User talk:KoshVorlon/Archive 18

Tech News: 2015-16
 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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
 * You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page.
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.

Problems
 * Some wikis had issues on Wednesday.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
 * Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
 * All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-17
 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
 * There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis.
 * VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis.
 * You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends.
 * If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Labs on Monday.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
 * Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
 * If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference.
 * You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits.

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WP:AN
Hi, Kosh, If you remove a case from the archives and repost it back on to AN, please delete the copy in the archives. Otherwise, there will be two versions of the case when the case gets eventually archived again. It's easiest to just undo the move but I understand that the bot often moves several cases at a time. Liz Read! Talk! 20:27, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-18
 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
 * All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis.
 * You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki.
 * There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed.
 * You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language.

Problems
 * Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
 * It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor.
 * You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor.
 * You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor.
 * You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-19
 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 now chat with other users in Phabricator.
 * There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
 * It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC).
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8.

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Tech News: 2015-20
 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 now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor.
 * You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community.
 * The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes.

Problems
 * There was a problem that caused slow editing.
 * Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
 * You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon.
 * You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons.
 * When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link.
 * When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Blanking
Please don't blank articles that are not written in English. The correct thing to do is to tag it as non-English, post a request for translation and notify the article creator. Also, when an editor objects to your first content blanking by reverting it, you shouldn't just blank it again. That's just disruptive.- MrX 21:23, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
Jac 16888 Talk 21:43, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

New section
Just a note to suggest that you use the "New section" link where available on talk pages and special pages (such as the Village pump and the Administrators' noticeboard) when starting new discussions so that the edit summary shows it as a new section rather than an edit to the previous section. This also avoids edit conflicts in someone else happens to be editing the previous section at the same time. For example, see, and.

Please also note that used level 2 headings which effectively broke up the discussion into separate parts when they should have been level 3 headings to keep them as sub-sections within one overall discussion. I and also put a box around your proposed text for the sake of clarity and changed the sub-headings from the generic "Support"/"Oppose"/"Discussion" labels that could be confused with the same sub-sections in other discussions in edit summaries and anchor links.

Thanks. —sroc &#x1F4AC; 12:11, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21
 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 watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
 * References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page.
 * You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works.
 * The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons.
 * You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday.
 * UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file.
 * A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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Camelbinky
A quick heads up that I have followed your suggestion and formally proposed a boomerang block on Camelbinky for a string of personal attacks, bad faith insinuations, and legal threats. Carrite (talk) 07:21, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22
<section begin="technews-2015-W22"/> 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
 * VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses.
 * Some Labs tools had issues last week.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you.

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Reverts
Are you actually looking at what you're reverting? Mattythewhite (talk) 18:11, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Please be more careful with your reverting in the future KoshVorlon, spending more than 5 seconds looking at this would have made it obvious that reverting was the wrong thing to do and the section should have just been removed. Sam Walton (talk) 18:45, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Some things don't belong at AN//I
As per WP:Oversight, you should generally request oversight (revdeletion with suppression) quietly. If you feel it needs to be revdeleted in the mean time, report it privately to an active administrators. This would generally include and private and highly unflattering information about non notable possibly real individuals (particularly minors) and the case you mentioned ticks all those boxes. Nil Einne (talk) 19:58, 31 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I hadn't actually requested a Rev Del, I considered it vandalism, but either way, I see it was rev del'd. So no problems! :)    KoshVorlon    Rassekali ternii i mlechnye putiundefined  20:00, 31 May 2015 (UTC)


 * For clarity, what I'm saying is if someone has posted highly unflattering information stories about and the birth date of a a (possibly real) minor, somewhere on wikipedia, you should revert or remove it and request oversight, rather than posting about anywhere. Yes this may have been childish vandalism, but people particularly teens can be affected by that sort of thing and there's no reason it belong anywhere on wikipedia, even the edit history. Nil Einne (talk) 20:11, 31 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Incidently, quietly removing such misreported threads is also generally best practice. (I was in the middle of messaging you when I received your comment.) As the oversight page I think mentions, it's all about minimising unwanted attention. (I possibly should have said something like "wrong place" rather then leaving no edit summary but I'm tired and couldn't think of a suitable neutral summary at the time.) I was also about to email the oversight team but it seems it's already been dealt with. BTW, if there is any threat of violence you should also email emergency at wikimedia.org. In this case, I didn't think it necessary as the information appeared to be just more rude info rather than a possible suggestion of violence, but if there's any doubt it's always best to email. Nil Einne (talk) 20:07, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. JoeSperrazza (talk) 21:34, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Can't recall the specifics...
...but didn't you and I have an agreement where you would check with someone to make sure you were in the right before getting into multiple reverts? --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:57, 31 May 2015 (UTC)