because I used two accounts that were not publicly linked nor prior notified any Wikipedian with check user right, to contribute the same article on Wikipedia even though I didn't use them to engage in any edit war.
I failed to perform a clean start even though my starting point for using two invisible accounts was not due to the avoidance of scrutiny.
I wrongly regarded Doc James' removal of certain assertion supported by tertiary sources as blatant vandalism. As a result, I dismissed the rule of 3RR. In the future, I will try my best (I don't make 100% promise.) to remember that blatant vandalism is defined as:
Edits that any well-intentioned user would agree constitute vandalism, such as page blanking and adding offensive language.
I will try my best to keep the following two key points in mind.
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Mind's voice
I originally didn't plan to state that I have developmental delay in this account. But after several days of peaceful thinking, I feel the need of having an alternative account has now reduced pretty much. I should not have felt it strange to disclose on English Wikipedia that I am living with pervasive developmental disorder/autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, currently on cholinesterase inhibitor, NMDA receptor antagonist along with other meds for ADHD on the ground of fighting against the stigama. (Yes, I now believe I should treat Wikipedia as an ideal world holding sacred values that will lead the real world to move forward better together. I should not have felt it shamed/embrassing to admit I've disability here in Wikipedia regardless of how the reality works on its way.) And I would like to apologize to User:Doc James for the incompetence that reminded me of the room of the improvement in the future. (Also, reminded me of the need of cholinesterase inhibitor and NMDA receptor antagonist in addition to other personal mental practices in combination with FDA-approved meds for ADHD. ) I want to thank User:Yamla along with other admins who lent me the warm helping hands and helped me grow through kind guidance. The determination and desire of propagating the novel treatment reviewed by the specialists overwhelmed my past-self and led to the rebound of ASD's characteristics such as cognitive rigidity and emotional dysfunction from the executive functions.
If you want to spend time needlessly citing policy before making an unblock request, I'm willing to give you some latitude, but this is not the place for a dissertation on autism or ADHD. I've removed the references from the above, and I strongly suggest that you focus on something else as your mental problems are irrelevant to any unblock request or your edits at Wikipedia.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oh! Thank you for the suggestion. I originally wanted to let people know my thoughts behind my moves as the policies on Wikipedia might be cold to some people. --18:30, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for letting me know how you think, which would, in turn, enrich my memory repository that will guide my action in the future and help me make progress on socialization! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬18:32, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Formal application
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).
It has been more than one month since the day I was blocked and started reading the policies pertaining to my block. Now, I think I have a better sense of correctly contributing to Wikipedia. I saw the error of my prior ways. I am going to try my best to not to repeat the same mistake from now onwards. Thanks for the guidance. It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬16:39, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Decline reason:
You will need to explain, in your own words, what exactly the error was and how your future conduct will change. Vaguely worded assurances like the ones above do not show that you actually understand the problem. Huon (talk) 20:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Draft for the formal unblock request
Second formal request/proposal
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).
I understand that I was blocked because I used two accounts that were not publicly linked nor prior notified any Wikipedian with check user right, to contribute the same article on Wikipedia even though I didn't use them to engage in any edit war.
I failed to perform a clean start even though my starting point for using two invisible accounts was not due to the avoidance of scrutiny.
In the future, I will try my best (I don't make 100% promise.) using alternative accounts only if I have prior notified any Wikipedian with check user right, got them publicly linked, or warranted not to contribute the same article on Wikipedia in a short period of time (I personally set the limit as roughly three months [a]) as I presently don't know how much should I trust those admins.
I wrongly regarded Doc James' removal of certain assertion supported by tertiary sources such as medical textbook as blatant vandalism. As a result, I dismissed the rule of 3RR.
Edits that any well-intentioned user would agree to constitute vandalism, such as page blanking and adding offensive language.
as well as the two key exceptions:
Considerable leeway is given to editors reverting to maintain the quality of a featured article while it appears on the main page.
If you are claiming an exemption, make sure there is a clearly visible edit summary or separate section of the talk page that explains the exemption. When in doubt, do not revert. Instead, engage in dispute resolution and, in particular, ask for help at relevant noticeboards such as the Edit war and 3RR noticeboard.
^It doesn't seem to specify the period of time in § contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts. Ideally, I should assume that means infinite but then I feel it can be not realistic/practical in cases of the clean start or just fixing some typos and so on.
^I cannot be a superman just overnight. I don't intend to be a superman actually. I mean I am willing to learn but I know I am not genius at all. It takes time for me to learn everything. I am a slow learner I am not ashamed to admit. Also, it takes me a really long time to connect with people and, thus, to accurately predict what might people think.
Decline reason:
You created a sockpuppet that had to be globally locked for cross-wiki abuse. I think it's best if you took some time away from Wikipedia and appealed 6 months after the original block. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:42, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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@TonyBallioni: I didn't use the alternative account to contribute Wikipedia for the wrong purpose in a way that is harmful or morally wrong. I believe I used my alternative accounts to correct some typoes, improve references, write articles, learn, or study with Wikipedia aside without giving some people the misleading impression that I was in leisure when I was actually not and directly knowing my medical history that I had pervasive developmental disorders and ADHD. As a matter of fact that, I didn't arrange two accounts to double my voice against any side. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬07:33, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm afraid I'm not going to tell you what you want. As I pointed out over at User talk:Exert yourself, this was not a legitimate use of a clean start. And furthermore, you ran into substantial problems with that other account. It was not a case of simply correcting some typoes, etc., it was bad enough for you to get that account globally locked. Look, you have a path forward; WP:SO in six months. But unblock requests like you've been making here won't be enough in six months. Right now, you are saying your actions weren't that bad. They were that bad. --Yamla (talk) 10:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Yamla: Hi, thanks so much for the quick response. May I inquire about what the substantial problem did you refer to? Please just feel free to let me know. Don't worry, I am not mentally weak. Thank you! -It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬18:14, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It was a massive amount of work cleaning up the issues created by User:Exert yourself. You were attempting to use sources to say stuff that they did not really say. And the textbook in question was not a major medical textbook so thus not really a WP:MEDRS.[220] It was discussing research not medical uses.
@Doc James: Thanks for letting me know your thoughts. For your first focus, I would say I had tried to convert a list of information that met with the approvals from a broad of specialists into paragraphs, which is suggested by the WP:MOS. For your second focus, I would say that we're not here to judge a source published by an independent publisher composed of medical specialists. I think unless Wikipedia blacklisted that medical textbook or is very explicit about what are major medical textbooks, we are supposed to respect the source, which is suggested by WP:OR. Admin Yamla also pointed out that my error was 3RR as opposed to making original researches. However, I understand your concern about hosting some statements of medical efficacies supported by the medical textbook that was not secondary to the double blind randomized trials can mislead our readers. Hence, I think we can follow the instructions provided by the WP:NPOV to attribute such stuffs to the referenced medical textbook. Actually, there are many review researches available on PubMed stand for the use of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in treating social deficit commonly seen in people with ASD. Additionally, I am not certain about how to qualify to be a so-called experienced editor. But I have engaged in writing medical articles on Wikipedia for many years. Regards. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬19:04, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We judge sources all the time. That is actually one of the primary things we do. The use of sources is also not black and white. One source may be good enough to support one thing but not another. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:54, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This user has engaged in regular block evasion. They are arguably now banned under WP:3X (three instances of checkuser-verified block evasion after their indefinite block). This is not entirely clear, though. However, one more instance will be clear and will lead to an indefinite ban. All contributions from the sockpuppet accounts should be reverted on sight. --Yamla (talk) 21:41, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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