User talk:Rich Smith/Archive42

Roll back and forbidding me to edit the Holocaust with verifiable sources
I use your sentence, asking Irondome/Simon, wh o cancelled my edit, to explain his reasons. He told me he used roll back and advised me to edit other articles in wikipedia.

Can he control the content of the article on Holocaust in wikipedia. I lack his technical knowledge, but I am editing in good faith and with verifiable sources.

Thank you. Regards.Henia Perlman (talk) 15:11, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Editing the Holocaust in France
I know now that I have to explain editing. So, I would like to discuss with you my editing: Of the 340,000 Jews living in metropolitan/continental France in 1940, In fact, it would be more correct to write: About 300,000 Jews lived in continental France. ... 77,000 ...

1. Why about: As Poznanski stated the French republic didn't do census based on religion/ethnicity; so most historians write "about ...) 2. I know that many historians write that there were about 300,000 Jews in France. But, as Charles de Gaulle and others specify: France is the Third Republic, comprised of la Metropole/Metropolitan France, and France d'Outre-mer (over-seas). ANd Poznanski specifies that, when she uses the term Vichy metropolitaine, which leads to "Vichy Tunisia" (as used by the historical Tunisian archives), Vichy Algeria and Vichy Morocco. The three departments, 91, 92, 93, in French Algerianwere an integral part of the French Republic.

Kaspi states that there were 700,000 Jews in the French soil.

Wiki does not have to promote false views of "France" limited to the Metropole, especially when Petain and the Nazi regime didn't think so, and it does not reflect the historical realities of the period.

Do I make sense?

I will post this message in "Talk" in article "The Holocaust in France". Thank you.Henia Perlman (talk) 19:21, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23
 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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
 * When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
 * You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
 * New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences.
 * You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
 * When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.

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 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017
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Mikhail Blagosklonny`s page.
Dear Rich,

I have received your message in regards Mikhail Blagosklonny`s page. The fact that you put it back does not mean that you explained adequately your actions either.

Thanks, Leendet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leendett (talk • contribs) 00:15, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

cluebot ng
Hello, I recently recieved a message about an edit being reverted for highway 101. It was changed by cluebot ng, the only issue is that I have never edited a page on wikipedia ever. There must be a bug in the software for me to get this message, so I just wanted to inform you of it. Thank you for making wikipedia great again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.93.186.250 (talk) 21:00, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24
 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
 * Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
 * When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
 * Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding  to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete.

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New User with False Positives, May I have Some Assistance Please?
Hi, I am new to doing editing. Frankly, it is not even editing, I am not technically adept enough to do that, but rather it is simply pointing out when I find an OBVIOUS error on a wiki page. Please see these two instances where a bot has auto-reverted me, in what I believe are false positive “vandalism”. There was NO mal-intent, but I surely could have edited poorly. Please check my edits and see for yourself. If it is the case where this was a false positive due to no vandalism, please set the record in my history straight. If I need to do something differently, please explain It to me as simply as possible. What do I do when I want to report a bad link so that the experts on the page will become aware of it?

First reversion:

The following is the log entry regarding this message: Angus King was changed by Zbiff (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.973126 on 2017-06-13T21:07:27+00:00.

Second reversion:

The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Century Village, Florida was changed by Zbiff (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.94635 on 2017-06-15T06:27:08+00:00.

The page displayed when using this link “report it here “ to try and resolve the false positive:

[COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT SCREENSHOT HERE.]

(https://tools.wmflabs.org/cluebot/?page=View&id=3063349)

Thanks, Zbifff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zbiff (talk • contribs) 06:58, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25
 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
 * ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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The Signpost: 23 June 2017
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