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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.
Problems
Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [1]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [2]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [3][4]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [5]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Have you considered applying for the meta:global renamer userright? You're certainly qualified for the role, and there already exists 9 other users in the group that do not hold bureaucrat rights on any project, so there is precedent (but be prepared for hesitation since you don't yet hold administrative rights on any project). If you decide to do so, please let me know so I can comment on your request. –xenotalk14:12, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to ask a question about adding Elizabeth Warren's Harvard salary to the article. I'm not trying to make a point about salary and politics; I think the information should be out there and people can make of it what they like. I looked at two other political figures and I saw that they had their speaking fees noted in their Wikipedia articles, but there wasn't a larger point behind it - it's just information.
I would still like to add the salary information. There is plenty of documentation for it and, as I mentioned in an earlier post on the Elizabeth Warren talk page, there's no campaign going on so it's not going to be used for political hay. What do you think? 73.25.235.169 (talk) 03:35, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Politics doesn't concern me. The issue here is whether this information is worth mentioning in the article (see WP:Handling trivia). Since Wikipedia is so vast and broad, what can be considered "worth including" and "not worth including" is vague and a matter of debate (which is why we have talk pages to discuss things like this). I won't revert you if you add the information to the article, but someone else might. --I am k6kaTalk to me!See what I have done03:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
ManpasandBeverages name change
Hi, I have tried multiple times to change the username. my questins are as below
1. if I change the username to some ordinary username, will that impact on the headline of the article? as Manpasand Beverages Ltd
2. I do not have any intention to vandalise and/or marketing promotion on wikipedia, I just came across lot of articles on different beverages companies on wikipedia and wanted to do same for this beverage company. what would be the best option
3. If i change username to some ordinary name then how can I keep the name of the article Manpasand Beverages ?
No, it will not affect the title of your article unless you were developing it in your userspace. Since you are developing it outside your userspace and in the drafts namespace, the title will not be affected. Even if you were developing the article in your userspace, the title of the article is not finalized and you can change it when you copy your article and move it into the article namespace.
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When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill featuresfor citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).
Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).
The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
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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.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [6][7]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [8]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [9]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [10]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Diet
Traditionally, the Nairs were not strict vegetarians, but included fish in their diet, though this was shunned by the higher classes. The love for fish was noted as so strong that it was "often smuggled in." Working class Nair favoured kānji (rice gruel), as did many Malabar Hindus.[106] Pork was also noted as one of their favourite foods,[107] and even high-status Nairs were noted as eating buffalo meat.[108]
Proscriptions
A 16th-century writer noted that drinking was unknown in Travancore at that time, but in 1787 AD the Maharaja formally prohibited takara (palm brandy) under pain of forfeiture of property.[106] The Nayar avoided beef, and many did not eat lamb.[109] In the modern day, alcohol is a component of Nair-dominated festivals in Kerala.[108] During the pre-Independence era, consumption of beef and alcohol was strictly prohibited and doing so often resulted in violence or excommunication.[110][page needed]
In Nair Families still Beef and Alcohol is banned please remove below points
and even high-status Nairs were noted as eating buffalo meat.[108]
Hello K6ka, you did a favor of undoing my edit on Competitive examination. I think the tone of the article is not fitting for Wikipedia. The information about France and that it is "surely" the most difficult one in the world regarding competitive exams are also not accurate. I personally think that the entire content of this article can be merged with entrance examination. peace Sedai2014 (talk) 23:04, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think you know what your edit to the article consisted of, so here's the diff. You didn't actually make any changes to the article, but you only added <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki> to the page. There was no actual content being added, only something that shouldn't be on the page. Why would I need to check the talk page before removing that? --I am k6kaTalk to me!See what I have done00:36, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
well, this article does not meet the criteria for a wikipedia article (I already explained why), that's what I wanted to express by inserting that sign. If you think so too, put the sign back or just advice on how to proceed. If you think the article is in a good shape per se, forget about this conversation and enjoy the rest of the day :)Sedai2014 (talk) 18:24, 14 June 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
Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [13]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [14]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
I was greatly relieved for your help preventing continuous blanking over on Talk:Sons of Liberty. Thank you for that. As it turns out, and as a result, I'm under a bit of a siege over on [20]. I've been trying to defend myself against bullying by User:Beyond My Ken there, but he seems to be having some success gaining traction with some false accusations against me -- that I'm a sock for a disruptive editor half way around the world from me. Anyway, if you could take a look at the AFI page and maybe help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again.
International Trademark Association Wikipedia: Copyright
Hello! We are trying to update the International Trademark Association page to be more current and include all of the correct information. Can you please elaborate upon what on the page is copyright infringement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 13:21, 22 June 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
Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [21][22]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [23]
Problems
On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [24][25][26]
Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [30][31][32]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Thanks for your help on International Trademark Association's page. I'm confused about the copyright violation - we are trying to make this Wiki page correct and up to date. Can you help me upload the information that it is not rejected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 20:54, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Lheery: I'm not sure exactly what you are requesting. Your edit was reverted because it was simply copied and pasted from another website. This can cause legal issues, and thus Wikipedia forbids copyright violations. See our policy on copyright violations. In order for a change to be accepted, they must be written in an encyclopedic tone (i.e. no bias or fancruft), should generally not be written by anyone with a conflict of interest, and should never be simply copied-and-pasted from another source, as mentioned above.
Also, if you want to reply to a thread (such as this one), click on the "Edit" button next to the section title and respond from there, instead of creating an entire new thread (this will cause disorganization and clutter). Please also sign your posts by adding four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. --I am k6kaTalk to me!See what I have done21:09, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@K6ka: Thanks for your help. Is it possible to see which sections were directly copied/pasted and caused the page to be taken down? We want to update our company page as everything is out of date. We are not trying to copy/paste anything as well as keep a neutral tone. Any help would be great appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 13:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@K6ka: Is there anyone who can take our content and upload it appropriately with all of these citations? We wrote all of the content so that it's appropriate for Wikipedia and wouldn't violate anything. Lheery (talk) 19:18, 23 June 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.
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [35]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [36][37][38]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [39]
Problems
JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [40]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [41]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [42]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [43]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [44]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [45]
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