User talk:Joe Decker/Archive 14

Wikidata weekly summary #91
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.
 * Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved.  This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation.  Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings).  If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control or Command  (Mac).
 * Auto-numbered external links like can now be edited just like any other link.  However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
 * Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here.  The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified.  If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
 * There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters.  Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
 * Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
 * It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally.  To do so, append  to the end of the page name.  For example, change   to   to open a random page in VisualEditor.  This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Potential bot task
Hello again! Please see Bots/Requests for approval/TFA Protector Bot 2. (Another page, Picture of the day/Tomorrow, is in need of daily purging.) Thanks! —David Levy 04:59, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #89
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
 * Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
 * RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
 * Development
 * Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
 * Improved and added a lot of tests
 * Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
 * No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
 * Caching and database improvements
 * Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
 * More work on quantities UI
 * 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.

Tech News: 2013-51
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
 * You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences.
 * There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites.
 * You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login.
 * If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=585965732 change the JavaScript code].
 * You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript.
 * All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org.
 * You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles.
 * You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS.
 * Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a [//translatewiki.net new main page] for users without an account.

Future software changes

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
 * When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed.
 * New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account..
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden.
 * You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool.

Wikidata weekly summary #90
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over handling of items
 * RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
 * Closed: Inactive administrators
 * Closed: Bot policy
 * Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
 * Open RfA: GerardM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: chromosome, produces
 * Development
 * Redesign and improvement of bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
 * Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
 * Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
 * Some progress on redirects
 * Tests, tests, tests
 * Vacations \o/
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

Tech News: 2014-01
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6421] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101252/]
 * With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis.

VisualEditor news
 * Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5  elements. Comments are welcome. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53436]
 * You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see [//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?mobileaction=alpha this article] as an example.

Problems
 * On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58888]

Future software changes
 * CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
 * AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29583] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92053/]
 * It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54404] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85436/]
 * It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23653] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103216/]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-02
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
 * The [//etherpad-old.wikimedia.org old note-taking site] (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on [//etherpad.wikimedia.org the new site]. [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073755.html]

Problems
 * On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
 * On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6.
 * Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options.
 * Plural form rules for some languages [//translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Portal_talk:Ru/Plural_changes_in_many_languages will be changed]. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56931] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105148/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104795/]
 * You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35485] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65162/]
 * You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19233] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104395/]
 * You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt +1 and similar key groups. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103072/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104934/]
 * E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their  line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the   page. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32770]
 * Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56695] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95282/]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/evil cockatrice


Hello Joe Decker. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "evil cockatrice".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the  or  code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code:, paste it in the edit box at this link , click "Save", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  T K K ! bark with me! 11:31, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: Randy Gage
Hi, Could you take a look at the new draft for Randy Gage, here—User:Johnmoor/Randy Gage draft, please? Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 18:37, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Article about Kristen DiAngelo
Hi Joe, I've tried submitting the article again and this time there are links to more verifiable press. ie links to SF gate (which is the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle - they did a feature story on her), as well as a link to the Sacramento News and Review. She has also been on News 10 (CBS), in Sacramento thru the Bay Area with clips of her testimony to the Victims Compensation Board, the day they changed the regulation that she and others were fighting for. A big win for those in the industry. I can write more about that if you like as it did hit national news, kristen's being the closing testimony. You can find the news footage on the net. If this is not enough, I have just heard that NPR is getting ready to interview her about the industry and what is going on. Will a NPR story count? Thanks for all your help Joe. I know this is controversial, but times are changing and many are starting to look at this as an equal rights fight. She and the others who testified last month were backed by the ACLU. So let me know if we are getting any closer. Thanks so much, James — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjohnson jj77 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #92
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 09:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
 * Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
 * Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
 * A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
 * Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
 * Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
 * Development
 * Adrian Lang joins the team
 * Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
 * Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (49079)
 * No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (58422)
 * More performance improvement work
 * Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
 * Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
 * Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (47070)
 * Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
 * Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
 * Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
 * Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
 * Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Yo Ho Ho


 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages.


 * THanks! :)  --j⚛e deckertalk 22:55, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Unsourced BL
Hi Joe. I notice you  haven't  edited for a while, maybe you're busy  so  there's no  urgency  about  this. I recently discovered that  there are 860 totally  unsourced BLPs. I started to  check  out a few at  random and found them  to  be prior BLPROD so  I  PRODed them after searching  for sources. Then I remembered the drive you  spearheaded some time back  to  clean up  backlogs of unsourced BLPs. IMO, 860 unsourced BLP are 860 too many, and most  of what  I  saw would probably not  survive an AfD either. Perhaps it's time to initiate another drive just  to  keep  the content  of the cat  down. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:39, 13 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi! Sorry I've been so absent, a couple back-to-back artist residencies have left me travelling quite a bit since last fall.
 * I do it'd be great to start an effort like that. I'm hoping to be back in the US by 2 Feb, and hopefully past jet lag and this and that within a few days afterward.  --j⚛e deckertalk 22:59, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Nice to see you back online Joe!, perhaps it's time to revive Unreferenced BLP Rescue?--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:05, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Great to hear from you as well!   Between Antarctica last year and the current month in Iceland, I am *so* ready to be home where it's warm and I have a little more free time.  :)   --j⚛e deckertalk 23:07, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #94
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
 * FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
 * Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
 * Showcase items: Cactaceae
 * Development
 * Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
 * 60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
 * 58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
 * 50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
 * 57213 API now reveals data type ids
 * 57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
 * 55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
 * Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
 * Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
 * Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-05
<section begin="technews-2014-W05"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes


 * Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video.
 * The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/55550]
 * The  page will be removed because it's too slow. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107988]
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems
 * On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56433]
 * For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes
 * You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2014-W05"/> 09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Some good edits, some bad. It still needs more protection time. --George Ho (talk) 07:59, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

(from the talk page of Persecution...) Changing the title to Persecution of the LGBT community in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust Would recognise in the title that which is recognised in the body text that bisexuals were also persecuted, Whilst the wider transgender community being more visible were the intial targets For example the most of used record of Nazi book burning is actually Hirschfelds Libary being burnt and in the process a signicant loss of transgender history.

It is important to recognise that where we see diffreneces betweeen the LGBT communities in other times their wasn't this seperation being all lumped together. So what was then called "congenital invert" and now called Sexual inversion is part of the history of homosexuals, bisexuals hermaphrodites intersex and transgender

It would also good if a bilateral link to the Action T4 programme was created. Since their are strong links in racial science to sexology, the idea the "congenital invert" now called Sexual inversion were mentaly ill or "physical disabled" and thus needed Compulsory sterilization. The LGBT community were one of the first groups sent to concentration camps, but were also included in the Action T4 programme. This then acted as stepping stone to the use of the tools of Action T4 being applied to the Jews since racial science belived that Jews were intrinsically more hermaphrodite with Jewish men being feminine whilst Jewish women were masculine since the strong man/weak woman idea was challenged by Strong Jewish women and more interlectual i.e. soft Jewish men

I would do it but all by books are currently packed away and it is important that it is correctly cited X-mass (talk) 10:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #95
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
 * Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities released on Wikidata!
 * Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms, flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
 * Development
 * Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
 * Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
 * Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
 * Moved Diff repo to Github
 * Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
 * Refactoring of the ValueView extension
 * MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
 * Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
 * Fixed wbmergeitems issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-06
<section begin="technews-2014-W06"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
 * Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all [//noc.wikimedia.org/conf/small.dblist small wikis]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60408] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109435/]
 * The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58297] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103494/]
 * You can now link to diffs using  and similar links. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63395/]
 * There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52813]
 * Searching in the  namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110191/]
 * All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45036]

VisualEditor news
 * You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border:1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">Ctrl +<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">/ inside VisualEditor. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107153/]

Future software changes
 * Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60373] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18598] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/18229/]
 * For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (, , etc.). [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94716/]
 * It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&x=D&group=ext-gettingstarted&suppressempty=1&language= Translatewiki.net].
 * You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106320/]
 * You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60087] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107993/]
 * It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/87311/]
 * You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/97998/]

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Unprotection request
Hi there! About three years ago, u indefinitely semi-protected the Tyson Apostol article due to IP vandalism. I was thinking, since this doesn't seem to be a high-importance article, is it possible u could remove the protection and give it another chance? Thanks for your time! Survivorfan1995 (talk) 05:43, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- That went to indef. semi after having been part of the original pending changes trial, and I think it's quite possible that the article won't be trouble going forward.  I see you've done some editing there, do let me or another admin know if the article attracts a problematic types of or levels of vandalism, particularly BLP stuff.  Thanks!  --j⚛e deckertalk 05:49, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Welcome back!
How does it feel to be, you know, warm again? The backlogs are just as long as before you left...time to get to work! :) Cheers, --<b style="color:Navy;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:Navy;">bons mots 16:59, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks!  It's nice to be not only warm, but to not have to spend fifteen minutes getting dressed, or to worry about near-hurricane force winds.  I'm so sticking around home the next few months, sorting through and printing work.  Now, right, how do I delete the main page again?  --j⚛e deckertalk 18:36, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds very relaxing and deserved. I recently spent a few hours here. Highly recommended! --<b style="color:Navy;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:Navy;">bons mots 19:10, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That looks amazing! --j⚛e deckertalk 05:09, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Timothy C. Draper
THANK YOU for your action on the Timothy C. Draper article. As it was before I tried to do some editing on it, it read like a viral marketing piece. I had to laugh though at the article. In it Draper takes credit for inventing "Viral Marketing", even though MCI used viral marketing ten years before he invented it. And there were all those accolades and titles, repeated and repeated. Anyway, thank you. Sjkoblentz (talk) 01:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem. It was likely simply cut-and-pasted from a previous corporate bio, which is fine for that sort of thing, but not really appropriate for a biography here. To be fair, we don't make that very clear to folks, and we were even worse about that in '07. --j⚛e deckertalk 01:53, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Vikas Bhalla
Hi! The subject article was deleted as BLPPROD on 21st Feb and was today recreated by User:Babitaarora. The user has also done a good job of providing many RS about the subject in the article itself. Can you please check if the old article is worth restoring back; looking at the history as well as the content of it? The article seems to have not been transcluded at the WikiProject India/Article alerts. Or else i would have de-PRODed it. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 09:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I've restored the old versions, they're in the history now. I don't know if you'll find the content there helpful, but you're welcome to take a look.   Thanks!  --j⚛e deckertalk 14:11, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. Sometimes its easier to look for RS about "claimed" info than hunting for info from scratch. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 14:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * My pleasure! There's also an ESWIKI article on him that I've restored the link to, I don't think it has much that isn't already in the article, but maybe you'll see something.  --j⚛e deckertalk 14:53, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Coyote
Hi Joe, I was just browsing the coyote entry, and this sentence under reproduction obviously should say coyotes, not wolves "Coyotes also practice alloparental care, in which a wolf pair adopts the pup or pups of another pair"

Of course I would do the edit myself, but I've mostly done anon edits, so I am not able to. Since you've locked it, you might want to fix that sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kristal9 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Done! If I'm not around, a note on the talk page there will often do it as well, you can use request edit to attract attention to the request.  You've been here a while, from what I see, make another dozen good edits or so and you should be able to edit that article directly.  Sorry for the trouble!  --j⚛e deckertalk 05:25, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Flax weevil
Hi Joe, Thanks for your work and advice. Please, as you advised could you change the page to 'Flax weevil'. Markanderson72 (talk) 10:04, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅  My pleasure, and thanks for contributing to the encyclopedia!  Let me know if I can ever be of assistance.  Cheers, --j⚛e deckertalk 15:55, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Juan Antonio Fernández Cristiano


Hello Joe Decker. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Juan Antonio Fernández Cristiano".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the  or  code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code:, paste it in the edit box at this link , click "Save page", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Hasteur (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but not mine. I simply fixed the comment error that was hiding the text of the draft.  --j⚛e deckertalk 16:31, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Tommie Shelby
You thanking me got me to take another look at this as I was never 100% happy with it, but now I am. On a second look I think I may have read too much into that statement on the source, because although the book itself is taken from wikipedia it was less clear the description was. However this edit makes it clear the text evolved here so I now no longer have any nagging uncertainty. Dpmuk (talk) 23:17, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I really hadn't checked for the reverse copying as much as I should have, thanks for doing the real legwork! --j⚛e deckertalk 00:31, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

John McCarthy
Thanks for the feedback on my article! I updated my citations, eliminating IMDb and NNDB and substituting more reliable sources. Thanks again! Chancewriter (talk) 21:55, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, thank you for your contributions! --j⚛e deckertalk 00:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Charles Jaco
Hi. You made an edit with a summary saying that you were removing poorly sourced claims, but it doesn't look like your edit changed anything. —Largo Plazo (talk) 20:28, 14 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, that's interesting. I was attempting to remove the information that GabrielF had removed in the previous edit.  I probably pulled up the version previous to GabrielF's edit, after Solarlive's edit, and made the correction from there.  That was not very skillful of me, but the result is correct in any case.   --j⚛e deckertalk 22:32, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

@Joe Decker Can you please explain in rational terms how a journalist standing in front of a blue screen pretending to be in Saudi Arabia when he clearly is NOT, is somehow "poorly sourced"? You are not allowed to have your own facts, Joe Decker...Solarlive (talk) 20:16, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes.  First, it's a video, and we don't know the provenence.  Photoshop.
 * Second, do you think there are no blue screens in Saudi Arabia?
 * That's not the big issue, though. The text didn't just say "blue screen", the text said that CNN lied about it (or implied it), and had a pattern of doing so.  Establishing the former would require at least some hint of CNN suggesting otherwise, and because of our strict WP:NOR policy, might require a reliable third party source actually talking about it as a "lie"/"falsfication".  (The word you used appears to have been "faked".) The claim about a pattern, well, that's entirely unproven by the source, it's editorialzing.
 * With regard to this, I urge you to ask for a third opinion at WP:RSN.
 * Your editing record suggests that you are here with an WP:AGENDA, and you might be surprised to find that I'm sympathetic to a portion of it. But I've also been here for many years, I'm quite familiar with the policies involved, and you've continuingly been over the line. Your assertions that particular public figures are "psychopaths" without citation, for example, in most cases would have been an excuse for me to block you without warning. You are way past the line of behavior that will allow you to continue editing here, and I'd recommend you pull back, take a deep breath, and review the policies I and other editors have linked for your repeatedly over the past months. You would do more good for your cause if you would learn to work within Wikipedia policies. --j⚛e deckertalk 20:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

@Joe It's not just one video, this has been widely discussed and examined. They show an American staff and they are clearly in a TV studio. Even if the set was located in Saudi Arabia, the obvious question would be why use a blue screen at all. I don't have any agenda except bringing the truth to the people. If Wikipedia takes an overly conservative approach, then that's not a feature, it's a bug to be fixed. Same as when editors are too lazy to determine whether a source is credible or a fact is established. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solarlive (talk • contribs) 00:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC)


 * THis has been widely discussed, but I don't see where it has been discussed on sources that meet Wikipedia's reliable sources policy. But please, *please* go and prove me wrong, by, as I have previously asked you, presenting the best evidence you have for the statement at WP:RSN.  I'd would be delighted to be proven wrong there, but I think they're going to laugh you out of the place if you pull out Alex Jones as a source about what is and isn't true.
 * It is tempting to continue sparring with you about whether or not the primary mission of Wikipedia is a bug or a feature, but we're never going to change what Wikipedia is, and is not, here, and I'm not really interested in wasting my time trying.  If I didn't believe strongly in Wikipedia's core missions, I would not put so much effort here as I have over the past nine years. I doubt I would have done so if Wikipedia had been more open to weaker evidence, but if that's what you're looking for, might I suggest Wikia?  --j⚛e deckertalk 15:19, 16 March 2014 (UTC)


 * The primary mission as you call it of Wikipedia should not be to obfuscate the truth and promote official dogma by labeling every idea that the establishment doesn't like as "fringe". I don't see anything in your or Gabriel's claims that is any more enlightened or courageous or intelligent than the abuse and nonsense thrown at Galileo by the Vatican. You have your official truth supported by Argument from authority illogic and everything else is "conspiracy theories" that are automatically suspect. Solarlive (talk) 00:58, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Regarding Nigel Sylvester's Biography
--ItIsTheRealist (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC) Hope I am leaving a response correctly. New to this coding/wiki editing, I apologize if this doesn't look correct. I work directly for/with Nigel, and he recommended I use that for his Bio. Would I have to have G-Shock okay it?


 * In part, yes.  The process and a fuller explanation of it is Donating copyrighted materials.  Since anything added to Wikipedia is licensed in such a way that anyone in the future will be able to use it for any purposes whatsoever, you'd need to contact our volunteer response team as it describes in the article I just linked and show you're entitled to license away that material.  You may want to consider whether that's a good idea, though, not only because of the issue that it woudl allow other entities beside Wikipedia to use it.
 * The other issue is that it's likely that you'll get some pushback, even if copyright is dealt with, on that text. Wikipedia has a bunch of policies about trying to keep articles to a neutral point of view, and it's generally difficult to write about youself or your company neutrally. Very rarely would an "about us" essay be that neutral.  You may find some more guidance on the neutrality issue, and some of the other standard issues that come up when people are writing about their organization, at FAQ/Organizations.  I hope that's helpful!  --j⚛e deckertalk 22:21, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

--ItIsTheRealist (talk) 22:38, 18 March 2014 (UTC) Okay cool, I will deff look into that. I appreciate it. Maybe, it would be just easier to write something original and not already copy-written from an endorsement he has?


 * That's what I usually recommend, yeah. :)   Thanks for understanding!  --j⚛e deckertalk 03:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

AFC U-14 Championship
Hello, I notice that you had already delete the page of AFC U-14 Championship, I understand your action. However, this tournament had already set up by AFC, please see this web link. (AFC U-14 C'ship 2014: Group stage opponents known, website: http://www.the-afc.com/en/tournaments/men/afc-u14-championship.html) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Younis7435 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The issue identified by editors participating in that discussion was that the article did not meet our general notability guideline, which is a pretty key policy around here. The issue isn't whether the participants have been chosen, the issue is the presence, or in this case absense, of arm's length news coverage of the event.  It is more likely that that coverage will exist once the championship has begun, and the article can be recreated once that sort of coverage exists. --j⚛e deckertalk 03:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Articles for creation/Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks
Joe, Thanks for the feedback. I have made some additional changes and added external references. Let me know if that addresses the guideline on notability. The article is still in the sandbox section. Jean-Francois — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jflabourdette (talk • contribs) 12:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * With respect to notabiliy: The article is putatively about the book, so I look for things like reviews to demonstrate the book is notable enough to get good coverage. The review in IEEE Communications is undoubtably strong, the second review is from a source I'm less familiar with, but, I'd judge that the article right now would have a better than 50% chance of surviving a deletion discussion at AfD if it were nominated.  If you were going to try and add sources, they'd be reviews.
 * This page: Notability (books) goes more into how notability is treated for book subjects.
 * I can imagine you'll get a little pushback around the use of press releases as sources, I'd recommend trying to limit that, and content sourced only to that, because it will affect how editors percieve the neutrality of the article.
 * At this point, in your shoes, I'd probably make that change and resubmit, and see what the next reviewer says. You've definitely made some progress, thank you for your contributions. --j⚛e deckertalk 04:55, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Shabaka
Hi Joe,

Regarding the AFC you just declined, you said There might be, for example, substantial coverage of the new top level domain... - there is. We have an article for it at Shabaka (domain name), which I created a while back. Sarasin is determined to change the transliteration into Latin script from Arabic to his preferred version, "shabka", which happens to be the spelling of his family name in English. Unfortunately for that preference, the registry in question has chosen to transliterate it as "shabaka", and that's how all the RSs in English likewise transliterate it.

If you look at his talk page, you'll see that I've repeatedly tried to explain to him that we're bound by our sourcing requirements (there are no sources that indicate a "correct" transliteration, let alone that contradict the registry's choice), and that we're not a dictionary; and particularly that we're under no obligation to reflect his personal theory on their motivation for choosing that particular transliteration. He's chosen to completely ignore all of that that and just engage in a slow-motion edit war for over a week. His AFC was an attempt to circumvent the existing article in order to push his opinion.

I rarely encounter determined edit warriors, so I'm not entirely sure how to proceed with this; I'd welcome your thoughts on the matter. —  Scott  •  talk  23:38, 17 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi! Often I'd suggest pointing the other editor at WP:TRUTH, but having looked through this so far I don't think that will get through the objection, the fellow seems offended by the verifiable transliteration of the domain. What might work, is asking that editor to honor the requested move process.  Since there's a dispute about the correct name of the article, we'd normally do a requested move discussion, and there, other editors could weigh in based on the evidence over the following week or so, and that would help take this from a 1-on-1 situation to a place where Wikipedia consensus was more obvious to that editor.  If you like, I can suggest to the other editor they start that requested move, and/or offer to help them place the correct template.  --j⚛e deckertalk 02:42, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * That would be great - thank you! —  Scott  •  talk  09:34, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I started with a note on the editor's talk page, I don't know if he'll notice, and have offered to help them place the template if they wish, we'll see what happens. Let me know if there's new activity on this, I'll watchlist everything, but it's possible I'll miss it, I have a pretty deep watchlist at this point.  ;-)   Thanks!    --j⚛e deckertalk 16:57, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Joe, I would like to open a discussion about this and would appreciate your help in doing this as it's somehting I am not familiar with. I am not sure what Scott's motive are and why he insists on using the incorrect transliteration but it is incorrect. shabka is a word and a name that has been in existance for a very, very long time and a simple search on google shows the correct way to write it in English and the relevant meaning this is in keeping with wikipedia's rules on transliteration and I listed numerous sources attesting to this. shabaka is simply a regional Gulf mispronunciation - hence a shabaka google search only returning the pharoah. My AFC is meant to be a complete article and covers the TLD as well. The sources of the other article all stem from one specific company dotshabakaregistry speaking to different reporters which doesn't make it correct. Any help much appreciated Sarasin (talk) 17:22, 18 March 2014 (UTC)Nabil


 * Sarasin, I'll start the discussion. Wikipedia produces articles based on what we find in published, reliable sources, and the discussion will and should be focused on that.  WP:V is a primary policy around here.  That can be a very frustrating thing when we know "the truth" to be different, but it is how we work around here.  From what I can see, Scott's motivation is entirely in line with that policy, so if you could, please try and assume that editors here are working in good faith, they almost always are.  Thanks!   --j⚛e deckertalk 18:18, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Joe, Thanks for starting that and I will, time permitting, get something up in the next few days. re Scott and Wikipedia's polices, I am a strong advocate and believer of what wikipedia stands for and do feel that the utmost care is taken in any information that is put up and that the editors and administrators do their best to ensure accuracy and behave in good faith - I have never doubted it. Of course there will be debates about things, impossible not to have them, but they can be dealt with civilly.

Re Scott, while I have no idea as to what Scott’s motivation is or why he has chosen to venture into an area that he does not normally cover and has no expertise in, his initial message to me below put me on my back foot and was certainly not in keeping with wikipedia’s ethos of of welcoming Wikipedia novices:

To quote Scott - "The operators of Shabka (domain name), the dotShabaka Registry, have chosen to transliterate it that way. Please do not keep adding your personal and unreferenced opinion to the article. I know why you're doing it, incidentally."

I felt that he was on the one hand accusing me of subterfuge (my name is shabka, that is clear and in the open – it’s kind of hard to hide with a name like shabka) while being strangely defensive of this dotshabaka company. All I was trying to do was correct a spelling mistake!

Anyway, I will add to the article and the discussion so that this can be resolved properly. Sarasin (talk) 20:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)Nabil Shabka

Okay, I've started the discussion procedure, please indicate your opinions and evidence on the article's talk page. Thanks! --j⚛e deckertalk 18:24, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief Form
Hi,

Would it be possible to change the title from "Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief Form" to "SPAI-B: Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief Form"?

Thanks, PsicoFS (talk) 16:41, 16 March 2014 (UTC)


 * It's technically possible, but not really in line with our article title policy. Where there are two forms of a name,  we don't put them together, but generally use a Help:Redirect to get readers from one possible search query to the right article.  I've fixed SPAI-B to point to the current title.   Can you tell me more about what you're hoping to accomplish with the longer title?  Perhaps I can find a different way to help?  --j⚛e deckertalk 19:38, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Joe, As many readers may be looking for SPAI-B, I thought it could be benefitial to add the word "SPAI-B" to the title. For instance: SPAI-B: Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief form. Does it make sense? PsicoFS (talk) 10:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I understand your concern, but it turns out it won't make much difference, and we really do have our article title policies for a reason--we handle these things with redirects. In terms of Wikipedia search, SPAI-B already takes a reader directly to the article (that's what the redirect does), and while it's still a very new article, Google already has the Wikipedia article at position 4 when SPAI-B is searched on. In my experience, that will only improve.  We don't prioritize SEO in our policies, instead, we prioritize doing the right thing for our encyclopedia, and it turns out the search engines do just fine with that.
 * Thanks again for contributing to the encyclopedia, and again, it sure looks like we could use an article on the SPAI as well... *nudge, nudge* ;-)

--j⚛e deckertalk 14:57, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Backlogger Award

 * Aww, thanks! --j⚛e deckertalk 18:43, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Stroopwafels are a good brunch food, right?

 * NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM! Thanks so much!  --j⚛e deckertalk 15:45, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

You've got mail!
 Ron h jones  (Talk) 20:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks! --j⚛e deckertalk 07:35, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

JSTOR Survey (and an update)
Hi! Just a quick update that while JSTOR and The Wikipedia Library discuss expanding the partnership, they've gone ahead and extended the pilot access again, until May 31st. Thanks, JSTOR!

It would be really helpful for growing the program if you would fill out this short survey about your usage and experience with JSTOR:

SURVEY

Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:47, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ --j⚛e deckertalk 03:15, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Brendan Eich
Thank you for your comment on the Talk page for Brendan Eich. I am concerned that one editor seems to be risking an edit war for political reasons, and if you have time I would appreciate any further attention you might spare.TVC 15 (talk) 01:47, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll try and participate, my work has been fairly intrusive this week, but I'll give it a shot. --j⚛e deckertalk 02:39, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Nice work, you fixed 70% of the outstanding issues I have with the article.. And I note with a bit of irony that TVC 15 is concerned about people editing this article with a political agenda. A lot of the agenda oriented edits are now in the dustbin. Thanks again. I'll work on JavaScript when I get some time. Two kinds of pork (talk) 02:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Kent Pavelka
Joe, Please understand that I'm doing the best I can navigating. I'm not certain if this is your "talk" page or not. At any rate, I need help knowing what to do to "improve" the page that has been "restored". Do I need to add links that backup what I"ve written? If so, how do I do that? k.p.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kentpavelka (talk • contribs) 00:39, 17 April 2014 (UTC)


 * First, let me just say "yes", this is a heck of a challenging place to navigate at first--decentralized processes, hundreds of policies, and so on. I'm just a volunteer here; I found it pretty boggling as well when I started.
 * The policy under which your article was deleted doesn't require much to resolve, pretty much, you need to add a reference or two to reliable sources independent from yourself--generally newspapers, magazines, or books that talk about you in detail. I don't think there will be much trouble finding any, but formatting them can be tricky, you might start with  Referencing for beginners as a starting point.  Mostly you're going to put the "reference" (information about the source) between a &lt;ref&gt; and a &lt;/ref&gt; at the end of a sentence that is backed by the relevant source, and they will magically appear where I just added a References section at the bottom of that article.
 * However, there are several reasons that an article *can* be deleted beyond the one this one was deleted for, and I see at least one more that is going to present an issue. As it stands, the article was likely copied (no insult intended) from your professional biography.  It is easy to pick sections of the text in the article, Google them, and see where they've been published in copyrighted sources. .  That's kind of a problem for us, and for the copyright holder if any, you see at the bottom of the page when you make an edit that "By clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL with the understanding that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient for CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution."  In other words, you're giving up nearly any right over how the text is used.  It's also ... well, not particularly right from a tone point of view.  It was written to be lively and to put you in the best light, and as well it should. But Wikipedia strives for an encyclopedic, neutral tone.
 * The tone isn't going to cause the article to be deleted, but we can't ignore the copyright issues, the text of the article will need to be rewritten to not use borrowed content. (There is a process for donating works, but in the end, the tonal issues will require some level of rewrite in any case.)
 * Anyway, sorry, I've put a lot on your plate, why don't you take a look and see if you can address some of this, and I'll try and look back in the next day or two and I can perhaps give more guidance. If you think you've addressed all the issues, click on the "Submit your draft for review! " button on the top of the page, and within a few days (it varies a lot, often a couple days but occasionally as long as two weeks) someone will get back to you about reviewing the article and seeing if it's ready.  I'd just like to help you get it in shape before then so you don't have to go through that wait multiple times!
 * Thanks for your patience with all of this. Best regards, --j⚛e deckertalk 02:08, 17 April 2014 (UTC)