User talk:Joe Decker/Archive 13

JoAnna Lynne
She's probably not JoAnna Lynne Decker, seeing as she is an independent woman artist who doesn't want to go by either her father's or husband's family name. Sorry, Decker. Decker? I'm still trying to fit her in somehow so she's not an article yet. Chantal Kohl&#39;s Bernadette (talk) 20:33, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Chantal. I'm a little unclear on what the Decker thing is all about here, but if there's something I can to to help, please let me know.  It sounds like you would like to create an article on JoAnna Lynne.  The basic hurdle in creating such an article is WP:BASIC, which more or less translates to "You need a couple newspaper, magazine, books or the like that discuss the subject in detail."   After you've found a couple such references, simply include them (instructions below) in the article you create.
 * The easiest way to start learning how to make references on Wikipedia is to read Referencing for beginners, which includes a nice video showing how to use the RefToolbar, which makes working with references a whole lot easier.
 * A last name of Decker won't help anyone around these parts anyway, there's certainly no article about me on Wikipedia. ;p   Have a great week, and do let me know if I can lend a hand. --j⚛e deckertalk 00:49, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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Guranda Gvaladze
Dear friend, Mr. Ron Ritzman deleted the article about the outstanding Georgian botanist, one of the founders of Plant Embryology in Georgia, Professor, Dr. Guranda Gvaladze. Please, restore this article (if it is possible). Thank you in advance for your attention.
 * Answered (far too late) at your talk page. --j⚛e deckertalk 01:18, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC Reviewer permission
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Null Bot?
Would you mind / be able to reactivate your Null Bot on 12th September, to purge the main page so that the random picture feature of that day's TFA blurb works? See Village pump (technical). Thanks, BencherliteTalk 15:40, 5 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yep, can do. I'll put a note in my calendar to reactive that day. --j⚛e deckertalk 19:31, 5 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Marvellous. Thank you very much.  I would say I'd check the bot's contributions to see whether it's working, but... (!) BencherliteTalk 19:39, 5 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Some day I shall make another bot, just so that I can have the logs uploaded without adding any contributions to Null Bot itself. :)  In my copious free time, of course.  ;-p  (More seriously, some day I'll stick this on Labs or something so that the logs can be accessed more directly.)  Just a matter of time... --j⚛e deckertalk 19:45, 5 September 2013 (UTC)


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Wikidata weekly summary #75
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 16:20, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map
 * Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
 * Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
 * Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
 * Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
 * Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
 * Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
 * Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
 * Development
 * Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
 * Started work on number data type
 * Worked on simple query special page
 * Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
 * Worked on JSON dumps
 * Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
 * Continued work on the merge items API module
 * Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
 * Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
 * Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
 * Continued moving to new browsertests framework
 * Bugfixes on autosummaries
 * Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
 * Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

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VisualEditor newsletter for September 19, 2013
VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.

As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add  (underline),   (subscript), and   (superscript),   (strikethrough) and   (computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.

In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).

In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl up to Ctrl sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.

Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).

Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.

Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).

Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Non-free files with orphaned versions
Hi Joe! I was wondering if you could get the Null Bot to perform a null edit/purge daily on the files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old? This is similar to a task already being performed that purges items in Category:Rescaled fairuse files. Thanks, -- Diannaa (talk) 15:19, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions, I think, as the aim is to have the bot drop them into the "7 days old" category. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:58, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's right, John. Thanks -- Diannaa (talk) 19:04, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I understand the issue and it should be a slam-dunk. I'm away until Monday, will file a BRFA then, if the most recent requests there are any indication it will likely get a speedy approval and, if that's the case, would be running by Tuesday or Wednesday.  --j⚛e deckertalk 19:10, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Joe :) -- Diannaa (talk) 19:37, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * My pleasure! BRFA filed.  I'll keep folks updated here.  --j⚛e deckertalk 06:30, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * While I will be mostly off-line (as noted on my user-page) most of the next month and a bit, this really is a trivial thing once the BRFA is accepted, and I fully expect to be able to complete this task. FYI.  --j⚛e deckertalk 06:14, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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Bon Voyage
Sounds like you're off on another adventure! Travel safe and drop me a line if you have any exciting stories (or pics!) you'd like to share. Cheers,--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 15:52, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much!  Yeah!  It's nuts here -- I'm back from Yellowstone, but doing a funding Kickstarter because I got a residency that will take me to Antarctica (and the Falklands and South Georgia Island) in November, and a separate residency that will take me to Iceland for the entire month of January. I'll definitely have some time here in December, but I really don't expect to catch my breath until February.  It's making me a little crazy, but oh my goodness what a first-class set of problems to have!  --j⚛e deckertalk 15:56, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeed!--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 16:13, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #79
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 17:22, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.pragunbhutani.in/articles/wikidata-sends-goodies/ Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers]
 * [//ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.html A Wikidata interview with Lydia]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
 * Help the development team prioritise!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
 * Development
 * Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
 * Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
 * Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
 * Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
 * Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
 * Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
 * Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
 * Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
 * Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
 * MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
 * Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

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Randy Gage
Hi, Please remove protection from Randy Gage, I have a new content for it. I made same request to Jclemens. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 18:57, 3 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Can you show me that that will address the issues raised in Articles_for_deletion/Gage,_Randy_Paul? I'd recommend creating a draft via Articles for Creation, so that we can see that.  I'll be happy to unprotect it if notability and non-promotional content are demonstrated.  --j⚛e deckertalk 19:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I understand your concerns. I am aware of the many failed attempts at creating this article. The issues are about notability and advertising, but the subject is presently noteworthy. I rescue such articles, but sorry, I do not contribute through AfC and I do not use sandbox; I use the preview feature and save codes in text files. From my previous contributions, you will know how my tone is—not promotional, and to demonstrate notability, please see:
 * — Note: this is Google cache (text only) of the web page; the page on NSA website is currently having problems! Scroll down.
 * — Note: this is Google cache (text only) of the web page; the page on NSA website is currently having problems! Scroll down.
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * — Note: this is Google cache (text only) of the web page; the page on NSA website is currently having problems! Scroll down.
 * — Note: this is Google cache (text only) of the web page; the page on NSA website is currently having problems! Scroll down.
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that 20-22 are only pointing to articles written/contributed by the subject, Randy Gage. There are many more references. I assure you that you would not find much faults (if any) in my contribution.
 * —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Have you considered my response or the links above? Please, remove the protection or set it to autoconfirm users, so I can post my content. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 18:17, 7 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Johnmoor, I hope to dig through that and the history of the AfD, hopefully tomorrow. I've just returned from a long work trip, and have quite a bit of paying work I need to catch up on.  If you have produced a draft, a pointer to that might be helpful as well.
 * Alternatively, you could create a draft at WP:AFC, which takes a little time, but will eventually get you direct feedback on the article before it's put into mainspace. Thanks for understanding. --j⚛e deckertalk 06:32, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You did not read or understood my previous response, part of it reads "The issues are about notability and advertising, but the subject is presently noteworthy. I rescue such articles, but sorry, I do not contribute through AfC and I do not use sandbox; I use the preview feature and save codes in text files." In any case, I have recreated the article here—Randy Gage (prosperity coach); I will move it to Randy Gage whenever you remove the protection. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 17:31, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, John, you're correct that I haven't had the time, for work and personal reasons, to read your responses here in the detail they deserve. I'll either address them in 24 hours or hand the issue off to another admin.  Best, --j⚛e deckertalk 19:57, 9 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid to my eye the article still has some issues with non-encyclopedic tone that haven't been addressed, and the history of the article being used as advertising was the reason the AfD resolved in favor of protection in the first place. Because I will again soon be out of town and literally away from the internet, at least mostly, through Thanksgiving, I'm probably the wrong person to guide you through what needs to be done, I'd recommend slapping an AfC tag on it and working with the folks there. You're welcome to point AfC reviewers at the text here, I've no objection to other admins removing protection if they feel that the promotionally issues have been addressed.  Thanks for your patience--I really thought I'd be able to give you an answer before this.  Best regards, --Joe


 * fwiw, I speedy deleted the new article as G11, and protected the new title also.  DGG ( talk ) 18:52, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Is the new article a blatant or unambiguous advertising or promotion?! (See talk with DGG) —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 22:17, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, " ".

The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).

Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:50, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment
As you previously  participated in  related discussions you  are invited to comment  at the discussion  at  WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC for AfC reviewer permission criteria. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:31, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #80
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 19:50, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
 * Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
 * Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
 * Newest task forces: International relations task force
 * Development
 * Further development on WikibaseDatabase
 * IE8 is working again
 * JSON socumentation created and merged
 * Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
 * Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

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Tech News: 2013-42
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like  for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
 * Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system.

VisualEditor news
 * You can now create and edit references inside media captions.
 * You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content.
 * When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center.

Future
 * The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you.
 * MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
 * The interface to reset your password will soon be changed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #81
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 22:47, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
 * Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
 * Closed:Place of property documentation
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
 * Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
 * Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
 * Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
 * Development
 * Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
 * Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (46538)
 * Bene worked on a table of content for items (44876)
 * Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (55466)
 * Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (54103)
 * Linked sitelinks in diffs (53471)
 * Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
 * Worked on the user interface for simple queries
 * Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
 * Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 20:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

My page was apparently deleted for the following reason: "unable to find reliable second sources". In actuality, BRAND X guitarist John Goodsall wished to have me deleted simply because of a personal disagreement.

I offer reliable references below:

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I am listed as a 'notable player' of Wal basses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal_%28bass%29

Video of me performing with BRAND X: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6HJElK6VU8

Another video of me performing with BRAND X: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7IR6pU33k

An interview with me that appeared on the online magazine BASBEL: http://bashkov2.narod.ru/mst.htm

A guitar forum which mentions me by name: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-1568456.html

A mention of my joining BRAND X at the end of the article: http://overdoseoffingalcocoa.blogspot.com/2010/01/brand-x.html

Another mention of my joining BRAND X: http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/brandx.html

I am mentioned in a track listing from a recording of a BRAND X performance: http://planetgong.altervista.org/Brand_X.htm

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Tech News: 2013-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it.

VisualEditor news
 * On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the   ,      and      spaces.

Problems
 * On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused  sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to   for a few hours.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
 * In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us.
 * You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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Wikidata weekly summary #82
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 20:42, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
 * Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
 * Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
 * Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
 * Newest task forces: Railways task force
 * Development
 * Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
 * Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
 * ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
 * WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
 * Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
 * Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
 * Further developments on Quantities
 * Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
 * Serialization options have been cleaned up
 * Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
 * Further work on Query and QueryEngine
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Tech News: 2013-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed.

VisualEditor news
 * You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future.

Problems
 * There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future
 * Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers
 * Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default.
 * Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in  mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 10:31, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

New RFC on draft namespace
Hello,

As one of the participants in the previous related discussion, you are requested to comment on the RFC on creating a new Draft namespace at the Village Pump.

Thank you, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 19:46, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #83
<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 · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
 * Lua enhancements discussion
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
 * On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
 * Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
 * Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
 * Newest task forces: Athletics task force
 * You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
 * Development
 * Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
 * Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (44876)
 * More work on badges by mlazowik
 * Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
 * Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (49434)
 * Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (55667)
 * Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
 * Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
 * Fix validation of wbsetreference
 * Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #84
<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 · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Geocoordinates on people
 * Instances of human
 * Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
 * Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
 * Wikidata office hour logs are available here
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
 * [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
 * The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
 * Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
 * Newest task forces:
 * Development
 * Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bug 46538)
 * Fixed 49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
 * Worked on Lua improvements including 54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
 * Started making improvements to the loading time of items
 * Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (46217)
 * More work on ranks for statements
 * Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
 * Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
 * Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
 * Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
 * Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
 * Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
 * Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
 * Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
 * Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
 * Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #85
<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 · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
 * Closed: Commons links
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * An interview with Denny Vrandečić
 * WikiCon 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reasonator now supports cities and locations
 * The quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
 * Development
 * Refactored Api output
 * Collect tasks for Google Code In
 * Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
 * Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
 * Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
 * Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
 * Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
 * Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
 * Improved Wikibase Lua code
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Tech News: 2013-45
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class  to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page.

Future
 * The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21.
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar).
 * The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis.
 * The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference).
 * You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for,   and   and similar functions, by writing for example.
 * In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 13:03, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Multimodality concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Multimodality, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

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Wikidata weekly summary #88
<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 · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Guidelines about ordering
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
 * Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
 * Development
 * Made improvements to lower database load
 * Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
 * Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Hey, check my blog
Actually, I'd appreciate your take on User:Lexein/Don't say "violate". --Lexein (talk) 13:58, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #87
<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 · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Tech News: 2013-49
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

New features
 * The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata.
 * JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster.

VisualEditor
 * You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows.
 * You can now open VisualEditor by adding  to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences.
 * Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page.

Problems
 * Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
 * The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasit &#124; c 14:58, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Mr. Decker, if you could spare a moment...
...could you please take a look at this page: []

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.141.208.125 (talk) 22:20, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-50
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used.
 * If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences.

VisualEditor
 * The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert".
 * You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
 * The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula".

Problems
 * There was a problem with the "" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone.
 * The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week.
 * Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
 * You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example)
 * GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17.
 * A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it.

Other
 * You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)