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Tech News: 2015-23

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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.

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This Month in Education: May 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Tunisia: Rachidia music school celebrates 80 years of love and art by editing Wikipedia
• Mexico: Five new classes begin experimenting with Wikipedia
• Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WikiArabia 2015
• China: Chinese students commemorate deceased philanthropist Run Run Shaw
• Argentina: Editathon for young students to edit articles about their school
• Mexico: Maria enjoys editing Wikipedia as her community service
• Global: Registration for Wikimania Education Pre-Conference in Mexico City is now open!
• Sweden: Wikimedia conference 2015: better understanding for Wikipedia in Education
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: School editathons, medical research, Jimmy wales and new Wiki

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Stubs and dabs

No, Joseph Hatch (disambiguation) wasn't a stub - it's a disambiguation page. Dab pages should be orphans so don't need to be [tagged as such. (Actually this was an unnecessary, and malformed, dab page, but that's another couple of issues). Please take care not to tag dab pages as stubs. Thanks. PamD 07:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And you're doing it again: in this edit. When you use AWB you are responsible for the edits, and it's up to you to recognise a disambiguation page and not tag it as an uncategorised stub. It would be helpful to add the {{dab}} template, but at least please don't add {{stub}}. Thanks. PamD 13:12, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Persondata

Please do not add {{persondata}} to articles, as you did here; it was recently deprecated by RfC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:33, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, just realized its now been deprecated! —M@sssly^✉ 18:24, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ANSWER TO RECENT EDIT TO ZAC EFRON

Hello Masssly! I just want to clarify if I made changes on Zac Efron. You can also write it on my talk the changes i've made to see it maybe because i wrote something wrong about Zac Efron. Thank you. Hope your consideration.AllysaSaymo21 (talk) 09:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)AllysaSaymo21[reply]

Hi AllysaSaymo21, I reverted your edit because it appears you included "Efron is currently dating model Sami Miro" but you did not provide a reliable reference to that claim. If you still think it must be in the article, reinclude it but please provide a reference to that. If you need help with referencing, have alook at Help:Referencing for beginners. If you need further assistance or clarification, do not hesitate to contact me again. Kind Regards —M@sssly^✉ 16:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Empty pages

When you come across an empty page, it's not particularly helpful to label it as Stub and Dead-end. Either nominate it for speedy deletion as A3, having no content, or look into the page history, and in this case notice that the creating editor has blanked it, so nominate it for deletion as G7. As I reminded you above, you are responsible for all your edits using AWB, so please take the time to actually look at each article you are editing. Beyond a point, carelessness becomes disruption. Thanks. PamD 13:18, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Or another possible action, which I've just done: redirected it to existing article at different capitalisation. PamD 13:26, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And here's another one: the creating editor blanked it with edit summary "moved to Laudato Sii , please delete this page....", it wasn't a useful redirect, so next time just tag it as G7, please, rather than calling it an orphan, dead-end, stub. It was empty. PamD 13:50, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE June 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2015-24

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

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]

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• 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.
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18:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Changes to the Luzon article

I'm sorry for editing without citations. I will supply them now.

Here are the relevant sources to this paragraph I have added.

Some of these Indianized kingdoms, Maynila and Tondo especially, became Islamized when the Sultanate of Brunei expanded it realms from Borneo to the Philippines. In addition, other kingdoms like the Huangdom of Ma-i and the Huangdom of Pangasinan had become tributary states to China and were largely Sinified kingdoms.

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Thank You 112.207.187.45 (talk) 15:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please do! Help:Referencing_for_beginners is available of you need help or feel free to ask me directly on my talk page. Best —M@sssly^✉ 15:47, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi, Thanks for the welcome message, how may I remove my IP from public? Fixwp (talk) 16:54, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your IP address is not displayed to the public when you log in to Wikipedia and edit but your Username Fixwp is. When you do not log in and edit, your IP instead of your username is displayed. —M@sssly^✉ 18:08, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When does content upload? What happens if it is deleted?

Hi,

I updated the Interventional Radiology page today with the results of an NIH-funded trial that is very relevant to the field, and to the article. My additions followed very clearly from the discussion of the SAMMPRIS study under "Disorders", "Vascular". I saved the page and checked that my contribution was added. Later in the day I returned to the page and my contribution was missing.

Is it not yet permanently uploaded? Did someone delete it? If so, who? How does the debate work about what content belongs and what content does not belong?

Thank you,

Chuckd105 (talk) 17:34, 10 June 2015 (UTC)chuckd105[reply]

Your content got was uploaded but it got reverted by another editor. You can find that editor's name on the revision history of that article at the top right corner of the page. To know about about the page history, see Help:Page history. Best Regards —M@sssly^✉ 18:04, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google Knowledge Graph

I am having issues with the google Knowledge graph. It is taking information from wikipedia, but it is using the a different image. I just uploaded an image to the wikipedia page since it didn't have one before, but google still isn't using that image. Can you help?

Etobz (talk) 19:42, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but I don't have that expertise. Please try Wikipedia:Help desk. Best of luck. —M@sssly^✉ 17:56, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My recent edit.

Thanks for reversing my edit. I thought it was hilarious, and your message stating that you had reversed it was actually the best light-hearted response. I do however disagree that you said that people looking for accurate information will not find my humorous change funny. I believe there are plenty of people, some of which looking for accurate information would find warts located on Stephen Harper's genitals funny (true or not). However your non-intimidating, and gentle reminder was worded just so, so that next time I think about making a funny edit, I'll wait at least a week before doing so. You rule.

-Funny Edit Guy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.156.199.222 (talk) 20:55, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't find "warts located on Stephen Harper's genitals funny", but I do agree that I rule :) —M@sssly^✉ 21:25, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue V, May 2015 Headlines Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group meeting Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Catalan areas report: ORCID France report: GLAM, all over the place! Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change! Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and bibliographic data Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most remote areas in Macedonia Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Space Bio Charge

Apologies for the first edit, I'd copied and pasted the text into Notepad++ in order to more easily mass insert italic marks per WP:ITALICS for film/TV titles, just didn't realise it had stripped out all the Japanese language characters while doing so. - Chrism would like to hear from you 10:43, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We all make mistakes :) Lets carry on editing. Make a great day. —M@sssly^✉ 10:50, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cameron O'reilly

I can put an article up on my own website or give the emails of me and Justin Rushbrooke, a QC and thus a source of unimpeachable integrity. would this do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MDLeeming (talk • contribs) 10:49, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry that wouldn't do. We do not accept original research and self published sources. Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources and Wikipedia:No original research —M@sssly^✉ 10:55, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Create article

I was going to say the paper's Javad Ramezani He established the Iranian and American readers.--5.232.39.249 (talk) 11:17, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You ended up blanking the page. See Wikipedia:Blanking and please be cautious next time. —M@sssly^✉ 18:17, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Horsebread

Re the white/brown bread thing, it is only recently in Western countries that brown bread has been marketed as a premium product. (I saw a documentary about this on TV.) Because white flour is more expensive to make, the transition from brown to white bread is a normal part of economic development, and white bread is marketed as the premium Western-style product in less developed countries (in the same way that instant coffee often is).

Perhaps if we can't agree on this, the whole issue should be cut from the article as it's slightly off the point? 2.221.31.196 (talk) 11:31, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I lived in both developing/ed countries and white bread to my best of knowledge is far less expensive than brown bread. This is strange considering the effort involved in producing white bread that is so refined. But it is probably so because it is consumed in large quantities hence mass produced to reduce its cost. Your point of view might have been true in the past but unfortunately not so in present times as many people are now realizing the superior nutritional quality of non-refined brown bread.—M@sssly^✉ 17:54, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Attack on titan change

Bruv it was just banter and i actually directed that show as well — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.31.191.238 (talk) 11:33, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

People take Wikipedia seriously and they may not find your jokes funny when they are researching a topic. Please desist from making such edit. Thank you. —M@sssly^✉ 18:22, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2015)

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Change made to foundation public school

Okay, thanks for informing. I was just checking the edit option. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.163.109.53 (talk) 11:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's okay. I would encourage you to create a username. Regards —M@sssly^✉ 17:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• 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).

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• Hello Masssly:

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Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 20:47, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Northamerica1000: I'm still new here. I visited the page but haven't found any instructions as to how to vote. Kindly help. Thanks —M@sssly^✉ 23:36, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4

Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

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1. Cite error: The named reference Saunders2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
2. Frans Welman (1 August 2013). Borneo Trilogy Brunei: Vol 1. Booksmango. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-616-222-235-1.
3. William Henry Scott (1983). "The fact that Chief Kamayin's name is transliterated by the Chinese characters for "excellent," "horse," and' "silver" led Berthold Laufer in his 1907 "The relations of the Chinese to the Philippines" to list horses and silver among the Pangasinan gifts (Historical Bulletin 1967 reprint, Vol. 11, p. 10); this error was carelessly copied by Wu Ching-hong in his 1962 "The rise and decline of Chuanchou's international trade" (Proceedings of the Second Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, p. 477), whence it passed into more than one Philippine text, but was not repeated by Wu himself in his later works.Laufer also refers to a Philippine embassy led by a "high official called Ko-ch'a-lao" whom no other scholar has been able to locate and whom Beyer identifies as a "Chinese governor appointed for the island of Luzon" (op. cit., loc. cit.)" (PDF). Guttenburg Free Online E-books. 1: 8.