User talk:Northamerica1000/Archive 99

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
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This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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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
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User:Brown
We need to get an interaction ban for this girl....not sure why she hates you so much and has the balls to stop any portal progress like this. She does not even keep her word adopt reverts....one of the worst editors I have ever seen. I will rebuild the portal in user space and post it next week or so. Simply disgraceful Behavior.-- Moxy 🍁 02:43, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * An interaction ban may not be the best solution. It might lead to MfDs which can't be challenged because no one outside the deletionist clique can interact with the proposer. Certes (talk) 11:34, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * somthing has to be done here...we cant have an admin acting like this.. Its so clear they have a problem with North as they are not doing the same thing to portals by others. -- Moxy 🍁 12:55, 4 November 2019 (UTC)


 * A problem is that at the last ANI that Moxy brought up, it went on and on, and then the discussion was closed, despite the consensus that the user's mass reversions should have been undone. I tire of wasting my time having to think about the user; it takes away from my Wikipedia experience and makes it no fun to be here. It's all one-way, the user targets my portal work and then reverts it. The user has insulted me routinely, which I try to ignore (see the ANI link below, where the user directly insults my intelligence). In my view, it is apparent, that the overall consensus at the ANI discussion in the "Should the mass portal reversions be reverted, to restore portal improvements that occurred?" section HERE  was for the mass rapid reversions to be undone, but then the discussion was closed, with no verdict for this section. I don't want to waste my time at an Arbcom proceeding having to further think and type about the user, wasting more of my time about some person who doesn't like my portal work.


 * See User:Northamerica1000/sandbox for a detailed overview of the problematic, rapid drive-by reversions that occurred, all in one day. This erased months of my work and research with one click each. Not much point in editing under these circumstances. North America1000 13:01, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Having repeatedly been portrayed as dishonest and incompetent, I have similar feelings, but the slurs merely make me more determined to get the right result. We have to assume per WP:AGF that an editor genuinely believes those who disagree with them to be lying idiots and is not deliberately attempting to demoralise, intimidate or discredit us, even when that may be the effect. Certes (talk) 13:27, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced that this is personal. The motive seems to be hatred of portals rather than of an editor.  I would expect my contributions to suffer a similar fate, except that most of them affect tools used in multiple portals and there would be a very clear case for undoing any such reversion. Certes (talk) 13:38, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree they hate portals ....but my updates at Portal:Canada as with other updates by others have not been reverted dispite the editors POV that no changes should be made till some sort of format RFC is done. The editor is clearly ducking around with North because they are no longer reverting others from what I can see. It's distressing when we have a rouge admin targeting another admin. Why is the admin community allowing this to go on for so long?-- Moxy 🍁 16:11, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

I've got green smoke! I've got green smoke!
Hello, NorthA,

First off, the title is a reference to a pivotal scene in the movie The Rock (film). It signifies excitement and relief. I have noticed that you have reapplied the patch and removed the considering template. I hope that means you have just reduced back to semi-break. Anyway, I am very proud of you and hope to see you around more. I will of course send an email. You are a net positive and cannot wait to see more of the full strength humorous and hard working NorthA.

If you ever need help or a collab, just ask. I'm always here.

Your Pal AA AmericanAir88(talk) 01:22, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron – Rescue list
Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron – Rescue list, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron – Rescue list& and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron – Rescue list during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. jps (talk) 02:07, 13 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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"Al Jolson/Archive 1" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Al Jolson/Archive 1. Since you had some involvement with the Al Jolson/Archive 1 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. – Uanfala (talk) 14:25, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * 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.

Arbitration
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Tech News: 2019-47
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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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Question
Hi NA1K. I know we are on different sides of the "portal debate", and that you have felt bruised from your involvement in it. I will understand if you feel it is not appropriate for me to post here or you don't reply.

My question is whether there is another path here. From my perspective, as you will have seen me advocate at MfD, I feel portals fall between two stronger alternatives - the Main Articles (plus their NavBoxes) for structured maintained content/navigation, and then WikiProjects for structured maintained ranked article directories/other topic stuff.

I am not that long in WP, so maybe ten years ago, Main Articles (and NavBoxes), were not so well-developed or regarded, and thus a portal was useful to "capture and present" the range of activity on a topic, and thus promote topic development? Judging by the length/scale of most Main Articles that most portals now link to, that worked?

My question is whether there is a rationale now in focusing on the WikiProject spaces and merging portals into them. In effect, the WikiProject should be linked to on the bottom of the Main Article (instead of on a Talk Page behind) to help attract specialist editors? Many WikiProject spaces are in decline, however, you only need one or two specialist editors and they function properly, with no issues over forking/POV etc. (as they are not content-space). As long as there is a WP, I could always see a need for some kind of WikiProject space area (e.g. the functional expertise hub for a major topic). In any professional services firm (e.g. PWC, KPMG, Ernst & Young), they all have the equivalent of WikiProject spaces in their organization (e.g. the department where the subject experts/research directories live).

Does that make any sense, and it is a useful idea? Britishfinance (talk) 12:11, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi I'm actually not on any particular "sides" regarding portals. I think some have a functional purpose as a navigational tool for users that choose to utilize them. Conversely, some may be underutilized to the point that they may qualify for deletion. I assess portals on a case-by-case basis, rather than from an ideological standpoint of them being either "good" or "bad" as a whole. Feel free to post here anytime.


 * I'm taking a bit of a break from any heavy portal work or debates, so I recommend posting your ideas at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals. Per your query above, some portals have been moved to project space, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Berlin. I view this as a viable option that 1) retains the portal as a navigational tool for those that like using them, 2) provides users a space to edit and improve the portal, and 3) serves to directly link projects and portals, although in my view, a project about a topic being existent should not be a prerequisite for a portal about that topic to exist, as this just adds more instruction creep and bureaucracy, preventing the encyclopedia from being improved. North America1000 13:00, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks NA1K, that is helpful and informative. Do you think for example that the WikiProject should be listed as a link on the front Main Article pages (and even topic pages).  My understanding is that the WikiProject is only a link on the Talk Page?  Britishfinance (talk) 13:12, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I doubt you'd find much traction for including Wikipedia namespace links on Main (article) namespace pages, but you could try. Theoretically, more visible links, such as links to Wikiprojects at the bottom of article pages, could increase page views for project pages. North America1000 13:34, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks NA1K. Would I be crazy to even attempt to bring it up (e.g. it is a major violation of WP norms, and I would be quickly dismissed)?  What would be the right forum be? thanks, again. Britishfinance (talk) 13:37, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * There's no such thing as a bad idea, unless it's a corrupt idea. Your idea is not corrupt, so go for it if you'd like. You could also consider posting at Wikipedia talk:Project namespace or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council, and then could consider tagging it as an RfC to encourage greater community input. North America1000 13:48, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks NA1K, let me give it a little thought and see what I can do. All the best. Britishfinance (talk) 13:50, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

When will it end
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. -- Moxy 🍁 07:26, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hey North, I just wanted to explain the vote I just made on the ANI. I've not followed all the diffs, but to the extent I did, I found you to be entirely without fault. So by basic logic I should have voted just for option 1 like some others are. It was just I wasn't sure I was being objective. With BHG, I knew she does lots of good work, but 'till she decided to go after the hunger relief portal, I don't remember ever interacting. The cyber slap she gave me for my trouble there was maybe the hardest Ive ever had in my life, which was rather endearing, but I don't really have anything to balance the years of liking I've had for your good self. Not to mention if I was writing dictionaries youd be the no 1 example for Collaboration & Decency. I thought a no fault iban might be functional way to end the drama, esp if it works as well as the one between D & H. Good luck buddy. FeydHuxtable (talk) 21:10, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Greetings : Thanks for the kind words. Well, I'd rather not spend much of my lifespan at Arbcom, but if the community is for it, I will deal with it. Can't we just all get along? Cheers, North America1000 05:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Unwise
If a request for arbitration is pending it is unwise to continue editing in the disputed field when you have not yet taken the time to respond to the arbitration request. It looks bad. Also, declaring a vacation immediately after you are the subject of a request for arbitration (but still making detailed, substantial edits elsewhere) adds to the appearance that you are gaming the system. If I were you, I would stop whatever else I was doing and respond to the arbitration request before continuing other things. Enjoy your vacation. Take the time you need, but please remember the priorities. This would benefit you. Jehochman Talk 13:39, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Jehochman should please reread WP:AGF. I'm in the UK but, even there, I'm aware that Thanksgiving is a big national holiday in the US at this time of year.  Northamerica1000 is especially interested in food and so I trust that he has been giving priority to a turkey with all the trimmings.  Myself, I thought I might bother him with notice of trouble elsewhere but now that I see that he's taking a seasonal break, I shall wish him well and leave him in peace.   As for arbcom, I expect that they will be having something of a prorogation while their elections take place, and so this is the perfect time for others to take a break from such drama.  Cheers!  Andrew D. (talk) 17:06, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Please don't splain me about WP:AGF.  Jehochman Talk 03:22, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * If you don't want to be splained to then kindly stop sticking your oar into situations you don't understand. Your unasked for advice has provoked the below uncharacteristic response from North. And you've changed the dynamics of the portal case; until your intervention there was a fair chance of it ending almost bloodlessly. Now it's likely going to end in at least a desysop. Get a grip Jehochman, you're better than this! FeydHuxtable (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

My vacation and personal life is not "unwise", nor is improving Wikipedia

 * I'm back in for a very short spell after a camping trip, and I'm headed right back out in continuation of my vacation, for Thanksgiving. I shouldn't have to tell you or anyone this, because when I choose to edit is my choice, not that of others. But, since you're concerned about appearances, after I added the vacation template to my user pages, over the course of a few hours afterward I performed some relatively minor follow-up and touch-up edits before heading out, and also made some other contributions to help out here and there, such as relisting a few AfD discussions and closing an AfD discussion. Then, I crashed-out and proceeded with my life's plans. Frankly, I have no concerns about how it may "look like" regarding whether or not I make an immediate statement at Arbcom, and I certainly won't be altering my vacation plans per your concerns or what others may hypothetically think. So, for the record: really, I'm on vacation, like really, for real; I'm on vacation, right now.


 * As per the vacation template above on this talk page, I won't be available to contribute until November 30, 2019. When that time occurs, I will choose when and where I choose to edit. I may not even edit on that day, or maybe I will. It's my choice.


 * I feel that the present Arbcom case request was very over-rushed, that it's creator was too eager to begin the process, and that it was not researched even nearly enough. The creator of the case initially simply added in a few names of recent contributors at MfD, then after some objections the list was expanded, and now it is being considered to be reduced after that major expansion as being too wide in scope. People are uncertain about what the scope of the case should be at this time. Regardless, it's my choice to post at the case request or not, not yours or that of others. This seems like common sense to me, but you come across as though I am obligated to post. If the case is accepted, I may then post at the next phase of the process. Furthermore, just to be absolutely crystal clear, I'm on vacation right now.
 * I'm busy, and per this, beginning the commentary process at this time presents a lose-lose proposition for me: if I post a comment at the case requests page, I would then have to check-in constantly to answer potential questions on the page. If I don't, then I could receive similar messages here just as you have posted; that it may "look bad" if I don't then respond in a timely manner. I will not be spending the next leg of my vacation having to constantly check-in on Wikipedia.
 * Sorry if this comes across as overly blunt, but I'm in a hurry, so there you have it. I hesitated to even post this response, because I'm busy in my personal life at this time. Again, I won't be available to contribute until November 30, 2019. Good day. North America1000 13:09, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Vacation


 * Rather than write all these words to me I wish you’d just say whether or not you think an arbitration case would be helpful. If you are too busy to respond there, that’s fine, but that excuse loses effectiveness if you find time to do portal work (which is the locus of dispute) or provide lengthy explanations of why you can't supply a response that is limited to 500 words in any event. Friend, you just wrote 511 words right here.  Jehochman Talk 17:13, 23 November 2019 (UTC) and 03:26, 24 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)

Finally something unrelated to portals
Hey, Northamerica1000. I'd like to ask you for advice, if you aren't too busy at the moment. I have recently stumbled upon this article by chance: Julian Wolpert. There appears to be some (not so great) autobiographic editing and I am not sure whether the individual meets the notability standards. Should it be nominated for deletion or just cleaned up? What do you think? --Hecato (talk) 20:18, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit busy, and also headed for vacation, so I won't be researching this at this time. However, I added the Friendly search suggestions template to the talk page, which provides search options to assist in determining potential notability. I also added the Copy edit template to the article page, with a rationale stating, "This article may require copy editing for reducing entries in the Selected publications section, which is too long, and list formatting for this section." North America1000 06:55, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Have fun on your camping trip. And yeah, don't take internet drama too seriously. --Hecato (talk) 15:19, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48
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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
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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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Portal guideline workshop
Hi there. I'm taking it upon myself to try to moderate a discussion among Portal power users with the intention of creating a draft guideline for Portals, and I'd like to invite you to join this discussion. If you're interested, please join the discussion at User talk:Scottywong/Portal guideline workspace. Thanks. ‑Scottywong | [chat] || 02:49, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invite. I'm a bit busy, and also headed for vacation, but I will keep this in mind when I'm back on a regular basis. North America1000 06:48, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
 Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:35, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you kindly, . North America1000 01:42, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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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
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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
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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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Tech News: 2019-50
<section begin="technews-2019-W50"/> 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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Tech News: 2019-51
<section begin="technews-2019-W51"/> 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
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 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 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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