This is an archive of past discussions with User:Winner 42. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. The Rambling Man, who was eliminated during the first round in our last competition, earned an impressive 513 points, reviewed twice as many articles (26) as any other competitor. It was a tight race for second for first-time competitors BenLinus1214 and Tomandjerry211, who finished second and third with 243 and 224 points, respectively. Close behind was Wugapodes, who earned 205 points.
The change in our points system had an impact on scoring. It was easier to earn higher points, although the key to success didn't change from last time, which was choosing articles with older nomination dates. For example, most of the articles The Rambling Man reviewed were worth 18 points in the nomination date category, and he benefited from it. BenLinus1214 reviewed the longest article, A Simple Plan (at 26,536 characters, or 4,477 words), the 1994 film starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda and directed by Sam Raimi, and earned all possible 5 points in that category.
After feedback from our participants, the judges slightly changed the rule about review length this time out. Shorter reviews are now allowed, as long as reviewers give nominators an opportunity to address their feedback. Shorter reviews are subject to the judges' discretion; the judges will continue their diligence as we continue the competition.
Despite having fewer contestants at the beginning of Round 1 than last time, 132 articles were reviewed, far more than the 117 articles that were reviewed in Round 1 of the inaugural GA Cup. All of us involved should be very proud of what we've accomplished thus far. The judges are certain that Round 2 will be just as successful.
16 contestants have moved onto Round 2 and have been randomly placed in 4 groups of 4, with the top 2 in each pool progressing to Round 3, as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 has already begun and will end on August 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [1]
Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [2][3][4][5]
The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6]
MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7]
Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8]
Problems
There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hi sorry I missed your review on this, I have been away and didn't get any email notifications of your comments! I've been through all of your suggestions, and renominated it as a GA. I don't suppose you'd have an opportunity to review my changes? All comments in reply to your suggestions are included on the article talk page FYI. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cd5464 (talk • contribs) 08:14, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding the removal of entries from the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.
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
MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [11]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [12]
You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [13]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [14]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [15]
JavaScript authors:
You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [16][17]
You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [18][19]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [20]
Problems
More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [21]
Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [22]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [23]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [24]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [25]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [26]
Hi, just wondering if you had chance to review my changes on this article which take into account your comments? Thanks Cd5464 (talk) 18:37, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
heyo, for the edit on the black pearl
sorry about that. i was just curious and wanted to see if i could ACTUALLY edit. Lol
i notice you or several others keep adding ridiculous information about (milan christopher gordy ) without any factual sources. Also changing cited info to dead end sources and places that where not originally on this wiki page that has been upstanding for several years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.77.66.104 (talk) 22:55, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
I'd appreciate if you could send me the information that you have about the SEO issues via email. I'd like to take a look at it so that I can have a basis to perform a check for additional accounts. Best, Mike V • Talk17:18, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
@Mike V: I'm compiling the evidence right now, I'll send you a copy when I'm done. I'll warn you though, it appears we have at least two massive, multi year sock farms on our hands, this is the biggest case I have ever seen. Winner 42Talk to me!17:20, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Deepakdev98
Deepakdev98 (talk) 00:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)Hi the link on the Helpchat page is a reference to the company's website, nothing more. Anyone referring to the article can click and visit the home page of the company.
Moreover, this page is of a Startup company which is creating lot of news. I have heard from 10-20 of my friends, as to why there is no wikipedia page for this company. I have spent hours, collecting materials and news related to this company and I will be adding more information on it.
Please be patient and check the page after few days.
Thank you
Please leave removed content on Courtney Coventry page. It is about me and wholly untrue as were the newspaper articles. It is currently damaging my reputation in the business world and is defamatory. I would delete page if I knew how and not only is it incorrect but it is in no way of any public interest. Thank you and if you can delete it I would be all the more appreciative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CD9F:F000:69C2:B2DE:EA71:EF02 (talk) 00:35, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Please leave removed content on Courtney Coventry page. It is about me and wholly untrue as were the newspaper articles. It is currently damaging my reputation in the business world and is defamatory. I would delete page if I knew how and not only is it incorrect but it is in no way of any public interest. Thank you and if you can delete it I would be all the more appreciative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CD9F:F000:69C2:B2DE:EA71:EF02 (talk) 00:37, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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
Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27][28][29]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [30]
Problems
Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [31][32]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [33]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [34]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
I recently received a message about me removing something from the Philip Rivers wiki page. I removed the part of him being "regarded as an elite QB" because it is not factual information and zero sources were used to support this. It is merely a piece of bias opinion and I thought it should be removed. Im not going to remove it again, but its silly that blatantly false, opinionated information would be on Wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:541:8100:4186:B1DB:D01A:4C52:EB5E (talk) 07:51, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
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
Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [35]
Problems
There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [36]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hi, Thanks for letting me know about the Edit Summary. I was unaware that this existed before you told me about it. I entered in my edit summary for the slight edit I made to a page (as I assume you'll see.) Regards, Loren222 Loren222 (talk) 22:28, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
To be fair, I edited Boston, New York a few days ago, before I started trying to constructively edit pages by correcting grammatical errors. I get what you're saying though. Dolecurer00000 (talk) 03:07, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
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
VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [37][38]
The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [39]
VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [40]
Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [41]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [42]
Hello... The content of the page "Avalon" are on other pages "Glastonbury abbey" and certain phrases of "glastenbury festival" not appropriate. in short, a tour guide of Glastonbury.--151.19.6.211 (talk) 19:06, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Is there some background to the image replacement at Köppen climate classification that you could provide? On the surface it appears to be a user edit warring to obtain their preferred version. If that's the case then you probably shouldn't revert again and you certainly shouldn't be using Huggle to revert. If there are extenuating circumstances please let me know. Thanks Tiderolls18:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
I would caution you about equating removal of content with vandalism. True, it's a good indicator but there are other factors. Sometimes it's a simple case of not understanding the policies and conventions under which we work. While aggravating and if repeated often enough, disruptive, the edits can often times still be classified as good faith. Please don't take this note as calling you out on the valuable work you are doing. I'm simply trying to show you a possible minefield that you should avoid. Let me know if I can ever be of service. Regards Tiderolls21:37, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm well aware that blanking vandalism is often hard to categorize between good and bad faith blanking. This combined with the fact that it is a very high % of overall vandalism make occurrences like this inevitable. Typically good faith contributors will just revert back with an edit summery or message me with an explanation. I actually have a fairly high tolerance for not reverting unexplained removals of content with Huggle, I typically don't touch removals of poorly sourced content or BLP content, but cases like this sometimes happen where the user removes visual content, ie a map and then refuses to communicate about why they have done this. In the future I will try to be more careful, thanks for the advice. Winner 42Talk to me!21:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, all! We hope that everyone had a nice summer.
Saturday saw the end of Round 2. Things went relatively smoothly this month. The top 2 from 4 pools, plus the top participant (the wildcard, or "9th place") of all remaining competitors, moved onto Round 3. We had one withdrawal early in Round 2, so he was replaced by the next-highest scorer from Round 1. Round 2's highest scorer was Pool D's Tomandjerry211, who earned an impressive 366 points; he also reviewed the most articles (19). Close behind was Zwerg Nase, also in Pool D, at 297 points and 16 articles. The wildcard slot went to Good888. Congrats to all!
Round 3 will have 9 competitors in 3 pools. The key to moving forward was reviewing articles with the longest nomination dates, as it has been in every round up to now. For example, 2 competitors only needed to review 2 articles each to win in their pools, and each article were either from the pink nomination box (20 points) or had languished in the queue for over 5 months (18 points). The GA Cup continues to be a success in many ways, even with fewer competitors this time. For some reason, the competitors in the 2015 GA Cup have reviewed fewer articles in Round 2, which has made the judges scratch their head in confusion. We've speculated many reasons for that: the summer months and vacations, our competitors are saving their strength for the final rounds, or they all live in the Pacific Northwest and the heavy wildfire smoke has affected their thinking. Whatever the reason, Round 2 competitors reviewed almost 100 articles, which is a significant impact in the task of reviewing articles for GA status. We've considered that the lower participation this competition is due to timing, so we intend to discuss the best time frame for future GA Cups.
For Round 3, participants have been placed randomly in 3 pools of 3 contestants each; the top editor in each pool will progress, as well as the top 2 of all remaining users. Round 3 will start on September 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on September 28 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here.
Good luck to the remaining contestants, and have fun!
To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Srivastava Delete, a handful of minor roles, but doesn't come close to WP:NACTOR in my view. I'm sympathetic to the argument that it's usually harder to find written information on Indian topics than Western ones, but wh
Delete, a handful of minor roles, but doesn't come close to WP:NACTOR in my view. I'm sympathetic to the argument that it's usually harder to find written information on Indian topics than Western ones, but when it's a BLP we're talking about, caution is called for. Subject must have played minor and supporting roles in various films and TV shows, but fails WP:NACTOR and WP:GNG. Mentioned only in passing in cited media articles (which themselves are mostly second-tier sources), and I couldn't locate anything more comprehensive.David 16:43, 7 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ManishSrivastava1 (talk • contribs)
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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [44]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [45]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [46]
Problems
There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [47]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [48][49]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [50]
The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [51][52]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [53]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [54][55]
Hey, just letting you know, I want a decent record and logic for any changes. I started a discussion on the talk page for it. Even though he wrote it, it's mainly cited by WP:RS citations, so we need to find out if there are RS on the other side, or if this is just a weird issue. Jerod Lycett (talk) 22:18, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [57]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [58][59]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [61]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [62]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [63]
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Deep frying you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tim riley -- Tim riley (talk) 16:00, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
If you ever change your mind about leaving Wikipedia, note that the wikibreak enforcer does not work with the mobile site, and you can log in to edit your common.js using that method. You will be missed. sstflyer15:48, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence is awarded in recognition of a combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service - Winner 42, I has been an honor to work with you here in the Wikipedia community; It is heart breaking to see my wiki parent retire and return to the reality of life. I wish you well, and will pray for your retirement from Wikipedia. We will NEVER FORGET the effort, and work you did here on English Wikipedia. You are awesome. CookieMonster755(talk)23:25, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Grey Goo Header.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [66][67][68][69]
More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [70]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [71]
Problems
Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [72]
Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [73][74]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [75]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [76]
You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [77]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.
