User talk:Numbermaniac/Archive 4

Talkback
Dougweller (talk) 16:15, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

undo explained
No, I'm not him. I thought from his talk page message that you had removed the whois notice I put on top of his talk page ... when actually he had moved it to where you found it.

I'm glad that was the explanation, because I've never had another editor remove one of those notices. Daniel Case (talk) 02:05, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I was confused why it said it belonged to you, because I didn't expect a user like that to be you! And why would they edit from their IP when they had an account, if it was you? So I just removed it. Hope it wasn't any trouble. :) -- t  numbermaniac  c  02:32, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I apologize for the confusion, numbermaniac. I moved the act of vandalism lower on my talk page and replaced Verizon's name with Case's.  Then you deleted it.  I still don't understand why Case put it on my talk page and he isn't very forthcoming.  Can you explain to me what he was trying to accomplish?  I've edited here for years and I don't remember seeing a tag like that before.  --72.66.30.115 (talk) 03:25, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm given to understand that it's usually placed on talk pages of IPs just in case the ip becomes troublesome or vandalistic, etc. In the future if that ip or any other with that template became a problem, Wikipedia could contact whoever owns the ip about the issue. -- t  numbermaniac  c  04:32, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I have nothing to add to numbermaniac's explanation—he says it best. Ideally they'd be on all IP talk pages where a templated warning had been given. But I find your claim that you've "edited here for years" very interesting in light of your first edit from that IP being barely a month old. Maybe I wasn't so far off with my suggestion that more than one editor is at work here, or something else is going on ... Daniel Case (talk) 04:37, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * numbermaniac has nailed it: Daniel's middle name is Justin, as in "it's usually placed on talk pages of IPs just in case the ip becomes troublesome or vandalistic, etc."  numbermaniac, don't tell DJC that the whois button is at the bottom of every IP's talk page, obviating his offensive use of it as a non-warning vandalism warning.  Expressing opinions an admin dislikes is not "vandalism", "troublesome" or "tendentious", but that doesn't stop some admins from trying to punish you for expressing them.
 * @ Daniel Case: my advice to you, Sherlock, is that you begin looking for a pill for borderline paranoia, for yourself.  --72.66.30.115 (talk) 18:29, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * That was a perfect coincidence. I had no idea what his middle name was, I didn't even realise that until you just pointed it out. -- t  numbermaniac  c  23:47, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Nina Rosenwald's article
I saw your chat on Dougweller's talkpage. You were absolutely correct to restore the article. My version was an improvement in every way over the deleted version—it even included a negative opinion of Nina R that was sourced and cited and also included an EL to the negative information, although the EL was, in a sense, superfluous and therefore deprecated. But the negative content I had added was not enough to satisfy the ideologues—they repeatedly added descriptions of her that were violations of BLP or NPOV or both. Having to revert their violations began an "edit war". Weller is correct when he says "if it weren't for one editor we might not have had so many problems". If I hadn't been there to stand up to them, they would have slimed Nina R from top to bottom and thought they were making the article neutral. "Progressives" become unhappy when someone prevents them from putting the maximum amount of negative information in articles about people and organizations they don't like. Roscelese, to name one, is a POV-pusher par excellence and would have been stopped long ago but for the fact that so many editors and admins agree with her political POV. Her masterpiece is probably Crisis pregnancy centers. You would think from reading that article that the only business of CPCs is telling lies, when in fact they save thousands of unborn babies every year by making it easier for mothers to carry their babies to term. I know all this because I've been editing here for years. As I mentioned to you previously, Verizon, my ISP, changed my IP address several weeks ago. This has lead some to jump to wrong conclusions about me, e.g., that I'm an SPA. Anyway, keep an eye peeled for the "little Hitlers" here who couldn't recognize a NPOV if their lives depended on it. --72.66.30.115 (talk) 04:43, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * You'll need to give us your earlier IP then if you don't want us to treat you as a new editor. Your vandalism on your own page is noted. Dougweller (talk) 07:31, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I've been doing a contributions search to see if there's anyone with an IP beginning "72." to see if any of them edited in 2013... it's lagging my computer and I'm not getting any results :( -- t  numbermaniac  c  09:28, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * "if you don't want us to treat you as a new editor." That's a puzzling turn of phrase from an admin, considering the way I've been treated lately.  What happened to AGF?  Aren't new editors supposed to be treated more gently because they are new?  I've recently been accused of being "tendentious", an SPA, part of an IP tag team, blah, blah, blah.  Is that how you think new editors are supposed to be treated?  Repeatedly tagging a "new editor's" talk page with something that looks like a warning related to vandalism—with NO EXPLANATION by the tagging admin as to why the tag was put there or what it's supposed to mean, even after an explanation was requested?  That is vandalism.  But, I'm not naive.  It all comes down to the fact that I expressed political opinions that several editors and even admins find objectionable.  --72.66.30.115 (talk) 18:04, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

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About "Evergreen School (Jaipur, Rajasthan, India)"
Hi Numbermaniac. Yeah, schools aren't eligible for WP:A7s, but I can't see any evidence that this school actually exists. Its webpage - such as it is - suggests that it might be taking students some time in the near future. There are no hits in the usual places to find info about educational institutions in the Subcontinent. To WP:AfD, perhaps? Pete aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:54, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Yep, seeing it was declined, I may as we'll take it to AfD. -- t  numbermaniac  c  23:38, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Done. -- t  numbermaniac  c  09:32, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks and sorry
Hi Numbermaniac, thank you for reverting me...that's a bit embarrassing that I posted on someone's user page...oops...there goes my credibility. Anyhow, I appreciate you politely cleaning up the mess I made. Regards Danh108 (talk) 07:19, 13 October 2013 (UTC)


 * No worries Danh108. In the future, remember to post these things on talk pages. :) -- t  numbermaniac  c  09:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, " ".

The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).

Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Yoshi Tatsu
The IP appeared to be trying. It was pretty bad. I reverted to about 8 Oct. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:25, 22 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks . Much appreciated. :) -- t  numbermaniac  c  07:30, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
Thanks for helping out here. I was unsure what your initial comment meant. -- Neil N  <sup style="color:blue;">talk to me  14:08, 24 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I apologise for the confusion I caused. I did not realise the submission was in the project space. At least it's all sorted out now. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  21:00, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

WP Apple Inc. in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Apple Inc. for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 12:28, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Two questions

 * 1) When I first commented on your talk page somewhere around July, before I got an account, I noticed there were bots adding sections called "Please comment on random page." How could I sign up for that?
 * 2) How do get your edit notice above the edit window on your talk page? Meeples10t ~ c 23:19, 11 November 2013 (UTC)


 * WP:FRS.
 * Create User talk:Meeples10/Editnotice with whatever you want. You can use editnotice for the box I used. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  05:48, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Meeples10t ~ c 10:04, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

A Barnstar for You!
‎
 * :) -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  20:44, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:


 * Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed.  The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
 * Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
 * Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
 * File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
 * Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
 * Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
 * Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
 * Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through   and   both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
 * Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
 * Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
 * Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
 * Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
 * Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
 * Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
 * Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
 * Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ( set to true) (bug 44483).  (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead: If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:28, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
 * Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions.  Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
 * In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done.  Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

Wikidata weekly summary #88
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Guidelines about ordering
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
 * Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
 * Development
 * Made improvements to lower database load
 * Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
 * Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/victor cacciatore
I stumbled across this G13 eligible AfC submission for no reason whatsoever. Just asking - you know how it says "Published by Exact Publicity" at the bottom? Exact Publicity are a PR firm. Does this mean anything? George8211what did I break now? 16:19, 24 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm not too happy with that line... with no references and no WP:ILCs, this would most likely be a fail. I think we could go ahead and tag it for deletion. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  20:15, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #86
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:42, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Showcase items - take 2
 * Verified statements
 * Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Closed: Image properties
 * Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
 * Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/wikidata-concept-cloud/ The Wikidata Concept Cloud]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
 * Newest task forces: Sports results task force
 * Development
 * Ranks are nearing completion (49120)
 * Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - 54318)
 * Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
 * Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
 * Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
 * Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
 * Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
 * Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (54324)
 * Released the Datavalues library
 * Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
 * Defined permissions for Simple Queries
 * First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

December 2013 - January 2014 AfC Backlog Elimination Drive
I noticed that you have signed up for the drive. Please note that the AFCBuddy script does not appear to be functioning at this time. Therefore, user Backlog Elimination Drive log pages will need to be manually updated. Northamerica1000(talk) 04:56, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Darn. Ok then, thanks for telling me . -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  01:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure thing, and thanks for contributing to the drive! Northamerica1000(talk) 01:51, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #87
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

AfC December 2013 - January 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive
I'm not sure how you calculated my edits for the drive, so I've changed my count on the leaderboard back to 111, per my own count (changed from the 124 you listed on the leaderboard). I'm confident I havent' calculated incorrectly, but when updating leaderboard stats, please also update my page at WikiProject Articles for creation/December 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive/Northamerica1000 to qualify the quantification. Thank you for your consideration regarding this matter, and happy editing. Northamerica1000(talk) 06:55, 7 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Let me clarify:


 * 1) Your drive page indicates 111 reviews. Total: 111 points.
 * 2) You re-reviewed 8 reviews on other user's drive pages. This earns you 8 points. Total: 119.
 * 3) Also, in 5 of your reviews, you failed those submissions as copyvios. This earns you another 5 points. Total: 124.

Hope this makes sense. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  07:26, 7 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thing is, though, I don't see it denoted anywhere where extra points are earned on the main leaderboard for detecting copyvios or for performing reviews. There is nothing about this on the WikiProject Articles for creation/December 2013 - January 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive page. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:31, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Reviews are denoted separately on the page in the Reviewers section, and are not counted on the leaderboard. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:32, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually they are counted on the leaderboard too. It might make more sense if you check October's backlog drive. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  07:35, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Is this how the AFCBuddy script calculates things? Northamerica1000(talk) 07:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  07:37, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It would be beneficial for these parameters to be denoted in print on the current drive page, as well as on the general Backlog elimination drives page. While we can hope for the script to be adjusted to post absolutely correctly, this doesn't appear to be occurring at this time. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:44, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to add that in the leaderboard section of this drive. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  07:45, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * This would be quite helpful! Northamerica1000(talk) 07:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Done. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  07:53, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've also added this content to the main drive page at AfC Buddy scoring script. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:57, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia talk: Articles for creation/Jack Curran
Hi Numbermaniac, You reviewed the above mentioned submission and rejected it due to the fact that "the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Jack Curran instead." That Jack Curran is "John Joseph "Jack" Curran". This article is about "John Bernard "Jack" Curran". So editing the "John Joseph "Jack" Curran" article, as suggested, will do no good. What do I need to do with the "John Bernard "Jack" Curran" submission to have it approved? Thanks, Mickeyd20 Mickeyd20 (talk) 03:47, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #91
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Talkback
Northamerica1000(talk) 16:41, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Update regarding AfC backlog drive auto-updating with AFCBuddy
Manual updating of your Backlog Elimination Drive page is no longer necessary. The AFCBuddy bot is now automatically updating AfC reviews that are performed when using the Helper script. The bot-generated pages are located at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/December 2013 - January 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive/[Your user name].

Importantly, please note that any re-reviews you may have performed will need to be manually copied and pasted to the bot-generated pages. Thank you for participating in the drive. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:33, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Shareplex
hi,

i want to know why the article shareplex was declined. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbaoracle2013 (talk • contribs) 05:37, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * It requires a bit more info and some more references to establish notability. See WP:42. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  12:25, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.
 * Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved.  This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation.  Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings).  If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control or Command  (Mac).
 * Auto-numbered external links like can now be edited just like any other link.  However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
 * Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here.  The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified.  If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
 * There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters.  Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
 * Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
 * It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally. To do so, append   to the end of the page name.  For example, change   to   to open a random page in VisualEditor.  This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:48, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #89
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
 * Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
 * RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
 * Development
 * Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
 * Improved and added a lot of tests
 * Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
 * No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
 * Caching and database improvements
 * Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
 * More work on quantities UI
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Merry Christmas!
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 Pr at yya  (Hello!) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.  Pr at yya  (Hello!) 04:49, 24 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you Pratyya. :) -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  01:02, 25 December 2013 (UTC)