User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2020/July

User:A player of Burnley Football club
I have spotted two more clues on that user page, relating to this player's age difference. There are five players in the current Burnley lineup born in 1989 but what I see in the lead I can narrow it down to three possible players as two of them scored just one goal for them as of 2 July 2020. For this user's safety, I will not name the players. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 11:38, 2 July 2020 (UTC)


 * It took me about 5 minutes to work out who they are, which is why I'm trying to help them as they want to remain anonymous (but are doing a bad job at it). Joseph2302 (talk) 11:46, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I have launched an investigation into the anonymity of the user. With us, we don't know who we are out of Wikipedia life. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 11:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for The Cock sign
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 13,000 views is a new record for me. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:07, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to The Tolhouse‎, 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, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. 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 Joseph2302 (talk) 11:57, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed.

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

Future changes
 * Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more.
 * The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
 * Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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Amendments to EricVerdonk article from 4th July,2020
Hello Joseph, I recently made some edits to your Eric Verdonk profile and received a message from you. I would be happy to find out exactly what I wrote was incorrect? I was a friend and fellow competitor of Eric‘S for 38years. We went away to the world and commonwealth championships in the 1994 New Zealand rowing team together. I feel the information I provided was 100% correct with the exception of a spelling error of the name of Belgium Win Van Belleghem. I would like to help you to improve this article. Please contact me Thanks maraetairower (MaraetaiRower (talk) 07:16, 6 July 2020 (UTC))


 * If you have reliable sources e.g. newspaper articles, books, magazines that support your changes, then please add them. Wikipedia works on verifiability rather than own knowledge of subjects. Joseph<b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b> (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for The Ickabog
—valereee (talk) 00:02, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Dame Vera Lynn
Hi Joseph — thanks for the link; I couldn't remember which news site I'd seen it on. Have updated both the Cems & Crems and the Vera Lynn article accordingly. Cheers, <b style="color: #00BFFF;">Hassocks</b> 5489 (Floreat Hova!) 11:47, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Ralf Bochröder
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Kristin Bochröder
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Astrid Gjertsen
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29
<section begin="technews-2020-W29"/> 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
 * Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks.

Problems
 * Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.

Changes later this week
 * Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background . Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using  on the source page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.

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DYK nomination of Georgia Adams
Hello! Your submission of Georgia Adams 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Harrias talk 09:26, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Joseph Ngolepus
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

"Dragon 1" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Dragon 1. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 20 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 11:29, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30
<section begin="technews-2020-W30"/> 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
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems
 * There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution.
 * Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events.
 * Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a  link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.

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DYK nomination of Pippa Wicks
Hello! Your submission of Pippa Wicks 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! MartinPoulter (talk) 10:49, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Étienne Cerexhe
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31
<section begin="technews-2020-W31"/> 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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this.
 * The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck ' in your local or global preferences in section '. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
 * Octicons-tools.svg On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week.
 * Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed.
 * Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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DYK for Pippa Wicks
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Erik Stark
Hello Joseph2302. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Erik Stark, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Content tagged by earwig is non-copyrightable list of competitions and races. Thank you. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 17:45, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Emma Lamb
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 31 July 2020 (UTC)