User talk:Keith D/Archive 73

Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
Please check  my  recent  newspaper  addition. Thanks as  always  T.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.32.130.92 (talk) 04:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Oopsie
Sorry for the mess in the translation and date in Hubert Lyautey last night, I may have been a little bit tired haha ! CocoricoPolynesien (talk) 06:10, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

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Tech News: 2019-45
 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
 * At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

Changes later this week
 * can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use  to set a different default block length for IP editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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A1033 road
Hi Keith D; I have converted A1033 road from redirect to full article. As I fly out of the country on Saturday, I won't be available to implement changes on the article for some time. If there are any issues, could you please correct them for me? In anticipation of this, thanks, and I wish you an early Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'll be back around early March 2020. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 12:43, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, many thanks for the hard work to create the article while I was away. Hope all goes well while you are away and that you can enjoy the festive period. I will be away from polling day until the New Year, without internet connection. Keith D (talk) 15:07, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Keith. My flight has been delayed until Tuesday, so I have a little reprieve. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 20:33, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46
 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
 * MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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Revisions to Open Government Initiative
Dear Keith D,

This is Shrino, the editor to the wiki page "Open Government Initiative." I noticed that made edits to the page as well as removed the stub tag. Thank you so much for your contributions and for promoting the article!

This has been the first article I've written for Wikipedia, so thank you for correcting any mistakes I may have made!

My instructor suggested that I reach out to you to see if you could remove the tag that reads "This article relies too much on primary sources." If not, perhaps you could suggest what changes I could make to have that tag removed?

Thank you, Shrino (talk) 20:14, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, the problem is that there are far too much reliance on sources such as and  you need to find sources that are unrelated to the actual initiative such as articles published in newspapers or journals that discuss the subject. There is also a date error that needs correcting for reference 10 as I could not find a date on the source to clarify if 10/8/2019 was 10 August 2019 or 8 October 2019. Keith D (talk) 20:27, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Deleting comments
Hi can I just ask my you keep deleting the parliamentary candidates for the other parties apart from Judith Cummins? ThomasReedJoe04 (talk) 20:28, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * There is no reference to support the entries to show that they are standing in that constituency. Each entry should have a reliable source to support that they are standing in the election. Note that Twitter & Facebook are not reliable sources - something published in the local press will do. These references will be removed when the official list of candidates is published as that will replace them. Keith D (talk) 20:35, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Create A Page
I would like you to create a page for Donna Frett-Gregory, Senator of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Patriot83 (talk) 00:48, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I know nothing about that person so would be difficult to produce a page that would be helpful. Keith D (talk) 00:49, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Edits on Ann Walker of Lightcliffe
Thank you for your recent edits on my first (new) article Ann Walker. I greatly appreciate your constructive edits to the page. I'm having issues with admins regarding my edits of other pages. I've been trying to link back to the new Ann Walker page. I'm learning the hard way. And it's been rather stressful to get warnings on my talk page. I want you to know it was very refreshing to see your edits to the Ann Walker page that didn't involve some warning and reversion of my edits. So thank you. It means a lot to know there are editors out there who are helpful. Kind Regards, Kimdorris (talk) 03:52, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Keith D:

I would like to request your assistance with a made by a non logged-in user to the Ann Walker article.
 * 1) The edits revised wording, which is now inaccurate.
 * 2) I have the co-founders of and, who wrote the copy for the article I published, looking at the revisions to determine specific errors in the edits, which I hope to report back to you soon.
 * 3) Could you provide some insight on how these edits might be addressed?
 * 4) I'm a new editor and I don't want to get into an editwar with anyone as I am fully aware of the definition of open source.
 * 5) What I am not clear on is how to proceed regarding revisions of revisions so as to prevent an editwar.

I appreciate your assistance. Kimdorris (talk) 00:58, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

I've cleaned up the previous edits. I think we're good. Kimdorris (talk) 17:52, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Yorkshire banners
Thankyou for tagging the categories with the Yorkshire banners but some of them already have a banner from the specific county's redirect (such as Category talk:Askern has a banner from ).  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 21:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The specific ones should not be used as they are just redirects and cause processing problems when looking after the Yorkshire project. May be they need deleting. Keith D (talk) 21:56, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll bypass the redirects then.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 21:57, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Education in Malaysia
Please check  new  refs. - particularly  ref  number  9 -   Thanks    as  always  T.

La Salle School,  Klang
Please check  new  refs  again! Thanks as  always  T.

Tech News: 2019-47
 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
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the  database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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1st Air Cavalry Brigade
Hello Keith D

Can you please delete 1st Air Cavalry Brigade so i can move Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division there. Thank you. Gavbadger (talk) 20:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, I think that this has been done while I was without PC, only just got it back from repairs. If you still want something done then let me know. Keith D (talk) 16:42, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I never knew you could G6 a article for that. Gavbadger (talk) 17:39, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48
 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 later this week
 * The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
 * Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.

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Thank you for fixing Hemicorporectomy
Big thanks for fixing my addition at Hemicorporectomy here: Special:Diff/927949250 - I have seen a warning about an ambiguous date format, but somehow I could not find any hints to decide if it was the first of March or the third of January. Thank you! --CiaPan (talk) 21:18, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Just for information - I looked at other articles on the site to see which was their date format usage. Keith D (talk) 21:22, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Wow, how simple! Stupid me.  --CiaPan (talk) 21:25, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing Recruitment (biology)!
Hello Keith D, thank you for fixing my cite date error(s). I'm not the most adept editor on here yet, but I'd love to learn how to do that for myself. Thanks, Ben-from-MN (talk) 05:13, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, dates of the form 2019-11 are not an allowable format and need changing to November 2019 or whatever. If the date is actually meant to be 2 years, for example 2019-20 then they should be changed to 2019-2020. Regards. Keith D (talk) 08:13, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Tech News: 2019-49
 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
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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removal of |language=en
As you did with, removal of en is generally discouraged because so many en.wiki articles are translated for use in other-language wikis where the language parameter is useful. There was recent discussion about this topic at.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have been removing these as just clutter for a significant time now and you are the first one to mention it. Still think that it is pointless on the English version to keep it and similarly on other versions where the language is equal to the language of the wiki. Keith D (talk) 17:00, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It used to be that cs1|2 had a category for en so that these parameters could be easily discovered and removed because we thought then, as you do now, that at en.wiki such parameters are pointless.  We were persuaded that retaining en is valuable to those editors who translate en.wiki articles to other languages so we removed the category and changed Module:Citation/CS1 so that it does not display the language when the language is the same as the local-wiki language (cs1|2 will display English when there more than one language is specified).  I would encourage you to rethink your position on this.
 * A more beneficial thing that you could be doing is to translate the language name to its appropriate ISO 639 language code. The codes are more-or-less universal whereas the English version of the language name is not.  Were you to do this, editors who translate articles from English to another language do not also have to translate the language name.  See the list of supported language codes and names.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 17:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It is only a sideline of fixing the Category:CS1 errors: dates where it just gets in the way of quickly reading the cite code to find the error, not something I would go out of my way to alter otherwise. Keith D (talk) 17:43, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess I have trouble understanding that. The en that you deleted was in a template that did not / does not show a date error.  How does that deletion help to quickly [read] the cite code to find the error in a wholly unrelated template?
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:21, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Because it was an AWB edit where I have it set to remove the language automatically when English. Keith D (talk) 18:24, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I understand that it was an awb edit. Still, deleting stuff from templates that don't need fixing isn't going to help to quickly [read] the cite code to find the error and even were it in the same template, awb fixes are highlighted in the diff window so is deleting en really necessary?
 * To aid finding a date fix in the edit window you can enable find-match highlighting (Options > Highlight Find matches) then use something like this in the find box:  (check the regex box).  Then, all that you need to do is click the paragraph in the diff window and you can see the date parameter highlighted in the edit window.  No need to delete the en as an aid to reading.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * To aid finding a date fix in the edit window you can enable find-match highlighting (Options > Highlight Find matches) then use something like this in the find box:  (check the regex box).  Then, all that you need to do is click the paragraph in the diff window and you can see the date parameter highlighted in the edit window.  No need to delete the en as an aid to reading.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50
 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
 * Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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