User talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2017/Jun

2016 NYC Subway Ridership Figures Has Arrived
Hello to you, Epicgenius. The 2016 subway ridership numbers have been posted today (May 31, 2017). Rockies77 (talk) 04:37, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2017
You are invited to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects throughout the month of June as part of the fourth annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign. Feel free to add new and expanded content on the project's Results page. Happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:01, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Reply to responses
I've seen all your messages. Unfortunately, I am in Rome with limited internet access right now, and I probably wont have access to computer for the next few days. epicgenius (talk) 15:21, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:20, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay. I was wondering what was up. I hope you enjoy your stay there.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 18:51, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Can you help verify translations of articles from Chinese
Hello Epicgenius,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Chinese to English Wikipedia?



This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Chinese article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including Chinese, using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from Chinese. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great.

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the Chinese article, and mark it "Pass" or "Fail" (templates Pass and Fail may be useful). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "Pass", that's even better, but it isn't required.)

If you can help, please let me know. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 22:22, 3 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I might be able to help later. Unfortunately, I have limited internet access for the foreseeable future (at least 2 months) but I will do what I can if I have time. epicgenius (talk) 15:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

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DYK for Vessel (structure)
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about User talk:2404:E800:E61A:38:647E:96C7:257A:3270
Is me sorry I make a mistake 175.156.54.211 (talk) 17:03, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Glossaries
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Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Your GA nomination of G (New York City Subway service)
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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-06
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Integrated Filters
 * The team is moving full speed ahead on a follow-up project to the New Filters for Edit Review beta dubbed "Integrated Filters." The name refers to the fact that we are integrating the Recent Changes tools that currently remain in the old user interface (like Namespace and Tag filters), along with some tools and capabilities from Watchlist and elsewhere, into the new Recent Changes interface.
 * You can get an overview of the Integrated Filters projects, and the general release strategy, on the description page of the project Phabricator board. Among the more interesting new capabilities:
 * Category filters: We'll be adding the ability to filter by category. This is a little tricky, since wiki categories often work in a somewhat counter-intuitive way, with the broadest categories returning the fewest results—because categories like "Science" or "Art" tend to contain not articles but other categories. So we're exploring solutions where a category search will crawl at least a layer or two down the category treat to, hopefully, bring back more useful results.
 * User filters: We're adding the ability to filter by any username, similar to what's available already on the the User Contributions page.
 * Live update: Users will have the ability to look at a more or less continuous flow of changes. This is a much requested feature that we expect will open up new possibilities for Recent Changes, especially for patrollers who want to see vandalism or other changes as they happen. While the updates won't truly be "live," the page updates will be frequent, similar to the way real-time tools (like RTRC or LiveRC) works.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Have time for a talk?
 * We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchen@undefinedwikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in.

Recent changes
 * It is now possible to save your favorite filters sets by using bookmarks.
 * Translation icon cropped.svg This feature documentation can be translated.
 * It is possible to filter only the last edits done on a page on the Recent Changes page.
 * ORES review tool has been deployed to French Wikipedia. This wiki can use predictions filters. To have the predictions filters on your wiki, you need to work on the labeling campaign for your wiki or request it.
 * There were some issues with loading highlighted results when the URL was copied and pasted. This is now fixed.
 * A "Watchlisted pages" filter group now lets reviewers use Recent Changes, and all its tools, to patrol changes to pages they've Watchlisted. If you have any feedback about how useful this is nor isn't—especially given that we plan to add the new filtering interface to the Watchlist page — let us know.
 * There were issues with the tools still in the older filtering UI — like the Namespace filter and the number of results selectors. These have been fixed.

Future changes
 * Integration of new features on recent changes pages is planned. They will include menus to filter users, tagged edits, categories and namespaces. See the "What's new" section above for more information.
 * Now that users can save filter settings, and declare any settings they want as the Recent Changes page default, we'll be reviewing the RC page Preferences with an eye to getting rid of as many as we can. For instance, if you want to hide minor edits or Category changes by default, you can now do that right on the RC page, instead of having to go to a separate page to manage defaults.
 * On many Recent Changes Pages, the community has defined a large number of links that are displayed directly under the page name (example on Polish Wikipedia). Many of these links are unrelated or only peripherally related to Recent Changes, add informational complexity of the RC page. Research shows that they are used only rarely or never. We want to clarify RecentChanges page functionality, so we plan to put the links into a collapsible panel.
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 * The most used links are shortcuts to certain type of edits, (Mobile, Newcomers...). Users can already save their favorite filter settings to the Saved Settings menu, which should make some of the existing links redundant. We plan to provide default bookmarks for the most used filters combinations.

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Future changes
 * Wikimedia Deutschland have scheduled the notifications of Wikibase notifications to Wikimedia projects: all the Wikivoyages on May 3; all the Wikipedias except en, fr, de on May 30; all other projects on June 13 and Wikipedias en, fr, de on September 5.
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Flow [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Flow has been activated on all talk pages on Catalan Wikiquote.

Future changes
 * On the Beta feature page, the activation message has been review to emphase the fact that the unstructured wikitext page will be archived.

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Evening SSI
I read on WT:NYCPT that you wanted to create a new symbol to represent evening service. I'm assuming it would be for the 5 when it turns at Bowling Green and would only be used for the templates that transclude to the Bowling Green and South Ferry pages, but would you consider using the weekdays only symbol instead? My reason for this is there will probably still be some 5 trains turning at Bowling Green starting next week. In parentheses, we could add something like (weekday evenings and limited rush hour service). Just a thought.

I was also wondering your take of creating a symbol for weekends only, for when the 2 goes to South Ferry and when the 5 goes to Flatbush Avenue. It would be similar to the nights and weekends symbol, but with the vertical line only cutting across the circle, rather than both the horizontal and vertical lines do for the nights and weekends symbol. There is precedent for this symbol that exists, back in the 90s on Guide-A-Rides for the C when service used to terminate at the World Trade Center. (See here and here.

Let me know what you think. —LRG5784 (talk · contribs · email) 19:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

P.S. I have an idea for what we can do for the 5 train's station listing in its article come this weekend. I was considering two collapsible tables: one!for weekday service, one for weekend. I'll post more on the WT:NYCPT page in a bit.


 * Yeah, sure. I think you could create this weekend-only symbol.Regarding the 5 service pattern, I don't know if they should be collapsible, but I think 2 separate tables could be helpful. However, the service pattern could still be displayed within one table, since the 5 weekend pattern is basically the same as the all-local version of the 5 to Nereid during rush hours, except with one extra stop.By the way, there is an IP user that is editing the station articles and putting a note that this pattern is temporary (, but the user uses a dynamic IP address). Should we be including these notes? I saw that you deleted the note on Fulton Street (New York City Subway) since this will be an actual service change reflected in schedules. epicgenius (talk) 15:18, 22 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and created the new icon last night: Image:NYCS-SSI-weekendsonly.svg [[Image:NYCS-SSI-weekendsonly.svg]].Maybe it is possible that we can use just one table, but that means we would have to create custom definitions for the icons then. Between Eastchester - Dyre Avenue and Morris Park, we can use the weekdays only icon and use text like: . Between Wakefield - 241st Street and Bronx Park East, we could use the weekends only icon and use text like:  . Between West Farms Square - East Tremont Avenue and Bowling Green, we could use the all except nights symbol and use text like:  . Between Borough Hall and Flatbush Avenue, we could probably use the same symbol, but also include in the text that those stations in Brooklyn aren't served weekday evenings, either . The only stations that will be served all times is East 180th Street. I don't need to go over the stations between New Lots Avenue and Nostrand Avenue (Eastern Parkway), as those will still be served with limited service.Yes, I reverted his edits because while the service change is temporary, it is still long-term and has been incorporated into the system pick. It's not like regular general orders that just pop up one weekend and then never return; this change ins semi-permanent and rather significant. —LRG5784 (talk · contribs · email) 17:48, 22 June 2017 (UTC)


 * All right, that's cool. I think for the 5 train between 241 ST and Bronx Park E, we can use the "weekends only" icon and, in the actual template text, add a note that it stops during rush hours in the peak direction. It will be similar to the 4 train to New Lots Avenue before the service changes (rush hours and late nights). For the Brooklyn stops, we can use the "all times except late nights" icon, and in the template, add a note that it's all times except weekday late nights. That 1-and-a-half hour gap on weekdays is pretty large, so I think I'm going to go with your proposal. epicgenius (talk) 19:58, 22 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Great! Also, I've started working on the new tables for the 2, 3 and 5 at one of my subpages here. It's incomplete, as I am unsure how to group the 5 train stations that are served by Nereid during rush hours. I thought about just creating a new row, but I'm unsure. Maybe you can tweak some stuff around and see what you come up with? —LRG5784 (talk · contribs · email) 18:20, 23 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, sure, I'll see what I can do. epicgenius (talk) 20:53, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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