User talk:Wugapodes/Archive 9

Many thankapodes
Don't worry, I'm not doing this to everyone - I've just seen you around, and always puzzled a bit over your username; I just read the explanation on your talk page, and since I have a professional interest in the development of language in children (I'm a primary school teacher), I couldn't resist. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  17:52, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Awwww man. You mean we're all not going to get thank-spam.  Bummer Girth.  I'm jealous Wug. — Ched (talk) 18:53, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, a number of many-legged thanks! Not listed there, but perhaps more funny (at least for me) is that it's actually a back-formation. Octopus being octo- "eight" and -pus "foot", the plural octopodes is in fact "eight-foot-". Like alcohol+ic being back-formed as alc+oholic (e.g., there's no such thing as chocohol, but we have choc+oholic+s), the generalized plural -podes would be just as incomprehensible to the Greeks as it is to English speakers.Anyway, there's been a lot of bad opposes based on usernames recently (AA88 strikes me as one of the wildest), and the ones on your RFA would be entertaining if they weren't serious. You've handled them amazingly which if anything shows you'll be great with the tools. Change your username if you want, I'm a big supporter of renames, clean starts, etc, but don't do it because some people can't see past "haha weiner". People are attached to names, and that's pretty cool, so don't throw away one that means something to you. If I ever ran an RFA I'm sure someone will oppose because I have a terrible and esoteric sense of humor. Some people, for some strange reason, don't like seeing a 0 in the oppose column. I think it's nice to see the community rally around someone, and am glad you get to be one of them! Wug·a·po·des​ 19:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Lana Del Rey
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Tech News: 2019-44
 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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
 * You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOUI now allows using  (pixels) instead of   (em) for some specific cases.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named  to  . The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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WP:ACE2019
Don’t worry, no trouble :)

(Note: I’m only familiar with you from reading your postings and interacting with you in the various community discussions I’ve been following.) Have you considered standing as a candidate in WP:ACE2019? All things being equal, you’d have my vote. –xenotalk 11:51, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Well good to know I'm not in trouble, though standing for ArbCom sounds like a good way to find some! I appreciate the suggestion and will give it some serious thought. My first reaction was to give a Shermanesque statement, but I, like Ike, don't think it's wise for someone "to state, categorically, that he will not perform any duty that his country might demand of him" (mutatis mutandis for an online encyclopedia). I already am spending less time than I'd like on mainspace contributions, don't have a ton of free personal time to volunteer, and have seen better people than me burn out very quickly on the committee. Those are the reasons I'd rather not volunteer. However, there's 2 weeks until nominations close so I have time to think it over. Wug·a·po·des​ 16:55, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe this as a consolation. –xenotalk 17:37, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Ouch! You may want to look at this sandbox for consolation. I'm busy, at the moment, but like all things, will be back to make incremental improvements as I find time. Wug·a·po·des​ 18:27, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm glad it's in consideration. –xenotalk 18:38, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:


 * 1) with 964 points
 * 2) with 899 points
 * 3) with 817 points
 * 4) with 691 points
 * 5) with 388 points
 * 6) with 146 points
 * 7) with 145 points
 * 8) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
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 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
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 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
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Model-theoretic grammars
Why did you remove the linguistics category?--Brett (talk) 13:51, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It as already in Category:Grammar which is an immediate child of linguistics and Category:Grammar frameworks which is further down the tree. Wug·a·po·des​ 15:51, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I see. Thanks!--Brett (talk) 16:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45
 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
 * At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

Changes later this week
 * can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use  to set a different default block length for IP editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikimedia Language Diversity, etc.
I just read about the indigenous languages edit-a-thon that you and had in October! Fabulous! I'm not sure if you've heard about the Language Diversity (the former Indigenous Languages) group, but please join us. We also have a Telegram group that might be of interest. Depending on what languages you're working with, the oral knowledge group, might be of interest too. And finally, we had an indigenous meetup at WikidataCon last month (which we are planning on talking more about in Finland's GLAM newsletter this month). Feel free to spread the word about these projects and to let us know when you're planning something new! -Yupik (talk) 15:33, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:International Brigades
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podes
I pluralized octopus as octopodes today. Just thought you'd want to know. --valereee (talk) 14:23, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * My master plan is working. Soon phase 2 will begin: octopus will become octopode by analogy and the delatinization of English will be well underway. Wug·a·po·des​ 19:55, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46
 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
 * MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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Nice review on Chomsky
That was nicely done on the Chomsky review. At present there appears to be some long-term delay on my nomination for Herman Melville which is approaching one year in the review process carrying over from last year. Any chance that you might be able to step things up and help to move them along toward completing the review that was started there? CodexJustin (talk) 16:49, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I pinged the reviewer there. Sorry that review has taken so long; improving vital articles is some of the most important work on Wikipedia, but reviewing them is hard work so their nominations tend to sit around for a while. Hopefully we can get the Melville review moving soon. Wug·a·po·des​ 19:56, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. The Melville GAN review is now rolling over from 2018 as we approach 2020. Is there any chance you might nudge the review forward in a friendly way by maybe doing one or two of the unreviewed sections in the article? CodexJustin (talk) 17:16, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm a little swamped for the next 24-ish hours with a submission deadline, but I should be able to read through the article later this weekend. Hopefully we can get this wrapped up soon! Wug·a·po·des​ 20:51, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay. I've blocked out time tomorrow evening to work through the article, so I promise comments soon! Wug·a·po·des​ 06:56, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

GA Reassessment
Mustafizur Rahman, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nemoschool (talk • contribs) 10:30, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Contents
Just a heads up...

The "Contents" link on the sidebar menu that appears on every page of Wikipedia is for this page, but it still leads to the old title "Portal:Contents" which is now a redirect. Just thought you would want to fix the sidebar link to lead directly to the current title.

Cheers,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   11:03, 13 November 2019 (UTC) P.S.: Good job on overseeing the moving of the set of contents pages. Nicely done.
 * The talk pages were kind of mess though. Lots of corrections needed. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 17:28, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the sentiment, but as Liz points out I wouldn't characterize it as "nicely done". Many people have been very kind and proactive in fixing my mistakes which is the only reason things look well done. If I ever intend to move that many pages again (unlikely) there are many things I would do differently. Chief among them is coordinating with others beforehand so that it's more of a barn raising than a barn repair. Thanks for fixing the talk pages.  has been fixing double redirects, so I'm going to help with that and double check the subpages of  for bad targets while I'm at it. Wug·a·po·des​ 17:49, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * See, you are on top of things and sticking with it. That takes the right attitude. And the Contents link is fixed too. Kudos. Thanks for a job well done, and keep up the great work.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:31, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S: To spot redirects more easily, here's a tip to make them appear green: Tip of the day/March 17. Cheers.

Please comment on Talk:Julian Assange
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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47
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Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the  database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Well said
I think your comments here, were well said. I think they got right to the heart of the matter. Paul August &#9742; 14:38, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Barnstar of Awesomeness

 * Thank you! As an aside, have you read the file page for that image? i drew this because i didn't know how to give out wikipedia barnstars is a pretty awesome description/history. Wug·a·po·des​ 00:22, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah! I think it's the best barnstar! Very exclusive! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Why are you awesome? Actually I noticed you making sensible statements at ANI and the WP:AC page, stuff about civility that I agree with and am trying to promote as best practices. Hence the barnstar— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:10, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Glad to know others are working to uphold our fourth pillar. posted a few days ago, maybe at RFARB or ANI, about community failure to follow RPA in the portal fiasco and it lit a fire under me. So they deserve at least as much praise. Wug·a·po·des​ 23:35, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

+1. Nice to see Old-fashioned Wikipedian values are alive and well. How ‘bout that RfA? Heck, you don’t need it. Where’s that +sysop button again... –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 10:28, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

LLP award
Thanks for the message in your revert edit summary. If you're wondering about my motivation, please see: Categories for discussion/Log/2019 November 23.

Aside from that issue, I have a separate question for you. A separate article implies far more weight than a section of a larger article (compare an article about a city versus the mention of the city in an article about the county or the state; composers without the notability to deserve articles may be mentioned in articles regarding a genre they where notable in), and if so, would only create a bigger problem regarding undue weight. You could easily create that article with the content I created at Linguistic Society of America. Hyacinth (talk) 02:13, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * about to take off again so will say more later; thanks for the cfd link. I'm a little concerned about notability of the list, but looking through the opinions there it may be worth making. I also thought maybe a catch-all list like List of Linguistic Society of America awards and recipients would be a good way of preserving that information and expand the others without taking up tons of space in the article. Some of the extant articles could be merged in as well. Wug·a·po·des​ 23:42, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:The Coddling of the American Mind
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Tech News: 2019-48
<section begin="technews-2019-W48"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
 * Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.

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Thank you

 * thanks, though I'm pretty sure it was and  who came up with the idea and target. I just turned the redlink blue. Wug·a·po·des​ 02:40, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * They're awesome, aren't they? VPT has such a good collection of helpful people.
 * Thank you for being the one who turned that idea into reality. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:31, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

You have hatted a section
against the recommendations at WP:AN

This section:

Can you reinstate and allow to do it when they are ready to do so, please? Thanks Leaky caldron (talk) 10:31, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * oh, sorry, thanks for linking me to the AN thread. I would reinstate, but it looks like has modified the hat while I was sleeping so it seems moot. You're always welcome to revert my refactors since its usually faster than asking for a self revert, but given the AN thread I can see how that could have gone over poorly with the others. Anyway, thanks for letting me know, and drop me another message if there's still something that needs worked out. Wug·a·po·des​ 17:08, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have no idea what the rules are. Too many people who like to jump on every mistake made :(.  Anyway, it's resolved! Leaky caldron (talk) 17:11, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Arbitration Case Opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 20, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!  20:38, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks
Really enjoying User:Wugapodes/Capricorn. Just wondering, on the next update is there any possibility that a hyperlink to the redirect target could be preserved when the script is enabled? When reviewing new redirects for obscure things it's useful to see exactly where they're redirecting, and of course to flush out any G3 cases. Best,  SITH   (talk)   15:16, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! That's next up on the list. The current workaround is clicking the "read" or "article" tab and it will follow the redirect, even if still looking at the page. I think Brandon in the thread up top suggested making the arrow the hyperlink which I liked and will probably do. When it's deployed I'll either send out a mass message or put a note in Danny's script newsletter that I think exists. Wug·a·po·des​ 16:10, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2019
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Tech News: 2019-49
<section begin="technews-2019-W49"/> 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
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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Please comment on Talk:Strictly Come Dancing (series 17)
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Move proposal closure
Hi. Just a half hour after you added the closure process template, I finished a chart briefing the sourced offered in the discussion, which I started before the template was added, like it was in the Venezuelan uprising article, and I was about to add some final comments. Do you think, pretty please, that it is possible to include said comments to the proposal before closing? Many thanks in advance! --Jamez42 (talk) 20:39, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add your comments; closing templates are just polite requests. I doubt I'll get around to finishing the close for a day or two just given the size of it and other obligations I have, but yeah, I'll remove the archive box and just leave up closing so it's not as imposing. Wug·a·po·des​ 21:42, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much!! All set and done :) --Jamez42 (talk) 22:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Relisting
Why this relisting was necessary? I only see 7 supports for the moving page while only 4 opposes for the moving page. Notice how all supports are based on the dependence on WP:RS and WP:COMMONNAME while opposes are mere WP:IDONTLIKEIT and WP:POV. What actually made you think that opposing comments hold any water? NavjotSR (talk) 07:29, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Consensus is not a vote, and WP:NPOV is based on the second pillar of Wikipedia so putting it on the same level as WP:IDONTLIKEIT is disingenuous. The editors in opposition point out that those in support do not understand that per WP:NPOVNAME, NPOV ought to take precedence over COMMONNAME. Opposers provide evidence that the support argument that a non-neutral name is the COMMONNAME is false. If I were to have closed it, I would have closed it as no consensus to move since the support arguments have been thoroughly rebutted, but preferred to see if additional comments would clarify consensus. If you'd prefer I can close it as not moved. Wug·a·po·des​ 20:37, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50
<section begin="technews-2019-W50"/> 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 projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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Please comment on Talk:Operation Lam Son 719
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Operation Lam Son 719. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Yet another Capricorn suggestion
Heyo. I must request a change to Capricorn, can it please add a link to the target page when editing? This seems like a problem to me and I could not find a link to the target. Thanks! dibbydib 💬/✏  07:39, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * you're not the first to suggest this. I'm a little swamped at the moment, but I'll get to work on this ASAP. Can't promise anything, but I'll hope to have something rolled out by the end of this year. Wug·a·po·des​ 10:18, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks! SMirC-wink.svg  dibbydib 💬/✏   04:29, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51
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Problems
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

Tech News: 2019-52
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Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes
 * All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes
 * You can use  in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser.

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Happy Holidays

 * Thank you! I hope you have a happy season as well. Wug·a·po·des​ 09:31, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
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UTRS unblock request
28317 Range block doesn't allow talk page editing so UTRS failed to add this template. Using my intermittent cell data, I'm adding it manually. Cannot guarantee the ID is correct, but I'm pretty sure it is. — Wug·a·po·des​ 15:13, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

IP block exempt
I have granted your account an exemption from IP blocking for one week. This will allow you to edit the English Wikipedia through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.

Please read the page IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions. Inappropriate usage of this user right may result in revocation. I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:17, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Herman Melville/GA1
Wugapodes, there have been responses to the issues you listed in your review here. Please return when you can to continue the review. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:32, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Seasons greetings for the New Year. That was really good of you to do both the Chomsky article and the Melville article this year. CodexJustin (talk) 17:06, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem! I used to do a lot of GA reviews, but do fewer now than I would like. If you're ever in need of a review or copyedit just drop me a line! — Wug·a·po·des​ 18:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)