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AN/ANI

Okay, I've had to oversight the revisions you rev-del'ed earlier today. I've also removed your sections on AN and ANI because we do not discuss things such as this on the noticeboards (see the big red boxes). To answer your general questions, you must revdel all revisions with the offending content, to do otherwise is less than worthless, as the revdel draws even more attention than just letting it lie where it was. Use the same reasons for the revdel of the revisions that contained the offending content as you do for the revision that added it. Second, if there is general doubt about the content and where the revdel/oversight line lies, please drop a note to the oversight team, not asking questions on AN or ANI. Courcelles 15:35, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know: I appreciate your help on this. -- The Anome (talk) 15:37, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-39

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 software changes

• You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [1]

Problems

• There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
• Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
• There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [2] [3]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
• If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[4] [5]
• In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [6] [7]
• The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [8]
• The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [9]
• There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [10] [11]
• In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [12]

Future site changes

• You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [13]

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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Not a great block

Anome, you blocked Ilikebigbutts@icannotlie for a username violation. The consensus on the UAA page was there was no issue with his user name. The only individual who had one (and screamed loud as hell about it ) was Hammersoft. This user has yet to edit, and has a handle that matches the lyrics of "Baby got back". They recieved no communication about that name, nor were they given the chance to change it first. I'd say that block isn't right. (In case your'e wondering, it's not me, and I don't know who it is either ). Would you consider reconsidering,or allowing them to change their name ? KoshVorlon Angeli i demoni kruzhyli nado mnoj 16:59, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

• Kosh, WP:UAA asks us to either report the username or discuss the issue with the user. I chose the former, as I find the name deeply objectionable. I did nothing wrong. I am not required, and even WP:UAA asks us not to, discuss the username with the user if it is seriously objectionable. Describing my debate regarding the user name as "scream[ing] loud as hell" is nothing short of a personal attack, and is compounded by the thread you posted on my talk page. I recommend you drop it; if the person wants to continue editing under that name they can request an unblock, directions for which are already on their talk page. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:47, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

• The block is a soft block, and doesn't prevent them from creating another account with a different name -- indeed, the block message contains an invitation to create another account, or to ask for their existing account to be renamed. The name is a blatant example of sexual objectification; if we allow names like this, we are implicitly creating an environment some people will find unfriendly, and it's not worth the hassle for other editors just to give one editor their way on choice of username. Usernames on Wikipedia are meant primarily to be identifiers, not a forum for unlimited personal self-expression, and just because something is a song lyric doesn't give it a free pass. -- The Anome (talk) 22:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Wrong coordinates

THe coordinates are linked to the wrong webiste and location. How do I fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwa101 (talk • contribs) 01:03, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi -- can you be a bit more specific, please? Can you tell me which article in particular has this problem? -- The Anome (talk) 12:54, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-40

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

Recent software changes

• On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [14] [15]
• There are now many more translations for language names. [16]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
• Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [17] [18]
• You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [19]
• If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [20] [21]
• The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [22]

Future changes

• You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
• JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [23]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Ebola Graphs

Hi The Anome,

I was very happy to find your graphs regarding Ebola growth for countries on linear and logarithmic scale. I soon entered the data in to a spreadsheet to have ad diagram with more, and more recent data available. The graph I made for the rates are therefore based on yours, because I find you presentation good, and also to prevent confusion.

Your last update is from September 14th. Do you plan to update the graphs, or shall I do this? I can easily upload graph with more recent data. Either in a new file, or by updating yours. What do you think about this?

As now the first patient is reported in the US, it will probably be required to add the US also. In the moment there are heavy discussions in the talk page, because US and Senegal are similar. Either they remove both countries, or add the US. I would present in the graphs only countries that are presented in the table below. Due to layout issues I would add the US probably only in the logarithmic rate graph. I would then change colouring, black for Total/World, dark blue for US. It would be good, if we keep the colours in the graph consistent. What do you think?

Kind Regards, Malanoqa --Malanoqa (talk) 06:14, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Malanoqa, all of this sounds good to me. Your presentation of the data is a significant improvement on mine, and I would be most pleased if you could take over this work. Kind regards, -- The Anome (talk) 11:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi The Anome, so I keep the filename on Wikimedia, and update it with new more actual graphs? In that case all links on wikipedia articles would automatically point to the new versions. OK?

Kind regards, --Malanoqa (talk) 12:11, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi The Anome, I created a new file, due to legal rights, We will update the links in the referring articles manually. This is also more transparent. With kind regards --Malanoqa (talk) 21:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Anomebot2 indecisive?

In this edit, Anomebot2 added a {{coord missing}} template with scope “United States”. Less than an hour later, the bot updated the scope of its own template (here) to the state of Georgia. Five years passed, during which Anomebot2 was content to leave the article alone. But when I updated that template manually to focus it on the city of Atlanta (here), Anomebot2 changed its mind and deleted the template outright (here).

So at one point, the bot decided that an article needed coordinates which had not been provided, or even suggested, by any editor; but then at a later point, the bot decided to delete a more specific coordinate region which had been provided by an editor. Does this seem inconsistent?

Moreover, I cannot avoid the impression that Anomebot2 would have left the article alone had I not upgraded that template. I've invested some time in sorting a number of US {{coord missing}} articles into more specific geographic regions, and it is discouraging to think that a bot may delete any or all of that work for no stated reason.

Is there a pattern to this activity that isn't obvious, something that might make the Anomebot2 behavior more understandable, and hopefully more predictable?

 Unician ∇  09:48, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

I didn't spot them at first sight, either, and was initially as surprised as you, but after further inspection I can see that the bot removed the {{coord missing}} tag because the article now specifies several several coordinates within it: you can find them in the map within the infobox. -- The Anome (talk) 13:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Ah, thank you, that explains the bot's actions. As for that particular article, it's an unusual case because the subject is a narrow ring of trails around a city, punctuated by a few parks; the coordinates for the individual parks are included, but the entire project might be better described using an additional single large region centered on the city. But since the city is named and linked, and its article does include coordinates and scale of a region, I think I'll leave the article as the bot left it.  Unician ∇  02:30, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

This sort of article is ideal for either attached KML, or cross-referencing with an OpenStreetMap feature: WP:Wikiproject Roads have worked out a number of good ways to handle this sort of extended feature. -- The Anome (talk) 22:00, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-41

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Recent changes

• You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [24] [25]
• Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [26] [27]
• You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [28]
• A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [29]
• The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [30]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
• If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [31] [32]
• We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [33]
• On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [34] [35]
• You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [36]
• 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [37]

Future changes

• You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [38]
• More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [39] [40]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Patrick Sawyer

The difference between Sawyer and any other potentially scared EVD patient was that he was asked on several occasions, if he had ever been in contact with anyone infected but he continued denying all despite being on quarantine in Liberia. He wanted to even depart the hospital for Calabar, thank God for the heroics of Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh who risked her life to keep him in the medical facility. I understand that anyone will probably be having a cold feet in such situation, but no right thinking person should allow his/her death to be the cause of thousands of others. If I have EVD, I rather die alone (and go to Heaven) than take a risk that will certainly allow many other people die with me. I did not want to digress at the Afd that was why I did not leave my comment there.Darreg (talk) 21:56, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-42

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 software changes

• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [41] [42]
• You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [43]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [44]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
• 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [45]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [46]
• There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [47]
• You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [48]

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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey

I'm just dropping by for feedback on the addiction, sexual addiction, drug addiction, etc articles. Is the distinction with what I was talking about on my talkpage earlier clear now? Seppi333 (Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 20:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi there -- sorry not to have got back to you earlier: I will take a look at this tomorrow. -- The Anome (talk) 23:57, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43

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Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [49] [50]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [51]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [52]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [53]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [54] [55]

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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-44

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

Problems

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [56]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [57]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [58]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [59]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [60] [61] [62]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [63]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [64]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [65]

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05:21, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for not having sources

Sorry for my reccent on ebola that did not have any sources, but I fixed it now and it has the proper citations. I uploaded it to wikipedia again with the corrections. Thanks for helping me edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.98.31.48 (talk) 21:22, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-45

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Recent software changes

• The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [66]
• You can no longer use the insource: keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [67] [68]

Problems

• There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [69]
• Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [70] [71] [72]
• HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
• Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [73] [74]
• VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [75]
• The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [76] [77] [78] [79] [80]
• After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [81] [82] [83]

Future changes

• The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [84]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Links in list

Thanks a lot for editing List of railway_stations in Pakistan#All stations in Pakistan, with codes (alphabetically). Yes, Now it is much better than before. I want some more guidance from you. I want insert categories in all pages of this list, i mean i want insert category of District and Provices on each page. Is there any way to insert this without editing page. Is there any user rights or permissions about inserting categories quickly. Second, can you please tell me about NavBox format in which i need three columns. First Column for Province, Second for District and Third for name of railway stations. I want to change NavBox template. Thanks Ameen Akbar (talk) 17:52, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for all your great work on those articles. One way you might be able to generate articles quickly, including the addition of categories, might be to use the template substition mechanim to make an entire article from subst-ing a single short template. More details on this can be found at Wikipedia:Substitution. The other would be to use a bot to make the edits: see Wikipedia:Bots. Regarding the addition of extra fields for the {{infobox station}} template, I suggest you get in touch with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains project, who I believe maintain the template. -- The Anome (talk) 18:39, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-46

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [85] [86]
• The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [87]

File information cleanup

• Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
• You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
• You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [88]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
• You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [89] [90]
• The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [91]
• The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [92]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-47

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
• The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [93]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

• The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
• You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
• You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
• Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
• You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [94]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Bégin Hospital

There's already a page for this hospital, here. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4pital_d%27instruction_des_arm%C3%A9es_B%C3%A9gin

Is there any easy way to make a wikilink to wikipage in French?

Robertpedley (talk) 13:07, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi: if you look at the "Languages" field in the left sidebar of the Bégin Military Teaching Hospital article, and click on the word "Français", you'll find the French article is already linked from there, and vice versa. (The links are done using Wikidata: if you click on the "edit links" field in the interlanguage links, it will take you there) -- The Anome (talk) 13:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

OK, got it; but it's very long winded. My Chrome browser will automatically translate French text, isn't there a way to give a direct wikilink to a page on fr.wikipedia.org? The only way I can find is e.g.

• Bégin Military Teaching Hospital? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.59.162 (talk) 14:56, 18 November 2014‎

(talk page stalker) @Robertpedley: That link may be simplified to [[:fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin]] - notice that this starts with a colon, then the language code, then another colon, after which the full page name is given. This produces fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin; the first colon isn't displayed, but its presence is necessary. You can hide the language code and second colon as well by using [[:fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin|Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin]] which produces Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin. There is more on this at H:ILL. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:55, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Brilliant, thanks! I have no idea when I will use it, but I'm sure it will be useful. Robertpedley (talk) 19:45, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48

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

Recent changes

• The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [95]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [96]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
• You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [97]
• VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [98]
• You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [99]
• VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [100] [101]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Phone number username

Thanks. I'd figured that's what it was; it just seemed a little too long even assuming a country code was at the beginning. Good job following up—it was very late and I knew I wouldn't be able to manage it. Daniel Case (talk) 20:48, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-50

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 software changes

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [102]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [103]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [104]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [105]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [106]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [107] [108]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [109] [110] [111]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [112] [113]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [114]

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	thank you mr bot Saadkhan12345 (talk) 04:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Autonomous spaceport drone ship

Hi there. Your bot recently added a missing coordinates template to the Autonomous spaceport drone ship. I'm not an expert on how that template is used, but it begs the question: "Is such a template really appropriate for ships?" Ships obviously move locations all the time, so it is not clear how geodata could be current, unless there were some sort of GPS beacon on the ship, with that data publically accessible, and a bot regularly updating wiki-articles for where the ship was most recently.

Net, if it turns out to be not applicable for ships, you should update your bot to watch for that indicator; as well as go back and fix this article manually. Cheers. N2e (talk) 16:05, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi -- thanks for spotting this. The article was tagged because it was categorized as a spaceport. Ships are not inherently un-geocodeable (eg. sunken ships and permanently moored ships), so the bot didn't use that as a sign for the article not to be geocodeable. I'll go and fix the article by hand, but unless this particular coincidence happens again, I don't think the bot itself currently needs fixing. -- The Anome (talk) 18:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this! N2e (talk) 05:05, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-51

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

Recent software changes

• You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [115]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [116]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [117]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [118]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [119]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [120]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [121] [122]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [123] [124]

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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello The Anome, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015. Happy editing, The Herald : here I am 11:16, 20 December 2014 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Tech News: 2014-52

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 software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [125]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [126]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [127]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [128]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01

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

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

• 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 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Ebola in the UK post

Ok, I agree will remember from now on, what to do. D Eaketts (talk) 20:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! No harm done, and now you know. Thanks for your edits! -- The Anome (talk) 20:04, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year The Anome!

Happy New Year!

The Anome,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:35, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

Tech News: 2015-03

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 software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [129]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [130]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [131]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [132]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [133] [134] [135]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [136]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [137]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

FYI

You placed a blocking template on a user's talk page. However, you forgot to block the user!--5 albert square (talk) 22:46, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Ouch! Thank you for finding -- and fixing -- that! -- The Anome (talk) 14:18, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

No worries. The user got reported by DQB to UAA which is how I came across it. I thought I was seeing things when I blocked them then found a blocking template already on the talk page :)--5 albert square (talk) 14:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-04

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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[138] [139]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [140]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [141]

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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

TfD discussion grouping

Hi Anome, the TfD bot isn't removing dec 17 and dec 19 from the TfD list, probably because of the grouping I did there. What is the proper way to group discussions or close grouped discussions so that the bot will still pick them up? I could archive them manually, but I'd rather just know the right way to do this. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 13:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC) Wrong Anome. Oops.

Tech News: 2015-05

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

Recent software changes

• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [142]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [143]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [144]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [145]

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Hypersexuality ref

Hey, thanx, Anome! I could see that it was fu cked up, but I didn't know how to fix it. Verdana♥Bøld 23:41, 28 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdana Bold (talk • contribs)

Regarding the article Sexual desire

Hello, i was reading the article Sexual desire of which you are a contributor,Sir..Under the para PHYSICAL FACTORS AFFECTING SEXUAL DESIRE i was expecting the find something about the 'time that has passed from the previous ejaculation in men'(being the reason that during the short term abstinence in sexually active men, they feel a high urge to indulge in sexual activities) affects their sexual desire..but there is no mention of the specific thing in the article..i have been anxious about this as i have to continue my research project on libido.. Sir, can you please help me find out the reason for why could i not find this fact here..many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed beerman (talk • contribs) 08:28, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

It's a very good question, but one I'm not qualified to answer. Have you considered asking on the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science? The editors there may be able to help you better than I can. -- The Anome (talk) 10:57, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

That time is called a Refractory period (sex).

Verdana♥Bøld 23:49, 28 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdana Bold (talk • contribs)

File:Henry flipper.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Henry flipper.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 18:06, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-06

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

Problems

• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [146]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [147]
• You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [148] [149]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News 2015—#1

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. 

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog:  blue ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:  green ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:  red , or
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:  gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.

Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

• You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [150]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [151]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [152]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [153]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
• You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [154] [155] [156]
• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [157] [158]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [159]
• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [160]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [161]

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16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Valentine Greets!!!

Valentine Greets!!!

Hello The Anome, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm love on the eve, Happy editing,  - T H (here I am) 12:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Valentine Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
• On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [162] [163] [164]
• You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [165]
• In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [166]
• The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [167]

Meetings

• The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [168]
• You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [169]
• You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [170]

Future changes

• You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Looking into the future on that impressive list of redlinks!

	The Founding Foremothers Award
	Hello, The Anome, I've added a copy-and-paste citation to your redlinks page in preparation for the DC Meetup at Howard University. It's clear you deserve an award for all the forward-looking work you've done here! Do stop by a social meetup sometime, and let us thank you in person. --Djembayz (talk) 19:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

ANI

Hello. Your recent revdel didn't have the effect that I assume you intended. Since there were two edits after yours, the edit was still visible, but I have taken care of those for you. Cheers ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks -- I'd completely missed that. -- The Anome (talk) 15:46, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Block an Account

Never Mind, Problem dealth with. RainingPain17 (talk) 14:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)RainingPain17

Tech News: 2015-09

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 software changes

• All new accounts are now global. [171]
• Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [172] [173] [174]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
• It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [175]
• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [176]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [177]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [178]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
• Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [179]

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16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Montenegro

Hi, I've been created some stubs, Category:Montenegro articles missing geocoordinate data needs addressing :-) I've only done two municipalities too! Also somebody needs to add the interlinks to the other wikis like Slovene and French wikis.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:36, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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

Recent software changes

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [180]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [181] [182]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [183] [184] [185] [186]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [187]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [188]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [189]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [190]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-11

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

Recent changes

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [191] [192]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [193] [194] [195]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [196] [197]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [198] [199]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [200] [201]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [202] [203]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [204]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [205]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [206]

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15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

hi

The Anome you might remember me from Ebola/west Africa article, I have a GA nomination for Dyslexia and have finished , however it would be good if someone looked at it,(remember to hit start review) I would appreciate any feedback--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Greenland

Most of my comments about The Anomebot2 seem to have been nitpicking (though I appreciate the bot immensely; most of the work I do here is a direct result of its existence), so here's another nit. Over the years, I've noticed that it tends to add {{coord missing|Denmark}} to articles with Greenland categories, but since we have Category:Greenland articles missing geocoordinate data, populated by {{coord missing|Greenland}}, wouldn't it be better for the bot to add the latter template directly? Deor (talk) 12:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

You're quite right. I'll address it in the next revision of the bot's code: given the special status of Greenland (as both a top-level country and a part of a top-level country), I'll have to special-case it in the analysis code. -- The Anome (talk) 17:59, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-12

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

Recent changes

• The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [207]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [208]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [209] [210]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [211] [212]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [213] [214]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [215] [216]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [217]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [218]

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15:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for helping.

Thanks for helping on the article "0.999...". I see that you undid my edit, but there was a reason for those tags. The statement "accepted by mathematicians" is a weasel statement. Who accepted 0.999... = 1? It does not include an example when it should. "general mathematical education", where? Algebra 1, 2, 3? it does not specify. "some students" who? in which grade level? "Such skepticism is common enough that the difficulty of convincing them of the validity of this identity has been the subject of numerous studies in mathematics education." Too many "of"s in that sentence. "Common enough"? says who? That statement alone needs a citation. I see that you were trying to help also. Can we come to a compromise that we can both agree on? Thanks! The f18hornet (talk) 18:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

To take just the first point, "accepted by mathematicians" is, I believe, unquestionable within the framework of conventional mathematics: not only have renowned mathematicians -- and they don't get much more renowned than Euler and Cantor -- publicly stated that the statement 0.999... = 1 is valid within the conventional understanding of the real numbers, it's now known to be provable from the ZFC + logic axioms that underpin that formalism. Here you go. Now, there are other mathematical formalisms that will give different results, but they are highly non-standard, and they tend to break simple arithmetic, or do other weird things -- and all this is dealt with in the article.

At this point, I believe this has reached the same level as, say, heliocentrism in astronomy: if anyone wants to say that any astronomers believe that Sun goes round the Earth rather than vice versa, the burden of proof is on the person making the assertion, and it's up to them to provide their own cites to prove their point.

To take the second point, "general mathematical education" should mean "all of it." If you're teaching young children that 1/3 = 0.333... [by long division], you should also be teaching them that 3 × 1/3 = 0.999... = 1. At that early stage, it's fine to tell them that that's just how it is: but when you reach the high-school level, you ought to be introducing the idea of limits, and providing at least a semi-rigorous demonstration of the fact. Undergraduates in numerate fields should be able to prove it themselves from first principles with at least moderate levels of rigor by the end of their first year. At least that was how it was in my experience of being taught mathematics. Your experience may differ. -- The Anome (talk) 19:05, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Curiously, this very topic (does 0.9999... = 1) was being discussed by ClemRutter (talk · contribs), Edwardx (talk · contribs) and myself two weeks ago, over pints of "Lambeth Walk" porter (from By The Horns brewery). --Redrose64 (talk) 21:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

As promised, there is now an article, By The Horns, complete with images. Edwardx (talk) 13:52, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [219]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [220] [221] [222]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [223]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [224]

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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Rm FP please

Here. ResMar 03:23, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Already done. ResMar 04:11, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Fritchley Tunnel

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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The same IP-user (I have a strong suspicion as to his sockpuppet identity) also created your User page on PL with similar language, which I {delete}-ed and it has already been removed. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 22:31, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-14

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Recent changes

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [226]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [227] [228] [229]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [230]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [231]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [232]

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• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [233]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [234]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [235]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [236]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [237] [238] [239] [240]

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More griping

OK, here's the problem with Wikidata. A while back, someone on Turkish Wikipedia created a bunch of articles about villages in in the Ardahan district of Ardahan Province. That editor, however, included exactly the same coordinates in each article—probably because he copied the infobox from article to article without making the necessary changes. These coordinates then got imported, without correction, to Wikidata, and now your bot is adding them to en.wp articles. (The bot was previously using GNIS data rather than Wikidata to geotag these village articles, which, while not precise, at least didn't give them all the same damn coordinates.) Now I, or other editors, have to go through Category:Ardahan District, correcting the coordinates, and go to Wikidata to correct them there in order to forestall the further spread of the incorrect coordinates. (They've apparently already been imported to the Vietnamese Wikipedia, so someone else will have to correct them there.) One person's inattention on one Wikipedia is spreading misinformation far and wide, thanks to the power of Wikidata. Not your fault, I know, but I need to vent my frustration somewhere, and I don't have a dog to kick. I hope that the Turkish editor didn't do this sort of business more extensively than I've yet discovered, but I suspect that this is unlikely to be an isolated incident of inaccuracy in Wikidata's information. Deor (talk) 23:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear this: that's unbelievably frustrating. I'll see if I can get the bot to back these off now on enwiki, and I hope that should help a bit. -- The Anome (talk) 23:52, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

OK, I'm removing all 25 cases of 41.1284 N 42.8329 E coordinates now. I will add {{coord missing}} tags again once they're all done. -- The Anome (talk) 00:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done -- see Special:Contributions/The_Anomebot2. I only removed those coordinated that exactly matched 41.1284 N 42.8329 E: please let me know if there are others, and I can take them out, too. Unfortunately, I can't help at wikidata, because I don't have bot rights there. -- The Anome (talk) 00:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I've gone through the articles in which your bot removed the coordinates, adding the correct coordinates. I see that you've also removed the duplicated coordinates on Wikidata. Hopefully, no one will bother to reimport them there. Deor (talk) 12:18, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Strike that last sentence. I see, from your post on my talk page that you've also been to tr.wp. Deor (talk) 12:37, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

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VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

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Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

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You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

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Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

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Tech News: 2015-15

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 join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [242]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [243] [244]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [245]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [246]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [247]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [248] [249] [250] [251]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [252]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [253] [254]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [255]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [256]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [257]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [258] [259]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [260] [261]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [262] [263]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [264]

Meetings

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16:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Tea Bag

Hi The Anome! I moved Tea bag (sexual act) back per WP:TITLEFORMAT, specifically this section: Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence. One major exception is for titles that are quotations or titles of works: A rolling stone gathers no moss, or Try to Remember. Adjective and verb forms (e.g. democratic, integrate) should redirect to articles titled with the corresponding noun (Democracy, Integration), although sometimes they are disambiguation pages, as at Organic. Sometimes the noun corresponding to a verb is the gerund (-ing form), as in Swimming.

Just wanted to let you know as I know it was a good faith move. If I'm missed something or misinterpreted the policy, let me know. Cheers! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 00:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Well. you're right about the text of the policy you quote above, but wrong about its application. Please read the last sentence of the quoted text. A gerund is the "nouned" form of a verb, and this is precisely a case of the correct use of a gerund, such as in "swimming", in a title, that is recommended by the policy above. Would you call the swimming article "swim", or the walking article "walk"? Or damp proofing, or cycling to "damp proof" or "cycle"? And so on and so forth, ad absurdam.

In general, knocking the word "to" off an English-language infinitive does not make a noun. The infinitive for Pegging (sexual practice) is "to peg", but we don't have an article for "Peg (sexual practice)". Similarly for "to tea bag".

Accordingly, I've moved the article back to Teabagging, per WP:TITLEFORMAT. -- The Anome (talk)

I see what you mean. Okay. Thanks! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 17:15, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

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 was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [265]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [266]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [267]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [268]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [269]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [270] [271] [272]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [273]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [274]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [275] [276]

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15:31, 20 April 2015 (UTC)