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Hello

I'm new just saying hello. --Arabia619 (talk) 01:07, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

You are doing a great job

Great job Chenzw. Thanks for heloing to revert vandalism on the page I created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danidamiobi (talk • contribs) 12:14, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Eurovision Song Contest 2018 revert

My edit was meant to add new entries - the revert is likely caused by accidental reference removal. Whoops... Oh well. And note: There has been vandalism on this IP, because this is a school IP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.119.104.126 (talk • contribs) 11:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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 make longer edit summaries. [1]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [2]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [3][4]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (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 6 March at 19:30 (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 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Please block 24.190.40.112 as the sock of User:Dylan Cerbone 2018

Hi, Chenzw/Archives/Mar 2018. It's have been blocked User:Dylan Cerbone 2018 as not here to build an encyclopedia. However, Dispite blocked, Dylan Cerbone 2018 is still active as 24.190.40.112. 24.190.40.112 is actually the same person of Dylan Cerbone 2018 because of many evidence, including editing this page. As blocking pocicy, 24.190.40.112 is should be blocking for a long time as the sockpuppet of Dylan Cerbone 2018. In English Wikipedia, 24.190.40.112 has already blocked for a year.

Best regards, See also: User talk:Macdonald-ross#24.190.40.112 Ayuta Tonomura (talk) 18:58, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

There is not enough recent activity from this IP to justify a block, but I will keep a lookout for them in the future. In the meantime, I ask that you please refrain from talking to the user unless absolutely needed, otherwise you will just continue to feed their ego. Chenzw  Talk  01:48, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

• Cross-wiki vandalism, 24.190.40.112 changed IP adress to 24.190.34.240 and still active in both English wiki (in English wiki, this IP was blocked for a week.) and simple wiki. This is actually the sock of User:Dylan Cerbone 2018. Deal is required. Ayuta Tonomura (talk) 05:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

No reply?Ayuta Tonomura (talk) 09:54, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

I would appreciate if you kindly refrain from stalking us on recent changes and hounding us for a reply. Just because I have time to pop by to deal with the occasional deletion/block does not necessarily mean I have the time to investigate this. This is currently being looked into. Chenzw  Talk  10:25, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking this IP!.Ayuta Tonomura (talk) 11:27, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Change name

I am from Xi'an,China.I want to improve my hometown's page.Hu County and Gaoling County have turned into Huyi DistrictandGaoling District.I can not change Hu County and Gaoling County these page's name.Could you help me change its name?（英文不太好见谅）--Liuxingy (talk) 03:04, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

oh.I knew how to change name.But I found it diffcult to change this page--"Template:...".Could you please tell me how to creat it?(如果能用中文回答最好）--Liuxingy (talk) 03:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

I am sorry, I have no idea what you are trying to do.

不太了解你到底想要做什么，希望你能澄清。

Please also note that this is the Simple English Wikipedia; it will not be reasonable to other editors to continue using Chinese in the long-term to communicate. --Chenzw  Talk  07:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Someone delte this page Template:Xi'an-stub.I don't know why someone do this.In Chinese Wikipedia,I can do it freely.Liuxingy (talk) 13:43, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

@Liuxingy: I deleted that template. On this Wikipedia, we don't create as many kinds of stubs as other Wikipedias. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Simple Stub Project. If you want to create a new one, it has to be discussed first at Wikipedia talk:Simple Stub Project. --Auntof6 (talk) 13:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Is it easy to apply that?I am not good at English.I afraid that I can not communicate with them.--Liuxingy (talk) 13:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Hiding changes

Hi there, can you please remove these changes so that they don't appear in the page history. Regards.BRP ^ever 15:42, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)  Done @BRPever: I recommend making this kind of request at WP:AN instead of on an admin's talk page. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:37, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I will request there if these kinds of changes happens next time.BRP ^ever 17:07, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [6]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [7]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [8]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [9]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [10]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [11]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [12][13]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [14][15][16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (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 13 March at 19:30 (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 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Just to clarify

They asked if there was a valid way in a different discussion here which is what I was referring to. Even in that quote you use, they said if another admin doesn't agree then so be it, that would also seem to indicate looking for a second opinion. -DJSasso (talk) 11:27, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Oh, my apologies for the misattribution, I will modify my original message. Chenzw  Talk  11:30, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Your block to my IP address forms several problems. It says I'm blocked, I haven't edited before, I'm not logged in, even I have to press "Publish Changes" multiple times before it will save. You need to unblock my IP address.--Whelk12 20:38, 17 March 2018

Tech News: 2018-12

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

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [18][19]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [20] [21]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [22]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [23]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (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 27 March 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 one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [24]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:03, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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Edit Filter

Hi, I'm an Edit Filter Manager on ENWiki (Confirmation: [25]). I'm wondering if you can email me the contents of Filter 70 on this wiki. That sock has been spamming EN with the same stuff, and a request for a filter there mentioned #70 here. I'll be happy to return the favor as he adapts to the filter requiring new strings be flagged. Thanks! Crow^Caw 21:13, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I have sent you an email with details, please feel free to get back to me as necessary! Chenzw  Talk  02:48, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks! I sent you the filter I created, based on yours. Crow^Caw 18:28, 31 March 2018 (UTC)