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Tech News: 2015-14
 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 hide site banners even if you don't have an account.
 * 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.
 * All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser.
 * You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.
 * VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
 * VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias.
 * You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account.
 * 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.
 * You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page.
 * VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC).
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * 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 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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69th Infantry Regiment (United States)
I see were back to this. If you accidently look at the history of the article. you will find that the original page was about a federal unit. not the national guard unit. unfortuntly I cant seem to get that through the thick skulls of foreign statests. the commie who copied and pasted the national guard unit over the original article is why I dont wiki anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.224.67 (talk) 21:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Important: Rollback revoked, again
After a further review of your edits, I have determined that you are not using the rollback tool appropriately. Accordingly, I have indefinitely revoked your access to this permission. Please take some time to review the relevant policies before re-applying for the right. Nakon 03:48, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

April Fools Joke at RfD

 * That was a little harsh SimonTrew. Though I share some of your dislike for April Fools activities on Wikipedia, calling another user "VERY STUPID" is taking it a bit far in the other direction. Sam Walton (talk) 14:39, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't much appreciate you being so hostile and especially don't appreciate you threatening to punch me in the face. Assume good faith and tone down the personal attacks. Sam Walton (talk) 15:07, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * You better watch it User:SimonTrew! You can be rude to me all day but when you start doing it to one of my friends (User:Samwalton9) that takes it to a whole new level. I highly recommend you reread WP:GOODFAITH Good Day Sir.  Bobherry Userspace  Talk to me!   Stuff I have done  03:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Your comments at Requests for adminship/Moosehadley
Hi Bobherry. Thanks for participating in community discussion at Requests for adminship/Moosehadley. In your comment, you linked to WP:NOTYET, a redirect to the often-cited essay WP:Not now, which may be insulting to Moosehadley's intelligence; Moose is clearly not a new editor and linking to WP:Not now is rather inappropriate. See Wikipedia:When not to link to WP:NOTNOW and please consider changing your comment. Cheers, --L235 (t / c / ping in reply ) 04:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015
Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Talk:Eastman Chemical Company has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please don't add all caps edit summery like that, rather, explain what you did on that page. TheMesquito buzz  01:24, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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.
 * 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.
 * The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month.
 * You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends.

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.
 * Labs was broken several times this week.

'''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.
 * Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed.
 * 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.

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.

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Apology
I'm sorry my comments came across as so harsh to you, and for that I sincerely apologise. I think we were at cross purposes and it all went wrong, but the last thing I would want to do is offend anyone else, and I did, unwontedly, and for that I sincerely apologise. I have three rules in life: don't hit, don't lie, don't cheat. I can never quite decide if the last two are synonymous. So I would never hit anyone. I think we just were at cross purposes somehow and it went wrong.

Anyway I served my ban and a bit moreso as a kinda personal penance so I hope you forgive me for my mistake, all the best to you, let's make the encyclopaedia better. It was my birthday yesterday, I am 43. It seems an odd age to be. Si Trew (talk) 05:29, 13 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the apology. I am sorry for making the joke TfD, I guess that was alittle overboard lol. Anyway Thanks again and Happy Belated Birthday.  Bobherry Userspace  Talk to me!   Stuff I have done  14:47, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Not at all. I was out of order, thank you for taking it with such grace. Si Trew (talk) 23:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * WP:DYK stores up april fool's jokes which, as I said, are all true but twisty. I think once I got in a bishop or something who chained people together in bondage (married them), and spread the news around the town (listing the banns) and so on. So DYK I think is your outfit but I think they kinda store them up for it. I haven't been there recently, but a good DYK hook has to be kinda "twisty": absolutely correct in fact but draw people in. When i used to do it, they would get 3000 to 5000 hits a day. Si Trew (talk) 23:30, 13 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.
 * 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.

Problems
 * Some wikis had issues on Wednesday.

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.
 * All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias.

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 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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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.
 * 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.

Problems
 * Some wikis had issues on Wednesday.

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.
 * All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias.

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 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Namespace editing restriction
Dear Bob, I'm afraid that in light of your high error rate in reporting edit warring, and on account of poor quality interventions which may make the situation worse, I'm going to ban you from editing in the Wikipedia namespace (every page beginning WP:, WT:, Wikipedia: or Wikipedia talk:) for a period of 3 months from today's date (the ban will expire at 00:00 on 15 July 2015). This is inclusive of requests for page protection (WP:RFPP), reports of vandals (WP:AIV) and offensive usernames (WP:UAA). The ban will also cover you leaving template messages for any other user for maintenance or behaviour reasons, and it will restrict you from requesting new user permissions for a period of 3 months. The ban will extend to reviewing Draft articles, but not assisting in the creation of new draft articles.

The ban will be enforceable with blocks upto and including an indefinite block, but I trust that will not be necessary. If you have any concerns about edit warring, vandalism or offensive usernames, you are encouraged to raise these issues with an administrator or the experienced editors who have helped you on IRC so far.

The ban, for the avoidance of doubt, is intended to encourage you to edit articles and to become more familiar with the processes integral to Wikipedia, before allowing you to again become involved with the maintenance of the site.

If you have any questions about this ban, please do not hesitate to contact me, either ping me or leave a message on my talk page. Nick (talk) 14:33, 14 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.
 * VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis.
 * You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends.
 * If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Labs on Monday.

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.
 * If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference.
 * You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData.

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.

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