User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2018/February

Simon Shelton
Joseph,

I updated my late brothers wiki page this afternoon and you then removed my changes.

As I am his brother I know his date of birth and date of his passing, so please do not revert it back to the incorrect info.

Regards

Adrian Barnes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:C214:9C00:4D87:7EEE:62F8:789B (talk) 21:43, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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Mauro Boerchio
The draft you reviewed, Mauro Boerchio, has played in the Serie C which is a fully professional league these meets the criteria. See his Soccerway Profile. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 21:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * My mistake. Accepted it now. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:09, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Muirhead (curler)
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Tech News: 2018-08
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
 * You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table.

Problems
 * Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed.
 * Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like   are not visible in the references list whilst editing.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

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DYK for Mica McNeill
— Maile (talk) 00:04, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Mica Moore
— Maile (talk) 00:04, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Dom Parsons
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

hmm
Have you edited Wikipedia? Victuallers (talk) 16:37, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * tpw, to put this comment into context, I believe is referring to two things: 1) WP:NOTNEWS #2, Wikipedia is also not written in news style, and 2) Mica McNeill has already finished competing in her event. Alex Shih (talk) 17:03, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * She hadn't finished her event when the change was made, there were still 2 runs to go. Competed in past tense makes no sense. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:57, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I get it. Present tense made it more urgent and newsy, but your claim that the past tense "makes no sense" is a bit of an exaggeration. You are a Wikipedia editor and you have edited Wikipedia and that makes sense to me. The past sense of competed makes absolute sense, even if she is/was still competing. Still I can over this as she's now finished 8th I believe. Well done for maintaining her biog. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 21:21, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Well at least I bother to write Wikipedia articles rather than just complaining about other people. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:46, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09
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 * Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
 * Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
 * Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.

Changes later this week
 * Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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