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Wikidata weekly summary #184
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
 * Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
 * Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
 * Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
 * Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
 * Newest WikiProjects: Education
 * Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
 * Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
 * Development
 * Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
 * Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (T101694)
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
 * Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
 * Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
 * Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
 * Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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Tech News: 2015-46
 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 changes
 * Superprotect has been removed.
 * You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch.

Problems
 * Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon.

Changes this week


 * Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

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 * A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback.
 * The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different.

Wikidata weekly summary #183
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Lakokat
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
 * Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
 * Semantic Cities
 * Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
 * Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
 * Past: semwebpro (slides)
 * Past: ODI Summit
 * Past: MozFest (etherpad)
 * Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
 * Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
 * Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
 * Ever noticed ranks?
 * Development
 * Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
 * Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
 * Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
 * Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
 * Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (T116503)
 * Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (T117184)
 * Worked more on making search work on mobile
 * Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is. All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. , a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to. Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
 * wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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Graciano Rocchigiani / declined RfPP
Greetings. I recently tried to get the article for Graciano Rocchigiani protected, since an old "friend" of mine (under yet another IP) has made a beeline for it by reverting my cleanup edits. In fact, you recently had to PP two articles to ward them off: 1, 2. My RfPP for Rocchigiani was declined on the basis that the IP had not been given a warning. However, this is what tends to happen whenever anyone interacts with them: 3, 4, 5, etc. etc. It's always the same old diatribe—falsely labelling my edits as vandalism (when they themselves are not averse to a bit of actual vandalism: 6), not adhering to basic MOS, insisting on one format without consensus, etc. A generic message on their talk page is highly unlikely to achieve anything, so I'd like to take you up on that offer you made about the "liberal use" of SPP. Would be much appreciated. Or, since their edit pattern is so predictable, would it not be advisable for me to open up an SPI each time? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 04:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It got PP'ed in the end, but it won't be the last time. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:35, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45
 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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage.
 * If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results.
 * Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile.

Problems
 * On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links.
 * Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates.

Wikidata weekly summary #182
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price. I love Wikidata because.jpg
 * Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
 * Images from the party
 * Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
 * Presents:
 * Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
 * Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
 * Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
 * Special:Nearby by the dev team
 * Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
 * Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
 * Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
 * Past: Open Access Week
 * Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
 * Past: Tehran SFD (video)
 * Upcoming: ODI Summit
 * Upcoming: SWAT4LS
 * Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
 * Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
 * Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
 * The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
 * Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
 * Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
 * Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
 * Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
 * Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
 * We passed 15M items.
 * Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
 * All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
 * Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
 * Development
 * Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
 * Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
 * Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
 * Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

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Parole II
Inspired by the topic: I am so far pleased with the progress of my parole, suggesting infoboxes on the article talk. Most were taken by no objection, some after discussions. The only exception is Joseph (opera), infamous by having "ruined" my friend's RfA (but - as I was consoled - if that discussion had not existed people would have found another reason). Do you see a consensus? In other words, how important is the peace of an editor? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:34, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * In case you get to it, compare Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, TFA, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Forget that, we have bigger problems now. I was reminded by your simple accept statement to the request that I have "mess" on my user page (2012, well before the infobox revert case) and "amnesty" on my talk. The thought crossed my mind that a general amnesty for all victims of the GGTF case might solve a few problems, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:10, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Interesting idea, the GGTF case was just a utter mess all around, but I think mass-reverting the entire thing would be a bigger mess than we have right now. (And in all candor, I'm not sure there are any elegant solutions now, and if there are, my 2 AM brain isn't going to be finding them...) Courcelles (talk) 06:02, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * What would be difficult in unbanning the banned and lift the (utterly absurd in my eyes) restrictions? - I had a dream (and will write a template): fight/close/fill the gender gap by writing articles on women. One is pictured on the Main page now, hook idea by me;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Template for the dream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 26 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Next radical dream: I noticed with a feeling of almost horror, that a candidate for featured article was deleted, reasoning that it was created by an alleged sock who was blocked. It's restored, and the block is on AN, because appeals to arbcom ("not a sock") were not answered. I met the author in question as an excellent content contributor, and am concerned about the deletion of valuable content (only one article was restored, to my knowledge) and the block of someone who could create more. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I see (in the navbox, - what an elegant way!) that a few more articles have been restored, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Redirect of Space exploration technologies toSpaceX and protection of redirect
Hi Courcelles, I'm overawed by what you have done for Wikipedia however I think this redirect is wrong :) I agreed there is a need to protect the redirect (as you have done) due to the persistent edit changes by an editor who wishes to overemphasis skyhook technology. Nevertheless, I'm troubled that the subject Space exploration technologies redirects to one company, albeit I very important company in this field and at the cutting edge of this field. I believe the term Space exploration technologies does warrant a stand alone article but not being an experienced editor and not having time to write (sorry about that) I feel it could be more appropriately redirected to Outline of space technology instead. Thanks for your time. Johnscotaus (talk) 04:15, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I see why it was done, the SpaceX article begins "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)", which makes the redirect at least justifiable. If you'd like to send it to WP:RFD, I'd happily tag the page. Courcelles (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

VampireProject23
Hi, just thought I would give you the heads up that the user VampireProject23 has copied your user page and thus falsely claiming to be an admin etc. I'm sure there is a policy for such false representation, but I cant find it and have to go to work now so thought I'd just let you know. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 14:37, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks gone now. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 22:46, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49
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Problems
 * On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015.
 * Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January.
 * Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified.

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Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Koavf
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
 * Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
 * Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
 * Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
 * WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
 * Workshop i Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * New daily report on Mix'n'match
 * Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
 * French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
 * New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
 * Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
 * Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
 * example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
 * Development
 * Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
 * Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
 * Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
 * Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
 * Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
 * Monthly Tasks
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The Signpost: 25 November 2015
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Tech News: 2015-48
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Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
 * More mixin’, more matches
 * Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
 * Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
 * Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
 * Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
 * Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
 * MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
 * What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
 * You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
 * Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
 * Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
 * Development
 * Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
 * Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
 * Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
 * Decreased size of html of item pages
 * Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
 * More work on making the search on mobile work
 * Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
 * Fixing size of table of content on mobile
 * Prevented merging of items which link to each other
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The Signpost: 18 November 2015
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Tech News: 2015-50
<section begin="technews-2015-W50"/> 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.

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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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Wikidata weekly summary #187
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
 * notes
 * example queries
 * a few images
 * Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
 * Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
 * Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
 * Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
 * Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
 * Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
 * Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
 * The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
 * Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
 * We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
 * I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
 * Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
 * Map of narrative locations in Denmark
 * Experimental REST API for Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
 * Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
 * Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
 * Development
 * Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
 * Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
 * Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
 * Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
 * Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
 * Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
 * Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
 * Worked on PHP7 support
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

== Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon ==

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Some questions if you have time...

 * Since once again people seem to be ignoring (what I would consider) the more problematic issues with checkuser pronouncements, could you answer a few questions (within your ability - without disclosing any private data) about the recent ColonelHenry/JacktheVicar issue? I am not interested in if he is a sock or not - except to the extent of how that may be confirmed. Mike V heavily indicated the Checkuser came back as a match based on technical data, however the WMF's privacy and data rentention policies indicate that the information which the Checkuser tool uses to determine that should have been deleted/anonymised given the length of time since ColonelHenry was active. Can you confirm what the type of information was used to give a positive result? Was it a match based on private/non-public data (such as useragent strings which should have been purged), semi-public (and always retained) like IP addresses edited from (although the WMF's policy indicates ColonelHenry's IP as a registered user should not have been kept that long either) or behavioural? Someone has also mentioned there was the prospect of previous checkuser results run aginst unrecorded (in the SPI archives) IP/Socks that may have been run against in the past (overlapping with CH/JTV's editing windows - however again previous checkuser's run against CH should have been purged by now).
 * The reason I am looking at this is because this is the second (overt) incidence in recent times (the first being where WMUK staff members abused their checkuser access) that indicates either private/non-public data on editors is being kept far longer than the WMF's policies allow for, or that Checkusers are (and unfortunately I have no way of softening this) over-stating the results of their investigations. -edit- Just noticed the limited time banner at the top, if you dont have time to respond in detail could you point me at a third party unrelated to the current issues? I did actually explicitly ask for what information was available in the WMUK case for them to run a check against given the 3 years since the original editor's activity, however I never got a straight answer as either they didnt understand what I was getting at, or were being deliberately evasive. Thank you for your time. Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * If you can wait until the 13th, I can try to give you a detailed response, but I only get three hours of Internet here in San Juan, and may not find more for a few days. I'm not involved in the colonelhenry stuff, so any CU should be able to help you. Courcelles (talk) 22:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * No I don't mind waiting, would rather the incidental arguments die down anyway. This is a busy week and Fallout 4 is the hitting on the 10th, so by the 13th is fine Only in death does duty end (talk) 22:40, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Home, though digging out of a two mountains, one of laundry, one of email. Courcelles (talk) 22:47, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * My father, while living in Darwin, used to holiday in Kuta. He'd arrive at the airport with a small carry-on consisting of 1) a pair of shorts 2) a paperback 3) an extra pair of flip flops and 4) his passport. Though it raised some eyebrows at security when he had no baggage to check he'd tell them "if you need more than this, you're doing it wrong". -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Fourteen days, multiple formal dinners, four countries, two continents, stormy weather, and nearly 10,000 kilometers require more than a single carry-on, much to my annoyance at schlepping it around. The only saving grace was not coming home with more than I started with.  Actually, given a door destroyed a shirt, I had less coming home! Courcelles (talk) 03:56, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * When I was in Australia formal dining meant putting on a shirt.... I need to set up a dedicated sandbox page so no hurry. The latest brouhaha at ANI is dying down now but it appears I still have to match wits with the unarmed for a bit. Only in death does duty end (talk) 06:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Okay, User:Only_in_death/sandbox is up with some questions when you have time - if you could leave your responses on the sandbox page. If I seem abrupt its nothing personal, just trying to be concise. There may/will likely be more questions depending on the answers :) Regards, Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have updated with some follow-on questions. No hurry at all, I understand you may not have the information or be able to get it, just something I am looking into. If it helps, the results/conclusions will not be posted anywhere other than on-here or meta. (I have already had one email from someone who shall remain anonymouse asking what I was doing) Unfortunately you drew the short straw because I am pretty certain you are neither involved with any issues nor even suspected of misdoings by anyone :) Only in death does duty end (talk) 12:34, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Another update. Regards. Only in death does duty end (talk) 10:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Juelz Ventura
Could you please restore the Juelz Ventura wiki page? She meets the requirements for notable pornographic actresses as per pornographic actors guidelines.|}} More specifically point 2. as she has won multiple AVN awards (http://cltampa.com/dailyloaf/archives/2012/01/23/the-2012-avn-award-winners-a-review-of-the-best-in-adult-entertainment#.Vl3Szr9fA3g). As per point 3, she has also made mainstream appearances such as in the music video for "Killing You" by "Asking Alexandria" and on "The Morning After Podcast (http://themorningafterpodcast.com/)
 * That would require a unilateral overturning of community consensus. Not going to do that, please take it to WP:DRV.  Courcelles (talk) 23:37, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51
<section begin="technews-2015-W51"/> 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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Future changes
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The Signpost: 16 December 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #188
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
 * Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
 * Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
 * Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
 * Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
 * query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
 * WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
 * Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhigh%20%3Fhighl%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%3Flow%20%3Flowl%20%3Flow_elevation%20%3Fspan%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP610%20%3Fhigh%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP610%20%3Fhigh_statement%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fhigh_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fhighl%20filter%20(lang(%3Fhighl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1589%20%3Flow%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1589%20%3Flow_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Flow_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Flow_elevation%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flow%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flowl%20filter%20(lang(%3Flowl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20-%20%3Flow_elevation%20as%20%3Fspan%20)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fspan)%20DESC(%3Flow_elevation)%20DESC(%3Fhigh_elevation)%20%3Fhigh%20%3FitemLabel places by elevation span], people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
 * Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
 * Development
 * Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Further work on a separate section for identifiers
 * Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
 * Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
 * Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
 * Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
 * Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Getting ready for the holidays :)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 14
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 * New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
 * Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
 * Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

This Month in GLAM: November 2015
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Nomination of Courtship disorder for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Courtship disorder is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Courtship disorder until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — James Cantor (talk) 17:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * , other than a vandalism revert five years ago, I don't appear to be connected with this article at all? Courcelles (talk) 19:30, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52
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 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
 * You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
 * Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
 * Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
 * WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
 * WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
 * Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
 * Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A works created by females who died in 1945]
 * Development
 * <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
 * We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (T103102)
 * Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (T110648)
 * Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (T95682, T121274)
 * Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (T95684)
 * Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (259171)
 * More work on cleaning up the statement section (T121390)
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Thank you
For banning me from participating in the Kevin Gorman arbitration case. I hope, however, that you did not intend this as a punishment but as a reprieve. The real sanction is on the participating members of the case, whom I send my best wishes with a metaphorical release of peaceful white doves in their honor. Here's wishing you all the best for 2016. Viriditas (talk) 03:47, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * absolutely no punishment intended. If you have something you decide you do want to submit, both arbcom-l and my personal email are open. Courcelles (talk) 05:43, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invite, but I was totally serious! I'm thankful to not be involved in this anymore.  Viriditas (talk) 08:45, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * A totally understandable feeling for anyone getting involved in the arbitration process! Courcelles (talk) 13:42, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

#wikipedia-en-admins IRC channel access
Hi, Courcelles. I posted a request for access to the admins' IRC channel (now that I've decided to come to terms with IRC, after almost three years with the mop :-)), but don't know how closely it's watched. Can you wave a wand or something so I can access the channel? I'm on #wikipedia-en, #wikipedia-en-clerks (for ArbCom) and #wikipedia-en-help. Thanks for any help and all the best,  Mini  apolis  00:12, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * My wife has the relevant permissions, so I've pinged her to look and help my clueless self. Courcelles (talk) 00:35, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much; I should've signed up (although I didn't know what I was doing :-)) when I passed RfA. All the best,  Mini  apolis  01:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ... and it's all good now; I'm just waiting for the cloak. Thanks again and all the best,  Mini  apolis  14:39, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 2,014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

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Wikidata weekly summary #190
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== URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December ==

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Even though you have signed the confidentiality agreement for functionaries (general agreement), you must also sign the OTRS agreement to retain your OTRS access. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GVarnum-WMF (talk • contribs) 20:15, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 2,014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

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As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 2,014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

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The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 2,015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 2,015, you will lose your OTRS access.

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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.

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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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Season's Greetings
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

User:Courcelles/List of accolades received by Far from Heaven
Hi! Hope you're well. Over the past few days, I've been trying to track down the remaining sources for our potential FLC in the hope that we might finally get it finished. I've struggled a bit with the Vancouver Critics and the Venice Film Festival, but we're nearly there. We just need a lead and since I hate writing leads, I was wondering if you could give it a go when you have a bit of spare time? - <font color="Purple" face="Arial">JuneGloom07  <font color="Green" face="Times New Roman">Talk  02:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll give it a try, for sure. Courcelles (talk) 21:43, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!
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Confusion over page protection
I realize BLPs are a bit special and that administrators have more than the usual leeway in setting page protections, but I am confused about why this page has pending-changes-2 protection. It was my understanding that except for some grandfathered pages and OFFICE actions, pc-2 was not to be used. If this has changed, then the relevant documentation including WP:Page protection and WP:Pending changes needs to be updated. If this is a one-off case of WP:Ignore all rules that's fine as well, but I would ask that next time, specifically cite WP:IAR in the protection log when using pending-changes-2 if that's the reason you are using it (IMHO using PC2 instead of full protection in a case like this, where there is a specific request on the talk page to clean up the article, is a good use of WP:IAR, but others may disagree). davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  22:29, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was a bit of an IAR call, but also the least-powerful tool available to stop the stream of autoconfirmed sockpuppets (I can find the SPI if needed), and let non-admins (specifically but not limited to ) continue to develop the article should they choose to do so. Courcelles (talk) 20:50, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * This conversation is above my pay grade, I think, but thank you for letting me know. Fiddle   Faddle  21:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's music
May our mouth be full of laughter, a comment from a psalm, with music 290 years old today, - Did you know that Handel has an infobox for a year now, today? But they still argue over Sibelius? Hallelujah ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:52, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-02
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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.

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 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #191
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Talk:Experiment (ship)
Hi Courcelles, Happy New Year. I created the page Experiment (ship), which still exists, but had no hand in the talk page for the article. Do we know if Maj Turmoil's editing on that page was problematic? If not, can we restore the talk page? Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 23:17, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The talk page was deleted per WP:G5. You can recreate a talk page as you see fit, but I'm not going to restore a fairly useless page created by a banned user. Courcelles (talk) 03:12, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year Courcelles!
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Happy New Year! Courcelles, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Poepkop (talk) 14:05, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to user talk pages. .
 * And to you and yours! Courcelles (talk) 03:12, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * THanks to all of the varied holiday greetings; sorry I was sick on Christmas or I would have responded earlier. Courcelles (talk) 05:45, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you! Talk:Huntley Fitzpatrick
hi Courcelless, I have created the above talkpage, which you deleted, i hope this is okay.

Coolabahapple (talk) 07:23, 1 January 2016 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>
 * Absolutely fine, the deletion was due to the creator being banned. Courcelles (talk) 07:33, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * great, thanks.Coolabahapple (talk) 07:43, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

2016 year of the reader and peace
Thanks for your support in 2015, - ring the peace bell often! - Look for hidden music by Bach, Sibelius and Verdi! Love the latter especially, great to begin the new year with Verdi's wisdom ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Courcelles!
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Happy New Year! Courcelles, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 21:22, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


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WikiCup 2016: Game On!
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Kingdom of Hawaii attorney brought up in an odd post.
left an odd post on my talk page here where they seem to declare themselves as proxy representative of Hawaiian Kingdom attorneys and request a deletion review. I have replied on my talk page and on theirs but, this may need admin attention. The editor previously created an article that was nominated for deletion (one proposed deletion and one deletion discussion) about nearly the same subject Edmund Keli’i Silva Jr.. Since the editor clearly made a declaration of representing the subject Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawaii, I googled them and verified that the name Aliejames is a person making public claims of a close connection to the organization.--Mark Miller (talk) 23:10, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you
TY for the update on the PD. I for one always appreciate it when you folks take the time to talk to us and tell us what's going on. I hope all things personal get resolved for the best for you. Best, — Ched : ?  19:13, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ched. I'm actually busily working away on it right now.  Courcelles (talk) 00:00, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Slightly erroneous edit at Arbitration/Requests/Case?
Did you intend on changing the decline count from 3 to 0 with this edit? --Hammersoft (talk) 23:05, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks :) --Hammersoft (talk) 23:23, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I was fiddling around between a straight decline and asking a question... that was my mistake. Courcelles (talk) 00:00, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

On a related note I have added a diff to my statement for you. There are more easily findable but I'm not really interested in making that sort of evidence unless it's actally going to be considered. I would also recommend IJBalls statement re adminacct. Only in death does duty end (talk) 23:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, we have three votes to accept, and I think it is always necessary for some context of someone's history as an admin. Courcelles (talk) 00:00, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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There is a typo at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kevin Gorman/Proposed decision with "On 26 February 2914, " --Jnorton7558 (talk) 20:02, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2016-05
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 * Sites with a  address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour.
 * Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January.
 * Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager.
 * The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages.
 * Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read.
 * The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor.
 * The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time.
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Wikidata weekly summary #194
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Replicator: Wikidata import tool
 * The Facebook of German Playwrights
 * Language usage on Wikidata
 * Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
 * Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
 * some visualizations:
 * Family tree of King Halo, race horse
 * Doctoral students of Gauss
 * Tributaries of the Danube
 * Children of Kronos
 * Influenced by Leibnitz
 * Graphs
 * Zika virus papers
 * KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
 * Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
 * Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
 * WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Chevaux%20sur%20Wikidata%0A%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcheval%20%3FchevalLabel%20%3Fmere%20%3Fpere%20(year(%3Fnaissance)%20as%20%3FNaissance)%20(year(%3Fdeces)%20as%20%3FD%C3%A9c%C3%A8s)%20%3Fsexe%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ726%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20Instance%20et%20sous-classes%20de%20Q726-Cheval%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP25%20%3Fmere%20%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P25%20%20%3A%20M%C3%A8re%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP22%20%3Fpere%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P22%20%20%3A%20P%C3%A8re%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fnaissance%20.%7D%20%23%20P569%20%3A%20Date%20de%20naissance%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdeces%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P571%20%3A%20Date%20de%20d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fsexe%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P21%20%20%3A%20Sexe%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Cen%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fcheval horses], [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P2380%20%3FRSF%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D French sculptors by year of birth]
 * Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
 * Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
 * New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
 * Development
 * und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
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Wikidata weekly summary #193
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
 * Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports  OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
 * Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
 * Wikidata Graph Builder
 * Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
 * You can give input on WMF's strategy
 * Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
 * Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
 * French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
 * Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
 * Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
 * Development
 * Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (T124276)
 * Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (T78006)
 * Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
 * Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
 * Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (T103102, T94989)
 * Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
 * Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (T117421)
 * Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (T92387)
 * More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (T119493)
 * Monthly Tasks
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Tech News: 2016-04
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Recent changes
 * You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week.
 * Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no tag in that section.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * 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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension.
 * The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade.
 * Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones.

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Ping
I've sent an urgent-ish Commons-related email your way. Could you take a look when you have a chance? Sorry to add to the zillions of emails you get in a day...-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:23, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course, I responded to this in my inbox right-away, and forgot to note it here. For the record; Courcelles (talk) 21:18, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-03
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Recent changes
 * You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki.
 * Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis.

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 * The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #192
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
 * Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
 * Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
 * Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
 * Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
 * Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
 * Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
 * Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
 * Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
 * Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
 * Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
 * Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
 * Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
 * Development
 * Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (T67397)
 * Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
 * Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (T123234)
 * Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (T123233)
 * Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (T119493)
 * Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (T120196)
 * Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (T94989)
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Merry Christmas and happy new year
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