User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2019/January

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Happy New Year! Joseph2302, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Portman Dentalcare
Hi, I saw you nominated Portman_Dentalcare for deletion. Thank you! I have also found several hundred similar pages of obscure British health clinics or companies created by the same editor. It seems odd but I am not an experienced enough Wikipedian to know what to do. I did nominate My mhealth as page that doesn't pass WP:GNG. Do you have any suggestions on what we can do? Skirts89 (talk) 21:41, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi They've created hundreds of articles, and I don't have time to go through them all. If you wanted all of them to be mass deleted, this is something that would need an admin to do and have an agreement on. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:55, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of French football bribery scandal
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article French football bribery scandal you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Theodor Langhorne Franklin -- Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 22:01, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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 * By someone else. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:42, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Roberto Tobar
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Arrest of Matthew Hedges
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Emil Paleček
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Tech News: 2019-02
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes
 * RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment.
 * Octicons-tools.svg codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code.
 * Octicons-tools.svg On several wikis, an account named "" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg In AbuseFilter, the "" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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DYK nomination of Stephen Twinoburyo
Hello! Your submission of Stephen Twinoburyo at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SL93 (talk) 03:37, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. WP:CIR, again..... Joseph2302 (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

2nd RfD announce: Wikipedia:DAILYMAIL
There is another redirect discussion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 January 11. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:34, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool.
 * You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
 * Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Templates with   could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new   parameter now. You can use it for selectors like.

Problems
 * When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
 * Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The AbuseFilter variable  has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 <section end="technews-2019-W03"/> 17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04
<section begin="technews-2019-W04"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta.

Recent changes
 * The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category   to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in   on Wikipedias.
 * https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems
 * When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed.
 * MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone.
 * Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You will be able to use template styles in the  namespace.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W04"/> 20:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Jean-Pierre Bernès
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:01, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Marie-Louise Gagneur
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:02, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of French football bribery scandal
The article French football bribery scandal you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:French football bribery scandal for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Theodor Langhorne Franklin -- Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 14:02, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu disappearance
Re your PROD, which was challenged by another editor, it is generally accepted that where a light aircraft crashes and a wikinotable person is killed, then that accident can sustain a stand-alone article, such as the Haughey Air AgustaWestland AW139 crash and Graham Hill plane crash. If you still contest that the article should exist, then WP:AFD is your next step. A nomination there is highly unlikely to succeed IMvHO. Mjroots (talk) 21:23, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi thanks for the explanation on the article talk page as well. I've been on holiday, so missed this post until now. Whilst I think that a plane crash involving a notable person isn't inherently notable, the examples given suggest that an AfD would be pointless. <b style="color:#CCCC00">Joseph</b><b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b> (talk) 23:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05
<section begin="technews-2019-W05"/> 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 Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems
 * When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W05"/> 18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Børge Ring
Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 29 January 2019 (UTC)