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The Bugle: IssueICLXVI, February 2020
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Swami Purnachaitanya
Dear GermanJoe,

I have been updating the article since there were some sections to be improved with some new links. Could help us understand why did you revert the change. Kindly waiting for your reply.

Thank YouTerminatorwil (talk) 23:13, 21 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, the Midweek Sun fails our criteria for a reliable source by a wide margin (WP:RS), let alone for a source for health-related or medical claims (WP:MEDRS). Also, phrases like "The importance of Yoga has been in his teaching since it is the answer to many non-communicable diseases." blatantly violate WP:NPOV. Content should be written from an uninvolved dispassionate point of view, not simply repeating the topic's own claims and PR statements. An encyclopedia has to take a critical, fact-oriented stance and should be based on information from reliable, independent expert sources. GermanJoe (talk) 11:38, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Talk page access
Hi GermanJoe. You might have to revoke talk page access for. They've made two spam edits (Special:Diff/941991788, Special:Diff/941993811) on their user talk page since you blocked them. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 00:09, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , done - thank you for pointing this out. GermanJoe (talk) 11:39, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09
 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 later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes
 * There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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March Madness 2020
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Money emoji
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Athaenara • DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Tech News: 2020-10
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Problems
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

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revert
about this was trying to link to a article since none was available and it is an orphan--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:54, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * , i got the intention to de-orphan. But it was really not a good spot to put such an article link. The context was very loose and the passing mention seemed almost out of place there. I recommend you look for an article where such a link can be put in a more direct and relevant context instead (or of course in list articles including that topic as valid entry). GermanJoe (talk) 18:28, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

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Vym (software) sources and "copyright violations"
Please have a closer look at the readme here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vym/files/Development/, consider what it says, "please check the homepage for details: http://www.insilmaril.de/vym ", and consider whether "help" output of a GPL program is copyrighted. I'm no lawyer, but my opinion is you're mistaken on copyright here, and removing that URL as a source. Probably is a bit flowery language, but also accurate and descriptive... -- Yae4 (talk) 18:13, 7 March 2020 (UTC)


 * No, it's self-promotional PR speak and should not be used in an encyclopedia, copyrighted or not. And all external content is by default copyrighted (unless it's explicitly released under a free license or legally Public domain due to age, US government works, etc.). GermanJoe (talk) 18:18, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * - but thank you for the tip about insilmaril.de as a valid self-published source. I have re-added this link into the article. GermanJoe (talk) 18:23, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Please remove the copyright warning from my Talk, or inform me where I can appeal, because you seem less than certain regarding copyright, and the "without further warning" has a chilling effect, opposite "be bold." -- Yae4 (talk) 16:12, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , you can remove or archive such messages yourself after you have read them. Please re-read earlier advice from November 2019 and January 2020 though: "... please seek help at Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article." This is really the best possible advice to avoid copyright-related problems with unclear external content. I believe, I have given you all relevant information - but you are welcome to ask any other admin for a second opinion or use an appropriate noticeboard as a last resort. GermanJoe (talk) 17:34, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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Tech News: 2020-12
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use  to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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Freelance Journalists ARE Journalists, Too
For more information on how freelance reporters are still reporters, regardless of their 1099 tax filing status, please check out the American Society of Journalists and Authors (http://asja.org/) as well as the freelance community division (external link https://www.spj.org/freelance.asp) of the Society of Professional Journalists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NYCLion (talk • contribs) 21:12, 16 March 2020 (UTC)


 * , as requested several times, please provide your arguments - and clarify your connection with Lionsbridge - at the appropriate noticeboard in Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard. You can also post article-related arguments at the articles' respective talkpages. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 21:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13
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Problems
 * Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
 * There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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Tech News: 2020-14
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Recent changes
 * The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
 * There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Lee Vilenski
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Boing! said Zebedee
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg NativeForeigner

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Someguy1221
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news
 * There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous
 * The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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List of Hindu organisations
A Organization of ICHRO who serve Calcutta recently i added on the list. But remove it. Why you remove it. This Organization established calcutta and serve help of Westbengal people. This Organization help hindu people who sick to help. AmitMondal1299 (talk) 10:37, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , please see the information and links I left on your user talkpage. Entries in such large lists should have a Wikipedia article first, based on multiple independent reliable sources. Also, please read WP:COI, in case you are connected to this organization and have a possible conflict of interest. GermanJoe (talk) 11:32, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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FreeBSD GA reassessment
FreeBSD, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Tonystewart14 (talk) 01:29, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
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Tech News: 2020-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use the  search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
 * You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
 * You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
 * When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
 * There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes
 * Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
 * The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
 * For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated  tag, as well as the use of the deprecated   parameter, will add tracking categories.

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist
I noticed you are active on the MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist page. I posted a request to the "Proposed Removals" section but haven't gotten any responses. Would you mind taking a look? Thanks in advance. :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #FF7518;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 19:30 on April 19, 2020 (UTC) •  #StayAtHome


 * , answered there although it needs further discussion on the other whitelisting forum (the one you posted in is for entire domains). GermanJoe (talk) 21:39, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * again, first link was broken. GermanJoe (talk) 21:40, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I wanted to include the link I only wanted unblocked in format, but it wouldn't let me do that. :( No worries though.  Thanks for taking a look. :)  Much appreciated! - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #FF7518;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 21:50 on April 19, 2020 (UTC) •  #StayAtHome
 * Not sure if you do any work over on the Whitelist side, but here's the link for that discussion, just for reference. Thanks again for taking a look to the Blacklist discussion. :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #FF7518;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 22:01 on April 19, 2020 (UTC) •  #StayAtHome


 * Usually not very active in whitelisting, as admins like Beetstra and others have more experience in that area. GermanJoe (talk) 09:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Comparison of hex editors
I noticed you removed my additions to the page Comparison_of_hex_editors because of missing citations. For both entries I added references so I don't understand the issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IamMe3141 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * , have you read the huge red edit notice on top of the edit window and the linked guidelines on your user talkpage? Generally speaking, entries in lists should be "notable" with their own stand-alone article based on multiple independent sources. Such lists are not supposed to be indiscriminate product directories. Please also disclose an apparent conflict of interest with this topic on your user page. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 18:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17
<section begin="technews-2020-W17"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.  is now  .   is now  .   is now  . This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
 * The font in the diffs will change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news
 * Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
 * Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news
 * The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
 * created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Tech News: 2020-19
<section begin="technews-2020-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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I need your help
I wrote an article and publish it but it is pending someone commented that it is advertisement...how can i make it public? The little me (talk) 15:42, 9 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, I am a bit confused. I don't see where someone commented on your draft - it should be in English by the way and based on independent reliable sources. And your message here seems to have been posted prior to that draft anyway. Could you clarify which draft or article you are referring too please? Otherwise it's impossible to help with specific advice. Generally, you might want to read WP:Your first article though. It's a useful guide for new editors. GermanJoe (talk) 23:18, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20
<section begin="technews-2020-W20"/> 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
 * Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

Problems
 * Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via  or  . You can use   or   to check one at a time instead.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 15:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Head-mounted display: Virtual Cinema addition
I'm looking to add back the Virtual Cinema section I added to Head-mounted display which you removed for citations to "promotional review sites". Do you consider the pages at https://tidbits.com/2018/04/25/the-dark-side-of-the-royole-moon/ and https://stlasertv.com/goovis-g2-smart-glasses-review-not-a-vr-glasses-but-a-best-mobile-3d-theatre/ acceptable? These are clearly independent reviews from tech websites of several years' standing. I have no interest in these competing products myself, except as a potential customer, and the article provides no other coverage of this market category. Jaa101 (talk) 01:34, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, both sites make their money with advertising (see their about pages and further information on these sites). A site that depends on pushing publicity and sales for the covered products cannot be considered an independent reliable source. Information about such technologies can of course be added and would be welcome, but it should be based on non-promotional sources with no financial stake in the matter. GermanJoe (talk) 08:26, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Well WP:RS rules out "sponsored content" but it certainly doesn't rule out "sites make their money with advertising" which would exclude a large majority of news publications. However, what about: https://www.afr.com/technology/the-royole-moon-headset-is-like-an-inflight-imax-cinema-strapped-to-your-face-20171101-gzceja https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-21-royole-moon-personal-cinema-headset-impressions.html https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8KKhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA672&lpg=PA672&dq=%22goovis+g2%22 and https://www.oled-info.com/goovis-g2-vr-hmd ? The citations are only there to verify the existence of the products. Jaa101 (talk) 00:48, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Swami Purnachaitanya
Is there a particular reason that whenever we are trying to improve the page, the reverting the change stating that it is promotion. Do you have a particular reason when are we adding links from new sources and you just revert it?Terminatorwil (talk) 06:24, 18 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, who is "we" in your question please? Please note, that editing with a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged and needs to be disclosed. Undisclosed paid editing is prohibited and against this site's Terms of Use. Could you clarify this point please, and then we can gladly discuss specific sources. Generally speaking, you should avoid promotional sources whereever possible. Interviews and other PR articles are at best low-quality sources for uncontroversial minor details or are regarded similar to self-published information. GermanJoe (talk) 07:12, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello The word "We" is used for the fraternity of wikipedia writer which includes you and I also. I know that paid editing is prohibited and I hope that this makes it clarified. The link which I had added https://thebftonline.com/2020/lifestylesports/the-art-of-living-spirituality-meets-science-the-story-of-swami-purnachaitanya/ is from a legible source. Kindly pls do let me know what is wrong in adding this to the citation. If writer can understand the issue, there can be improvement everywhere. Terminatorwil (talk) 07:33, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21
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 * There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

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Swami Purnachaitanya
Hi,

I couldn't get a response from your for my previous query. Is possible for you to help for the page Swami Purnachaitanya.

Thank YouTerminatorwil (talk) 16:45, 30 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, as I already mentioned in my previous answer, interview-based advertorials should usually not be used as encyclopedic sources. Please try to find more reliable non-promotional sources that cover this topic and could be used. GermanJoe (talk) 17:02, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

The link which I had added https://thebftonline.com/2020/lifestylesports/the-art-of-living-spirituality-meets-science-the-story-of-swami-purnachaitanya/ is from a legible source. Is it ok to be added.

Thank YouTerminatorwil (talk) 17:04, 30 May 2020 (UTC)


 * No it is not, it is a promotional lifestyle article based on the interviewee's information and statements. Please read WP:RS for more information or ask another uninvolved experienced editor. I am not going to continue this argument, the source is of ridiculous low quality with no journalistic distance or credibility. Please stop asking me here about the same issue again and again, if you want to pursue the matter please ask other editors for advice. GermanJoe (talk) 17:10, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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Could you consider an offline discussion on the following..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mail_server_software, we have been having a real hard time including our product on Wiki, it is one of the most prevalent email platforms in the North American ISP/Telco space, however every time we try to get a page up on 'MagicMail', it gets rejected.. maybe because I/we are involved with the company. But a lot of lessor known products are on that page. And many of them must have been in a similar situation. We attempted to follow guidelines, and created pages almost identical in nature to other listed products, in form and content, and even tried to indicate our affiliation with the company, but never can get it to stay on wiki.. getting a phobia that someone is reporting it, to prevent its listings.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizardtower (talk • contribs) 14:49, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, I generally don't discuss Wikipedia-related issues offline, unless confidential or personal details are somehow involved. For the sake of transparency, Wikipedia-related discussions should be held online so other editors can follow them and offer addtional feedback. If you have a professional connection with a topic, your very first step should be a clear and open disclosure of your conflict of interest on your user page. The second step would be to create a draft in draftspace, based on multiple independent reliable sources, and submit said draft for review by an uninvolved AfC reviewer. But the main point is always to provide independent reliable sources - this excludes most PR publications, interviews and press releases as well as routine business announcements. Hope this helps a bit to clarify Wikipedia's guidelines for this aspect. GermanJoe (talk) 18:24, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response, but last time we made sure of those two things, disclosure, and indepent multiple reliable sources, eg Dun & Bradstreet, Trademark Office listings, Patent Listings etc.. And it was pulled because it didn't have independent reliable sources.. which makes it very frustrating.. We provided more reliable sources than some of the existing listings for mail servers. Seems like not a common standard in place, and or someone has to be more clear about what indepent sources are..  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizardtower (talk • contribs) 18:34, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


 * , maybe reading through Notability (organizations and companies) can help to clarify these criteria. Strictly speaking the linked information focusses on organizations, but similar criteria are usually also applied to products. A last point: unfortunately Wikipedia has a lot of erroneous und unencyclopedic articles left over from its beginnings (and from recent promotional activity), but such articles aren't good templates for new topics. If you want to find suitable examples to create a promising draft, you should look out for established good or featured articles. And sometimes a topic just can't have an article due to a lack of good sources. GermanJoe (talk) 18:44, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23
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 * There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos.

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 * There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May.
 * The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.

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External Links on List_of_FLOSS_Weekly_episodes
Hi GermanJoe, thanks for the message and edits regarding external links on the List_of_FLOSS_Weekly_episodes page. However, I would disagree with your interpretation of the policy in regards to this specific page. The guidelines specifically allow for external links; allowed links, suggesting that we can link to "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material". All these Floss Weekly episodes are for projects whose sites are accurate and neutral. Can I please suggest that we have a discussion on the article's Talk page about this somewhat mature article/page, before we wholesale remove valuable information collected over a few years now? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jalansari (talk • contribs) 21:31, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd be glad to discuss this on article talk. But it would be better to remove clearly promotional backlinks, while this discussion is being held. The onus is on the editor who wants to add such disputed content to gather consenus for it. Let's continue further discussion on article talk though. GermanJoe (talk) 06:41, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24
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 * Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
 * Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.  is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.   can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect   or.
 * There is a banner called . It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on   so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.

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 * Octicons-tools.svg You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

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The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 04:22, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

In addition....
I cannot reference your change because you removed it. I was on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#History.````
 * Learn to access the history by pressing on the button which says history. He reverted you. I suggest you bring this to the talk page, where it would be appropriate and others can see it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Augmented_reality&type=revision&diff=962536850&oldid=962535545. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 17:14, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail
The next page after I sent the internal email quickly lead me to this talkpage. I do not understand why you removed my content and incorrectly labeled it as promotional. My edit is inclusion (no deletions or changes) of historical fact, with news website citations and references and I purposely did not word any of it in a method that would imply promotion.

Please reply with either an explanation or a reversal so that I or you can include it.

Thank you. Mario L Castellanos


 * Hello, please start a thread at Talk:Augmented reality if you'd like to discuss the removal. I will not respond to mails or further messages on my user talkpage - especially your first message wasn't really helpful -, the article talkpage is the appropriate place to discuss such questions as already advised by (thank you). But please note that you will need to provide truely independent non-promotional sources for such content. Neither self-published information nor advertorials in a trade publication are sufficient. GermanJoe (talk) 07:51, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25
<section begin="technews-2020-W25"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

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 * There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
 * Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
 * The selectors  and   will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts.    should be replaced by  .   should be replaced by.

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My edit on the list of photo and video apps
I was citing and there are other links for the same website posted by other users on the same page and a citation is needed per Verifiability and I am not related to TikTok or Apple in anyway and never posted that link to other articles or to other websites 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 (talk) 11:44, 21 June 2020 (UTC)


 * , thank you for pointing this out. I misread your edit and have now reverted my removal. Still, as a general tip, you should try to avoid commercial or promotional sources as much as possible (although they are occasionally OK for non-controversial claims). Anyway, sorry for the misunderstanding. GermanJoe (talk) 12:40, 21 June 2020 (UTC)