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Your bot
Hi! I noticed your bot, Tom's Tagging Bot, is going around tagging beetle-related articles with the WikiProject Insects banner. However, there is the WikiProject Beetles, which is about beetles, so can you please make your bot tag beetle-related articles with WikiProject Beetles banner instead? Gug01 (talk) 17:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC) Gug 01
 * Hey, User:Gug01: those taggings were all done a long time ago. I'm just getting my bot going again and would be happy to put all beetles into WikiProject Beetles when I have the bot running again. But I certainly won't put any more beetles into WikiProject Insects. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:10, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notification. Gug01 (talk) 19:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC) Gug 01

Wikidata weekly summary #142
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
 * Past: Meetup in Cambridge
 * Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
 * Wikidata - a year in numbers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
 * The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
 * Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
 * You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
 * Development
 * More work on header section redesign
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
 * Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
 * Implemented entity change subscription service
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-05
 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 software changes
 * You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis.

This week
 * There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings.

Future changes
 * You can join a project to improve WikiProjects.
 * The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed.

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Johann Hari's book
Hi! I created a new article for Johann Hari's book: Chasing the Scream. Can you please link the book title in his article? Also my OCD requires me to inform you that there is a stray comma in the intro to his article page (after the word pseudonym). :-) Thanks! Wikimandia (talk) 04:46, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikimandia: ✅ Also, thanks for starting the article on Hari's book. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:50, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

The Sun
I made this for you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:26, 30 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Ritchie333, The Sun is a reliable source. It informs its readers every day what Jennifer, a 19-year-old model from Swansea thinks about European carbon trading markets. Then it informs its readers what Susan, 18, from Basildon thinks about immigration. See this fantastic post.
 * Seriously, though, are there people citing The Sun and claiming it to be a reliable source? —Tom Morris (talk) 11:47, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The Sun is used quite a bit as a source, and even the Daily Star gets used, but I can't find the relevant conversation on WP:BLPN where somebody defended it. A long time ago, you made this post which made me laugh so hard I think I snorted coffee out of my nose, and I kept it on my user page. To be honest, I don't think I'd have such a problem with The Sun if it wasn't a) run by Rupert Murdoch and b) the most popular newspaper in my local shop that seems to fly off the shelves. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:54, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Your bot - II
Hi! Remember your bot, Tom's Tagging Bot! Well, can I ask a favor of you? Can you make the bot tag all the Adephaga-related articles with the WikiProject Beetles banner? It would mean so much because if not, I would have to dedicated dozens of hours of my time to do that. This would allow the WikiProject Beetles members to have more articles to assess. Also, for the species of the genus Anthia, please remove the Category:Carabidae from the pages using your bot. Cheers! Gug01 (talk) 23:19, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: [January 2015]
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.   Headlines &middot; Highlights &middot; Single page &middot; Newsroom &middot; Archives &middot;  Unsubscribe
 * Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night
 * India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage
 * Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons
 * Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo
 * Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria
 * Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement
 * Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey
 * Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden
 * Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
 * Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more

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RfC: AfC Helper Script access
An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to  comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:17, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #143
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
 * Open RfAs: BlackBeast
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
 * Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
 * The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
 * Development
 * Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (T87096)
 * Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (T87764)
 * Further work on header section redesign (T75654)
 * Started redesign of statements section (T87316)
 * Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (T85105)
 * Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
 * Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
 * Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-06
<section begin="technews-2015-W06"/> 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
 * There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
 * The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site.
 * You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator.

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VisualEditor News 2015—#1


Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action: The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
 * starts a new task, like opening the dialog: blue ,
 * takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
 * might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red, or
 * is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

 * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
 * Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
 * Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
 * Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.

Subscribe or unsubscribe at VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)