User talk:Legoktm/February 2014
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Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
- Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [1] [2]
- The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [3] [4]
- You can now link to diffs using
[[Special:Diff/12345]]and similar links. [5] - There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [6]
- Searching in the
File:namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [7] - All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [8]
VisualEditor news
- You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [9]
Future software changes
- Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [10] [11] [12]
- For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (
:ko:v,:v:ko, etc.). [13] - It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.net. [14]
- You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [15]
- You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [16] [17]
- It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [18]
- You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [19]
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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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Legobot is malfunctioning
Legobot is going bonkers, removing and re-adding a single GAN like clockwork every ten minutes since 9 this morning. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
- It just did it again!--Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
February 2014
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:19, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
I think this is petty
I just wanted to stop by and tell you I think your block of User talk:138.162.8.59 is pretty petty. I have no doubt you'll block this one too but I think its pretty low to block me just because you don't like the message I am making that Wikipedia needs to do something about the abusive admins. Although I don't think you are one of them, this block for "trolling and disruption" seems like a message to people not to criticize admin conduct. 138.162.8.58 (talk) 20:33, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Category:Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata
Category:Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor (talk) 06:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
recall
I am contacting you today as one of the users listed at User:Secret/recall. In case you were not aware, Secret has once again resigned his admin status and is once again about to ask for it back. I am concerned that this behavior constitutes the sort of erratic behavior that this recall mechanism was designed to deal with and am asking all other users listed there to add their opinion at the talk page of the recall subpage. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:18, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Promotional accounts issues
Hello Legoktm, I noticed you closed this SPI case, it took care of the socks and meats at the time, however the issue still rages on. Urbaninformative has seemingly made many other contributions, to make it seem he is not a SPA, however today he again created Demetrice Nguyen (after failing to create it at Deezy), the edit summary when he created it was "spelling errors". This subject's article has been created by the various promotional accounts under names such as Deezy (has been created 7 times and was salted in the past), Demetrice jackson (salted) and Demetrice Jackson (salted). This subject has had articles deleted twice at AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deezy and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demetrice Jackson, which both resulted in clear delete. However, on top of this, the page for Deezy's record label Last Kings Entertainment, where possible socks, definitely meatpuppets; User talk: Dare2beyou, User: 108.60.242.214, User talk: BriannaManagement and User talk: Pmasontheatre have all been editing, along with the record label's navbox Template:Last Kings Entertainment. All of these accounts are clearly SPA and promotional accounts. What do you think should be done? I think Deezy and Demetrice Nguyen should be salted for one, but all these sock/meatpuppets need to be taken care of. STATic message me! 22:17, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
- The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
- You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [25]
VisualEditor news
- You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [26] [27]
- The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [28] [29] [30]
Problems
- On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [31]
- On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.
Future software changes
- Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [32] [33]
- You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [34]
- You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [35] [36]
- The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [37]
- Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [38] [39]
- It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [40]
- You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [41]
- You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [42] [43]
- If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [44]
- Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [45]
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [46]
- The
<poem>tag will be renamed to<lines>. The old tag will still work. [47]
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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Ping... BencherliteTalk 14:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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MMS request
Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders#TransporterMan request. Would appreciate your consideration. Thanks in advance, either way. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 22:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
- You can now use the list of active users again. [48] [49]
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [50]
- You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [51]
- You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [52]
Problems
- On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [53]
- On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [54]
- On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
- There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
- On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.
VisualEditor news
- The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [55]
- You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [56]
- Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [57]
- You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [58] [59] [60]
08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive
It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:
- This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
- Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
- The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
- An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.
Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.
More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.
I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!
--Dom497
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [61] [62]
- The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).
VisualEditor news
- You will soon be able to add and edit
__STATICREDIRECT__,__[NO]INDEX__and__[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__in the page settings menu. [63] [64] [65] - You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [66] [67]
- You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [68] [69]
Future software changes
- You will soon be able to use the
<categorytree>tag again. [70] - You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [71] [72]
- Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [73][74][75]
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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
I am Nicolas Choukroun
Why did you deleted my biography? I didn't killed enough people to be noticable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.164.208.178 (talk) 14:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Request to reinstate my Wikipedia page
Hi, can you please tell me what steps I need to take in order to get my Wikipedia page reinstated? I understand that I had not returned to edit it in quite some time, but people often refer to it when casting TV/Movies which is how I make my living. Often, morning radio show hosts and podcasters refer to this page. I'll admit that I'm no superstar, but I do have a significant body of work with which many people in entertainment are very familiar. From Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place to the Farrelly Bros. film The Ringer to voicing cartoons on Saturday Night Live. I also voice two major characters on Curious George the animated series.
I'll promise to update it with fresh and exciting copy if you can please return the page.
Here's an article from GQ which mentions me prominently for one of my first noteable efforts, the cult hit Dana Carvey show: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201108/dana-carvey-oral-history-dana-carvey-show
I was awarded the Mastermind Award from The Riverfront Times (A Village Voice publication) Here is a cover article published in that weekly paper: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-09-02/news/big-funny-founder-bill-chott-fellow-improv-tricksters-aim-to-bring-back-glory-days-st-louis-sketch-comedy/
My list of credits on IMDb is extensive: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159273/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
I portrayed "Mr. Laritate", Selena Gomez's principal in 23 episodes of Disney's Wizards of Waverly place, over four season on the Emmy award winning show. I portray the Announcer on SNL"s Ambiguously Gay Duo and The X-Presidents. I was in the cast of the Dana Carvey Show, along with Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, and I was in the cast and on the poster for the film The Ringer, a Farrelly Bros. film starring Johnny Knoxville.
I won the Broadway Wolrd Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical as Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy Live I won "Best Improv Coach" in a nation-wide I've received awards from both my college and my high school for being a noteable alumni.
Please let me know what I can do to prove my wiki-worthiness. A list of charities I work with is also available. I can start a write in campaign to prove my relevance, as I have a very large fan base. I hate to brag, and sound like I have a huge ego, but I feel that I merit a Wikipedia page, and I hope you'll agree.
Sincerely,
Bill Chott
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Billchott (talk • contribs) 22:41, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Legoktm:
WikiProject AFC is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from March 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014.
Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 2500 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!
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