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Alma Lesch
Hello BrillLyle, I've just created my first article, Alma Wallace Lesch. Can you please take a look and give me a head's up about any errors or corrections, and also let me know what to expect next in terms of an assessment. I put the stub-class tag on the article. Was that the right thing to do? Saccarte (talk) 22:24, 2 October 2016 (UTC)saccarte
 * Hi -- Great job on this article. A few things -- I cleaned up some of the headings. All biographical articles are biographies, so I added the more typical headings of Early life, Career, etc. I also moved the page to match her VIAF identity. If someone searches under her maiden name string it will still point to her main entry now just under her professional name. I also added to her Wikidata entry here Alma Lesch (Q27070234) -- that is where the Authority Control items come from, which I found on the VIAF page. I wasn't sure if the list of articles were actual in-article citations or further reading, so I added a Further reading section. GREAT job, seriously. Keep going, and reach out here or on IRC or the Teahouse if you have questions. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 22:43, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * To answer your questions (apologies), yes, stub was a great idea / right thing to do (insofar as there are right things to do on Wiki :-p ), as for future editathons organizers might look for stubs that need to be improved -- fixing a stub is the best way IMO to learn how to edit and improve Wikipedia. Creating new articles like you did is much harder and can be very frustrating if it gets marked for deletion. It doesn't look like the article is under review -- which is a good thing. I think it's in very good shape as a stub. I like new articles to have 5 to 10 citations, which it definitely does if you incorporate the finding aid, etc. I look forward to seeing the article develop. It definitely needs a picture! Plus I would like to know more about the work she did, if that's available. Great job! -- Erika BrillLyle (talk) 22:49, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much. I saw that the Authority Control needed help, so I appreciate you moving that to Wikidata. And your changes to the Further Reading section make a lot of sense.  Great idea about expanding on her work.  I would like to include a list of exhibits she was included in.  Finding a photo in the public domain or creative commons could prove to be a challenge, but I'll work on it! Thanks again! Saccarte (talk) 22:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)saccarte
 * Hi -- An Exhibition section as well as an Awards section is a great idea. Exhibitions and Awards establish notability though I suspect textile artists get minimal scrutiny because it's not something along the lines of more high profile pages related to #ugh Star Wars or the Simpsons or some other thing. I went to FIT for woven design so I am loving that you did this page. If it's helpful, look at other fiber artists. A favorite of mine, Sheila Hicks, has a good page. I am sure there are others you can look to for comparative structures and ideas of content. If I can assist in any way please reach out. Best to you! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering about providing a photo of one of Lesch's pieces for use on her page. I've only uploaded one photo before, and that was of my own work.  I saw this file, though, and it has a rationale for using a copyrighted image in an article.  File:Chinese_Souls_No._2_(Nancy_Crow).jpg  Would you advise this for Lesch's page?   Saccarte (talk) 17:32, 3 October 2016 (UTC)saccarte
 * I am definitely not an expert on Commons uploads but I would say that you could try to use the same licensing rationale with the same type of image and see how it goes -- with low expectations. If the family will donate the images directly or if an institution would allow uploading the image with the right free license, that always is the easiest approach, but if this image has not been flagged for deletion, it's definitely a strategy. Sorry not to be more helpful. Images can be very difficult. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will look for other users who have more experience with this, and consider multiple options. Saccarte (talk) 19:36, 4 October 2016 (UTC)saccarte

Tech News: 2016-40
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Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
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WCNA
Wish you were here in SD! --Rosiestep (talk) 04:15, 8 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi ! Awww. This made my week, so sweet of you.... Me too. Planner had me drooling and the weather looks amazing. Have fun for me!!! Xo -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk)

A refreshing change to have somebody pleasant on here Erika!♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:23, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41
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Recent changes
 * You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using . You can now use tag filters by using.
 * The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
 * Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight.

Changes this week
 * Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian.

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This Month in GLAM: September 2016
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Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon
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Tech News: 2016-42
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Recent changes
 * There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

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

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

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

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WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon
Hi, this is off to a "Brill" start ;-). Nearly 200 articles in just a few days. We could really do with a few more prizes though to really strengthen the competition. I was wondering if the NYC or DC chapters would be interested in putting up a prize for the person who creates the most start class articles on African women as part of it, call it supporting the AfroCrowd and Women in Red groups or something. We could also do with the Good Article prize being raised by a hundred or two with a mechanism to get people to work on the central core African articles and something to separate the geography from the wildlife prize as most people are doing wildlife ones and not geography! More towards the Good Article prize would allow me to attract people to work on the central core articles listed on WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Prizes and bonuses. Is there anything you can do to help this? it's just it's not very often we get the chance to see this level of improvement for Africa and it really needs it!!♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:24, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

. Perhaps you won't be interested in the geography prize but I thought one of you might be interested in putting up the African women creation prize as this is a chance to really see a lot of of new content as well, and some African countries have well under 10 % women bios. African women is really one of the weakest areas of the entire encyclopedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:14, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Glad the event is going well. I don't know about prizes. It's not really how I view contributing to Wikipedia and it's not how WM NYC has typically done editathons though that is my personal perspective of course -- I don't represent WM NYC as a whole. Re: Any sort of prize thing maybe you could explore a Rapid Grant?  I would again recommend that you reach out to Alice at AfroCROWD for any sort of collaboration and support with your effort. Alice and Sherry at AfroCROWD have been doing amazing work and have been consistently making sure contributions and outreach to improve African diaspora content on Wikipedia is effective. But for prizes I think going to the Wikimedia chapters is not possibly the most effective route. Wikimedia Foundation is very supportive of rapid grant proposals that fit within their policies. Good luck with this! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 16:08, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

They've already been very supportive! Don't worry, I'm sure it'll continue to be productive anyway.♦ Dr. Blofeld  16:33, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Tech News: 2016-43
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Problems
 * The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed.

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

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Tech News: 2016-44
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Recent changes
 * Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only.
 * Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester.
 * The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
 * Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "" field when editing templates.
 * Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29.

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

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti  Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Want to help test advanced new tools planned for Recent Changes?
Hi BrillLyle! I’m reaching out to you because our logs tell us you’re an active Twinkle new user welcomer. The WMF Collaboration team is working on new tools that we hope will be useful to people engaged in reviewing recent changes, fighting vandalism or supporting new users. We want to test them for usability with editors who are experienced with relevant wiki work. If you’re interested in helping to shape this new technology—we’d like to hear from you.

The testing should take about an hour, will be conducted online, and will take place during the next few weeks. To participate, please email dchen[at]wikimedia.org with the subject line Twinkle Welcomer. Include the following information:


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 * Your primary use(s) of Twinkle or Recent Changes (e.g., reviewing recent changes, reviewing with a particular focus (specify), anti-vandalism, new-page review, welcoming new users, etc.)

Thanks!

Dchen (WMF) (talk) 23:46, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Betty Chambers
Hi there. Please revisit your paragraph at the Articles for Deletion debate for Betty Chambers and change the first word of your opinion ("vote") to Keep, Delete, Redirect, Merge, or Comment, since your response of "Disagree" is non-standard and ambiguous and apt to be either misinterpreted or ignored by the closing administrator. Also, so you know, we don't use the Commons-style + / - graphics at AfD. Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 15:18, 2 November 2016 (UTC)


 * The AfD has now been speedily closed without consensus. By the way, please note that a Congressional Gold Medal is not the same thing as a Congressional Medal of Honor. I went looking for Betty in any of the multiple lists of CMH recipients, hoping to make the point that most if not all have articles even if they apparently accomplished nothing else to establish notability, before I realized that you had misspoken at the AfD.  The CGM was awarded to the WASP aviators as a group, not posthumously to Ms. Chambers as you stated (though I'm sure it wasn't your intention to misrepresent anything). (Ref List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients and Women Airforce Service Pilots) <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"><font color="#006633">General Ization  <font color="#000666">Talk   01:09, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I fixed it on the Draft page to reflect the correct medal. It was an honest mistake, not meant to be nefarious or misleading. I don't know much about medals.
 * This has been one of the more unpleasant AfD processes I have experienced. The inflexibility of the editors involved has not been helpful in any way shape or form. To a degree that was almost absurd, the arguments against adding the entry. Absurd.
 * I think this is a huge problem for the community as a whole. I would NEVER put someone through the AfD process. It's broken. It is terrible and doesn't make better editors. There's no successful pedagogy happening. All AfD does is reduce contributions from well-meaning editors or newbies alike.
 * I know this is not on you or anything but I am VERY unhappy with what happened and the utter lack of understanding during this process of a genuine effort that I still believe is legitimate. It's maddening, frustrating to the extreme. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 01:22, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Depends a lot on the individual nominator, and whether possibly more experienced editors and/or admins are participating in the discussion. You shouldn't assume that this is typical of every AfD. This particular editor was, I think, being overly bureaucratic, and didn't understand the implications of userfication (the move to your userspace) or possibly even what it is. See Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"><font color="#006633">General Ization  <font color="#000666">Talk   01:27, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I was just getting ready to fix that part about Carter granting veteran status versus Obama granting the Medal when I saw you had done so. Jinx. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"><font color="#006633">General Ization  <font color="#000666">Talk   01:34, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Ah, I was confused when I wrote that section. I'm glad it's more correct now. Just need to remember to fix the categories (possibly delete this award) when it goes to mainspace. :-)
 * I get that, and I appreciate your perspective on this process, I do. This new entry was part of a larger effort to onboard digitized assets from the National Archives -- an initiative that can only improve content on Wikipedia, and presents a rich treasure trove of government generated (so highly usable) information. While I maybe wouldn't have chosen to start with Chambers as a subject for this, the enthusiastic participants chose her, so I spent a lot of time making sure that the entry was up to stub condition.
 * As it stands I called the archive at TWU and am going to work with them so they can scan books and tell me what non-digitized assets are available. There is a lot of information, it just isn't digitized or quick google-search friendly. So by hook or by crook I will improve this article to be a solid stub.
 * I appreciate your help and patience here. Best, -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 01:37, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * No problem. Ping me if you need a hand with this project, or get into another jam.  <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"><font color="#006633">General Ization  <font color="#000666">Talk   01:51, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much. I will! I love doing collaborative editing, if possible. Believe it or not #shocker! :-) Thanks again! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 02:01, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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Tech News: 2016-45
<section begin="technews-2016-W45"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using.
 * Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability.

Changes this week
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
 * Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection.

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

Future changes
 * RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org.
 * Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2016
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Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
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Sydel Silverman
Hello! I do believe I am done with creating my page from today's edit-a-thon. Would you be so kind as to review for me and to submit it to the live site?

Thank you very much! It was great to meet you today. I look forward to learning more about WikiData

Sydel Silverman

Emjackson42 (talk) 03:13, 13 November 2016 (UTC) (Esther)


 * Hi I have started reviewing the page but I am a bit concerned that it is too close to the finding aid. It also needs to be edited for brevity and to move it from a scholarly to encyclopedic tone. I think that although there are quite a few citations, I would feel more comfortable if her notability is better established by describing the work she has done more fuly. I can help out but I need a bit of time to do this. I hope this is okay -- I want to encourage you to continue to work on the article and improve it -- but also don't want you to run into any problems if someone challenged notability. Let me know if you have any questions. Best -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 22:45, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46
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Recent changes
 * When you edit with the visual editor you can use  +   +   to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Magic links might not work in the future.

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A kitten for you!
Thank you, as always, for being such an important part of the Black Lunch Table initiative!

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Tech News: 2016-47
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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

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

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
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Reference errors on 24 November
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Tech News: 2016-48
<section begin="technews-2016-W48"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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Tech News: 2016-49
<section begin="technews-2016-W49"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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

Changes this week
 * You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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Thank you!
You are amazing!!! Thanks so much for helping me edit Kan Xuan! Where did you find the list of exhibitions and publications? Shall we reference all of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joanaz (talk • contribs) 04:08, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * -- Hi there! Thanks so much.... I found the exhibitions and publications on the main link here -- and used their selection of selected vs. complete. I think it would overwhelm the page to have all of the exhibitions there. Until there is more content on the page, of course.... What are your thoughts on this? Let me know if you have any questions, etc. If you go through the history of the page (History tab on top of page) it might help to see what I did too.... But trust your instincts. You have this! :-) -- Best, Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 06:46, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2016
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sav killz musician
hey thanks erika for helping me out today great meeting you guys and iam excited about being apart of the wikipedia community!Savkillz (talk) 01:05, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Hiya Jamel! You figured out how to send a message on the Talk page! Most excellent!
 * It was so nice to meet you today and talk Wiki... :-) I am excited about this too -- am so glad you are into being part of Wikipedia. Yay! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 06:28, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * Thanks Heather! Beer is much appreciated. Another great event!!! Xo -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 06:28, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Another beer + something else for you!
Thanks, Erika! Wish you could've made it today to the Edit-a-Thon downtown. I have a gift for you! as well as a beer on me if you like for inadvertently spawning my Wikipedian interests. Cheers. -- Nick / Jazzchorus 23:24, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Me too. Needed to stay home and take care of some stuff in prep for the upcoming week. Hope you are having fun! Take pics and upload them to Commons, if you want! Xo - Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:26, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50
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Recent changes
 * Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it.
 * You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention.
 * Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour.

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

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)
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Tech News: 2016-51
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Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
 * The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

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

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

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

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

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

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See also sections
Please read WP:ALSO As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes.Theroadislong (talk) 13:53, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I understand but I am working on building the article. Would you mind waiting until I establish her notability as an artist more fully. I think it is common to link to associated art spaces, even if it might be a duplication. I guess although I understand that is the WP:OfficialRulez, I don't see it being enforced or implemented strictly, so don't really think removing this per that rule as being super helpful. Let me know.... -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 13:57, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Her notability is already established and having a pointless "see also" section doesn't help notability it's just disruptive. Theroadislong (talk) 14:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I hear this point you are making but could you wait until I have finished updating the page? I would like to try to justify this. I don't believe I am being disruptive, or adding this section is disruptive. I am genuinely trying to improve the entry. Would you be willing to work with me here and give this a bit of time? -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 14:06, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm a bit upset that you have deleted this twice. Does this really need to become a 3R edit thing? I don't really think this is a civil edit experience here. Seriously. I am requesting you wait and be patient and kind here. I don't want to fight but I also don't think this is a huge deal. But it's becoming very negative and hostile. Over something minor. And in an active edit process. I am trying to give you this feedback and have a conversation also, before having these back and forth edit/deletions. I thought we were supposed to discuss before deleting back and forth. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 14:09, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Trust me, look at my edit history and the articles I have created. Giving it extra time will not make it any less pointless, and I strongly suggest you do not edit war over this. Theroadislong (talk) 14:10, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Well thanks for making this a truly unpleasant editing experience. Over something that is very minor. I guess I will stop editing the article now. I was going to offer to stop editing if you were having ownership issues -- which you are exhibiting here. Congrats on that, BTW. I don't want to have a pissing contest and engage in a negative experience online here with you so enjoy. I'm sure your defensive, look at my edit history bit works wonders for you, but this just leaves a bad taste. I hope to not encounter you going forward. If you have interest in cooperative edit, feedback that this isn't the way to do things. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 14:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I am really sorry you feel that way, your other contributions to the article were most welcome. You could always request a third opinion? Theroadislong (talk) 14:16, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I find it sort of amazing that you are unconcerned that your editing is having a hostile impact. Isn't that a basic tenant, to not do this as an editor?!? I find this appalling. And I am not going to try and get another editor involved in something so flipping trivial it's actually a non-issue in the scheme of things. Which is why I repeatedly requested you bend a bit and allow it while I tried to add to the page. I think I asked and explained the motivation nicely, multiple times. But your actions and words weren't all that nice. Again, feedback to possibly examine for future interactions.
 * Also, you might want to learn how to make citations where you actually include the name of the publication. It is sort of a key thing to omit. Now THAT is both constructive and hostile. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 14:24, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advice I will take it onboard. If it is such a non issue why are you determined to go against Wikipedia guidelines to implement it? Theroadislong (talk) 15:12, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Not all WikiRulez are applicable, and I think some of the constraints and nitpicking are ridiculous, especially when folks like yourself focus on these tiny issues when the page needed major editing -- and the citations needed help. All my opinion of course. I find it frustrating that there will be huge focus on minutiae when heavy lifting and pedagogic and cooperative efforts are neglected. I think we need to do better interacting with our fellow editors and not have such a heavy hand and focus on RULZ. It's one reason many new editors get turned off of Wikipedia. Again, that's why I would encourage you to examine this experience. I know you are a long-time editor #respect and have a high edit count #respect but I'm not editing Wikipedia for a high edit count. I'm editing to add high quality content that is as fully cited as possible. And I'm also here to support other editors. I don't want to belabor this and restate this again, but I'm very unhappy with what happened here. I like to encourage people to edit, but I am very discouraged right now. And that doesn't seem to matter or impact you at all. So yeah I've given up and will try to avoid editing if you are on the page. Life is too short. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 15:19, 21 December 2016 (UTC)