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I do not like what you're doing in some of those infoboxes that you merged. Your ideas is causing some problems than it solves. I gonna tell you something. It's best to keep seasons and episodes separate from infobox television because episodes and seasons are separate for a good reason. You got that? [[User:BattleshipMan|BattleshipMan]] ([[User talk:BattleshipMan|talk]]) 22:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-49

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

  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [1]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [2]
  • You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [3]
  • When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [4][5]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
    • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
    • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
    • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.
  • Development
    • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
    • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
    • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
    • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


DYK for Des Helmore

On 6 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Des Helmore, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the artist Des Helmore illustrated more than 1,000 insect species from the New Zealand Arthropod Collection and had a weevil genus (species pictured) named after him? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Des Helmore. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Des Helmore), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Clairmarais aerodrome

On 8 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clairmarais aerodrome, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clairmarais aerodrome. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Clairmarais aerodrome), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good one! I put it on P:DE and gave precious to your co-writer. Happy to have the lead hook in the same set, Tönet, ihr Pauken!, which they shall do today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:23, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #342

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
    • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
    • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
    • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
    • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
    • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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Tech News: 2018-50

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Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [8]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Taxon identifiers: IRMNG (how to link)

Hi Andy, Tony Rees here (IRMNG compiler-in-chief). Some time back there was a conversation about including IRMNG IDs in the "Taxon identifiers" section of wikipedia taxon pages, based on wikidata - now done, all good, e.g. see the bottom of Firmicutes. I am thinking I should probably now do a Wikipedia entry for IRMNG (the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, http://www.irmng.org) since one does not exist, but am wondering how then that can get to be linked from the term "IRMNG" on each of the hundreds off thousands of relevant Wikipedia taxon pages - presumably by some automated update process which is unknown to me. (For other databases such as WoRMS, ITIS etc., such links are automatically created). So if I create the relevant new IRMNG page, can you assist? Regards - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Tony 1212: I'd advise you not to create a page yourself, as you have a conflict of interest - see [[WP:COI|] for Wikipedia's policy on this. I'll be happy to start such an article; please let me know if you have any relevant sources, that I can cite. Once an article is created, and added to the {{Taxonbar}} template, it will appear on all the relevant pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Andy, if you are happy you can write something from scratch based on https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/article/view/6522 (the full article is open access and contains a lot of detail) and information provided at http://www.irmng.org/ . There is also an early (2008) description of IRMNG "18.8. IRMNG – The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera" at p. 72-3 of "The Proceedings of TDWG: Provisional Abstracts of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group", https://static.tdwg.org/conferences/2008/tdwg_2008_proceedings.pdf, which should be an early citable source I believe.
IRMNG also presently contributes content to the Catalogue of Life (see http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/database/id/501), Open Tree of Life (https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/about/taxonomy-version/ott3.0), Encyclopedia of life (eol.org/collections/100585, apparently down at the moment), GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0938172b-2086-439c-a1dd-c21cb0109ed5) and other sources which I can elaborate on later as needed. Hope this is sufficient to get going.
BTW I would be inclined to create a master page "Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera" with the information, plus a redirect page "IRMNG" which is a likely entry point for some users.
I am presuming that once the page is created, there should be no problem about me editing further, accompanied if needed by a relevant declaration of interest in that page's talk page. Regards - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 20:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Tony 1212: Thank you; our messages crossed, and I've already started Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. It would be good to have some independent citations, writing about IRMNG if there are any, but it should stand as it is. I would advise you to avoid making anything other than very routine edits, if any; better to drop me a note, or drop one on the article's talk page. I've aslo asked for it to be linked from {{Taxonbar}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Andy, looks fine for now, all good. Ta muchly. Tony 1212 (talk) 21:16, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Small text change request, if you are agreeable, to correctly reflect the current situation: Present text: "IRMNG is managed and curated by Tony Rees" could/should now read: "IRMNG is presently managed and curated by Tony Rees, with assistance (2016 onwards) from the VLIZ Data Management Team (DMT)." Thanks - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Andy. You can get to bed now maybe...Tony 1212 (talk) 22:42, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Also thanks for your updates at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58226248 . Let me know if there is any additional information I can supply, and how :) . Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 00:55, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Pigsonthewing: I just checked, and the wikilinks to the IRMNG page are now displaying via the Taxonbar, so thanks for arranging that. Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 05:31, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Andy, I sent a couple of messages to your pigsonthewing.org.uk email RE editing the new IRMNG page, just checking that they were received OK and that maybe you agree with the practice I have suggested (declaration of connection at the top of the talk page as recommended at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#How_to_disclose_a_COI) which would permit me to make non-controversial changes and any additions needed to the IRMNG page without bothering a third party. Let me know what you think, Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 21:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Tony 1212: No, I haven't got your emails; nor do I have another set recently via the same route; I'll investigate the matter, tomorrow. Please try re-sending, to andy@[my domain], rather than the other address you have for me. I reiterate my earlier advice regarding CoI edits: there be dragons. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Emails re-sent as advised 4 hours ago, let me know if not received... Tony 1212 (talk) 08:14, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Pigsonthewing: Hi Andy, not sure if you received the re-sent emails to the alternative address, but here is the gist of them: first, I have filled out the template for "Connected contributor" as requested in the Wikipedia guidelines "How_to_disclose_a_COI", at the top of the IRMNG article's "Talk" page; second, I have added a statement to that page detailing the actions I propose to make as needed; and third, I have adjusted a few details in the article where these were incomplete or incorrect (the latter an erroneous word I had added myself, now fixed). I believe these should be permissible within the Wikipedia guidelines and in any case, can be discussed on the talk page if considered biased, self-advertisement, or contentious in any way. Also please note, I have no paid connection with Wikipedia (I contribute to WP as a "public good" activity) and have had no paid connection with IRMNG or its sponsors since I retired from my position in CSIRO in 2014; ongoing contributions to IRMNG since that time are also in a voluntary, "public good" role (creating machine-usable data out of otherwise chaotic material for the benefit of current and future users). I hope this steers the correct side of the "there be dragons" warning and reiterate, I am more than happy to discuss any matters in more detail on the article's "Talk" page. Best - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 21:47, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Tony 1212: Yes, I have your mails now, thank (you and the original route is now working again - stupid ISP!). Thanks for making declarations. I don't see an issue with your edits, but others may; and some of our colleagues can be very unreasonable about such matters. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:26, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Andy, I am forewarned - whatever happened to "presume good faith", I wonder... Tony 1212 (talk) 10:32, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Page splitting/shortening

Hi, I see you're interested in splitting and shortening the very lengthy pages that have made it onto Special:LongPages, which I certainly welcome. Do you have any experience with cutting down these articles? Cheers. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC) Onetwothreeip (talk) 23:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, why? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:12, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to know what pages you've split, that's why. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Link to my edits in sig. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:37, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I did have a look through that, you make a lot of edits though so it's hard to find. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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2018 Strasbourg shooting

You hard and high-quality work is much appreciated. Rama (talk) 12:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm GreenMeansGo. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Neudorf (Strasbourg), and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

GMGtalk 13:23, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Miss click. Disregard. GMGtalk 13:27, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:OfficialDuaLipa

Why did you mark this for speedy as an attack page? I'm not seeing any disparaging content. It's definately speediable under unambiguous advertising or promotion, but I don't see it as an attack page. Am I missing something? ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 13:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism only account impersonating a famous person. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:57, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Pigsonthewing,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.


Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.


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Tech News: 2018-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

  • Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [9][10]
  • Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [11]
  • Advanced item The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

  • <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
  • Advanced item tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [13]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Infoboxes

I do not like what you're doing in some of those infoboxes that you merged. Your ideas is causing some problems than it solves. I gonna tell you something. It's best to keep seasons and episodes separate from infobox television because episodes and seasons are separate for a good reason. You got that? BattleshipMan (talk) 22:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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