User talk:Mdann52/Archive 27

Tech News: 2015-50
 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 Problems
 * Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias.
 * Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles.
 * IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature.
 * You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be.
 * It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead.
 * You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor.
 * UploadWizard will look a bit different.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
 * New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.

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 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default.

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Sam Distefano
Hi Mdann52. You mentioned on November 24 that some of the material in this article is covered by OTRS ticket 2013030310006084. However there's nothing to indicate exactly which material is okay. There's been a recent large addition from here and I don't know if this is the website covered by the ticket or if it's copy vio. Thanks, -- Diannaa (talk) 14:55, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * only the photo is allowed - hopefully, I've rolledback the worst of it. Mdann52 (talk) 20:01, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks, I will double check and clean it thoroughly. -- Diannaa (talk) 20:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * the copyright issue has been clarified and resolved, so if appropriate, the information can be restored to the article. Mdann52 (talk) 17:03, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Clerks
Hi Mdann52. We have added you to the list of clerks and subscribed you to the mailing list (info: WP:AC/C). Welcome, and I look forward to working with you! To adjust your subscription options for the mailing list, see the link at clerks-l. The mailing list works in the usual way, and the address to which new mailing list threads can be sent is. Useful reading for new clerks is the procedures page, WP:AC/C/P, but you will learn all the basic components of clerking on-the-job.

New clerks begin as a trainee, are listed as such at WP:AC/C, and will remain so until they have learned all the aspects of the job. When you've finished training, which usually takes a couple of/a few months, then we'll propose to the Committee that you be made a full clerk. As a clerk, you'll need to check your e-mail regularly, as the mailing list is where the clerks co-ordinate (on-wiki co-ordination page also exists but is not used nearly as much). If you've any questions at any point of your traineeship, simply post to the mailing list.

Lastly, it might be useful if you enter your timezone into WP:AC/C (in the same format as the other members have), so that we can estimate when we will have clerks available each day; this is, of course, at your discretion. Again, welcome! Regards, Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  05:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Eh, I gave you the traditional greeting even if it doesn't all apply. Welcome to the office and grab a fez --Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  05:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks in any case! Mdann52 (talk) 07:08, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Did you mean to close both gender identity threads?
First, thanks for the closure on Village_pump_%28policy%29, but I see from your comment that you meant to close two threads. Did you mean to close Village_pump_(policy) as well or are you referring to the sub-closure regarding the ALWAYS PREVIOUS ONLY option? If the latter, let me know so that I can un-archive the closure request. I do not think it is necessary for the same individual to close both RfCs. They are more than enough work for two people. Darkfrog24 (talk) 23:40, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * no, there were two RfC's covered in the ANRFC post (I believe, I might just be going mad!!!). Mdann52 (talk) 14:05, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes there were two. You closed this one: .  You didn't close this one:.
 * That wouldn't be a problem&mdash;it's good, in fact&mdash;except you marked the closure request thread for archiving, so if you aren't planning on closing the other one, either you or I or someone should put it back. Darkfrog24 (talk) 15:57, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ah - I closed the archived one linked to in the thread, not the unarchived one. I've corrected this now. Mdann52 (talk) 16:18, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Didn't want to jump the gun.
 * (Sigh.) It had fewer options before people started adding them. Darkfrog24 (talk) 16:20, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree. This was one of the hardest closure I've done for a while, not because of the outcome, but actually decyphering the whole discussion and working out what everyone wanted! Mdann52 (talk) 16:24, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you again, but we're having some trouble converting your close into instructions for the MoS. Someone complained that the first version was too confusing, and it wasn't clear whether you were picking just OTHER1 or a combination of all the options that involved context, how much the finding against ALWAYS PREVIOUS was supposed to count, etc. Your input would be welcome.  I don't know how familiar you are with the Wikipedia Manual of Style, but if you do choose to participate, I recommend reviewing at least one other part of the MoS to get a sense of how things are supposed to translate. Darkfrog24 (talk) 13:00, 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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SecurePoll for Persian Wikipedia
Hello Matthew, Would you mind providing a compelling argument for declining our request at Phabriator? 4nn1l2 (talk) 15:51, 15 December 2015 (UTC) I've been playing with it on my private wiki for a while, it is a pain to configure and run. This is how things are run, and local election can and have been run on the site - if there is an https issue, then I'm sure that can be resolved on there in any case. If this was likely to happen in any case, James would have reopened the ticket. ( in any case). Mdann52 (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * "Right now SecurePoll is intended to ONLY work on voteWiki and i would like to keep it that way for many reasons"

University of Bolton
Thanks for your message, I have emailed Wikipedia giving permission for the copyright to be used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whatashambles1717 (talk • contribs) 11:49, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Edit warring
Your recent editing history at Trustpilot shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrightYellowSun (talk • contribs) 14:51, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Trustpilot
You have wrongly deleted all of my valid edits without offering an explanation. I did not go to the trouble of making them just to have an uninformed person like you delete them. You have violated Wikipedia's policies. Please do not make additional edits without first discussing them on the article's talk page.--BrightYellowSun (talk) 15:00, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Do you honestly believe that "is a online review site" is proper grammar?--BrightYellowSun (talk) 15:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * in that case, let's discuss them here. I've said why I think your edits are inappropriate - why do you think mine are? Your edits appear to be against WP:NPOV, despite the fact there are negetive sources in the article, many more positive ones exist (for example, and ). Personally, it seems you have a bias against them - so you may not be the best person to be editing this entry. Mdann52 (talk) 16:08, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.
This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding a content dispute discussion you may have participated in. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. The discussion is about the topic Trustpilot. Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you! — TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 22:31, 20 December 2015 (UTC) (DRN volunteer)

Tech News: 2015-52
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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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Page on Dr. M.M Alex
Just wanted to thank you for helping me out with the page Matt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Basilmathew92/Draft. I will definitely work on the draft and make it review worthy. Thanks again.

Basilmathew92Basilmathew92 (talk) 06:38, 24 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basilmathew92 (talk • contribs) 06:17, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello Matt, I have added an info box, wikilinks, and made a few spell checks on the page. Could you kindly go through the new draft and tell me what I should rectify further.

Thank you, Basilmathew92Basilmathew92 (talk) 06:38, 24 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basilmathew92 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Education ticket
Hi Mdann52,

There's an that seems to be right around your area of expertise if you can pick it up. Amortias (T)(C) 21:54, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * - Thanks, I'll go pick this up now. --Mdann52 (talk) 22:20, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Archiving ARCAs
When you archive a request to the case talk page, please remove it from the ARCA page as well; I've found that cut-and-paste works well for this :-). Have fun and all the best,  Mini  apolis  18:33, 8 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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Completely False Article Frederick Achom
Hello,

I would like to draw your attention to this wikipedia article Frederick Achom, at first look it looks like a good article, but it hides most of the real information. If you see article's history you will see that it has been under several editing wars. Almost all claims made in the article are supported in the article are made using own links or PR releases. Also the links which seem genuine like London's 1000 most influential people 2010: Night OwlsLondon's 1000 most influential people 2011: Night Owls have many things wrong in them- they claim to be 1000 but not more than 6 are present; they have no author. They are off the website but somehow have crept into the website. There are many such cases in this wiki article.

Frederick Achom is using his wiki article to show potential investors how great he is by supplying all false information and duping them of money. He has been previously convicted and jailed which was earlier in the article but now has somehow disappeared.  

 

I hope you will understand the gravity of the situation and help in rectifying by either getting the page deleted or corrected.

Thank You. NihartouJason (talk) 04:32, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03
 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 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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Tech News: 2016-04
 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 follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week.
 * Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code.

Changes this week Changes this week
 * You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour.
 * Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January.
 * Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager.
 * The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages.
 * Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read.
 * The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor.
 * The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time.
 * The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (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 2 February 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 expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use   at each individual project domain instead.

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Wikimedia configuration patches waiting deployment
Hi,

Thanks for your contributions to the Wikimedia configuration repository.

There are some patches you wrote, mentioned on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/178/query/open/ waiting for deployment.

If you wish to help, you're expected to take care of ensuring the code you write is deployed. Could you review SWAT deploys guidelines and add your patches to a SWAT window? --Dereckson (talk) 22:06, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06
 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
 * Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages.
 * When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary.
 * Octicons-tools.svg RESTBase is now using  instead of.

Changes this week
 * Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (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 9 February 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 per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February.
 * Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type.

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Tech News: 2016-07
<section begin="technews-2016-W07"/> 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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript.
 * You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas.

Problems
 * A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it.

Changes this week
 * There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
 * Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta.

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