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Hello bro can i know your clan name? Pratik gyawali (talk) 04:51, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
  • The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

  • There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
  • No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!
Hello, I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!

   –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 19:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Davey2010 I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year too! Class455fan1 (talk to me) 19:25, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26's RFA Appreciation award

The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 02:01, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

CSD

Hi Class455fan1, When you want your own pages deleted you can just add "{{db-u1}} to the page instead of sending it to MFD, Also you may wanna read WP:U1 :), Thanks, –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 14:25, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, will do next time. Class455fan1 (talk to me) 20:52, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Class455fan1!

Happy New Year!

Class455fan1,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Tvx1 22:51, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to send this message
Thank you very much and i hope you have a happy new year too! Class455fan1 (talk to me) 11:29, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Class455fan1!

Happy New Year!

Class455fan1,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 11:21, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


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Thank you very much, I hope you have a happy new year too! Class455fan1 (talk to me) 11:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Personal info

Thanks for removing that phone number from my talk page. I am not sure the post here was right. It was fully of bold and warnings and, frankly, not correct as far as I know. We must not post personal info of others, but if users want to post their own, we can advise them not to, or even really discourage them. But, warning them that they may be blocked is a bit much. This is the only template I know about this, and it says nothing about posting one's own info. Anna F remote (talk) 00:46, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Anna,It was the only warning i could find about it, I could have just used the stop template though to tell him not to do it again, or i could've removed the "blocked from editing" part (which i have now done). I did think this policy applied to personal info about anyone, let alone ourselves, so thats why i gave out the warning. I could suggest at the Twinkle page that one could be made about revealing personal info, or i could make a "custom warning" about it (which i think is possible). I think the edit though may need to be suppressed though to avoid the user's phone number being misused. It is a UK mobile phone number, and I've heard a lot about nuisance calls in this country from rogue sellers to people impersonating others with higher authority, such as the bank or police, and then they can easily commit Fraud or other offences by taking their bank details. I don't think there is anyone on here who would do that, but just in case, i think it may be best to suppress the edit, but in this case, i think i may have to contact an user which has the Oversight right enabled. Is there a place, if needed to request for something to be suppressed? Class455fan1 (talk to me) 09:29, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Matt Hobden has been nominated for Did You Know


Self-requested block

Hi Class455fan1. I saw your message at Bishonen's page. I'm not an admin, so i can't block you, but I can keep an eye on you, if you wish. May that be helpfull? Best regards, and succes with your exams! Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 21:51, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Joshua, you could do that, but i am likely to check my watchlist during then, and that could make me edit (especially if one of my pages get vandalised) so i'd prefer a block (I'll definitely need another block when i take my GCSE's in May/June), also, it would be nice to see what its like to be blocked, but thanks for the offer. Class455fan1 (talk) 21:56, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
  • I've already blocked Class, Joshua. MUAHAHAHA! Zap zap! Bishonen | talk 22:05, 5 January 2016 (UTC).
Okay. Go for it, Class455fan1!!! Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 05:06, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 January 2016

Tech News: 2016-02

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

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [3]

Changes this week

  • The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [4]
  • New file uploads will now be patrollable. [5]
  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, 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. [6][7]

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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [9][10]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11][12]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

refactoring others talk page comments

Hey mate, I know you meant well, but it is highly discouraged to edit other people's talk page comments, even if they have typos. Just thought you should know. --allthefoxes (Talk) 19:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Allthefoxes Wouldnt it help if we corrected grammar and typos made by others even on talk pages? Isn't refactoring others talk page comments removing them completely and editing them significantly? I don't think it counts with typo's. I sometimes do this on other peoples talk pages, and they don't mind. I was meant to describe what I changed but my iPhone submitted the edit before I could show what I changed. In your case, you said "you are write", (which is grammatically wrong) so when I saw this on my watchlist, I changed this. I thought you wouldn't mind. Class455fan1 (talk) 19:30, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Everyone is a little different, some people won't mind, some people will. It generally is considered rude which is why no-one does it. Since you really don't know who will mind and who won't. WP:TPO is where this is all mentioned. --allthefoxes (Talk) 19:41, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
This is what I don't get. I don't see how correcting other's talk page comments are considered as "rudeness". If someone fixed a typo on my page, I wouldn't mind. Even though it says that you shouldn't do this on WP:TPO, but I consider it a help to others (which is one of the things I'm here to do, other things include editing pages of course and to try and prevent vandalism, which you are doing a brilliant job of). Sometimes I do wonder about a few of the guidelines on wiki, they can be a bit crazy if I'm being honest. but I do like doing the above on the wiki. If I have more time, I would propose this guideline to be changed at the Village Pump because it's really intriguing how a simple little thing like correcting grammar for others in others comments are rude, but i am quite busy at the moment as I have a week to prepare for paper 2 of my maths GCSE, (I had the first today, so I have time off until tomorrow),so I'm under quite a lot of stress at the moment. So I might do this afterwards. Out of interest, are you one of those who consider this as "rude" or you don't mind and just wanted to give me the heads up for the future? Class455fan1 (talk) 19:56, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Class455fan1, please don't help people in ways that risk annoying them. The guideline WP:TPO says "It may irritate the users whose comments you are correcting", and that's the truth. Most people probably don't mind as you say, but if people should happen to be insecure about their English grammar or spelling, they are likely to feel your correction as a putdown. Tact is always better than unwanted helpfulness. For myself, the only person I ever correct is a close wikifriend who's dyslexic, and I know he doesn't mind. With everybody else I figure, better safe than sorry. Hope the exams are going well! Bishonen | talk 20:43, 11 January 2016 (UTC).
Hi Bishonen ,thanks for the advice on that, I don't intend to annoy anyone but I never knew a few people were insecure about English Grammar. As I am from England, as you've probably figured, I do have the habit of fixing typo's (which is why they say in school that I'm one of the best at spelling), but i didn't think that annoyed people. The exams are going well thanks for asking, My two crucial exams in English Language and Maths have gone better than thought, however I am stressed right now (not because someone demoralised me earlier on a talk page comment here which I've removed, that did make me a little upset for about 2 minutes, till I said to myself "Don't let things like this bring you down") and not because David Bowie passed away today (I liked his music, and came as a shock when it was announced on the radio this morning at 7am that he died) , but because I have to start preparing for my maths paper 2 next Tuesday (as I said above) from tomorrow. Anyway, thanks for the advice and I will take this onboard 😀. Class455fan1 (talk) 21:13, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Your edit on My User Page

Hi, i have seen your edit on my User page you removed you right? But anyway this is to remember the person who edit that so I fan remember at all times. You are always the one you edit. If you revert One more time, I will Protect this page for sure.

It is ok to remove this message, please stop reverting you to remove you, unsigned comment by Profile101 on 16 January 2016 at 20:27.

You can always look at the "history" of your page to see who has edited your page, so you do not need to list this in your user page. Also, you cannot protect your page, again, as I've said to you before, only administrators can. You are not an admin. However you can request for page protection, but this can only be granted if you can provide sufficient evidence that your user page is being vandalised (which is not caused by removing my name from your page, its only if someone attacks your user page)Class455fan1 (talk) 12:28, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Citing

hi Class455fan1

I understand the citing is important. but try to see that this person needs a public interview. Katie Couric is most likely going to do it. But bigger the journalistic name the better. He needs the media fighting to interview. him read his entry on wikipedia.

thanks,

Anan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jediyoda900 (talk • contribs) 14:41, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jediyoda900 You do need to prove that this interview will occur by providing a reliable source to back this up. In future, please add sources to articles. Also, some advice. Please remember to start new sections on talk pages when you started a new section, and please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by adding four tildes. I will send you a notice so you remember. Thanks Class455fan1 (talk) 15:15, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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Akif Kichloo

Hi, my friend and room mate just created the Akif kichloo page as both of us are big fans. She did a lot of hard work to gather all the info and Mr Kichloo was kind enough to answer all the questions she had personally via email. I would really appreciate it if you removed the speedy deletion tag from that page as soon as possible. It would really be appreciated. Also, I appreciate you giving your time for the cause of wikipedia, but kindly don't hurt our feelings by tagging that page again. Much obliged. 59.89.5.40 (talk)Sarah! —Preceding undated comment added 10:25, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi there. The article was tagged by another user because it wasn't notable. If you can provide sources for the article which are reliable, then it would probably stand a chance of staying. We are not allowed to remove CSD templates unless you are an Admin, but you can always contest the speedy deletion (basically to say I think this page should stay). All sources i can find are by himself. So it should be deleted because it fails Wikipedia's General Notability Guidelines Class455fan1 (talk) 10:41, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Could you please check now and vote up the page. I have added a lot of references to prove notability.. thanks

The sources are all self published by Kichloo, so they are not reliable sources. I stand by the proposed deletion. Class455fan1 (talk) 11:54, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
FYI - the CSD tag has been removed again and I have reinstated it. Just a note on what you said above - anyone, other than the article creator, is allowed to remove a CSD tag. Only admins can delete the page, of course. In this case the tag has been removed by an anonymous IP which is highly likely to be the creator but is not certain. Ultimately a reviewing admin will decide whether speedy deletion can go ahead in the circumstances. BC108 (talk) 15:15, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
BC108 Agreed. I think there may be some meatpuppetry going on here, because all the IP's are based in Kashmir, India, so it might be one person using three IP's. I will ask an admin to look at the page, because it clearly fails GNG, and see what they think. Class455fan1 (talk) 16:09, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
  • To Class455fan1 and his correspondents here: I'm afraid fame as a poet on social media platforms does not rise to notability for poets according to Wikipedia's notability guidelines,[13] nor does an upcoming book. Dr Kichloo is not yet notable for his medical research. I've deleted the article. Bishonen | talk 22:33, 17 January 2016 (UTC).
Thanks, Bishonen. I thought this was the case all along. Class455fan1 (talk) 22:52, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Semi

I've semi'd your page for a few days. Bishonen | talk 12:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC).

And I've protected your userpage for 3 months. Please say if you'd like that changed. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:15, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Recent Vandalism on my pages

Thank you Bishonen and Anna Frodesiak for protecting my pages. This guy won't stop socking. I don't know how he is managing to create multiple accounts. And he is targeting mine and Bishonen's pages because we warned/blocked them in the past. I thought account creation is blocked on those who are blocked. Class455fan1 (talk) 13:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Probably open proxies, VPNs, IP tunneling, etc. It's whack-a-mole right now, unfortunately. Such charming people on the Internets these days. I've watchlisted your page in case they come back after protection is lifted... NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 13:39, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Don't worry about it. Ignore. Carry on. Speaking of which, thanks for the reply to that user at my talk. You were very helpful. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [14]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [15]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [16]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

AIV

The 3RR of Mackycoff referred to happened at 19:01, 19:45, 19:57 as well as later on at 20:19 and 21:09 all on 20 January. Please see [here] (EDIT) Moot point now as Mackycoff has been indefinitely binned. Regards,   Aloha27  talk  21:36, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Hey Aloha27 I thought you were referring to me when you were talking about 3RR, as i just performed the third revert on that page. Sorry for the mix up, you can remove the message if you want. I am one of those people who get mixed up easily. Please excuse me! Class455fan1 (talk) 21:40, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
No worries. Nice work there.   Aloha27  talk  21:42, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2016)

Hello, Class455fan1.

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Izakaya

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Tech News: 2016-04

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 follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [18][19]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [20]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [21]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [22]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [23]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [24]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2016

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2016)

The slaughtered swine (1652) by Barent Fabricius, a depiction of a killed animal
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Killing of animals

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Thank you for supporting my RfA

Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [25]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [26][27]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [28]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [29]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [30][31]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [32]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [33][34][35]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [36][37]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [38]


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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Google Doodle task force

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Thanks for your support

Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating and supporting at my RfA. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:58, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2016)

Delivery trucks in San Salvador, El Salvador
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Delivery (commerce)

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Tech News: 2016-06

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

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [39]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [40]
  • RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [41]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [42][43]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [44][45]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [46][47][48]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Matt Hobden

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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Inadvertent removal from AIV

Not exactly sure how that happened. I thought I was deleting at EotW Nomination page. Sorry Buster Seven Talk 20:51, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

That explains it. No worries. Everyone makes mistakes! I left a message on your talk, but you can remove it if you want. Thanks for explaining Class455fan1 (talk) 20:53, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

::Cla..????...Please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Nominations. I somehow attached it and now I can't UN-attach it. Can you help? Buster Seven Talk 21:00, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Nevermind, I fixed it. I used the wrong brackets and didnt realize it until too late. These simple little mess-ups are why I'm glad my RfA was unsuccessful. Buster Seven Talk 21:10, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

As long as I'm here let me take this opportunity to pose a request. If you go the above linked page you'll see a nomination, by me, of a new editor that is fighting vandals. You may recognize him, maybe not. I saw him busy today via recent changes and decided to use him as a representative of ALL vandal fighters (yourself included). Would you care to comment there or to second his nomination? I like serendipity. There was some reason I made the mistake and got here as a result. Buster Seven Talk 21:23, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done. Class455fan1 (talk) 21:42, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Stub templates

The purpose of stub templates is to help classify very short articles into different types, so that they can be expanded by people who choose to work in certain areas. By convention, editors (and bots that track stubs) expect to find a stub template as the last item on an article. There is Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting which helps coordinate the efforts to categorise stubs. It is rarely helpful to add {{stub}} to an article, other than to indicate you're unsure which stub type to use (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types for a full list of accepted types). Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 13:41, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that. However, i have seen lots of stub templates at the top of articles. And how are you supposed to know that the article has a stub template without scrolling right to the bottom? I will look out for this in future. Class455fan1 (talk) 15:50, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, one job you can do is to move those stub templates to the bottom of the article - maintenance bots will find them then. And don't forget to mention WP:SECTIONORDER in your edit summary to help other editors understand the agreed order of items on article pages. As for knowing without scrolling, you don't know. But why would anybody want to know? Have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Take {{Bus-stub}} as an example; it puts the article where it is placed into the category Category:Bus stubs and that is where editors can go to find a list of stub articles related to buses. That's the real purpose of the stub template and the stub sorting system. If it were just a matter of classifying the article by quality, then the top of the article talk page is where a Wikiproject assesses an article as stub, start, C, B, etc. and we wouldn't need a stub template on the article itself. Hope that all makes sense to you. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 20:20, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

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An iceberg, which is relatively cold.
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  • You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [49]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [50]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [51][52]

Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [53][54]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [55]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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Thank you for supporting my RfA

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AIV error

Whatever you're up to, this is not the way to go about it. There is an OBVIOUS AIV issue here and the IPv6 editor has reported it appropriately. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:23, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Andy Dingley the initial report sent did not include anyone to report, and when I reverted for the second time only then he added in a person to report. Thought it was one of those IP's who mess up that page by sending duff reports. Class455fan1 (talk) 00:26, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
A look at the contribs history can clear this sort of thing up though. Maybe they totally bollocksed up the AIV posting, but they did have a good point to it and we should all try to help them out and get the broader goal met, not just find the small bureaucracy stuff to trip them up with. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
Andy Dingley Right. All I saw on my diff browser was that there was no report there, or a description of why the user was being reported there. That's why I reverted. I was going to leave a message at their talk about what they were up to at AIV, but then I saw why the IP was reporting when he/she added the user in. It also seems that the IP has changed his report to another IP user! However, some people can make very easy errors on AIV. I once asked someone why they were removing reports from AIV, they replied it was done in error. The initial warning you gave me, I thought, was very harsh, but thanks for getting rid of it. I am one of those people who unintentionally make errors (and to find out why, looking at two of my user boxes may help). In this case I initially thought it was someone messing about, but turns out they were there for a reason only after the second time of asking. Class455fan1 (talk) 00:35, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

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Several of the commonly known molecules.
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  • After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [61]

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GCSEs

Happy studying and good luck! DBaK (talk) 22:10, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! @DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered:! I really am not looking forward to the next few months, where all I'd be doing is sitting around doing revision. But at the end of it all, I can't wait for the long holiday that follows them! Class455fan1 (talk) 22:45, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Yup, quite. But you do, as you say, have that lovely Y11 summer to follow ... again, good luck with it all. I'm sure you will be great. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 11:41, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

St. Bridget School of Buhi

All schools are notable (I haven't invented it).Xx236 (talk) 08:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Can you demonstrate how it passes WP:GNG? Also, the author has removed all the content. All I can find on the web about it are self-published. Class455fan1 (talk) 09:09, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

AfD vs PROD notice removal

Hi! I reverted two of your edits: [62][63] as this was a PROD and not an AfD template and the user can indeed remove it without explanation if they object. Just wanted to mention. Cheers. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 17:59, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for this @Hellknowz:. Just one question, can i place a PROD template using TW? Many thanks! Class455fan1 (talk) 14:54, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

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  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
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  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [66][67]

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  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [68]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [69]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [70]

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2016)

Eugene Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People
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  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [72]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [73]
  • The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [74]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [75]
  • Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [76]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [77]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [78]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [79]
  • You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [80]
  • Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [81]

Changes this week

  • Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [82]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
  • Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [83]

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  • The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [85]

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A typical Swedish school lunch.
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  • The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [86]
  • The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [87]

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  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [88]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [89]

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Hello.

Hello Class455Fan1. I've just manually removed the block evading IP's post on your talk page - I hope you don't mind that. I understand that you are blocked at the moment, but I would like to wish you the best of luck for your GCSEs, which I myself am about to do. Nice to see more young editors on here! --Ches (talk) 13:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

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Critic by Lajos Tihanyi. Oil on canvas, c.1916.
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  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [90]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [91]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [92]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

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  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [93]

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2016)

The Gates of Hell sculpture by Auguste Rodin, an example depicting the concept of the gates of hell
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Tech News: 2016-13

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [96]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
  • You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [97]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [98]
  • Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

  • Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2016)

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Pecan pie

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Tech News: 2016-14

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Recent changes

  • You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [99]
  • Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [100]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2016)

Various foods in a delicatessen in Rome, Italy
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Tech News: 2016-15

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Recent changes

  • The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [101][102]
  • Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [103][104]
  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [105]
  • The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [106]

Problems

  • There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [107]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
  • The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [108]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [109]

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The Signpost: 14 April 2016

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