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The Center Line: November 2015
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Tech News: 2015-50
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Problems
 * Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias.
 * Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles.
 * IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature.
 * You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be.
 * It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead.
 * You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor.
 * UploadWizard will look a bit different.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
 * New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default.

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world. 
 * Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
 * Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
 * Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
 * Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
 * Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
 * Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
 * Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
 * Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
 * Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
 * Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
 * France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
 * Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
 * Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
 * Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
 * Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
 * Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
 * Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
 * Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
 * Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
 * Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
 * Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
 * Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
 * Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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Books and Bytes - Issue 14
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Tech News: 2015-51
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes this week
 * Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

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 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0.

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Tech News: 2015-52
<section begin="technews-2015-W52"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
 * 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 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

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

Changes this week
 * There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

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

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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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The Bugle: Issue CXVII, December 2015
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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2015
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Some falafel for you!

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Tech News: 2016-02
<section begin="technews-2016-W02"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes Problems
 * Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore.
 * You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this.
 * Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated.

Changes this week
 * The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow.
 * New file uploads will now be patrollable.
 * Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser.

Meetings
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Future changes
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 * The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab.
 * There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
 * The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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What is my single purpose?
Editing the Nambia article, creating the William P. Foley II article, re-writing the Michael Thompson (Aryan Brotherhood) article or editing the Rolls Royce article and then days later arguing for a section not to be removed? Hmmm, maybe I'm not the one who needs to stop making accusations. Ghost of hugh glass (talk) 14:46, 18 January 2016 (UTC)