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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

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

• From the editor: The Signpost‍‍ '​​s reorganization plan—we need your help
• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
• In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
• Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
• Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
• Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
• Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
• Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Community letter: Five million articles

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 18:11, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [1]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [2]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [3]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [4]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

• A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [5]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [6]

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16:42, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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

• Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
• Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
• Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
• Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 18:28, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

• Superprotect has been removed. [7]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [8]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [9]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [10]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [11]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [12]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [13]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

74.130.133.1

How is that a sock? To me, it is not used by any blocked IPs it has not vandalizes. Not even any range. --166.170.57.46 (talk) 01:28, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Leaving this message on my talk page does nothing but bring this IP address to my attention and gives me further confirmation that you are abusing multiple IP addresses. @Bsadowski1, Peterdownunder, Djsasso, and Auntof6: for your information. For a start, I have tagged some IPs at Category:Suspected sockpuppets of 166.172.56.0/21. There is also an ANI thread at EN under "Starship9000 and IPs". Further information is available in the abuse log for filter 54 and the individual IP deleted contribs. Chenzw  Talk  02:42, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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

• Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
• Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
• Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
• Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
• In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
• Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
• Gallery: Paris

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Tech News: 2015-47

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

• You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [14]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [15]
• The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
• Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [17][18]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 November 2015

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

• Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
• In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
• Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
• Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
• Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
• Traffic report: Darkness and light

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Tech News: 2015-48

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

• A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [19]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

What did it say at Google Fiber

I know it's not true I'm just curious. Krett12 (talk) 16:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Roughly that it is a "textile industry". Chenzw  Talk  23:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

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

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
• Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
• Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
• News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
• In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
• Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
• Featured content: Caves and stuff
• Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 03:26, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

• On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [20]
• Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [21]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [22][23]
• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [24]
• Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [25]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)