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A quick look at a graph
If possible could you take a quick look at this graph discussed here. Is this easy or complex to do? ManKnowsInfinity (talk) 17:25, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I am probably not the one to advise on this one though it looks feasible. May be you could ask at the village pump where there are probably more knowledgeable people on the graphing capabilities of the software. By the way the BOT producing the figures has been down since early February and have been unable to get response from those claiming to operate it. Keith D (talk) 21:47, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That seems like the right way to go and I have put it on the Village pump. On a separate issue, three editors have agreed that the merge on the "Good" article and the "Evil" article from several months ago has not been working well for either article and not been helpful; it seems to require an un-merge to the original articles discussed at the end of the Talk page here . We have allowed 30-days for the single hold-out editor to see if he could find any support for his position but he got no support at all. Could the three editors who are in agreement request for you to do the un-merge since the thirty day "wait" period seems to have been sufficient time to make a decision. ManKnowsInfinity (talk) 18:50, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, it looks as though the Evil article is essentially back to what it was before the merge. Unsure what is best for the the Good and evil article. You could return it to this version of 11 June 2016 but that would loose all of the useful edits since then. The other way is for you to edit out the parts that came from the Evil article and just leave the relevant bits, the diff of the old version and current version is where to start. Unfortunately there is no way of undoing a merge without reverting to an earlier version. Keith D (talk) 20:57, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, the three of us who are at consensus on that Talk page were in agreement with the revert of both articles to the previous original versions because we were accepting that the newly merged article could continue to exist as a "themes" article for related interest on the singled out theme of "Good and evil." User:Andrew had already done the revert for un-merging the article on Evil at the end of January without objection in order to restore it. We do not have roll-back to allow the un-merge of the "Good" article back to its original form. All three of us at the Talk discussion were in agreement that the original article for "Good" should be restored, and the new article for the themes version titled "Good and evil" can retain all of its accumulated edits without deleting them. That way the original article for "Good" is restored and the accumulated edits for the new themes article can just stay there. If you could do this, then all three of us at the Talk page there are in agreement for it to be done. ManKnowsInfinity (talk) 21:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify you want this version of 11 June 2016 and earlier revisions split from Good and evil and placed somewhere else. The Good article has always been a dab page which had an entry for Good (religion) which is now just a redirect to it. Is that where you would want the above to go? Keith D (talk) 21:49, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back over the week-end. Yes that's the one, or even the one earlier on 3 June 2016 just before he started his edits here . That would allow us to start looking to bring the article back into shape once its returned to its original form. While you are looking at it, I noticed that the main "Good" page itself is currently used not for the article itself but for the disambiguation page instead. This seems backwards and I would suggest this as a proper time to correctly call it the disambiguation page as "Good (disambiguation)" and move the real article from June 2016 into the simple page for "Good" as the main article without further qualification. We can then start in on the repair work once you decide which version is best for us to continue with page enhancements. ManKnowsInfinity (talk) 15:46, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

New date in Use dmy template
I am curious to know the reason for changing the date in the Use dmy template at the top of Dachau concentration camp page. Thanks. Carlotm (talk) 02:41, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, the date is reset once the dates are in alignment in the article, this is to flag when that article was last brought into compliance. People can then deal with articles with the oldest categories first as these articles are more likely to have misaligned dates. Regards. Keith D (talk) 11:27, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Potternewton
Please check this one too if able. Thanks

Tech News: 2017-10
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 * When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.

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 * Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
 * Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.

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 * The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
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Tech News: 2017-11
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Nice page move for article on 'Good"
That was a nice page move you did on "Good" and the article development there is going forward. I just noticed that another page titled "Negligence" just went through the same type of page redirects without consensus, with a lone editor moving it to his preferred title of "Law of Negligence" along with that editor's pointer to a non-existing disambiguation page. I left a message for that editor here about normal edit practice, but when I went to do the actual reverts to undo his edits, I received an edit-error message saying that only sysops could do this. Any chance you could look at this and return it to the simple previous "Negligence" article title. It is a previous featured article and ought to remain with the title which readers and editors are accustomed to seeing over the years. Cheers. ManKnowsInfinity (talk) 16:47, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I have reverted the page move, but cannot see why you could not do the move as it did not prompt me to delete the target redirect. Keith D (talk) 17:55, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Hull and Barnsley Railway line template
I note that the closed railway stations on this template all show the incorrect icons for open stations. Since you were a recent editor on this template, I thought it a matter of courtesy to raise this matter with you to see if the required amendments could be made by your good self.

Xenophon Philosopher (talk) 11:31, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I can just about make minor edits to the route diagrams, usually by copying from existing ones, so not the right person to handle this. May be could be of assistance. Keith D (talk) 12:40, 18 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I think the issue here is that the route diagram details the H & B between 1885 and 1923. If you look at the lines, none have the opacity lowered which indicates they are still all open, when in fact, only a fraction still exists (mostly that around Hull Docks) so technically all the stations and the track are displayed incorrectly. However, I assumed it was a snapshot of the line between the years given in the navbox. Whatever, as so much needs changing in the route box to align it with others (if that is what is actually needed), then a request detailing the changes proposed needs to be posted on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways as certain bold route box changes have been deemed controversial by the community recently. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 13:39, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12
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 * DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage.
 * You can see monthly page views when you click on  in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
 * The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.

Problems
 * On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it.

Changes this week
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut + +  on PCs or  + +  on Macs.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings
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Pre-Blight Irish Montreal
I'm just wondering why you're using the " " issue template on Pre-Blight_Irish_Montreal. It seems to have sufficient links to other articles. Let me know if I'm wrong! —Formal Dude (talk) 03:32, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, the tag was already on the page when I edited it. I should have removed it when I converted the external links to wikilinks. Keith D (talk) 11:37, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13
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Recent changes
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.

Problems
 * Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.

Changes this week
 * New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2017
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Population edits
You reverted one of my edits on Faldingworth. This is part of my work to restore some edits made by user:talk Bob Henshaw as detailed in the block log at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. That user added many unreferenced and often misleading statements about population figures. In this case although the information is correct I do not feel it necessary to restate the figures with a comparison to 2001 in the introduction when the correct 2011 figures are already stated in the info box - whether we do revert these is probably something that is best discussed on the incidents article. Dsergeant (talk) 16:59, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Personally I like both census figures as it gives you some comparison as to what happens between the census. I also have had to revert some of the AWB edits to these type of changes done by others as they are introducing contradictions into articles. Keith D (talk) 17:18, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14
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Recent changes
 * The  button now says   or   on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * The tracking category    : is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
 * English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.

Problems
 * Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.

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Access date question
Hi, Keith D. I saw your edit summary here and thought I would give you an answer. I started the article in one of my sandboxes back in 2010, but I only put it up last evening after I saw that the subject recently passed away. I should have double checked the citations prior to posting. Thanks for cleaning it up! - Location (talk) 13:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Move request
A request to change the title and content of a comics article has begun at Talk:X-Men (film series). Any interested WikiProject:Comics editor may comment there within one week. --Tenebrae (talk) 02:29, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)
Please check refs. Thanks101.182.51.93 (talk) 09:09, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15
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Recent changes
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Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

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 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
I have stuffed up a new ref - number 24 - please leave in quote  and thanks as usual. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.60.171 (talk) 08:19, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16
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Recent changes
 * You can add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
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Future changes
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 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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Change for page
Hi User:Keith D, just wondered can you make an edit to Maiorana page please? That the name is Norman French in origin, on page 326 of this source Della Calabria illustrata the book states that the fleur-de-lis in the coat of arms of the family also indicates a Norman origin. I just don't do edits on that scale, because more than likely no one will edit the page for many months, leaving my mistakes (that become Wikipedia's mistakes) on show. You'd just have to blank the page then change categories to Norman and "Maiorana is an Italian surname" to "Maiorana is a Norman French surname" (Good examples of Norman names are Banister (surname) and Molyneux). Hope you can help, thanks.--Theo Mandela (talk) 21:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17
 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
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Hi Keith could you please check Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Milnes. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:4F0A:F100:253D:8D25:6DA1:FC3A (talk) 13:21, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I think this is the article you mean that I have done. Keith D (talk) 16:40, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Your expertise required
Hi Keith

With your "Yorkshire" expertise, could you please make a comment on the TALK page  RE  "where the Lupton family  page sits in   the importance scale of WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment". I believe it would now  be  of "mid-importance".

Cheers Ted

Tech News: 2017-18
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Recent changes
 * The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add  block for your scripts also, or add   dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.
 * The,   and   buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding   to the URL.

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

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 * An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
 * Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
 * There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
 * Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

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