User talk:Keith D/Archive 51

Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
Hoping that you are able to do one of your great checks for this page. Thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.189.56.6 (talk) 05:48, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family and Roger Lupton
Hi again. We have made several edits to these 2 pages. Can you lease check the latest edits on both? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.189.56.6 (talk) 11:34, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Roger Lupton
Sorry about my misunderstanding of the "or" on the Lupton family page. Can you check the same crest information for the above page too. Thanks - you are very clever! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 22:39, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * OK I have fixed it - I did listen when we did some basic heraldry in junior school. Keith D (talk) 22:41, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes this week
 * Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 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 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0.

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Season's Greetings
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:05, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52
 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 11 January 2016.
 * 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 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes
 * CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
 * The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week
 * There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
 * No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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Bradford Interchange
Keith; Hello, I hope you are ok. Quick question (I hope) - Bradford Interchange - just been on to update the passenger numbers for the 2014/2015 year and they have dropped by 70,000 since the 2013/2014 year. The Office of Rail and Road make no mention of why there is a sharp decrease in the last year. I thought I would put a note in, but all the citations are listed under the NOTES section. Is it ok to change this to REFERENCES, because I assumed that is where they go? The joy of all things (talk) 22:35, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, Happy New Year, sorry for delay as I have been away without internet connection as no BT in Hull. I would think best to just change the heading to References and create a Notes section to place any notes in. Keith D (talk) 09:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Potternewton
Hi Keith Merry Christmas Could you please do a general check of recent edits done to the Potternewton page. Thanks as usual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.146.167 (talk) 00:20, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Happy New Year, sorry for the delay. I have done initial changes now. Keith D (talk) 10:11, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde
Hi Keith - are you able to do a quick general check for the recent edits on the above page. Thanks again as usual - you are great! mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.146.167 (talk) 04:09, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Place names
Just asking if you were aware of this placename consensus. Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:40, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am aware of that, and have been resetting changes made to articles, mainly by IP's adding links to England and adding UK which contravene that.Keith D (talk) 17:00, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 17:02, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That IP you were reverting looks rather familiar; a guy we were trying to stop a while ago. Is it OK to just revert him on sight when he's fiddling with placenames? Bretonbanquet (talk) 17:09, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I would think so, though I tend to just revert the change the place names as they usually do some valid edits to capitalisation and punctuation at the same time. Keith D (talk) 17:13, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll be sure to check the rest of his edit before I revert. Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 17:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

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MOS:DATEFORMAT
Please note the heading of the second column in section 2.3.1. The dates you changed in Cramlington were refs, and therefore acceptable to MOS. No need for a revert, they are uniform still. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:17, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The MOS indicates that there should be consistency, there was a mixture of ISO and day first format dates in the reference section, which is not acceptable, so I aligned all of them to day first format. Keith D (talk) 23:25, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Keith
A Scottish page for you to please have a look at! University of St Andrews. The last few edits are - I hope - OK. Please leave the quotes in. Thanks so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.146.167 (talk • contribs) 08:48, 9 January 2016‎ (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes Problems
 * Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore.
 * You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this.
 * Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated.

Changes this week
 * The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow.
 * New file uploads will now be patrollable.
 * Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser.

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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed.
 * The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab.
 * There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
 * The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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Pippa Middleton
Please check the recent edits if you are able thanks always. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.136.97.83 (talk • contribs) 11:41, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Eden Rock, St Barths Please check that my grammar ( apostrophes on the words - it's  and resort's) (and edits) are OK  - Thanks as usual you are so prompt.

Tech News: 2016-03
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Recent changes
 * You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki.
 * Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis.

Changes this week Meetings
 * The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).
 * 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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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C2C walk - book lists
Dear Keith, I tried to ping you but seem to have messed up. I was hoping you could please have a quick look at the discussion at Talk:Coast to Coast Walk. It's a discussion about what book sources we should list; someone with an admitted COI is politely asking why the book they are involved with is not listed, and I'm arguing from a shifting hill of sand on general principles which I don't understand and don't know where policy is, or even if it exists. I might be totally wrong and I really do not mind - I would just like someone who knows to pop in and offer some guidance! Sorry to bother you, and thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 17:52, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Lupton family
Ref 69 is all wrong Please help Keith if you can Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.146.167 (talk) 02:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I have just changed that reference to fix problems with it. Is it still wrong, if so what is wrong with it? Keith D (talk) 02:46, 20 January 2016 (UTC)


 * thanks again- can you check recent grammar changes - and other tidy ups - you are most efficient
 * cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.146.167 (talk • contribs) 03:02, 20 January 2016‎ (UTC)