User talk:Josve05a/Archives/2014/August

Reply re: your message about Draft:Tralian
Hi, for work-related reasons I don't plan to be doing any major Wikipedia editing or AfC reviewing for a month or two. I would suggest stopping by WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk for assistance. Cheers --LukeSurlt c 09:49, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

City of Durham by-election, 1874
I've put the City of Durham by-election, 1874 article that we have both been doing work on up for deletion. JASpencer (talk) 21:40, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I think you ment Durham City by-election, January 1871, and all I did was tag it as un-referenced. Butt thanks for telling me. (t) Josve05a  (c) 22:04, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yep, sorry. JASpencer (talk) 22:05, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

You are a wimp and a slacker
Egads, there is no such thing as a wikibreak. Real editors work every single day. Wimp. except when one's wife says not to... squeak Bgwhite (talk) 07:58, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Some people are smart enough to not get a female companion! Currently I'm at Stockholm Pride! Later I will be at a camp for 4 nights! Have fun! (t) Josve05a  (c) 08:16, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Who are you calling a slacker? Check out my contibs on Commons! (t) Josve05a  (c) 16:16, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You do have a semi-point about not getting a female companion. Our family loves our gay family member's husbands better than any of the Uncles. But we also love our lesbian family member's wives better than any of the aunts.  I guess the solution is to just get a dog.  Commons doesn't count.  Wikipedia is where the real work takes place. Bgwhite (talk) 22:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

sandbox-huggle
Hi Josve05a! One of the tasks that my bot does is to change article categories on user pages to links per WP:USERNOCAT. While reviewing those pages that weren't changed, I noticed that User:Josve05a/sandbox-huggle is included in Category:Sweden. Could you please update the page so that your user sandbox page is not part of the article category? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:21, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33
 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 VisualEditor news
 * Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar).
 * Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one.
 * Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14.

Future software changes
 * Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser!
 * If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning.
 * You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension.
 * An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion).

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June 2014 AFC backlog drive awards.
Greetings! Since you are the one who took charge of awards distribution for the drive, I'll bring this here. Don't hesitate to inform me if there are any issues; thanks in advance! :) There was an old person of Rimini... (talk) 17:49, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry if there has been any mistakes or problems...I'll take a look at this tonight/tomorrow! Okey? (t) Josve05a  (c) 16:13, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright then. Thanks in advance! There was an old person of Rimini... (talk) 17:06, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #121
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:57, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
 * Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
 * Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
 * Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
 * First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
 * Userboxes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
 * Development
 * Attended Wikimania and Socrates
 * Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
 * Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #122
Wikidata weekly summary #114

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 13:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
 * Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
 * New task forces: WikiProject Movies
 * Development
 * Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
 * Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
 * Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
 * We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
 * Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
 * Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here

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Tech News: 2014-34
 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 (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
 * There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Superprotect_rights]
 * You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page.
 * You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools.
 * You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata
 * After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews.
 * After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote.

Problems
 * There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed.

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help with reelkandi page
i am supposed to be writing a page for a company called reelkandi (i am a freelance writer).

I previously submitted a very brief page on reelkandi and it seemed to be declined. i cant who or where to find that person, or what was the issue, but safe to say i need help on this editorial, can you help me write it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgscanlon2099 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Request on 04:51:25, 23 August 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Spark121212
Please delete this page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spark121212/sandbox I couldn't do it myself. I was just trying out something in my sandbox and it got created. Thanks!

Spark (talk) 04:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Request on 15:13:33, 23 August 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Mmmitler
I have responded to the deficiencies in my article that were mentioned by Josve05a. I can provide many more verifiable sources if needed. But, for the length of the article, the ones I provided seem sufficient. Also, if the article is acceptable, I would like to add a photo. Please advise.

Thank you.

Mmmitler (talk) 15:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Mmmitler (talk) 15:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Exeter Chiefs logo.png
 Thanks for uploading File:Exeter Chiefs logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Malpass93! (what I've been up to/drop me a ___) 12:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #123
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
 * "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
 * It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
 * Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
 * Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
 * Development
 * Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
 * Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
 * More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-35
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VisualEditor news
 * There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed.
 * You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages.
 * If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor.

Future software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
 * After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page.

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June AFC drive closure.
Greetings again, Josve05a. I understand if other obligations prevented this from happening sooner, but I must request again that you, as the awards distributor for the June drive, at least skim through my submissions. The fact that I've not been given closure on this subject is one of a number of WP-related problems that have put a great strain on me these past several weeks. If you do not think my reviews were sufficient for one of the awards, although I will be disappointed, I will accept that. I just want a definite answer so I can at least put this behind me at last. I can't take much more of this strain. When they said, &#39;Please be still&#39;... (talk) 23:48, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I . I don't know why you never signed up. I see this issue was brought up awhile ago. I can only assume that since this WikiProject doesn't have a coordinator no one feels any responsibility to fix problems like yours. I took the liberty of reviewing some of your reviews. I failed two. If another AfC reviewer agrees with me on either one you'd be down two points, which makes you ineligible for the brownie for which you're asking. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 01:05, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, I am being bold (and since I was the co-ordinator for the drive), I am delivering the rest of the barnstars the the rest, according on thow the leaderboard is right now. Which means that will get (has gotten a brownie).


 * I don't think we should redact point with re-reviews 2 months after the drive. Otherwise I will start re-review some from the Dec-Jan drive . Happy editing! (t) Josve05a  (c) 01:12, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Josve05a/sandbox5


Hello Josve05a. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "sandbox5".

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. Rankersbo (talk) 12:14, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Lena Nyadbi
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  14:19, 29 August 2014 (UTC) 00:03, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:


 * , a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
 * 1) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
 * 2) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
 * 3) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
 * 4) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
 * 5) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
 * , the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
 * , the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. ,, , , , and  have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)