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October - November 2015

Interview
Hi SamWalton9, sorry it's taken so long, but we're finally finalizing the newsletter and we were hoping you could give us a few responses to some questions. I realize this is kind of last minute, but the nominal deadline is Oct 7, and we may run a little over-due this time around. Anyway whenever you get a chance, the questions are posted here and you can answer as many or as few as you like. Unanswered questions will be removed from the final publication so you don't appear to be ignoring anything. You can answer however you like, and in in as few or as many words as you see fit. Thanks in advance, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to clarify them with me at my talk page. -Thibbs (talk) 13:56, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your responses! One additional note: I just made to one of your responses. I'm guessing that it was a typo, but if that incorrectly changed the meaning of your sentence then please revert. Thanks again! -Thibbs (talk) 12:58, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks; I think I'd just been typing for too long :) Let me know if there's anything else that doesn't make sense. Sam Walton (talk) 13:00, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 13
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Issue 13, August-September 2015 by, , ,

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 * New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
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 * Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
 * Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

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Mariel Pamintuan
Hi Sam Walton. Just a question about Mariel Pamintuan. You closed Articles for deletion/Mariel Pamintuan (2nd nomination) as "delete", but for some reason a redirect to My Daughter Daniela has been newly created using the same name. Is this something typically done for deleted articles and considered OK per WP:BLAR? I've seen AfDs where the result has been "redirect", but this option was not discussed at all for this article.

In addition, the redirect was made by a just created account whose only three edits: one to create the redirect and two to User talk:Athena07112001. This seems a bit unusual because WP:R is not something a new editor is typically very familiar with, and also because Athena07112001 has no history of editing any article. Just curious. Thanks in advance. - Marchjuly (talk) 04:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * While I'm familiar neither with the exact letter of the law nor common practice with regards to creating redirects over deletions, this seems ok to me. We can't expect that every deletion discussion will notice plausible redirects so one being created after a deletion seems ok. Sam Walton (talk) 11:36, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking a look. Just was curious as to how it works. - Marchjuly (talk) 11:46, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41
 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
 * The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile.
 * The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
 * UploadWizard will remind users to add a category.
 * UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use.
 * A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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Adderbury Park FC
Please explain how Launton Sports FC are allowed to have a wiki and Adderbury Park FC don't when they are in the same division?! All details on Adderbury wiki had sources to confirm everything on there, seems like a vindictive campaign against us if you ask me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.217.66.235 (talk) 09:27, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * No one is "allowing" them to have an article; if they shouldn't have one it can be nominated for deletion. I don't know much of anything about football club notability though so I'll ping JMHamo who seems to know more. There's no vindictive campaign here. Sam Walton (talk) 14:28, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-42
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Recent changes
 * The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters.

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 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing.
 * Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category.

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2015
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A very specialized barnstar for you!

 * Sam, here's the barnstar I've been holding out on giving you! A great pleasure it is to award this. I may have been there all along, but you lead the pack and you know it ;) Cheers, friend &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  17:42, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks MusikAnimal, this means a lot. I'm really happy that all this change has happened, and thank you for your help along the way! I'd have given up a long time ago if not for your helpful insights. Sam Walton (talk) 19:51, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-43
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Recent changes Problems
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 * Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
 * A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed.
 * Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week.
 * The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week.
 * Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks.

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Tekken 7
Hello,

In the controversies section of the article a blog is sourced for one of the statements from the producer. Said blog is referencing a tweet by the producer. I replaced the blog link with a direct link to the tweet but our pal Osh33m reverted the change with the vague statement "the original ref was filled in". I looked up the guidelines and didn't find a definitive ruling on blogs vs direct tweets as sources. Can you help clarify? If he's gonna start an edit war I'd prefer to know what I'm getting into. Thanks! Hogo~enwiki (talk) 12:34, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * In this case I agree that the direct link to the twitter post would be preferable to a blog post containing it. There's no need for us to have the information surrounded by some blogger's writing. That said, I've taken it out entirely. Given that the only source was a single tweet with what seems like one person disagreeing with the character, I don't think we can really claim any controversy here. Sam Walton (talk) 12:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Fine with me. Thanks!Hogo~enwiki (talk) 20:40, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like we're back to square one on this issue. Is that the end of it? Hogo~enwiki (talk) 09:41, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I just haven't found the time to look through the entire section as is being demanded. I'll get around to it. Sam Walton (talk) 22:47, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-44
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 * The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools.
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.
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Tech News: 2015-45
<section begin="technews-2015-W45"/> 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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage.
 * If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results.
 * Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile.

Problems
 * On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes.

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 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links.
 * Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates.

Carrie Barton Page - Deleted
Hi Samwalton9, I had previously created a Wikipedia page for the actress Carrie Barton. I see that it is now been deleted by you(as of July 2015) and I wanted to know why. There was no nonfactual information on the page and it was supported with her IMDB page. I would like to either get this page back or create another one but I first wanted to know why the last one was deleted so that it does not happen again. Is it simply because it had not been updated in a while? If so, we can make sure to do that. If it was for another reason please let me know as this should not have been deleted. --Smithy915 (talk) 15:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi there. First of all you should stick to one account; I notice this is a different account to the one you wrote the article on. As for the article, it was deleted after a deletion discussion found that the subject wasn't notable enough for Wikipedia. Subjects require coverage in multiple reliable sources to be eligible for an article. Sam Walton (talk) 18:19, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is. All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. , a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to. Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
 * wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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Tech News: 2015-46
<section begin="technews-2015-W46"/> 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
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 * You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch.

Problems
 * Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon.

Changes this week


 * Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

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 * A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback.
 * The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different.

Skow for Girlfriends Films
I'm confused as to why this article was deleted. Although there were more delete !votes in the AfD, I wonder (with all due respect) if you considered the merit of those rationales; for instance, one user simply said "nothing here"; was that an empty article with no sources or something? In addition, it was argued that the subject wasn't a studio, when I provided proof (even before the article was up for deletion) that it is indeed a studio. Moreover, it won an award for Best New Line. Finally, if all else failed, why couldn't it have been merged into Girlfriends Films?  Erpert  blah, blah, blah... 05:19, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * You were the only voter to vote keep, and 5 other editors (plus the nomination) voted delete for, on the whole, valid rationales. If you want to merge the content to another article I'm happy to restore the article to your userspace, let me know. Alternatively you can take this to WP:DRV, but I stand by my close. Sam Walton (talk) 11:28, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I would indeed like you to restore it to my userspace, but I'm still a little confused; I mean, winning an award means nothing in terms of notability now? (Girl Candy Films, another article I created, won the same award but has never been challenged.)  Erpert  blah, blah, blah... 05:07, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅, User:Erpert/Skow for Girlfriends Films Sam Walton (talk) 11:05, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-47
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 * You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information.
 * Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme.
 * The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
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Future changes
 * Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, 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. The change will happen in January 2016.

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Talk:Skyfall
In your closing statement did you want to say anything about the decimal point? Is it possible/ not possible for this to be made more visible? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:56, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I left it at 'further discussion required' since I didn't think that a clear consensus on that point could be taken from the discussion. Some voters said it should be less, other said nothing, which could be taken as supporting 3 decimal places. Sam Walton (talk) 14:02, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. But as per User:Gareth Griffith-Jones, I actually meant the size and location of the point symbol - it's usually the same as a full stop? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah I see. I don't think enough opinions were raised about this for a consensus to be drawn. If you think this is an important issue I would bring it up separately, though perhaps at WT:FILM or MOS:NUM, since this would be applicable to all film articles (full stop is the current default). Sam Walton (talk) 14:37, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. Gareth may feel more strongly about it than I do. I mentioned the comma separator, as part of my response, and I felt a bit like I had brought a pork-pie to a bar mitzvah. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48
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 * There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

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Future changes
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats.

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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SPI Training
Thank you for applying to become an SPI Clerk. At this time we have decided to take you on to the December 2015 training. Please watchlist the page and keep updated with it as time goes on. Thanks, -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 19:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-49
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Problems
 * On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015.
 * Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January.
 * Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified.

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