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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

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Tech News: 2015-41
 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
 * The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile.
 * The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
 * UploadWizard will remind users to add a category.
 * UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use.
 * A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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How do I confirm my identity
Hello, You mentioned on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cory_Burnell that I could request deletion of this article about me if I confirm my identity. How do I do so? I would like the article deleted being that there was a no consensus status. Thank you, Cory Burnell — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coryburnell (talk • contribs) 23:36, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-42
 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
 * The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing.
 * Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category.

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 * 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 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

The Signpost: 14 October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-43
 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
 * Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Octicons-sync.svg icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
 * A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed.
 * Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week.
 * The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week.
 * Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks.

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 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Oct 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)
Seasons Greetings,

This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.

While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.

Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.

This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Translators available list.

Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 05:23, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-44
 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 * The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools.
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.
 * When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in.

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