User talk:MBlaze Lightning/Archives/2016

Red links

Hi MBlaze Lightning, recently you removed a link for William McMahon's wife, Sonia, as there was no article about her. This is not necessary as red links are quire acceptable. They show us what articles still need to be written. In this case I have not put the link back, as it is quite possible to argue that she, as an individual person, is not notable enough for her own article. But be careful about removing other links, they do serve a useful purpose.--Peterdownunder (talk) 21:45, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. — MBlaze Lightning 13:26, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

By the way

If I am not a sock than you should NOT do a CU request. Plus I'm not a sock and I'm a smart California girl to understand not to disrupt Wikipedia. --LaurenCox600 (chat me!) 05:34, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

@LaurenCox600 *sigh* If you're not a sock, you have nothing to worry about, and I'm not going to request CU, Cheers. — MBlaze Lightning 16:10, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

But Lithorien has. The SPI/RFCU seems reasonable to me. If you're not a sock, you should welcome getting cleared of such suspicions. — MBlaze Lightning 16:22, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Ruzizi River QD

I appreciate your anti-vandalism efforts earlier but this QD is for an administrator to decide. We do not have one-word articles (which can't be called an article by any stretch of the imagination). Secondly, we could say any page should not be deleted because it can be improved. If you want to improve the article go ahead. But even then you should leave the QD for an admin to decide. If you have any questions about this just ask. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rus793 (talk • contribs)

I see you did add some improvements. In the future please don't remove another editor's QD or RfD requests even if you do make improvements. Again, that is for an administrator to decide. Thanks for understanding. Rus793 (talk) 14:20, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Rus793, the topic certainly has potential and it can be expanded and improved but as you I'll put that QD back but will try to improve the article a bit. Cheers. — MBlaze Lightning 14:25, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

A good number of deleted articles have some potential—if for nothing else their title. But patrollers and administrators delete quite a few of these a day here. Check the deletion log yourself to see how many are deleted daily. There simply aren't enough of us with sufficient time to improve all of them. Otherwise nothing else would get done and IP and other new users would simply keep cranking out these one-word, one sentence or blank pages with no let up. It is a practical matter. Each of us improves those we can and by your improving this one you've done something good here. Keep it up. Thanks again Rus793 (talk) 15:08, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Rus793 has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them! For improving an article marked for QD

Thanks for the cookies! :) — MBlaze Lightning 15:34, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Welcoming users

Hello, MBlaze. Thanks for your work here. I noticed that you left a welcome message for IP user 2601:283:C200:4DE0:10B0:707D:AD1A:859F. You might not have known, but here we prefer not to welcome users until we see that they are making a good number of helpful changes. None of this users changes appear to be vandalism, but none of them were really helpful, either. Before welcoming, please look over their changes to be sure that they're helpful. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:40, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Ok @Auntof6 sure, before welcoming a user or IP I will do take a look over their contributions thoroughly. Cheers. — MBlaze Lightning 03:28, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 04:28, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

We seem to have a woops!

I just noticed your userpage. It has two patroller userboxes. You may not want to be displaying these until you are granted patroller rights. See Wikipedia:Patrollers. Meanwhile you might want to take them down. I'm sure you just misunderstood. The list of users with patroller status (all admins automatically have patroller rights) is at Special:ListUsers/patroller. Thanks Rus793 (talk) 02:27, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

@Rus793 no problem, I'll remove them but Isn't patrolling new pages and recent changes is entirely voluntary and is just a way to see that every page gets checked in a timely manner? If I'm not wrong, then Patroller user right is granted to those who regularly create good articles and their articles does not need to be patrolled or appear at Special:NewPages list. I may be wrong. Cheers. — MBlaze Lightning 03:20, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The patroller right does two things. It allows the person to mark other users' new pages as patrolled, and it means that the person's own new pages are automatically patrolled (they do still appear at Special:NewPages). Patrolling could be seen as the act of marking new pages as patrolled, or the act of checking new pages as any user can do. When you have the patroller right, unpatrolled pages appear highlighted in yellow in the new pages display. I hope that sheds some light on this. Feel free to ask any questions you might have. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:26, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the information @Auntof6. — MBlaze Lightning 07:28, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

The warning you gave to an IP

You recently gave an IP user a level-1 vandalism warning for an edit that was made to U.S. Presidential line of succession. The IP user's edit was, at a minimum, a good-faith effort, and arguably it made the article better. Either way, it was not vandalism. I have removed the vandalism warning from the IP user's talk page -- we want to encourage people to make constructive edits here, even if they are not perfect. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  11:44, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Service award

You are qualified to display the following award. Your next level is when you hit 600 edits: Apprentice Editor (you already have more than enough time in service and you need less than 100 more edits to qualify). A belated congratulations!

This editor is a Novice Editor and has the right to show this Service Badge.

Service award

Congratulations! You are now qualified to display the following award. Your next level is Journeyman Editor at 6 months service and 1,200 edits. BTW, you can also award yourself a service award when you have the required time and number of edits. See Wikipedia:Service awards. Also, you can pay it forward. When you see a new editor who qualifies for a service award (time and number of edits) you can give them a service award. Good luck in your editing! Rus793 (talk) 14:09, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

This editor is an Apprentice Editor and has the right to show this Service Badge.

Thank you, Rus793 :) — MBlaze Lightning 14:59, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [1]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [2]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [3]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [4][5]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [6]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

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 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [7]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [8][9]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [10]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [11]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [13]
• Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [14]

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 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [15]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [16]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [17]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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 prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [18]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [19]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (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 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Iceland

You recently reverted an IP editor after the IP made changes to Iceland and failed to cite sources. The changes were valid so I am putting them back. I will add citations shortly. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  07:07, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Okay, no problem. — MBlaze Lightning 17:20, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

New categories

Please don't make a new category until there are three or more pages to put in it. That's how we do it here. Otherwise they get deleted when Aunt does a sweep through the categories! Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:03, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

And in addition to that, please categorize the categories you create. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 August 2016

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

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 23:34, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Managing user pages of sockpuppet accounts

I noticed that you left a sock notice on one user page, and blanked the user page of another sock. These are normally done by the person who confirms that the user is a sock. Please don't do these things yourself. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Roger that. — MBlaze Lightning 05:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Battle rap

I deleted the material because it was added by a user who was blocked on en Wikipedia for self-promotion. None of the material I removed is back by anything resembling a reliable source.

See:

• Blocked sockmaster

Ohnoitsjamie (talk) 20:06, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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

• In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [20]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [21]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [22]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [23]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [24]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [25]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [27]

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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:40, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [28]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [29]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [30][31]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [32]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [33]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [34][35]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [36]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [37]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

QD log

Hi MBlaze Lightning, thanks for you work on fighting vandalism. If you find pages with "attack names", please request a QD, but do not add them to your QD log. I have recently been asked to suppress an attack page, but I also had to suppress a version of your QD log page where the attack page name was also listed. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me, --Peterdownunder (talk) 01:00, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [38]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [39]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [40]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [41]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [42]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [43][44]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [45]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

change conflict

I'm guessing you've already realized the change to Wikipedia:Introduction was acceptable, and that this is why you blanked the warning you applied. :) Etamni | ✉ | ✓  13:43, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

yep :) — MBlaze Lightning T 📧 13:48, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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

• Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [46]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [47]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [48][49]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:59, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

• Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [50]
• Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [51]
• When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [52]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [53][54]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [55][56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [57]

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37

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 Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [58]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [59][60]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [61]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [62][63]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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18:03, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Update to wiki page https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Telugu_movies required

Hi MBlaze Lightning, Please update Janathe Garage collections in wiki page https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Telugu_movies I have given reliable sources for editing.

Thanks, Coolbabucoolcool (talk) 19:35, 16 September 2016 (UTC)Coolbabucoolcool

 Done — MBlaze Lightning ^T 08:48, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Impersonator

Someone is trying to impersonate you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bbb23_and_Royer2356

I am sure it's to disrupt your STANDARD OFFER.

Tech News: 2016-38

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

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [64][65]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [66]

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

User talk:2602:FFE8:102:306:0:0:3504:6B90

@MBlaze Lightning: What's going on at User talk:2602:FFE8:102:306:0:0:3504:6B90? It appeared your original level warning was level 1 and was changed to Level 4. As I'm sure you know we start with level 1 or 2 and do not go directly to 4. While I was changing back to your original warning it appears you changed back to the level 4 warning—inadvertently, I'm sure. Did you want to change it back to level 1? I just added a level 2 warning and if the user continues to vandalize, it will go through the rest of the levels. Otherwise, if there was some reason let me know. I'll leave it to you to take care of. Thanks Rus793 (talk) 18:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Blaze. The user is actively vandalizing right now so maybe this is a moot point. Rus793 (talk) 18:52, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Rus793, please see the IP's talk page history correctly. My original user warning was level II [67], ChenzwBot gave a level I warning [68] before me. I appropriately warned the IP [69] before reporting to Vandalism in progress. The vandal quickly removed all the warnings, I understand, how you might have overlooked and decided to give the vandal a warning again [70]. That is why, I decided to restore last stable version [71] but it seems I restored the wrong version. This might be a error on my part (I was on a mobile that time). Anyway, the vandal is globally blocked now. Cheers, — MBlaze Lightning ^T 07:01, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

A Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For MBlaze Lightning for keeping the Simple English Wikipedia up to date and accurate. Peterdownunder (talk) 22:37, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Peterdownunder. — MBlaze Lightning ^T 06:36, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [72]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [73]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [74]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [75][76]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [77]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [78]

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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

• News and notes: Case study of Wikimedia Education Program published; remembrance of departed colleague Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology)

• In the media: This edition's roundup of media coverage

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét: Four weeks of traffic

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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Tech News: 2016-40

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 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [79]

• <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [80]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Journeyman Service award

Congratulations! You are now qualified to display the following award. BTW, you may use any form of the award you like and you may also give yourself a service award (although it always seems better if someone else awards it to you). Now if you notice an editor is due a service award (has both the time and edits required), pay it forward and award it to them. Nice going! Rus793 (talk) 15:30, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

This editor is a Journeyman Editor and has the right to show this Service Badge.

Update for Janatha Garage Movie collections

Hi,

Could you please update Janatha Garage movie collections in https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Telugu_movies based on below source

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/janatha-garage-5th-weekend-box-office-collection-jr-ntrs-film-crosses-rs-135-crore-mark-32-days-696348

Thanks, Coolbabucoolcool (talk) 19:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)coolbabucoolcool

 Done — MBlaze Lightning ^T 08:04, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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 show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [81]
• The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [82]
• Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [83]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [84]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [85]

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20:29, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Reverting

Hi MBlaze Lightning, please be careful with revert. This should only be used for vandalism. If the edit, like the recent one to Enrico Fermi for example, has been a genuine attempt to add content, then it is not vandalism, and revert should not be used. In this case, if you feel that the new edit does not improve the article, makes major assertions that are not referenced, or other things, then use the "undo" feature. I always try to show good faith by carefully separating the vandals from the inexperienced. Of course, even better for an unsourced claim, would be to find a relevant source and cite it. --Peterdownunder (talk) 06:14, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IX, September 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: A GLAM ostrich makes the day; Wiki Loves Monuments boost in Brazil Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in the Research Library in Olomouc Germany report: Presenting four years of GLAM activities in Germany at WikiCon 2016 Italy report: Wikipedians at Tridentine Diocesan Museum; Alpine Botanical Garden Viote Macedonia report: Statistics and news Mexico report: Towards reducing gender gap in Wikipedia: "Editatona" Female writers Netherlands report: Workshop for Dutch WW2 underground newspapers; Project Netherlands and the world; A report on the Iconclass expert Meeting Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments editing contest; Wikinobel Serbia report: Content donation by an art photograph Maja Stošić Spain report: Wiki Takes Sweden report: A month full of projects Ukraine report: Writing Week Around Content Donation USA report: Edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, and Wikiconference Open Access report: WikiCite at OASPA; 3D printing biology Wikidata report: Properties are Deft! Calendar: October'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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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

• There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

• Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [86]
• Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [87]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [88]

Future changes

• The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

• The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [89]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [90]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [91]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [92]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [93]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [94]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template" field when editing templates. [95]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [96]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [97]

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

• Wikicup: Winners announced

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

• Featured content: Cream of the crop

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2016-45

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

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [98]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [99]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [100]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [101]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [102]

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [103][104][105]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue X, October 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshops and online course Basque Country report: Libraries and Wikimedia meet in Donostiapedia Belgium report: BeMuseum; upcoming prize ceremony Wiki Loves Brazil report: GLAM news in October Bulgaria report: Bulgarian Archives State Agency; Archives Challenge Côte d'Ivoire report: Collaborating with Parliament, editing with Women Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Heidelberg University Macedonia report: Wikiexperiments project continues: Chemistry experiments in glorious HD! Mexico report: Women in Cinema, LGBT rights, WikiArte, Donation from the Cervantine Library and WikiConNA Netherlands report: Wikipedian in Residence; Heritage Leiden; Public libraries Norway report: Maps! Poland report: Digitisation, modern museums and ancient Nubia Serbia report: Wikipedian in Residence and Wiki Librarian workshops Spain report: Wiki Takes and libraries Sweden report: Nationalmuseum's Paintings; Maritime edit-a-thon; Connected Open Heritage; Swedish National Archive UK report: Beautiful birds, and back to the Bodleian USA report: WikiConference North America 2016 and edit-a-thons Open Access report: Open Access Week; 7,000 new audiovisual media; 2 Requests for Comment & 1 bot WMF GLAM report: Digitization, Travel, Structured Data on Commons, and WMF updates Calendar: November'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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Tech News: 2016-46

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

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [106]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [107]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [108]

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19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Battle of Hastings

I saw that you caught the vandalism at this page and that the user had been warned three times previously. I almost added it to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress when I noticed you already had. But you placed it at the bottom of the list where it may not get attended to right away or another editor might not notice it and add a new entry. New instances of vandalism should be placed at the top of the list. I don't know when you'll see this but if the user has not already been dealt with, could you move your entry to the top? Thanks. Rus793 (talk) 18:46, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done. cheers, — MBlaze Lightning ^T 18:58, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For all your efforts in reverting vandalism. Rus793 (talk) 18:53, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Rus793! — MBlaze Lightning ^T 18:59, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [109]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [110]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [111]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [112][113][114]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [115]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [116]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2016

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

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

• Featured content: Featured mix

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [117]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [118]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [119][120]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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21:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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

Recent changes

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [121]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [122]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [123]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [124]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:06, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue XI, November 2016 Headlines Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: Opening the Mathematics box in a context of widespread innumeracy Côte d'Ivoire report: Outcomes from the Parliament's collaboration and more France report: GLAM in northern France Germany report: WikiLibrary Barcamp and Wikimedia-Salon Mexico report: 2nd edit-a-thon WikiUNAM; 2 other edit-a-thons Netherlands report: Temminck Groll Collection; WW2 underground newspaper project presented in Bonn; Stained glass in the picture Norway report: #faktajakt and Armenia contest Spain report: Edit-a-thons in museums Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Craft; Wikipedia training; Uppsala stadsarkiv; Brunnsmuseet; Debate; LSH Upload Ukraine report: Ukrainian Museums Issued Additional Awards for Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 USA report: Holiday season events with new partners Open Access report: Open access on the 2016 Community Wishlist; Over 1k new video uploads Wikidata report: Birthday Bonanza WMF GLAM report: Digitization, #1lib1ref, and Tech Updates Calendar: December'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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Tech News: 2016-50

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 who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [125]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [126]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [127]

Problems

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [128]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [129]
• Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [130]

Problems

• Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [131]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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

• Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016

• Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

• News and notes: English Wikipedia ArbCom election results; strategic planning update

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

• Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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