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Tech News: 2016-31
 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
 * A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now.
 * The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems
 * Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #220
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Notability of items for templates
 * One or more property examples?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Repository Fringe
 * Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
 * Upcoming: CCBWIKI
 * Localités au fil de l'eau
 * WDQ, obsolete?
 * BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
 * You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
 * You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
 * There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
 * Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
 * You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
 * IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
 * WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
 * Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
 * Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
 * Development
 * Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
 * Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (T110604)
 * Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (T115269)
 * Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (T140085)
 * Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
 * Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (T138131)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-32
 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
 * In notifications, the icon for has been changed from a speech-bubble icon (Echo chat icon.svg) to a tray icon (OOjs UI icon tray.svg) for consistency. The  icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility.

Problems
 * If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard.
 * On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images.
 * When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template.
 * The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August.
 * When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
 * A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page.

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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Edit Filter
I do not know what you mean about me having to create an account, as I was pretty sure that is what I already have. Also, what is it about the edit that I've been trying to add that makes too unconstructive to be posted? Tuboll345 (talk) 07:48, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * my apologies, that response may have been meant for someone else. I've reviewed the comment you were trying to make, and it boils down to a number of things. We can't discuss the content of the filter/what exactly it is which is tripping it, but you may find it useful to work elsewhere on the project before attempting to post talk messages on controversial topics. I also note you attempted to create another user's user page, why? -- samtar talk or stalk 08:21, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I think these two links will explain that:. Tuboll345, your post hit a filter due to the controversial nature of the topic, but you'll be able to make this edit after you've made three more edits anywhere on Wikipedia. For example just make three meaningless edits to User:Tuboll345. -- zzuuzz (talk) 08:34, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks --  samtar talk or stalk 09:00, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Me creating of another user page was done as a response to the comment suggesting that I make a new account, I got a little confused. Tuboll345 (talk) 17:14, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Catechin
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The Signpost: 04 August 2016
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Bot request
Hello there Samtar, from Portugal,

just to be on the safe, regarding this (please see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Conversion_of_links), did you read my follow-up to your doubt? If so and you are at a loss, what more info do you need? I'll provide it as soon as possible.

Attentively --Be Quiet AL (talk) 01:57, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * As far as I understand, I believe this can be done with AWB? Mass changing the URL? Dat GuyTalkContribs 10:26, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * sorry I've been a little busy, I'll take another look later today, but I think DatGuy is right with the ability of AWB to do a (regex?) find and replace -- samtar talk or stalk 10:28, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

As far as I know, in some cases (not sure if all) old URL has a different set of numbers attached to it than the new one (for example Simãozinho). So this is bad news, no? --Be Quiet AL (talk) 16:17, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll look into this asap -- samtar talk or stalk 18:49, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Revisions to Rysa Walker page
Hi, Samtar!

A reader just notified me that my page was in dire need of an update. She added some items earlier, but indicated that there were sections in the main text that needed revision, so I just went in and did it. It didn't occur to me that this might violate policy. Apologies!

At any rate, here are the edits that I made. I included citations for everything added and posted my official author photo.

If you or someone else could verify and check that the content isn't biased, I'd appreciate the help. As a long time Wikipedia user, I really hate for my readers to see an incomplete page.

Sincerely, Rysa Walker — Preceding unsigned comment added by rysawalker (talk • contribs)


 * Hi there - thanks for leaving me a message. I've moved the below to Draft:Rysa Walker where I would encourage you to work on it further (if needed). Don't worry about violating any policies, all that matters is that you're aware of it and are open to discussing any changes you'd like to make. As for the changes you've already made, I will look over them and let you know if I see any issues, but you should be alright. If you'd like to make any further changes, please change Draft:Rysa Walker and then ask for it to be reviewed. Happy editing, and again thank you for taking the time to speak to us regarding your conflict of interest -- samtar talk or stalk 15:45, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, @Samtar. I made one small change, since it was linking to the wrong St. Andrews University, but otherwise it's good to go. Thanks so much for your help!! Rysawalker (talk) 16:18, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi - been super busy recently, and I will be for the next hour or so. I'll try to check into this soon! --  samtar talk or stalk 18:49, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #221
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
 * Past: WikiConference India 2016
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
 * Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
 * Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
 * Livin’ on the edge
 * Communes orphelines?
 * Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
 * Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
 * WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
 * Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
 * Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
 * 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
 * Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
 * Job opening at TIB
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
 * Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
 * Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
 * Development
 * Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
 * Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (T140576)
 * Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
 * Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (T140383)
 * Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (T138766)
 * Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (T141880, T141879)
 * Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (T141862)
 * Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (T142034)
 * Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (T139977)
 * Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (T124036)
 * Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (T137933)
 * Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (T141878)
 * Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (T140760)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Email
OK, I've sent another, feel free to forward to Natuur.♦ Dr. Blofeld  07:57, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Got it, I'll have a read and a bit of a look into it and drop you a line back. May take a little while -- samtar talk or stalk 08:04, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you forward that to me, too? See Dr. Blofeld's talk page. Thanks. clpo13(talk) 15:52, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Forwarded to and Natuur, now reading through it and formulating a reply. Unfortunately I've been swamped at work so apologies for not getting on this sooner --  samtar talk or stalk 18:10, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries, appreciated.♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:04, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Script Idea
I commonly forget to sign my comments. Would it be a hassle to make a script that if you do not sign something in the Wikipedia:, User talk: , or Talk: space, there would be a pop-up reminding you? Feel free to decline this if you don't want to :D. Dat GuyTalkContribs 12:03, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmmmmm, checking in the pending wikitext for an instance of  and then popping up when one is not detected asking "Have you signed this post? [Yes] [No]" would be rather useful... hmmm --  samtar talk or stalk 12:33, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmmmmmmm. Dat GuyTalkContribs 20:39, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Hamza Tzortzis
Greetings! In the spirit of WP:BOLD, I have updated the Hamza Tzortzis article on Wikipedia, as it previously was clearly not meeting various Wikipedia guidelines. Although not close to being complete, I would like to invite you to review my edits and provide any feedback to help the article meet Wikipedia guidelines. Thank you. --Djrun (talk) 18:02, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Orders of magnitude (acceleration)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Orders of magnitude (acceleration). Legobot (talk) 04:23, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

!header
I didnt talk wrong, i got a doubt because , a human being cant work 24 hours a day , year wise, i know an editor name bona dea ,previously i thing he is an editor,but i confirmed that only robots have power 24 hours work, concentrate on specific words ,if i write wrong i am so sorry , i have more respect , i am expecdting your reply...please dont miss, i want to confirm the above editor is human being or robot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wertyuiolkm (talk • contribs)
 * I removed the warning from your talk page, as I believe I misinterpreted your message to BethNaught. I have replied on their talk page, but I can assure you they are a human editor, much like yourself -- samtar talk or stalk 16:51, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Troll
Re this, it is a troll by the name of Nsmutte. Obviously this time you didn't know, but in future please do revert and report immediately if you see such behaviour. Thanks, BethNaught (talk) 17:15, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks BN, I'll bear that in mind in the future ._. -- samtar talk or stalk 17:21, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Mayday! Mayday! Dat GuyTalkContribs 18:40, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Abuse filter
Hi, because of an irritating AbuseFilter bug, we (Kaldari, MusikAnimal and I) are going to do an update next week that will affect some of your filters. We hope we'll fix all affected filters ourselves, but we're of course grateful if you want to help us. The issue is explained here; the current plan is here. In any case, we wanted you to be aware what's happening, and you're very welcome to help out of course. I'm sending you an email with more details. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 17:04, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks
Ah, thanks for that - I forgot to add the subst:uw- at the beginning of the tag! Melcous (talk) 13:00, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries, I probably should have realised that was what you meant to do! -- samtar talk or stalk 13:03, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33
 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
 * Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead.
 * Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor.
 * For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon.

Changes this week
 * The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16.
 * Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed.
 * In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article".
 * The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world.

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Wikidata weekly summary #222
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:27, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
 * Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
 * History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
 * ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
 * You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status Screenshot of Histropedia timeline using Wikidata.png
 * The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
 * Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
 * New templates:, , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
 * Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
 * Development
 * Wikibase/DataModel/JSON was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
 * Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (T137115)
 * Worked more on better visual layout of references (T141862)
 * Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (T129836)
 * Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (T126873)
 * Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
 * Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (T141879)
 * Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
 * Drafting interface stability policy (T142084)
 * Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (T140760)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

WikiProject Computer Security user status
Hello Samtar,

I would just like to inquire on your status on WikiProject Computer Security as the list of WikiProject Computer Security/Members is going to be improved to list active and inactive users.

This is update is being done according to a request for comments on the WikiProject Computer Security talk page. Be sure to state your status at the User status section in the WikiProject Computer Security talk page before the end of four weeks as this will state your status as inactive in the project if not done before then.

FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 01:55, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Removed, thanks for the message -- samtar talk or stalk 14:02, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

14:26:47, 18 August 2016 review of submission by 98.160.205.19
How are you, my page was just not approved and I look at other actors and see that they have a quick bio about them first. Could this be the reason of rejection. Because I do have notable references and records I broke, Also I Am The Cousin to Jimi Hendrix, and I understand the family connection can't do much for you. But, he was a icon. Also I have Done/Worked on many celebrity's project with them. So can you please tell me exactly what I need to get my WIKI approved. You can reply on my talk page. Thank You,

(98.160.205.19 (talk) 14:55, 18 August 2016 (UTC))

Defence
I made a good contribution to Wiki and now they want to delete my account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jeneral28#Suspected_sockpuppets

I am not that person please assist thanks.

Cantab1985 (talk) 03:02, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I reccomend you back away from the SPI - a checkuser will likely check your account. If you are abusing multiple accounts, coming clean before the Checkuser will greatly increase your chances of being able to appeal any blocks you may face. I'd also reccomend not canvassing -- samtar talk or stalk 07:16, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Fine I won't respond to it. Thanks.Cantab1985 (talk) 07:31, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 August 2016
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page deletion
I logged in many times and created userpages but Now I created a new username that I don't want to change. I want to delete all previous usernames and pages ,but I don't know. please help. Naila Khan Alizai5 (talk) 17:31, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Gamergate controversy
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Tech News: 2016-34
<section begin="technews-2016-W34"/> 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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  and   functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5.

Problems
 * Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed.
 * When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki.
 * How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype.

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Wikidata weekly summary #223
<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="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <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 · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
 * Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
 * Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
 * Refining "part of"
 * Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
 * Wikidata:Notability overhaul
 * RfP voting eligibility
 * Standards for property proposal discussions
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
 * August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
 * Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
 * All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
 * Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
 * Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
 * COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
 * Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
 * WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
 * Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
 * Did you know? Popular surnames Wikidata query.png
 * Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
 * Query examples:
 * A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
 * Common occupations of heads of state (source).
 * Murderers by region in France (source).
 * Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
 * Popular surnames among humans (source).
 * Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
 * Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
 * Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
 * Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
 * Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
 * Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
 * New templates:, , , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
 * Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
 * Menus are now internationalised on the query service
 * Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
 * Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
 * Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
 * Worked on the interface stability policy
 * Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
 * Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Wikidata weekly summary #224
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 * Discussions
 * We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
 * Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
 * Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
 * GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
 * Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
 * Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
 * WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
 * The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
 * enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
 * Query examples:
 * RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
 * Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
 * Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
 * Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
 * 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
 * All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
 * Drug-disease interactions (source)
 * Nicknames of serial killers (source)
 * Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23Internet%20Services%20By%20Type%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20?webService%20?webServiceLabel%20%0A%0A(SAMPLE%20(?inception)%20as%20?inception)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?type)%20as%20?type)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?precision)%20as%20?precision)%0A(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A?webService%20wdt:P31/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q1668024.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%09%09%23Subclass%20of%20service%20on%20internet%0A%0A?webService%20p:P571%20?inceptionStatement%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23That%20has%20inception%20date%0A?inceptionStatement%20psv:P571%20?inceptionStatementNode%20.%09%09%09%09%0A%20%20%20%20?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?inception%20.%09%09%09%23Get%20inception%20date%0A%20%20%09?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?precision%20.%09%09%23Get%20date%20precision%0A%0A?webService%20wdt:P31%20?typeItem%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20the%20service%20type%0A?typeItem%20rdfs:label%20?type%20filter%20(lang(?type)%20%3D%20%22en%22).%09%09%09%09%23and%20the%20label%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?webService%20wdt:P18%20?image%7D%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20image%20if%20available%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?webService%20wdt:P154%20?image%7D%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20logo%20image%20if%20avilable%0A%0A%0A?article%20schema:about%20?webService%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Count%20article%20links%20for%20rank%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7Bbd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?webService%20?webServiceLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&url=webService&title=webServiceLabel&from=inception&fromPrecision=precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=type&threshold=1&view=timeline Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web] (source)
 * Network of color (source)
 * Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
 * Newest gadgets:
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
 * Newest database reports:
 * New feature/gadget requests:
 * Showcase items:


 * Development
 * Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (T115267)
 * We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (T140760)
 * Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (T143645)
 * The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (T141771)
 * Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (T103091)
 * Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (T141856)
 * Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (T143435)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Please comment on Talk:Neonicotinoid
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Neonicotinoid. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Just footy talks
Hey mate! I was wondering how Las Palmas are on 1st position. I mean La Liga doesn't follow the goal difference rule. They just care about head to head results. Any idea? 106.67.108.201 (talk) 06:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35
<section begin="technews-2016-W35"/> 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 mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster.
 * When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing  in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing   and   in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row.

Changes this week
 * The name of the " " button will change. The button will say "  " when you create a new page. It will say "  " when you change an existing page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W35"/> 16:03, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

!header
Hey Samtar, Thank you for the note on autoconfirmed users, Can I see my status somewhere myself ? thanks!One bg (talk) 08:44, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi - you can see which "groups" you are a member of by visiting Special:Preferences. You should be autoconfirmed very soon (it can take an hour or so for the software to do it) --  samtar talk or stalk 08:51, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Dan Costa (musician)
hello - could you kindly tell me why "dan costa (musician)" was declined? The article has enough reliable sources and there is a version in other languages (See Portuguese). Looking forward to your rapid response.

Thanks, Giannis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:582:D42:7400:2847:4773:33DC:8DEC (talk) 10:01, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #225
<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="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
 * What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
 * Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
 * 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
 * Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
 * Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
 * 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
 * Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
 * Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
 * English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
 * The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
 * Things named after Polish people (source)
 * Drama schools by number of students (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Average%20gestation%20period%20of%20genera%2C%20color-coded%20by%20order%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenus%20%28AVG%28%3Fperiod%29%20AS%20%3Fperiod%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FgenusLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Frgb%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%22en%22%20AS%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20species%20with%20gestation%20period%20and%20convert%20to%20seconds%20%28SI%20base%20unit%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fspecies%20p%3AP3063%2Fpsv%3AP3063%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbasePeriod%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitPeriod%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11574%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20convert%20back%20to%20days%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3FbasePeriod%20%2a%20%3FunitPeriod%29%2F%2860%2a60%2a24%29%20AS%20%3Fperiod%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20genus%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fspecies%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fgenus.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ34740.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20good%20label%20%E2%80%93%20trivial%20name%2C%20else%20label%2C%20else%20%E2%80%9C%3Cno%20name%3E%E2%80%9D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtrivialName.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtrivialName%29%20%3D%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenusLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FgenusLabel%29%20%3D%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FtrivialName%29%2C%3FtrivialName%2CIF%28BOUND%28%3FgenusLabel%29%2C%3FgenusLabel%2C%22%3Cno%20name%3E%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20order%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Forder.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Forder%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ36602.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20choose%20%E2%80%9Crandom%20but%20deterministic%E2%80%9D%20color%20per%20order%3B%20you%20can%20play%20around%20with%20%22-%22%20%28can%20be%20any%20string%29%20to%20find%20a%20pleasing%20resulting%20color%20distribution%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28UCASE%28SUBSTR%28SHA256%28CONCAT%28%22-%22%2C%20STR%28%3Forder%29%29%29%2C%200%2C%206%29%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20add%20scale%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fgenus%20%3Fperiod%20%3Flabel%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ23387%207%20%22week%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ5151%2030.436875%20%22month%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ1643308%2091.310625%20%223%20months%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ2269240%20182.62125%20%226%20months%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ577%20365.2425%20%22year%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%22CCCCCC%22%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenus Average gestation period of genera] (source)
 * Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic


 * Development
 * RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
 * Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
 * Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
 * Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
 * Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
 * We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
 * Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Proposed deletion of Calais blockade


The article Calais blockade has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * No indication of independent notability. Just a footnote in the Calais migrant crisis (1999-present article. Wikipedia is not a newspaper so does not need to carry these news stories as separate articles.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. noq (talk) 14:56, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I've added a little more to the article in a hope to show the independent notability of the event - this is the first time the Association of Calais Traders have used a physical method of protesting against the migrant camp, which I believe is a rather important "step" in the ongoing crisis.


 * I believe this article meets the relevant notability guidelines, namely due to the following reasons:
 * Lasting effects: As I stated above, this a first for a large group within the ongoing crisis, and is likely to be a precedent for future protests.
 * Geographical scope: A quick search clearly shows the geographical scope of the ongoing even.
 * Depth of coverage: I believe this is met through multiple major news outlets providing entire stories to the event, as coverage must be significant and not in passing.
 * Duration of coverage: As the event is ongoing, this cannot be met, but I would like to draw your attention to the statement That an event occurred recently does not in itself make it non-notable
 * Diversity of sources: I think this is covered, but I would welcome your input here - I would agree that most sources are basically reporting the same thing, but there are different angles at play. For example, The Financial Times's article (obviously) focuses on the financial impact the protest is currently causing, making statements such as Property values around the camp have fallen. In contrast, The Daily Mail focuses more on the human protesters who have formed barriers.


 * Do you have any further opinions or suggestions which may help show the notability? Thanks, and I welcome any further questions or comments -- samtar talk or stalk 15:24, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * FYI, I'm nt sure I see the necessity for the 'Travel disruption' section-? As per WP:NOTGUIDE. <sub style="color:green;>Muffled <sup style="color:red;">Pocketed  15:33, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You're quite right, is serves no encyclopedic purpose, removed :) -- samtar talk or stalk 15:35, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

pageswap script for convenience
Hi Samtar, I've noticed that you performed round-robin page moves at some point. Thought I'd share a new script here (js) that semi-automates page swaps for convenience, if you ever encounter the scenario. You'd simply click "Swap" and enter a page destination, the script performs the 3 moves as necessary (saves time having to manually go through the move form 3 times). (It doesn't correct redirects afterwards, that's still manual)

Anyway, just an FYI, feel free to adapt this script as you see fit, cheers :) — Andy W. ( talk  · ctb) 02:57, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * @ Never got around to thanking you for the script - I've given it a go, it works brilliantly! It'll definately help -- samtar talk or stalk 07:13, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36
<section begin="technews-2016-W36"/> 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
 * Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs.
 * Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use  on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map.
 * Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how.

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016
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Please comment on Talk:SIG MCX
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:SIG MCX. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Why haven't you stood for Rfa?
Your work at efm would be greatly improved if you had had the admin toolkit... And you are a very trustworthy editor. So why haven't you? Lourdes 15:04, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * why thank you :) I believe my work would be greatly improved, but I'm worried my lack of article creations and slightly skewed contribution pie chart would attract opposes -- samtar talk or stalk 15:07, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Psst, I would've already nominated Sam if there would've been more contributions to the mainspace *hint hint ;)* Dat GuyTalkContribs 15:10, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes Sam; perhaps you could spruce up your article contributions in the next few months and get a couple of DYKs or GAs. I am sure the community would appreciate that. Lourdes  15:12, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll give it a go, thank you -- samtar talk or stalk 15:26, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Abuse filter?
Hi, sorry to be presumptious, but you're quite keen on edit filter maintenance and I need someone to adopt a filter as I'll be busy for a few weeks. At User talk:ClueBot Commons a user complained of a spammer spamming a particular scam phone number. I put in a simple test filter at Special:AbuseFilter/2. Would you mind keeping an eye on it and turning it on in disallow / merging it into one of the spam filters if appropriate? Thanks! BethNaught (talk) 20:19, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I see you now have 50% of your ocular capacity looking out. Thanks indeed — BethNaught (talk) 20:20, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * My pleasure, looks like its got some good batch test hits against AVG Technologies -- samtar talk or stalk 20:30, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Good hits, not false positives (logged or batch tested), moved to Special:AbuseFilter/793 and disallowing due to the nature of the filter :) -- samtar talk or stalk 14:08, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Probably a bad place, but when I tried to make an edit (see my contribs) I received a warning which said that I was believed to be a spambot. 91.119.209.97 (talk) 19:37, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh look, an Austrian IP, I wonder who that could be :P - the filter you triggered was Special:AbuseFilter/271, which is pretty cluttered.. However, you apparently used an edit summary which spambots sometimes used. In the spirit of not giving away too much, please do drop me an email if you'd like to know a bit more -- samtar talk or stalk 19:51, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Orphane Tag
185.81.72.25 (talk) 09:00, 6 September 2016 (UTC) Dear Samtar

I have provided ref links from other articles which are coming toward Wikipedia(Eenu_Shree). If you look at ref no.8, that is an incoming article towards wikipedia.

Could you please validate and let me know how to remove orphane?

Thanks
 * IP, thanks for the message - please see this advice on how to de-orphan an article. You can see which other Wikipedia article point to Eenu Shree by clicking here -- samtar talk or stalk 09:25, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #226
<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="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
 * Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
 * Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
 * Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
 * How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
 * #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
 * Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
 * How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
 * Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Posthumous%20marriages%0ASELECT%20%3FaliveSpouse%20%3FaliveSpouseLabel%20%3FdeadSpouse%20%3FdeadSpouseLabel%20%3Fdeath%20%3Fmarriage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20%3FaliveSpouse%20has%20spouse%20%3FdeadSpouse%2C%20with%20qualifier%20start%20time%3A%20%3Fmarriage%0A%20%20%3FaliveSpouse%20p%3AP26%20%5B%20ps%3AP26%20%3FdeadSpouse%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP580%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fmarriage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FmarriagePrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20%3FdeadSpouse%20has%20date%20of%20death%20%3Fdeath%0A%20%20%3FdeadSpouse%20p%3AP570%2Fpsv%3AP570%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdeath%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FdeathPrecision%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fdeath%20prior%20to%20%3Fmarriage%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdeath%20%3C%20%3Fmarriage%29.%0A%20%20%23%20Optional%3A%20remove%20results%20with%20missing%20precision%20%E2%80%93%0A%20%20%23%20only%20include%20matches%20over%20a%20year%20apart%2C%20or%20where%20both%20statements%20are%20precise%20to%20the%20day%0A%20%20%23FILTER%28YEAR%28%3Fmarriage%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3Fdeath%29%20%3E%201%20%7C%7C%20%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmarriagePrecision%20%3D%2011%20%26%26%20%3FdeathPrecision%20%3D%2011%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fmarriage%20-%20%3Fdeath%29 Posthumous marriages] (source)
 * Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
 * Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20cocktail%20recipes%20on%20Wikidata%0ASELECT%20%3Fcocktail%20%3FcocktailLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Fingredient%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fingredients%29%20%23%20concatenate%20all%20ingredients%20together%2C%20separated%20by%20comma%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20a%20cocktail%0A%20%20%3Fcocktail%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ134768%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20its%20material%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP186%20%3FmaterialStat.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20statement%20value%20from%20the%20statement%0A%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20material%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%23%20assign%20label%20to%20solo%20ingredient%20variable%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FmaterialLabel%20AS%20%3FingredientSolo%29.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20some%20reason%2C%20we%20have%20to%20get%20the%20material%20and%20materialLabel%20again%20%E2%80%93%20copy%2Bpasted%20from%20above%0A%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20quantity%20value%20from%20the%20statement%20%28if%20present%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20pqv%3AP1114%20%3FquantityValue.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20actual%20quantity%20from%20the%20quantity%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fquantity.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20assign%20quantity%20and%20material%20to%20ingredient%20with%20quantity%20variable%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fquantity%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FmaterialLabel%29%20AS%20%3FingredientWithQuantity%29.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20same%20here%20for%20material%20and%20quantity%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20pqv%3AP1114%20%3FquantityValue.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fquantity.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20unit%20from%20the%20quantity%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20throw%20out%20the%20unit%20%E2%80%9C1%E2%80%9D%20%28no%20unit%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ199%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20unit%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FunitLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20assign%20quantity%2C%20unit%2C%20and%20material%20to%20ingredient%20with%20unit%20variable%20%20%28note%3A%20we%E2%80%99re%20not%20bothering%20with%20pluralization%20here%2C%20so%20it%20may%20sound%20a%20bit%20weird%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fquantity%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FunitLabel%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FmaterialLabel%29%20AS%20%3FingredientWithUnit%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20assign%20ingredient%20with%20unit%2C%20else%20ingredient%20with%20quantity%2C%20else%20just%20solo%20ingredient%20to%20ingredient%20variable%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FingredientWithUnit%2C%20%3FingredientWithQuantity%2C%20%3FingredientSolo%29%20AS%20%3Fingredient%29.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20cocktail%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fcocktail%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcocktailLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcocktailLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%7D%0A%23%20group%20by%20cocktail%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcocktail%20%3FcocktailLabel%0A%23%20show%20most%20%E2%80%9Ccomplicated%E2%80%9D%20cocktails%20first%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28COUNT%28%3Fingredient%29%29 Cocktails recipes] (source)
 * People who died in the last seven days (source)
 * Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
 * New templates:, . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.


 * Development
 * Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
 * Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
 * Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
 * A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
 * Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
 * Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
 * Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-37
<section begin="technews-2016-W37"/> 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 Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos.
 * and  can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

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

Future changes
 * When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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