User talk:K6ka/Archives/2016/December

May-be you have an idea..
Have you got any idea when rename requests can again be proceeded as usual?The phabricator project, after the 2nd delay, now displays no definite end date. Aru@baska ❯❯❯ Vanguard 15:58, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I don't have any ideas as to when global renames will become available again. I can tell you that global renamers are about as anxious as you are, since we have mountains of requests that need to be processed. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 17:27, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49
 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 choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers.
 * Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message.
 * ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits.

Changes this week
 * You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

 * — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 17:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

 * Well, I guess they're getting two cups of coffee.  —   Gestrid  ( talk ) 18:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50
 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 who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it.
 * You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention.
 * Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour.

Problems
 * Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on December 13 at 20:00 (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.  19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
 * First place – $200
 * Second & Third place – $50 each
 * Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are, , and.

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays text.png Hello K6ka: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers,  Class 455 ( Merry Christmas! ) 17:09, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-12
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

A decision has been made about how the Recent Changes filtering scheme will affect current ORES beta feature users. When this new filtering system rolls out as part of the beta, it will replace the current ORES display on the Recent Changes page. That means the automatic color coding, the red “r” symbol and the “hide probably good edits” filter will go away, to be replaced by the new, more nuanced set of filters and user-defined color coding. All other pages that have ORES features, like Watchlist and Related Changes, will remain as they are now for ORES beta users. We think those pages could also benefit from the new filtering system. But we'll wait to see how users react to the beta test—and make any necessary changes—before we start spreading the new UI around. That's the plan as it currently stands. As always, please let us know if you have any thoughts, in any language.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Translation icon cropped.svg The Filters for Special:RecentChanges description page is now finished and ready for translation.
 * On wikis that use ORES, new colors have been chosen for damaging changes displayed on a list of changes.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Problems
 * Sometimes, after marking an important number of cross-wiki notifications as read, the counter remained at 1. This is now fixed.

Flow [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Due to a bug, it was not possible to activate Flow on user talk pages as a Beta feature. This is possible again for wikis that have that feature.
 * Flow boards can be moved without constraints. However, this requires the move-Flow-board right.

Miscellaneous
 * The MoodBar extension has been removed from all wikis.

Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 10:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Editing Anna Camner page
Hello k6ka! I am trying to save the changes I made to the Anna Camner wiki page. I have added several reliable sources as links to Swedish publications that have reviewed the artist's work, and a link to a private art foundation which has given the artist an award, widely reviewed in Swedish media. I received a comment on my edits from someone here on Wiki, who deleted my changes, saying that my resources are not reliable. What more reliable sources than established Swedish paper and digital publications can I have? Thank you so much in advance for your kind help, Natalia Goldin Lundh Stocksund (talk) 17:05, 19 December 2016 (UTC)stocksund


 * Hi . I haven't taken a look at the sources you have provided in question just yet, but if it helps, the guideline page on how to identify reliable sources can be found here. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 17:12, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51
 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
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
 * The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes
 * Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function  to get formatted data. You can also use   to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.

Problems
 * Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016
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Season's Greetings!
Alex Eng ( TALK ) 05:11, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings!
Happy Holidays text.png Hello K6ka: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --  Dane talk  08:18, 25 December 2016 (UTC)


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Merry Christmas


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Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 10:29, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:35, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!


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Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas5}} to their talk page with a friendly message. 16:34, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
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31.92.98.247
It's pretty clear he's just taking the piss, might want to hit him with a two or three. Assuming good faith is all well and good, but I'm pretty sure he's just playgrounding. Half Shadow  21:15, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

A recent that edit you have made.
Hello, you have recently corrected the change that i have made about 'Tyias Browning', the information that i have entered was strictly truth, i am made aware of this truth as i am a close friend of the subject and witnessed the grasps of religion hold him for some time now, i would ask that you reverse the changes you have made as many fans of football that are also christian may see the story of this man and his struggle and take inspiration. Yours Truly, TySuperfanTySuperFan (talk) 21:51, 31 December 2016 (UTC).


 * Hi TySuperFan. While you may be a close friend of the subject and may know them personally, on Wikipedia there is no way to properly verify this, as it is fairly easy to simply create an account and pretend to be someone (Much like Facebook and Twitter). Because it is easy for someone to do this, we require that all information added to our articles be properly sourced with a citation; claiming to be someone with credentials or claiming to know a subject personally isn't accepted as a source. This is especially important on articles about people who are alive; policy requires that everything added to such articles needs to be cited with a reliable source, and that any additions without a source can be removed right away. Unlike what many people think, Wikipedia isn't at the forefront of information and it only reports on information that has already been published elsewhere. — k6ka  <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 21:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)