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This is my material, its not a copyrighted material (or you mean the photo?? its Creative Commons photo)! In the old section (the text) there were some incorrect!!! information on Georg Kolbe. Best GKM Berlin — Preceding unsigned comment added by GKM Berlin (talk • contribs) 12:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@GKM Berlin: No, I am not referring to the image. I am referring to the fact that the text you inserted into the article was simply copied and pasted from another source. Even if it belongs to you, if it does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, we cannot accept it. See Wikipedia:Copyright violations. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:11, 1 December 2015 (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
Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [1]
Problems
Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [2]
Changes this week
You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [3]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [4]
You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [5]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [6]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [9]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Can you fix the Lianne la Havas page for me at the end? i wanted to add her new nomination and did so, but the rest of the page is running into the awards section and i do not know how to fix it! please and thanks Jbuddy101 (talk) 18:03, 7 December 2015 (UTC) buddy
i wanted to add her new nomination and did so, but the rest of the page is running into the awards section and i do not know how to fix it! please and thanks
I'm new to editing wiki, so i thought i could handle a simple add, but it didn't work, and i assume I've messed up her page, please help!!!!! [1]
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~jbuddy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbuddy101 (talk • contribs) 18:03, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@K6ka: The article is about this movie, and not about this movie. Besides the original Wikidata link was not correct - linking the wrong movie, hence i made the change. Thanks for understanding that mirandaa and mirandal or mirandaal are used interchangeably in tamil, though the former is used colloquially while the latter is used literally. - ʋɐɾɯnTalk09:26, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I am a primary source
You have deleted a few sentences that I wrote because I did not tell from where the sources are. I am a primary source. I am a student of the person that that is featured in the wiki page. 178.190.55.249 (talk) 18:10, 10 December 2015 (UTC) Evgeny Stoylarov[reply]
Hey there. Even if you heard it with your own ears, wikipedia has a few guidelines about this type of thing. Feel free to read WP:V, it may be relevant. But, basically, just saying "I heard it" is not verifiable or reliable. --allthefoxes(Talk)18:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I am reluctantly responding to your comment regarding a revert on the Commonwealth Fund page. The edit I made was someone's last name that is incorrectly spelled. It is Samuel O. Thier and NOT Samuel O. Their. If you continue to think I am wrong, I suggest you look at the "select past board members" section on the same page or conduct a Google Search on the individual in question. I now would like to ask you, why would you consider my edit incorrect without doing any research on your end? It makes me want to not participate in the improvement of wiki. 96.58.206.230 (talk) 22:33, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gatland One Name Study renamed from Ellipticcoin is simply using an old account to begin a serious genealogical study of the surname of Gatland. I am a Guild member of www.one-name.org. My study is not as an employee but as a genealogy researcher in my home who has a subscription to the site and holds the ownership of the study. When other genealogy researchers use the keyword Gatland or any place or other surname in the articles, they will find my study page easier. I also have a website that is in its early stages www.gatlandonenamestudy.com and a facebook page as well. The Wiki page as the others will be developed over time as the study progresses. Wiki is the perfect place to tie the three together world-wide.
@Ellipticcoin: Sorry, that doesn't address my concerns in that the username you are requesting may be seen as unacceptable by some editors, especially considering that it is the name of a website and that it is related to the topics you wish to write about. Please pick a new name. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:22, 13 December 2015 (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 this week
Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [11]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (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.
Tech News
Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)
Changes this week
There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).
Meetings
Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
Testing opportunities
Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
Remember my last editor,
Always give me the visual editor if possible,
Always give me the source editor, and
Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
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You are active in meta. Ruslik put my request on hold till 22nd December. The request made after me was done by Steinsplitter (Kostazyranov@global). Why my request is pending? --Eden's Apple (talk) 05:57, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
But Action Hero is indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet of undertrial. Ruslik gave me hope. I waited for one month. Please ask Steinsplitter. Do I have to cross his 900+ edits?. Eden's Apple (talk) 16:55, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Eden's Apple: The issue is not whether they are blocked or not. The issue is that they have lots of edits that were not immediately reverted as vandalism, were all deleted, or were only insignificant edits to their own userspace. The drafted usurpation policy, while not yet finalized, is still a good guideline to refer to. According to that policy, we may not be able to usurp this account because they meet none of the criteria in point #3. Also, "lapping" a user's edit count to try to usurp their username is not a good idea, because that will put even more strain on the servers when the rename jobs are running (We already have to rename the account you want to usurp. Users with high edit counts are difficult to rename because the server needs to reassign each and every one of their edits to the new username). —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:12, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Eden's Apple: In response to your email (because this isn't a "private" matter that I would consider using email as a means of communication), please wait for a response. I'll give them a poke, but I can't guarantee that the request will be processed. There are lots of usurpation requests that get turned down for reasons similar to yours. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:28, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I emailed for not increasing my edit count. Okay, then why was it put on hold for one month?. Even one month ago Ruslik knew about Action Hero's edit count. Someone must take a final decision on that request. As you said increasing my edit count is not good idea, I can't stop editing for an uncertain period. They are not giving me any reply. Either "done" or "not done". Eden's Apple (talk) 17:34, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps you misunderstood what I meant about "increasing edit count". As of this writing you only have 69 global edits; a few edits to my talk page isn't going to blow a server up. What I meant is that intentionally trying to get over the 900+ edit count in order to usurp the username you want to have is not a good idea, because that won't give you any more influence over whether you can usurp the username or not. It doesn't matter if I have a billion edits and I wanted to usurp your user account — I cannot do it. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:41, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Eden's Apple: I don't think you're understanding why we're not processing your usurpation requests. The usernames you wish to usurp all have valid edits that were not immediately undone, not insignificant userspace edits, and not deleted. It doesn't matter whether the username you want to usurp has 300 edits or 30 — if they have valid edits, don't bother trying to usurp them. Stay with your current username or pick a username that's entirely unused. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:03, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Kudpung: I changed the link because RFA2011 is largely inactive, which made the wording "the community is working on" somewhat misleading (How can the community be working on something if the project is inactive?), so I thought I'd change it to RFA2015, since it is an active project. While it seems to be largely organized by one user, the RFCs it is going through is a community process, and there are users who are supportive of it, so I would believe that keeping the wording and simply changing the link is justified. Of course, I could have also kept the link and changed the wording to "the community was working on", but that seems discouraging and incorrect to me. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 05:02, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
With the greatest respect for all the effort that was put into RFA2011, it might be good to honestly consider which of the two projects actually proposed things and got at least some changes made. Even RFA2011's page admits straightforwardly that nothing was even proposed at all. (Don't shoot the messenger; I'm just saying what the source itself says.) On the other hand, that was simply not an option with RFA2015. The whole point of the project was to propose things, and without proposals there would have been no point to the project. RFA2011 has many potential proposals lying around in its project space, but what's the point if someone doesn't use them. Why hasn't anyone actually proposed the rather sensible clerking draft there? With some very light edits to bring it up to date a little bit, it looks ready to go.Biblioworm 06:50, 29 December 2015 (UTC) After making some comparisons, the clerking system that was proposed in 2013 was quite similar to the RFA2011 draft, and the proposal failed by quite a wide margin. Never mind. Biblioworm07:23, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone who is really concerned about bringing about change would have done their research and recognised WP:RFA2011 for the immense objective and systematic research that it provided. All that information is still relevant and could have been used effectively instead of launching RfCs that need RfCs to determine if the need for an RfC exists. A full examination of WP2011 would also have revealed that the reason for its failure to launch any proposals was due to the trolling on the project by the very users who will attempt even today to reduce the possibilities of success of any subsequent attempts at reform. - sooner or later people get bored, and one ends up with only the newbies or the peanut gallery commenting. I'll say again for what seems to be the 10,000th time: Fix the voters,and RfA will fix itself, but half-baked RfCs are no better than the none at all that were proposed by RFA2011.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:19, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker)In my interpretation of G2, user talk pages are not part of the criterion. In this case though you have one IP making a talk page for another IP address that is nothing but a test page. Also, since 0.0.0.1 is not a valid IP address, no one would ever receive any message left there. I would have deleted that as a test page also if I had seen it, IAR. -- GBfan12:15, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Allthefoxes: From what I remember, that page was nothing more than the stuff you get when you click on the bold and italic text buttons on the editing toolbar, and since nobody edits from that IP address anyways, I think G2 was fine. —k6ka🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:39, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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