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Tech News: 2016-37

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. [1]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> 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. [2][3]

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. [4]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [5][6]
• 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

• 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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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Truck

Hello, are you Isuzu D-Max? Your name DMacks looks like D-Max, a 4x4/4x2 pickup truck — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.136.226.14 (talk) 13:15, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, last I checked, I wasn't a truck. DMacks (talk) 17:32, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

IP block

Regarding User_talk:68.255.221.222, was there something I missed? They made edits they apparently thought were helpful, I showed them the guideline that said they weren't, and they haven't edited since. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:50, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

It's a IP hopper doing this on many Muppet-related articles since mid/late summer. He's either using proxies or meat-puppets, no obvious range-block yet. Short-term blocks didn't solve it, but longer-term blocks seem to slow it, as if he's not truely dynamic IP pool but instead having more trouble finding an abusable host. Check the history of...really any of the articles this one hit...to see the pattern. DMacks (talk) 17:31, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks for the clarification. I'll keep an eye out. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:45, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [7][8]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

• 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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [9]

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

RCOSH thing

A note to thank you for your upgrade of the thiocarboxylic acid article and warning that I will amend the KSH reaction stoichiometry. You corrected my glitch so I am going to back correct what I think is yours. Together maybe we'll wend our way to the right answer. I re-read the OS prep. They are using 2 equiv KSH per RCOCl. So my guess is the following:

RCOCl + 2 KSH --> RCO(SK) + KCl + H2S (which is probably in equilibrium with RCO(SH) + KCl + KSH

This eq seems to make sense, but I remain open to further discussion.--Smokefoot (talk) 23:20, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

That makes sense. OrgSyn does note that 1:1 reactant ratio gives a complex byproduct, which suggests the product isn't inert to the residual KSH. I intentionally omitted the byproducts and just mimicked the OrgSyn scheme so that I didn't have to balance the stoichiometry until someone figured out the details. So "thanks for figuring out the details"! DMacks (talk) 03:04, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 20

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Trivnew (talk) 23:22, 21 September 2016 (UTC) Hi I checked the link for indigo children and the referenced page does not have psuedoscience in its quote. I think adding that word is subjective and should be removed. Ill leave it you discretion though.

thank Trivnew

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, DMacks. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
• A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [10]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [11]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [12]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [13][14]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [15]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [16]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

National Agents Alliance Content Dispute

We would like to set up a time to chat with you regarding our content dispute on National Agents Alliance. Are you able to talk Monday, October 3rd?

We think we can resolve a dispute that appears in our edit history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErnieHemingway (talk • contribs) 19:26, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Wiki content gets discussed on-wiki. No back-alley deals. DMacks (talk) 19:44, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

For your attention

Have alook here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karunanidhi, again anonymous changes his ethicity as per his/her wish — Preceding unsigned comment added by Namooru (talk • contribs) 10:36, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

World Financial Group

I'm trying to get this page semiprotected for the same reasons as always but I'm curious: You put it under pending changes protection here. How can I tell how long that's for? Because whether or not it gets semiprotected, I'd like to request a lengthening of the pending-changes lock too. RunnyAmiga ※ talk 23:53, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

I think the usual protection-log messages say the specific endpoint if one is set, but just say nothing if it is indefinite length. So the PC1 is in effect until someone either unsets it or sets a specific expiry. PC and PROT are independent settings, so adding semiprotection with a specific expiry on top of it won't mean that it would not remain under indefinite PC1 control when semiprotection expires. DMacks (talk) 01:41, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Regarding my Wikipedia edits.

I understand, I should have gathered proof before editing. It is reasonable that you reverted my edits. Singkiring57 (talk) 08:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

2016 East Carolina Pirates women's soccer team

I completely agree with your PROD. Note also that everything except the lede is a verbatim copy from various team documents. The article creator has made numerous dump-and-run articles so I doubt he'll be back to address problems. Meters (talk) 22:04, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Yup. He'll probably get blocked for a variety of reasons eventually. DMacks (talk) 22:07, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40

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 this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [17]

• <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [18]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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 show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [19]
• The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [20]
• Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [21]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [23]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Dan Shechtman edit

Thanks, Dmacks, for fixing my mess-up of the photo of Dan Shechtman. While I am an experienced editor, I am not at all experienced with the Wikipedia format.

Kindly Proofreader Kindly Proofreader (talk) 00:11, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Résumé

Synonyms abstract, breviary, brief, ..., :-) Thanks. bkb (talk) 06:27, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

User:Ahmedsami1406h

I think he should be blocked again for his continuing disruptive editing at Adnan Oktar. I just reverted him, so I can't do it. Your decision, of course.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:03, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

The truth is more valuable than wikipedia account. -- Ahmed Sami AlBassiouni (talk) 03:26, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

@Bbb23: done. DMacks (talk) 08:55, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:36, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-42

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

• There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

• Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [24]
• Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [25]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [26]

Future changes

• The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

fixing my error after grammar checking.

I just wanted to thank you for fixing my mistake after grammar checking. -S2e612

S2e612 (talk) 17:21, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

72.92.45.135

72.92.45.135 has continued disruptive editing since you last warned them. Based on their editing patterns (SEPTA plus old TV episodes) and previous socking from similar IPs, it's likely they're a block-evading sock of User:Oanabay04. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:01, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Blocked a week, solely for current disruption. I don't remember Oanabay04 well enough to match behavior that deeply (not one of the sockdrawers I track), but if you think it is, please file at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oanabay04. Even if they can't confirm, it centralizes that information for others. DMacks (talk) 04:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

• The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [27]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [28]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [29]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

New York

Hi there, I'm not sure what happened, but did the page protection for autoconfirmed users only which you re-instated (and which I agree with) just get removed by a bot? Castncoot (talk) 05:28, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

The bot just handles the tagging (what puts the variously colored padlock icons in the upper-right corner)--a visual indicator of the protection status, not the actual protection itself. But the bot and I edit-conflicted because I originally mis-set the actual protection flags also. Should be all better now. DMacks (talk) 05:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Professor X

Its A Free Editing Thingy You Cant Block Me I Make New Accounts And I Own A Computer Store TONS Of Different IP Addresses So In Your FACE! — Preceding unsigned comment added by CosmicMustard (talk • contribs) 07:06, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [30]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [31]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [32]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [33]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [34]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [35]

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Mr Macks! Just saw your work on the TIO(TUO) page. What are you up to these days?

Ossipewsk (talk) 14:00, 3 November 2016 (UTC) Richard Fitz, fellow ex-r.h.o.d.ent

Deletion of Dinclix GroundWorks

The article Dinclix GroundWorks was nominated for deletion by you, the article was written in a neutral tone and did not possessed any promotional or advertising material, it seems like you never read the article before nominating for speedy deletion, I want you to restore it and discuss the issues you have with it. Putting it under A7/G11 is unfair.

Regards. --TheodoreIndiana (talk) 15:11, 30 October 2016 (IST)

Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7: "No indication of importance", meaning that the article makes no statement that indicated any sort of notability according to the meaning of WP:CORP or WP:GNG standards. Someone else nominated it, I looked at it and agreed that there was no mention of anything that would classify it as notable, so I deleted it. Looking at the deleted article, I stand by that assessment. And I also agree that there is non-neutral/promotional wording. Pretty much anything that calls itself a "solution" is unencyclopediac fluff. DMacks (talk) 20:40, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, I agree, the article I wrote didn't clearly mentioned why the organisation is notable, I accept that's my mistake. However, it should be noted that it is one of the only companies from India which are working on Non-uniform rational B-spline Oriented Virtual Auxiliary project(s), the research is being done with Indian Institute of Technology, Indore and Institute of Engineering and Science IPS Academy . Even that aside, the company provides cloud computing services which are the same thing companies like Alpha7, Epos Now, Enomaly Inc, Advania, Netronome, rPath, Rackspace are doing and are still written on Wikipedia and that too in a biased tone. Sir, I request you to please help me in this case. Your help is appreciated.

References

Would also like to extend this message to @Light2021: Regards. --TheodoreIndiana (talk) 13:45, 31 October 2016 (IST)

to your response the kind of article are accepted, and the mentioned by you like Rackspace is nowhere close to deleted company. As you can see the comments and pure Vandalism made by user for this company. " Professor X" . mentioned company are there because they deserve to be part of it. on the other hand by misusing Wikipedia, Vandalism and Abuse made by users to other contributors are no way good for anyone. I do not know whether you are related to or not. The comments says I own a Computer shop. It is most unacceptable and unwelcoming coming to editors Talk page like this. 11:08, 31 October 2016 (UTC)Light2021 (talk)

@Light2021:, I think you are confusing TheodoreIndiana's reasonable question with some unrelated abusive vandal. The vandal was blocked long ago, please ignore him.

My sincere apologies for confusion. Light2021 (talk) 15:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

In response to User:TheodoreIndiana, "something else exists" is not a reason that yours should also exist. If you think another article is merely as problematic as yours was, then they also need to be fixed, rather than bringing other parts of the encyclopedia down also. But "notability" depends on independent in-depth reporting, not merely existing and being similar to some other company that is notable. See WP:CORP. I am not in a position to be able to help make the case that this company merits an article at this time...maybe someday it will (when it does, an article would then be appropriate). DMacks (talk) 16:34, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-45

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

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [36]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [37]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [38]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [39]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [40]

Meetings

• 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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [41][42][43]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Demagogue

An issue has been raised on my talk page that you might have some insight into. I'm staying uninvolved on Trump etc stuff. Doug Weller talk 20:41, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [44]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [45]

Meetings

• 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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [46]

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19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi DMacks.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

"documentation says that network= is 'The original network(s) on which the show has appeared.'"

Yes, and I realize that. But buddy...

YOU'RE THE WRONG ONE!!! Don't believe me? look at this link: http://web.archive.org/web/20000816204710/http://www.noggin.com/pick/

Oh!!!! Here is another one!: http://web.archive.org/web/20000816204721/http://www.noggin.com/schedule/

Oh yeah, baybe!!! Look at THIS: https://groups.google.ctom/forum/#!search/Noggin$201999$20Schedule/alt.tv.mathnet/t_f_VrTan2E/jhyzyigG3fw

Oh yeah!!! THERE'S MORE: http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/1999/020299.shtml

So... you done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kooz125 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

@Kooz125: the issue isn't whether or not Square One aired on Noggin, the issue is whether or not Noggin was the original broadcast network, i.e. if Noggin was airing brand new first-run episodes. Your gloating is completely unwarranted unless you can substantiate that PBS cancelled the series and Noggin picked it up again, or something similar. Reruns are not typically noteworthy, and WikiProject Television doesn't care that Seinfeld (for example) an NBC series might have aired in reruns on some other network. Same with Square One. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:22, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Yup, User:Kooz125, I'm completely done trying to explain why nobody cares whether it's true that noggin aired reruns. The fact is that the template is not supposed to list reruns. Multiple editors have told you this...maybe once you see these comments re-run enough you will understand it? Or not, and just get your edit-privleges revoked altogether for disruption....up to you. DMacks (talk) 03:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Well you never tried to explain it to me in the first place.

Kooz125 (talk) 20:18 , 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Augh...

Re: this, augh! Thanks for catching and fixing my eff-up. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome. But then I went and got the image deleted altogether as copyvio, so it was moot:) DMacks (talk) 03:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [47]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [48]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [49]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [50][51][52]

Meetings

• 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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [53]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [54]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, DMacks. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of page Dr. Nancy Mallerou

Hello, I am Dr. Nancy Mallerou's co-worker. We created a page named "Dr. Nancy Mallerou" on October 10th and it has been deleted due to copyright. All copyright is reserved by her and today she sent the copyright email for donating content, as listed on the wikipedia site. Do I have to re-create the page or will it be restored? What should I do now?

Thank you in advance, A.M.

--Malkisti (talk) 18:52, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Article:

• Dr. Nancy Mallerou (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Also of relevance to this editor and subject:

• Life clinic group (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

@Malkisti: When OTRS gives its approval, they will give you a tracking number. With that information, I can restore the page. Note that permission does not guarantee that the page will survive. Usually selfpublished websites, especially of public or commercial persons or organizations, are hopelessly beyond WP:NPOV content guidelines, and also are not sufficient to establish that the subject even merits a page at all per WP:GNG guidelines. You might be better off waiting for someone not affiliated with her to write it, due to your conflict of interest. DMacks (talk) 21:21, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Local copies

Hi. Are the tests involving File:Cyclopropane-3D-balls2.png and File:Trinitrotoluene acsv-testing.svg still on-going? --Leyo 22:44, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for asking, I had forgotten about them!

• File:Cyclopropane-3D-balls2.png is still in use at User:DMacks/Cyclopropane, which demonstrates an inconsistency in on-hover/popup behavior that affects chembox usability.
• File:Trinitrotoluene acsv-testing.svg still is a nice demo of an apparently still-present apparently-MW bug (need not be local, but I didn't want someone to change/fix the commons file).

So I guess "both still in use", but the chembox issue might be fixable (or at least WP:VPT territory). DMacks (talk) 04:29, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

diagrams

I have posted a reply on my talk page. Petergans (talk) 11:52, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

112.118.142.248

I just saw the history of Enantiomer and was about to go back and block 112.118.142.248 as a result but saw that you had already done so. Good call. -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:51, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Need your help DMacks!

Hello DMacks, I'm here on your talk-page once again. I need your help, actually, I wanted to write an article on Sandeep Maheshwari, he's an Indian entrepreneur, author and a motivational speaker. He is widely known for his motivation seminars and also is the founder of a website called ImagesBazaar which has the largest collection of Indian images & videos. I'm 101% sure that he is a notable figure (a simple Google Search might help). But it seems like someone revoked any article by this name to be rewritten, I have already requested it at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/By nationality tho it's very unlikely that someone would write one. Since you're the only administrator I know who can help me, is it possible for you to write an article on Sandeep Maheshwari? Thanks and regards TheodoreIndiana (talk) 06:45, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-48

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 this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [55]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [57][58]

Meetings

• 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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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21:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

PWRR edit

PWRR excellent job going out of your way to disrupt the page. I made good faith effort to add valid content to the page and you worked diligently to keep it off the page because of no citation. News flash 99% of that page is uncited but accurate because people like me actually try to contribute, while people like you maintain the poor reputation Wikipedia's editing class has created for itself. There is no citation available for lots of valid factual information, Wikipedia would be half of what it is if it only allowed cited information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B103:9CDF:1982:F988:2F70:3BD6 (talk) 20:31, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [59]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [60]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [61]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [62]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for the move! Wasn't aware of that.... पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 15:20, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@पाटलिपुत्र: you're welcome! Wikipedia:Moving a page is the detailed information about it. DMacks (talk) 15:22, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Unblock request on hold

There is an unblock request at User talk:107.77.202.188 for a year-long block on a /24 range, which you placed for block evasion. There is a very large number of edits from the range, and looking at those from September, when you placed the block, I see that they are on numerous different topics, with no evident common connecting theme, so that it seems there has been a large number of different editors, with no one of them dominating the editing history. I can't see anything in your editing round about that period which gives any clue as to what block was being evaded, but even if a block was evaded, blocking such a large number of different editors for as long as a year to stop one person who does not appear to have been responsible for a significant proportion of the editors seems doubtful. If things really are as they look to me, then I think the block should be lifted, but obviously you may know things that aren't visible to me, which justify the block, so I will be grateful if you can let me know your thoughts on the matter. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:15, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer you gave on the IP talk page. A good example of why not to unblock without consulting the blocking admin first, even in a case which looks clear. You clearly did "know things that aren't visible to me, which justify the block", as I said above. I shall decline the unblock request. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:57, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome! Thanks for double-checking and following up. DMacks (talk) 22:01, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

• I have also now noticed something else, which I didn't notice before. Why did this innocent editor, caught in collateral damage, mention the Weather Channel article? Nobody had mentioned that on the IP talk page, or in the block log reason, or, as far as I can see, anywhere that the editor would have seen it. If I had noticed that at first, I would have declined the unblock request without having to trouble you. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 22:07, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Do you know what IPs who are in a rangeblock see in their block message? Specifically, do they have any direct link to the block log of that range (Special:Block/107.77.202.188/24 or Special:Block/107.77.202.0/24 or [63])? DMacks (talk) 22:12, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

They certainly see the block log entry for the current block. It is some time since the last time I edited from a range-blocked IP address, but as far as I remember the information in the notice one sees when one tries to edit in that situation is s follows. (1) Generic information about blocks, along the lines of "editing from this IP address has been disabled" and "you can appeal this block by posting XXX on your talk page or by using UTRS". (2) The name of the blocking administrator. (3) The block log entry. If the block log is one of the templated block messages (from the bottom section of the drop-down list), such as {{anonblock}}, then what is seen is a tranclusion of the template. If it's one of standard block log reasons but not templated (from the top section of the drop-down list) such as [[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism]], then what is seen is a Wikilink, exactly as that link would appear if it were posted in a Wikipedia page. If I remember to, I'll try editing in the local library, which at the last I knew was range blocked, some time within the next few days, to remind myself of the exact details, and let you know. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:02, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Re: whoops

[64] I figured it was something like that. Thanks for following up! —67.14.236.50 (talk) 22:46, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Begging - now locked - students cannot complete their university assignment

Hello DMAcks - I am a university lecturer and currently asking my students to contribute to this page. This is part of their univeristy assessment and i have required this before a number of times - i can give you examples of this where they have contributed to other pages - they will be adding 25 different states in the USA and going to discuss begging as part of their assignment. the fact that it is now protected will prevent them from doing this - could you please reduce the level until at least the 23rd December which is the date that their assignment will be due (taking into account those that may have a two day extension). many thanks CrimUser — Preceding unsigned comment added by CrimUser (talk • contribs) 02:37, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

• Begging (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

It's only semiprotected, meaning as soon as your students have made 10 edits to other articles over a few days, they will have unrestricted ability to edit that one. I don't think it's unreasonable for students to be expected to practice their edit skills a bit before going to work on "live" articles. Please let me know the Wikipedia:Course pages for your project and I will be happy to advise any affected students. Due to the many-years-running problems with that article during the month of December, I can't see reducing it below pendingchanges. But that would make the problem there even worse, as bad edits would become intermingled in your students' work. DMacks (talk) 04:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

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

• Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [65]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [66]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [67]

Problems

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [68]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Total synthesis

On dismissing Oxytocin from see also - you said it was not - even an example.....the link used went straight to its reference as such...? --Iztwoz (talk) 17:16, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Looking more closely, I do agree it is. Not an appropriate link as you had done (a loose "See also)", but an example nontheless, that could be viable with an independent explanation why it is notable. DMacks (talk) 18:11, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Already added it into article just copying from entry page. --Iztwoz (talk) 18:17, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Looks great thanks! DMacks (talk) 18:19, 17 December 2016 (UTC)