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Your GA nomination of MAUD Committee

The article MAUD Committee you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:MAUD Committee for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 13:40, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British logistics in the Normandy Campaign

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article British logistics in the Normandy Campaign you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nick-D -- Nick-D (talk) 08:03, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of MAUD Committee

The article MAUD Committee you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:MAUD Committee for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 09:03, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

October to December 2017 Milhist article reviewing

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		On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for reviewing a total of 20 Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period October to December 2017. Thank you for supporting Wikipedia's quality content processes. AustralianRupert (talk) 02:12, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Bougainville counterattack

G'day, Hawkeye, Happy New Year. Sorry to bother you. Krishna tried to close the Bougainville counterattack ACR on 02 Jan, per [1]; however, Milhistbot doesn't seem to have been triggered. Would you mind taking a look? Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 21:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

The backup version was missing a special fix. Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:47, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Hawkeye. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 23:48, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Milhistbot not updating Template:WPMILHIST Announcements for GANs

G'day Hawkeye, sorry to bother you, but Milhistbot hasn't updated the GANs on Template:WPMILHIST Announcements since 29 Dec? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:11, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

I have to run it manually until I return, and it takes a long while to run, so I was only running it weekly. I have started a run. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:00, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Ah. No worries. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:34, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Created eligibility tracking page for ACCs

G'day Hawkeye, I thought that we needed a page for tracking eligibility for ACCs, as you already have one article going towards getting one. I figured given the different eligibility criteria (five articles instead of three), we'd need a new page rather than keep using the ACM one. So I created Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACC/Eligibility tracking and transferred you and your article there. Feel free to revert, tweak, or let me know if that isn't how you thought it would work? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:07, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

I'll have to adjust the Bot to let it know about it. I can do this next week. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:42, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Great. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018

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Tech News: 2018-02

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Recent changes

• On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [2][3]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [4]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [5]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [6][7]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [8]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [9]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [10]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [11]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [12]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [13][14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [15]

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British logistics in the Normandy Campaign

The article British logistics in the Normandy Campaign you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British logistics in the Normandy Campaign for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nick-D -- Nick-D (talk) 10:02, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-3

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• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [16]
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• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [18][19]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Canberra meetup

Hi, I've moved the time for the meetup in Canberra on the 20 January 2018 from 6pm to 7pm. Bidgee (talk) 21:50, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay. Hope you can make it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:51, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Quebec Agreement

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Quebec Agreement you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Display name 99 -- Display name 99 (talk) 22:01, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for British logistics in the Normandy Campaign

On 17 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article British logistics in the Normandy Campaign, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/British logistics in the Normandy Campaign. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, British logistics in the Normandy Campaign), 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.

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Your GA nomination of Quebec Agreement

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DYK for Randle Feilden

On 19 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Randle Feilden, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Major General Sir Randle Feilden has a horse race named in his memory? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Randle Feilden. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Randle Feilden), 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.

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Landings at Cape Torokina

G'day, Hawkeye, hope you are well. I've nominated the Landings at Cape Torokina article for Milhist ACR now, per our conversation late last year (the library has sent me a copy of Morison now. It arrived in record time, apparently there was a service air flight that needed ballast!). I've added you as a co-nom. The review can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Landings at Cape Torokina. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 06:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Two tweaks?

Hi Hawkeye7, Happy new year! I'm out of my depth so over to you...

• On S-50 (Manhattan Project) appears "Murphee, Tolman, Cohen and Tolman estimated..." - is there a fourth name to replace the repeated Tolman, (Lewis?) or remove it?

  (Takes the book down from the shelf band has a look.) Should be "Thompson". Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:04, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

• On Philip Abelson there is a red link to liquid thermal diffusion. Pipe to Thermophoresis and/or maybe a redirect page created for liquid thermal diffusion? Best wishes, JennyOz (talk) 05:03, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

  Linked. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:04, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Mistake

Hello, in regards to something you left on my talk page, no, that page is not a test page. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE! IT IS CRITICAL FOR THE GA NOMINATION. One of the links goes to that page, I will fix it when I figure it out. Thank you, Ral 33 (talk) 00:26, 20 January 2018 (UTC) Ral 33 (talk) 00:26, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

I've already figured it out for you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:27, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Nice to meet you Ral 33 (talk) 20:47, 21 January 2018 (UTC) Ral 33 (talk) 20:47, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

TFA

Thank you for another Manhattan project: "This article is about the S-50 Project. It was an effort to produce enriched uranium using by liquid thermal diffusion. Pilot plants were built at the Anacostia Naval Air Station and the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and a production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This was the only production-scale liquid thermal diffusion plant ever built. It could not enrich uranium sufficiently for use in an atomic bomb, but it could provide slightly enriched feed for the Y-12 calutrons and the K-25 gaseous diffusion plants. It was estimated that the S-50 plant had sped up production of enriched uranium used in the Little Boy bomb employed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by a week."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:34, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

ACR

G'day, Hawkeye, sorry to bother you on a school night, but if you get a chance would you mind taking a look at Nick's comments on the Landings at Cape Torokina ACR and seeing if you would like to add to or amend what I've already added? Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:06, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

(Slightly) Belated Congratulations on TFA for S-50_Project

Nice job on the S-50_Project article: I see your ongoing upgrade of Manhattan Project articles continues. I occasionally have flashbacks from our work getting the article on Stan Ulam up to GA quality, but it's still a very good article, and I'm glad to see you're still at it. Best wishes for the New Year! Dictioneer (talk) 00:05, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Much Sounding of Bugles: The Siege of Chitral 1895

Hello Hawkeye7. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Much Sounding of Bugles: The Siege of Chitral 1895, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 cannot be applied to books. Thank you. SoWhy 13:22, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

My apologies. To head off a possible future AfD, some indication of notability would help. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Frisch–Peierls memorandum

On 27 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the authors of the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum were assigned to research nuclear weapons because, as enemy aliens, they could not work on secret military projects? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frisch–Peierls memorandum. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Frisch–Peierls memorandum), 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, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

See edit, which leaves 'Bush' as an isolated mention giving no indication who 'Bush' is. Perhaps put back "Oliphant also met with Conant and Vannevar Bush." as V.B. is a very important figure in all this.

Also,

The chemistry of uranium was not well known at the time, and Frisch believed that it was 15 grams per cubic centimetre (0.54 lb/cu in);[44] the true value is more like 19 grams per cubic centimetre (0.69 lb/cu in).

does not make sense. Perhaps "The density of uranium..."? Shenme (talk) 01:12, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

That's right. Thanks for this. I have corrected the article accordingly. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:37, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Miles Graham

On 29 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Miles Graham, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Major General Miles Graham was Monty's logistics supremo in both North Africa and North-West Europe during the Second World War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Miles Graham. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Miles Graham), 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.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

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British logistics in the Normandy Campaign

Hi, I've found the reference to a British corps being 'grounded' during the pursuit phase of the breakout from Normandy: please see page 3 of Victory in the West Vol II. David French also notes this in his Raising Churchill's Army [26]. Neither source says which corps it was though, but this and this book say it was the VIII Corps (though it also seems that the corps had first been reduced in size, so the number of 'grounded' units may not have been large). Regards, Nick-D (talk) 21:55, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I think that I've seen other mentions of that as well. Perhaps in van Creveld's Supply in War? IIRC, it seems to have some sort of stupid maintenance problem with the 3-ton truck's engine.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:12, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I found it in Ellis. The article read: ""During the advance from the Seine, the Second Army employed only two of its eight infantry divisions so the transport of two could be used to help maintain the other six divisions." Added: "grounding the VIII Corps". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:27, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

The US did much the same to create the Red Ball Express, IIRC, but I'd strongly suggest that you hunt down van Creveld and check to see if there was a maintenance issue with the 3-tonners as that was apparently at least partially responsible for the delays getting up to the Scheldt.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:17, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I have a copy of the 1977 edition of his Supplying War (which I presume is the book you're referring to?), and I can't see any discussion of British trucks. He does make an interesting argument about the oft-discussed logistical problems during the breakout being overblown though (mainly in reference to the US forces). His basic argument is that the Allied logisticians kept under-estimating their ability to supply combat units and operations which were on paper impossible to supply were successfully executed in practice. He notes though that Montgomery's desire to make a concentrated advance into Germany in 1944 was reckless from a logistical perspective. Nick-D (talk) 23:32, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I have a copy of van Crevald too. The maintenance issue with the K5s is summed up in the 21st Army Group Administrative History:

The most notable maintenance issue came from the Austin 3 Ton K5, 1400 of which were rendered unusable, along with all the spare engines, as faulty manufacture had resulted in piston trouble.

There is a detailed discussion of the subject here. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:42, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

OK, I read all 25 pages(!) of the discussion and it appears to be far overblown in effects.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:49, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

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Battle of Cape Gloucester

G'day, Hawkeye, just letting you know I've nominated Battle of Cape Gloucester for a peer review. It can be found here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Battle of Cape Gloucester/archive1. I'm hoping to take it to GA a bit later (maybe March or April depending on whether I have to go away in late Februrary for work). Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 01:39, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Engvar Au vs Engvar Gb

Expect a response from the gb mafia on that one,  :( JarrahTree 23:01, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-06

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge

On 6 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that General Sir Brian Robertson said: "General Montgomery does not cheat – whether that is due to his innate honesty or the fact that I watch him like a cat does not matter"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge), 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.

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Elliot See

Hawkeye,

Elliot See's article recently passed GA, and prior to submitting for A, it will need substantial expansion. Would you be able to expand out his military history section? I can work to expand out the rest of it (though if you want to work on any particular section, feel free). Kees08 (Talk) 07:47, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-07

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Recent changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [38][39][40]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [41]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [42]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [43]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

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• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [44]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

FYI

Just a note that I removed the active sanctions banner from Talk:Russian interference in the 2018 United States elections, as no one has put specific page-level sanctions on it. I put the generic DS talk warning on it, and have it watchlisted and will place it under page-level sanctions if things get out of hand there. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:53, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:55, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ronald Forbes Adam

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Your GA nomination of Ronald Forbes Adam

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Your GA nomination of Ronald Forbes Adam

The article Ronald Forbes Adam you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ronald Forbes Adam for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 16:21, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [45][46]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [47]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [48]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [49][50]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

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Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [51]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Tech News: 2018-09

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

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [52]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [53][54]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [55]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [56][57][58]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [59]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [60][61]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Neil Armstrong

Hi Hawkeye7, as discussed I have prepared some notes for possible tweaks. Where do you want them? Regards, JennyOz (talk) 23:13, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Much appreciated. Put them on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Neil Armstrong. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:15, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Eek, too late. Do you want me to move them or will you? JennyOz (talk) 01:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

No worries. I'll do it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:24, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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 now make longer edit summaries. [62]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [63]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [64][65]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [66]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA

Hi Hawkeye7, your BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 2) has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 03:26, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

This is great Hawkeye! Thanks for enhancing Milhistbot to do this laborious task. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:14, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

TFA

This is to let you know that the Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines article has been scheduled as today's featured article for March 11, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 11, 2018. Hope you're doing well.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:27, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I am doing well. @Dank: I have rewritten the blurb to reduce it to 1,147 characters. I strongly recommend that the article be protected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:58, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye, John and I already had a blurb for this one, but I'm glad you trimmed it a bit ... we didn't want it to be quite that long, even though it's fine to go up to 1175 if the storyline is complicated. I'm not sure about your first two sentences ... we'll have another look at it later tonight. - Dank (push to talk) 21:22, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Looking again, my first reaction is that I like what John and I did ... not because we don't like your text, but because we do. We thought the article lead was very well written, and we tried to pack as many of your phrases into the TFA as we could. Your blurb version has less of what made the lead great, I think. I think I'll revert ... take another look, and there are still things in there that you don't want, feel free to take them out. - Dank (push to talk) 21:33, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

It's your call, and I respect that. And I happy to leave it there. But since you were going to write an article on blurbs, I thought I would record some comments about why I arranged what is mostly the same text this way. There are only two differences in information:

• I wanted to mention John D. Bulkeley because he was awarded the Medal of Honor. He also wrote a best-seller, which was made into the movie.
• "and members of his family and staff" To me it is very important that he took these people with him. Crucially, he didn't have to; the President only told him to take Sutherland

However, this is a major difference in organisation:

• MOS:LEADPARAGRAPH Wants us to put the most important stuff up the top. That means that the lead is rarely in chronological order, but is more like a news item. So my version has similar words, but in chronological order. Telling people that he was a symbol first explains the presidents order. Most of all, I wanted to end the blurb with the dramatic "I shall return".

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:45, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for "one of the more dramatic actions of World War II"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:58, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:00, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-11

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

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [67]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [68]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [69]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [70]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [71]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [72]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [73][74]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [75][76][77]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

John Glenn A-class

Hey Hawkeye, I am having some editor's block on the John Glenn article for addressing the comments in the review. Do you have time to try to hit that up? If not, I will get to it. Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 04:28, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Hey again. I am rewriting his whole political career; that section was just hot garbage. I should be done in a few days. I think in an effort to keep it succinct, we did not have enough detail to explain why anything happened. Would you be able to work on his legacy section? It might have some of the same issues you uncovered at the Armstrong article. Kees08 (Talk) 06:41, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Hello! Your submission of 116th Infantry Regiment (United States) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Toreightyone (talk) 14:16, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Lorna Arnold entry in the ODNB

Hi, I notice that Lorna Arnold, whose article I gather you took to GA status, has now got an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; I thought you might be interested to know this. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 19:41, 18 March 2018 (UTC).

Thanks for that. I have incorporated some details from the ODNB into the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of We choose to go to the Moon

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article We choose to go to the Moon you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:01, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [78]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [79][80]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of We choose to go to the Moon

The article We choose to go to the Moon you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:We choose to go to the Moon for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 08:01, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ronald Forbes Adam

On 21 March 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ronald Forbes Adam, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the Second World War, General Ronald Forbes Adam instituted aptitude tests for new recruits to the British Army? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ronald Forbes Adam. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ronald Forbes Adam), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of We choose to go to the Moon

The article We choose to go to the Moon you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:We choose to go to the Moon for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 08:41, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

"We choose to go to the Moon" EL cite-web templates

Hi. WP:ELCITE says "Because citation templates were not designed for use in the External links section, editors who use citation templates in this section should be careful to ensure the resulting description is appropriate for an external link."

I think the templates are inappropriate. At the very least the term "entire" is redundant; furthermore, there are no audio files on that page, only video files. I don't think link-rot is a sufficient reason to retain such unsightly templates. — Hugh (talk) 00:20, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

What's unsightly about the templates? They look the same as if they are not used. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:32, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/2018 AFL Women's Grand Final transclusion

Hawkeye7, I just moved this transclusion from March 26, the date you nominated it, to March 23, the day the 5x expansion began. (Nominations go under date created/moved to mainspace, 5x expanded, or GA listed.)

I also had to delete the asterisk you inserted before the transclusion, which causes problems down the road, including preventing the nomination from being moved to the approved page when it gets the tick; this can delay promotion to prep. Please keep this in mind for future nominations. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:39, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Well there you go. I have always filed them on the day they reached the 5x expansion rather than when it commenced. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:43, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-13

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

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [81] [82]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [83]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [84]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [85]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive

G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
• updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

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DYK nomination of Clifford E. Charlesworth

Hello! Your submission of Clifford E. Charlesworth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:44, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Hawkeye7, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Signpost interview

MHIST is being featured again. You are welcome to respond here. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final

Hello! Your submission of 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SounderBruce 21:53, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Polaris (UK nuclear programme)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Polaris (UK nuclear programme) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Freikorp -- Freikorp (talk) 00:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Don't feel obligated, but I've got Riot shield nominated for GA if you've got the time. :) Freikorp (talk) 00:29, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Polaris (UK nuclear programme)

The article Polaris (UK nuclear programme) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Polaris (UK nuclear programme) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Freikorp -- Freikorp (talk) 01:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Polaris (UK nuclear programme)

The article Polaris (UK nuclear programme) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Polaris (UK nuclear programme) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Freikorp -- Freikorp (talk) 04:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [86][87][88]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [89]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [90]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [91][92][93]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [94] [95]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [96]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [97]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [98]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [99][100]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIIV, April 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at the bombing of Darwin; recent books by female military historians Review essay: K.e.coffman on Wikipedia's representations of the Nazi German military Op-ed: TomStar81 on the Red Baron Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 09:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [101]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [102]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [103]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [104]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [105]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [106]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [107]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final

Hello! Your submission of 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Clifford E. Charlesworth

On 10 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clifford E. Charlesworth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Clifford E. Charlesworth was a NASA Flight Director during the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clifford E. Charlesworth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Clifford E. Charlesworth), 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, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

ok

so you ignore me at the best of times, fair enough - but thanks for your portal defence - appreciated JarrahTree 07:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't remember ignoring you. Were you at that HOPAU meetup in Perth? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:19, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

hey no issue - really - nope not at that meeting - (it was a more or less obscure talk itemsome time back) - no big deal.

what concerns me is the whole australian project goes caput with loss of portals as far as i am concerned - cannot believe how thick the support gang are - pull away that fabric and things go very wrong imho JarrahTree 08:26, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Hello! Your submission of 116th Infantry Regiment (United States) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 08:58, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [108]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [109][110]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [111]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [112]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final

On 17 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the conclusion of the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final, acting captain Ellie Blackburn called upon her suspended skipper Katie Brennan to help hoist the team's trophy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2018 AFL Women's Grand Final. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final), 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) 00:02, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Neil Armstrong

Hi, I just noticed this award - please add at Legacy if you deem notable enough - 2001 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy. Regards, JennyOz (talk) 10:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA

Hello Hawkeye7, your recent BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 3) has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 12:59, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Clean Wehrmacht discussion

Hi, I would appreciate a clarification in this discussion:

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/News/April 2018/Review essay#Comments

--K.e.coffman (talk) 02:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

January to March 2018 Milhist article reviewing

		The WikiChevrons
		On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for reviewing a total of 20 Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period January to March 2018. Thank you for supporting Wikipedia's quality content processes. AustralianRupert (talk) 07:55, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Portals

The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.

You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it.

There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals.

Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore.

It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them.

The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond.

A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

Let's do this.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   10:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [113]
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [114]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [115]
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

WAVES

Your additions to the article properly disclosed how the U.S. Navy Department felt and dealt with race in World War II. Initially, I just scanned the additions. Later, I reread them and came away with some concerns. I’ve cut and pasted the additions as they presently stand, followed by some of my thoughts.

• The legislation that established the WAVES said nothing about the inclusion or exclusion of people of colour, so the Navy Department decided that it should be, like the SPARS, Navy Nurse Corps and Women Marines, exclusively white.[24]

<> I’ve written about the WAVES, SPARS, and Women Marines (as you know), so I may be too close to the forest to see the trees. In any event, the WAVES were authorized in July 1942, the SPARs in November 1942, and the Women Marines formed in February 1943, although authorized in July 1942. My point is this: the WAVES were not like the SPARS and the Women Marines; they (SPARS and Women Marines) were like the WAVES in respect to the sequence of events. The all (white) female Navy Nurse Corps was formed in 1908, and did not accept women of color until 1945. Its race policies were well established long before Knox was on the scene. Incidentilly, male nurses were not accepted until 1965.

• Drifting off topic, so tightened the text to say "the Navy Department decided that it should be exclusively white." Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

<> Wouldn’t American English be more appropriate for the word color?

• My spell checker automatically changes to "colour" unless I override it. Changed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

<> Exclusively white: the first (of several) Native American women to enter the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve did so in July 1943, five months after its formation.

• Knox said that black WAVES would be enlisted over his dead body. So it proved. After his death on 28 April 1944, his successor, Forrestal, immediately moved to reform the Navy's racial policies. He submitted a proposal to accept WAVES on an integrated basis to the president on 28 July 1944. Aware that 1944 was an election year Forrestal attempted to compromise by offering segregated living quarters and mess facilities, but Roosevelt decided to hold it up until after the election, which was to be held on 7 November. His opponent, Thomas E. Dewey, made it an election issue of it when he criticised the administration for discriminating against black women in a speech in Chicago. Roosevelt immediately issued the order to accept African-American on 19 October 1944.[25]

<> …Thomas E. Dewey, made it an election issue of it when he criticised the administration for… (1) made it or of it ? (2) criticized – sp

• Deleted "it" Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

<> Roosevelt immediately issued the order to accept African-American (?) on October 1944

• The first two African-American officers, Lieutenant Harriet Ida Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills, graduated from Smith College and were commissioned in the WAVES on 21 December. Enlistment of African-American women commenced the following week. The promise of segregated quarters could not be maintained; each recruit company contained 250 women, and there were insufficient black recruits to form an all-black company. It looked like this would become yet another excuse to exclude black women, but McAfee appealed to Forrestal, and he dropped the segregation requirement. Some 72 African American WAVES were trained by at Hunter College Naval Training School by July 1945. While training was integrated, black WAVES were restricted somewhat in speciality assignments and a certain amount of separate quartering within integrated barracks prevailed at some duty stations.[25] Those that remained in the Navy after the war were employed without discrimination; but there were only five left by September 1946.[26]

<> Some 72 African American WAVES were trained by at Hunter College… by or at?

• Deleted "by" Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

<> Specialty, sp

• Hmmmm... the spell checker keeps setting it back. We'll assume it is an American spelling. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

<> Served rather than employed might be more in keeping with the military vernacular.

• No, employed is correct here. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Employed it is! Pendright (talk) 00:20, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you again for this important piece of hist3ory. Pendright (talk) 19:18, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Appreciate your edits! Pendright (talk) 00:20, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Levering Smith

On 24 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Levering Smith, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Levering Smith, a US Navy officer, was credited with assisting the UK Polaris programme to finish "on time and on budget, an unprecedented feat in British naval history"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Levering Smith. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Levering Smith), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again

• Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

• News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

• In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

• In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

• Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

• Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

• Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

• Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

• Discussion report: The future of portals

• Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

• Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

• Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

• Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

• Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Katherine Oppenheimer

On 26 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Katherine Oppenheimer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Katherine Oppenheimer, the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a cousin of German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Katherine Oppenheimer. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Katherine Oppenheimer), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject heads up, April 27, 2018

We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily.

New and easier way to handle excerpts

Attention portal maintainers!

There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you.

It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale or fork.

It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the Lua Module:Excerpt supporting it.

Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across.

To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt of a discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:

• This new template is fantastic. I've added it to the intro sections of the portals on Australian cities (eg P:PER) and it works brilliantly. My compliments to its creators. It can probably also be used in other sections of many portals (eg "Selected article" and "Selected biography"), and, for that reason, will probably make the task of maintaining portals a great deal easier. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

  Thank you for being so brave. Portal:Adelaide/Intro just got a lot simpler! Certes (talk) 10:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Kudos on a wonderful template.    — The Transhumanist   03:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

This is amazing stuff. I'm going to get to work on using it on the selected content at most of these portals very soon. WaggersTALK 13:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

The RfC

I wrote a comment in the the April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it.

Wish list

What's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it...

*poof*

Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes!

I wish...

1. ...that Portal:Contents/Portals becomes up-to-date.   (The missing entries are listed on the talk page, with instructions).
2. ...the WikiProject to have Article Alerts.   ({{WikiProject Portals}} templates have already been placed on all portal talk pages).
3. ...that Portal:Cricket becomes a shining example of portal excellence.   (It was the main example of a crappy and unmaintained portal at the RfC).

Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals!    — The Transhumanist   08:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Polaris (UK nuclear programme)

On 27 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Polaris (UK nuclear programme), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a series of British nuclear tests was carried out in the United States to develop warheads for the UK Polaris programme? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Polaris (UK nuclear programme). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Polaris (UK nuclear programme)), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for We choose to go to the Moon

On 28 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article We choose to go to the Moon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that President John F. Kennedy (pictured) said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/We choose to go to the Moon. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, We choose to go to the Moon), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

FACBot

Hi Hawkeye, re. this one, it appears the article name was changed to include a hyphen after the nom was initiated -- I did the usual tweaks and page moves to allow for this but may have missed something, can you check why it's not archiving and let me know for future ref? Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:25, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Just saw your edit at the FAC Log -- silly of me to miss that, been a while since I've had to action one of these... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 04:28, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Oh. Having found that the review had been closed, it went to look at the archive page to see if it had been promoted or archived. Because the name on the archive page didn't match, it couldn't find it there. So then it wrote an entry in the log, and assumed that you would fix it. I made this change and ordered the Bot to run again, and this time it processed it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:35, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John C. H. Lee

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article John C. H. Lee you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eddie891 -- Eddie891 (talk) 13:40, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [116]

Problems

• We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [117]

Changes later this week

• You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [118]
• When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [119]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [120]
• There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [121][122][123]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Portals Overview, May 04, 2018

Thank you for being a member of the Portals WikiProject, and thank you for all the work you have all been doing on the portal namespace. To see the activity, check out the watchlist.

This is our 3rd issue, see previous issues at the Newsletter archive.

Top priority: Main list of portals needs updating

The top, and one of the most visible parts, of the portal system is Portal:Contents/Portals, which is intended to list all (completed) portals on Wikipedia.

About half of the missing existing portals have been added since this WikiProject's reboot (April 17th). Thank you to RockMagnetist, TriNitrobrick, Polyamorph, PratyushSinha101, Ganesha811, Bermicourt, Javert2113, Noyster, Ɱ, Lepricavark, XOR'easter, and Emir of Wikipedia, for working on this.

We are half-way to completion with this. We need everyone to chip in until it is done. Instructions, and the list of missing entries are at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope you'll join me there. ("Many hands make light work").

Thank you.

Membership

We're at 66 members, with more joining daily. We even have 6 WikiGnomes!

Special thanks

I have awarded Certes with a portals barnstar on his talk page for his work on the new excerpt templates that are revolutionizing the portal system (Template:Transclude lead excerpt & Template:Transclude random excerpt). If you'd like to show your appreciation, please feel free to stop by his talk page and add your signature to the barnstar itself.

Thank you Certes. You are enabling this WikiProject to get the right things done, fast.

By the way, the templates have already gone international. After being told about the templates, Mossab wrote:

Thanks You very much!. Those are fantastic and great templates! I transferred them to Arabic Wikipedia and they do a magic great job. I worked to improve portal anatomy here and i do every thing i can to improve it and i am very sad for the nomination for deletion of portals :(. I am glad to be member on WikiProject Portals and i added my name with pleasure. Kind regards

RFC

As you know, the (April 8th) proposal to delete all portals and the portal namespace inspired the reboot of this WikiProject. RfCs typically run for 30 days, which means there are 5 days left including today, before the RfC will be closed. The !votes are predominantly "oppose", but many editors have shared their disappointment with the portal system. We have our work cut out for us in correcting the problems of the portals to address their concerns. Complaints ranged from being out of date and lacking maintenance, to taking up the time of editors that they felt (due to low traffic) would be better spent improving articles.

Anti-WikiProject drama

This past week has been somewhat stressful for me, with more than a little conflict...

It culminated with my being reported at the Administrator's Noticeboard "for spamming and canvassing". This is the second time I've been reported there during the RfC; the first one was for posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages.

The accusations were 1) Posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages, 2) Adding an Article alerts section to the Portals WikiProject page, and 3) posting notices (invitations) about this WikiProject on user talk and portal talk pages.

None of which fall under the Wikipedia definitions of spamming or canvassing.

Thank you, Lionelt and Lepricavark, for coming to my rescue. I don't know how the discussion would have turned out if you had not spoken up.

The discussion was closed as "no action necessary".

After that, the person responsible posted their thoughts to my talk page. Here they are, with my response:

Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac

Thank you. I accept your congratulations on behalf of Wikiproject Portals and the portal-loving community – it was a team effort. In addition, I'd like to clarify some things about your claims above...

1. Each page nominated for deletion must have a notice at the top of its page, per the deletion guideline. Not to have one there, would be unfair to those who use such pages, and would constitute a secret deletion tribunal. We don't do things that way on Wikipedia.
2. As new facts became available (e.g., a motivated and thriving WikiProject to support the portals, new building blocks, etc.), it was appropriate to post the developments to the RfC, to support informed decision making.
3. Proposals are literal, not figurative. The proposal specified "all portals". All means all.
4. The fact is, the rebooted WikiProject is cleaning up the mess, rather rapidly. By updating and upgrading the portals, rather than getting rid of them.
5. I think I'll be hanging around for awhile, but the project is more than likely to achieve critical mass and may outlive us all, due in part to the development of tools to assist editors in building, upgrading, and maintaining portals that are fully dynamic and self-updating.

Portals are more fun to work with than ever. Thank you for your role in making this happen. You made us try even harder, and inspired us to pull together as a team. You'll have a warm place in our hearts, forever. The Transhumanist

Automatically refreshed excerpts

The main advancement we've made so far is applying selective transclusion Transclusion is template technology, showing a page on another page. Selective transclusion shows only part of that page. We use it to show excerpts that always match the source. The two templates we have so far, are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Obsoleting subpages

Excerpts are migrating toward the base page of each portal, and where this is done, a subpage is no longer needed.

Template:Transclude lead excerpt will be able to be used to put the intro excerpt directly on the portal page, rather than on an intro subpage, once we adapt a portal design to accommodate this.

Template:Transclude random excerpt is currently being used on 1st-level subpages, and eliminates the need for 2nd-level subpages. (Many portals have 2 levels of subpages).

There are about 1500 portals, but there are around 148,000 subpages in portal space. Further discussions are needed to develop designs and components that do not require them.

It is my hope that the portal of the future will be a single page, or close to it, pulling in excerpts from specified dynamic sources (like category pages), filtered by ratings. This would obviate the need for subpages at all (except for maybe the header and footer subpages, which store a portal's settings). A more likely near-term solution would be subpages with a list maintained by a bot, or editors using semi-automatic tools.

New portals

Since the reboot, a new portal has been created:

Portal:Limited recognition

Please watchlist these pages

Some central pages in the portal system. The more eyes on them, the better.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
• User:The Transhumanist (there's a fair amount of portal project traffic on my talk page these days)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 1
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 2
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 3
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 4
• Wikipedia:Portal:Portal Example portal. And funny.
• Portal:Contents/Portals
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Culture and the arts
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Geography and places
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Health and fitness
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/History and events
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Infobox
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Intro
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Mathematics and logic
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Natural and physical sciences
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/People and self
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Philosophy and thinking
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Portal nav footer
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Reference
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Religion and belief systems
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Society and social sciences
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Technology and applied sciences
  • Portal:Contents/Portals/Topic

Wrapping up...

There's more in the works, like a rating system, further redesigns, etc. Keep an eye on the discussions on the project's talk page. They should start showing up there soon.

Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   06:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trident (UK nuclear programme)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Trident (UK nuclear programme) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 09:40, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trident (UK nuclear programme)

The article Trident (UK nuclear programme) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Trident (UK nuclear programme) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 10:01, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John C. H. Lee

The article John C. H. Lee you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:John C. H. Lee for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eddie891 -- Eddie891 (talk) 12:41, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

On finding an image

Hello! Do you know where I might find an image for Ira T. Wyche?Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:47, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

[124][125] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 13:05, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Charlotte Serber

On 6 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charlotte Serber, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Charlotte Serber worked at the secret Project Y during World War II, but after the war could not get a security clearance to work as a librarian at Berkeley? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charlotte Serber. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charlotte Serber), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

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 mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [126]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [127]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [128]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [129][130]

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

TFA

This is to let you know that the X-10 Graphite Reactor article has been scheduled as today's featured article for June 2, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2, 2018.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:16, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

I edited it to reduce the word count. Feel free to change. I normally nominate a Manhattan Project article for 16 July (anniversary of the Trinity test). Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:42, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ruby Boye

On 9 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruby Boye, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ruby Boye (pictured) was Australia's only female coastwatcher? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruby Boye. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ruby Boye), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

This is a great article. I'm surprised to say that I hadn't heard of this impressive woman before today. Nick-D (talk) 09:45, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

I hadn't either. I plucked her name from the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Military, and found her interesting enough to write the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 12:57, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Hugh Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer)

Hello! Your submission of Hugh Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:02, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Frederick Gilbreath

On 10 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frederick Gilbreath, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Frederick Gilbreath (pictured) commanded the 7th Cavalry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frederick Gilbreath. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Frederick Gilbreath), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Richard Feynman scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Richard Feynman has been scheduled as today's featured article for 11 May 2018. Please check that the article needs no polishing or corrections. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 11, 2018. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for refreshing the Nobel-Prize-winning physicist with the many page views and the "chequered history. It was created by Larry Sanger back in September 2001, so it is also one of Wikipedia's oldest articles"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Portals update, 11 May 2018

We've grown to 73 members, and morale is high. Thank you for joining. Here is some news, and some tasks...

The RfC will be closed soon...

2018-05-11: preparations are being made to close the RfC. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals.

When there, be sure to notice the consultation link.

We're trying to get a prototypical single-page portal developed in time to show the RfC closers before they make their final decision. You can help. It's Portal:Humanism. So far, we've applied selective transclusion (automation) to excerpts, and have made the following sections without subpages: intro, selected article, selected biography, categories, related portals, wikiprojects, things to do, and wikimedia. Eight down, 4 to go, plus 2 formatting subpages (not sure we can migrate those). Automating every section, would also be nice.

Main objectives

Our main objectives currently, are:

1. Replace static excerpts with selective transclusions, so that the excerpts always stay fresh (that is, match the source content). We are now doing this on the portal base page as much as possible, to reduce the number of subpages that are needed. See #2...
2. Migrate the functions of subpages to the portal base pages. There are around 150,000 subpages in portal space. We aim to make these obsolete by using templates and other calls from the portal base pages.
3. Improve portal design to make portals self-update. Semi-dynamic sections update from a static list, as used in {{Transclude random excerpt}}. Fully-dynamic sections would update from a list maintained elsewhere on Wikipedia, like a category. We haven't found a way to do this yet, other than to create a bot (which we will probably need to do).

Maintenance pass #1: Upgrading the intro section

The intro section of many portals transcludes an "Intro" subpage that has an excerpt in it.

We're replacing that with a selective transclusion directly in the intro section, bypassing the subpage. Though, there's a little more to it...

For instructions, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Transclude intro excerpt directly on the portal base page.

Please skip Portal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand.

Maintenance pass #2: Obsoleting the Wikimedia subpages

One of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using the template {{Wikimedia for portals}} directly on the portal base page.

This has been done for several hundred portals so far.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Obsolete a Wikimedia subpage for instructions.

Maintenance pass #3: calling the category tree from the portal base page

Certes figured out how...

{{subst:Text|<category|tree>}}{{subst:PAGENAME}}{{subst:Text|</categorytree>}}

For more information, see the thread Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Rendering PAGENAME inside categorytree tag doesn't work (it does now).

More to come...

In the meantime, see ya around the portals!    — The Transhumanist   15:34, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your work in getting the Richard Feynman article featured, and for your contributions to Wikipedia in general. Golden Winged (talk) 19:28, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

MacArthur's Coalition book review

Hi Hawkeye, can you pls check my ce re. "greater distances"; there seemed to be a word or two missing and I just assumed you meant something like this. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 04:56, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

A-Class Cross

		The Military history A-Class cross
		On behalf of the Wikiproject Military history coordinators, I hereby award you the inaugural A-Class Cross for your outstanding work developing British logistics in the Falklands War, Landings at Cape Torokina, British logistics in the Normandy Campaign, Quebec Agreement and John Glenn to meet the A-Class criteria. Congratulations! Ian Rose (talk) 05:11, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at coalitions and logistics in World War II, and Nick-D at Australia's frontier wars Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 15:00, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Four Award

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on British hydrogen bomb programme. Chetsford (talk) 01:39, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class cross
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class cross for British logistics in the Falklands War, Landings at Cape Torokina, British logistics in the Normandy Campaign, Quebec Agreement and John Glenn. MilHistBot (talk) 01:10, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

G'day, Hawkeye, just wanted to say congratulations on this achievement. This is obviously the first award of its type, and I can't think of anyone who deserves more than you to receive such an honour. Your output (and the breadth of topics you cover) never ceases to amaze me. I haven't really been able to muster much enthusiasm for writing since Christmas unfortunately. My only work has been on the mini topic of the First, Second and Third Battles of Morlancourt, which as you can see are nothing to write home about. It has been difficult to to get the quality time alone with sources etc this year due to my new posting and the baby, but also I just can't seem to muster the will power it seems. Anyway, thank you once again. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:47, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Well done Hawkeye. Maybe creating the ACC was a little premature, but it is good to see it being awarded after four years, and I couldn't think of anyone better to receive the first one. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:49, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trident (UK nuclear programme)

The article Trident (UK nuclear programme) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Trident (UK nuclear programme) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 07:41, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Four award

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:14, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Hugh Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer)

On 13 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hugh Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the British submariner Hugh Mackenzie (pictured) was credited with sinking over 40,000 tons of enemy shipping, including Mussolini's yacht Diana? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hugh Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hugh Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer)), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:16, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [131]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [132]

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22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Trident (UK Deterrent)

Thanks for your message; I think I added what I could. Will look more.

Sammartinlai (talk) 01:54, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Interesting article?

G'day Hawkeye, thought this article re: Oliphant and related nuclear issues might be of interest to you. [133]. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that!! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:48, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, 15 May 2018

We are at 74 members. If you know anyone who might find this WikiProject interesting, please invite them.

The RfC has ended

The RfC was closed May 11th, and a closing statement was posted May 12th which says "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time."

Ongoing tasks

Some major activities that we are in the middle of include:

• Adding the missing existing portals to the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals. Instructions are on the talk page. There are about 125 portals left to be processed. (There were 400). Keep up the good work!
• Development discussions on how to migrate the subpages to the base pages. There are around 150,000 subpages in portal space, associated with the various sections on a typical portal. We are trying to obsolete them section type by section type. Currently, we're working on obsoleting the intro subpages and the "selected articles" subpages. Please join in.

Other tasks

• The list of portals not ready to be listed on the main list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#These are not listed yet (scroll down to see them - they are marked Not ready). They are incomplete. If you want a specific portal to work on, please consider choosing one from that list.
• Over the years, some incomplete portals (portals under construction) got added to Portal:Contents/Portals. Therefore, every portal listed there needs to be inspected, and any that are incomplete should be removed from that list and added to the not ready list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#These are not listed yet (scroll down to see it). On Portal:Contents/Portals, I'm already almost done inspecting the portals in the culture section, and so you can skip those. The types of things to look for are empty sections (most will have a redlinked subpage), lack of "selected" sections, portal stubs with just an intro and end sections, and very poor layout (like seriously unbalanced columns).

Portal-building resources

During his work on portals, Broter found a quote randomizer. It is {{Random quotation}}.

Trailblazer: approaching the one-page portal

Broter has transformed the Portal:Community of Christ so it is comprised of only 3 pages in portal space: the base page, its box-header subpage, and its box-footer subpage. Its other other subpages are now obsolete and are waiting for deletion. Nice job, Broter!

Well, that's all for now. See ya around the portals.    — The Transhumanist   06:38, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

How does this article look against the GA criteria

Hello! Reviewing John C. H. Lee caused me to write Ira T. Wyche. I have now improved it as much as I feel I reasonably can, and would like to nominate it for Good Article status. However, I am not well versed in the topic, and would like your thoughts on whether or not it meets the GA criteria. Thanks!Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:34, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Looks pretty good to me. I have upgraded its rating to B. I suggest nominating it for GA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 12:50, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thanks.Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:54, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Passed. Thanks. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:07, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Glad to hear it! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:54, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Anne Beaumanoir

On 18 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anne Beaumanoir, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Anne Beaumanoir (pictured) and her parents were recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for saving two Jewish children in France during the Second World War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anne Beaumanoir. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Anne Beaumanoir), 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.

— Maile (talk) 01:42, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

WERNER GOERING

Hello Hawkeye7. I am so glad to see the article on Werner Goering. He is a very unusual individual in my opinion. I know a bit about him, I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia while he was there. I was with my father and mother and my father died in Goering's office. My father was William Lewis Uanna, you have contributed to his Wikipedia page. I wanted to mention a few things to you about the book written on his life by Stephen Frater called HELL ABOVE EARTH. I think they should be included in the Wikipedia article. No reference to my father needs to be made but I would like to tell you here how I think they relate to my father and his death in Addis Ababa. I think there is a story behind a story here... the Mormon Church connection, his father's cryptic novella written before his death in 1950. Goering went from being an FBI suspect in WWII to being the intelligence officer of a SAC nuclear equipped bomber wing in the 1950's. The SAC started out in 1946 as the 509th Bomb Wing - during WWII this was the %509th Composite Group, my father was intelligence chief of the 509th. In Addis Ababa Goering's twin engine plane was fitted out with spy equipment by the CIA, he had a $5000.00 a month slush fund for "wheel greasing" and more p.228,229. The book claims p.230,231 that he arrived in Addis in 1962 but American Air Force Sergeant Kenneth Landis drowned in November of 1961 on a camping trip with Goering and two other Americans from Cairo. See obituaries from the Kansas City Times - Salina Journal - Hays Daily News. Why is this pertinent. My father died in Goering's office on December 22, 1961. Goering had a falling out with the American Ambassador Arthur Richards over Landis' death and some other things and Richards sent a report to Washington about Goering. After Goering returning to Washington in 1964 he retired. He then threw out his US Air Force medals and citations and burned his uniforms and service records - p.236. He never mentioned his Air Force service in his new career as a very successful real estate salesman in Arizona. My father is not mentioned in the book by Frater. But you may recall that one of the things that I pressed for on my father's Wikipedia page was that the statement at the end of the movie ENOLA GAY be allowed. It said that my father had been murdered in Africa and all records relating to his death have disappeared. Certain individuals fought this very hard. Efforts by Frater to file an FOIA request with the FBI about Goering were not successful. Was Werner Goering related to Nazi Hermann Goring? Read Frater's book carefully, it would appear that Werner Goering thinks so. He has Gorings "massive 18 carat solid gold ring" and likes to show photographs of how much he looks like him. Hawkeye7, this is a really strange case. Please check Frater's book out again. I find it odd that he would destroy his US Air Force medals, citations, uniforms and records. But keep the things relating to Hermann Goring. CIC7 (talk) 01:06, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, I first heard about him from you. At some point I saw the book about him in remainder bin, bought it, and used it to write the article. It would be good to be able to link to the article from some others, as it is currently an orphan. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:19, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes. Look at the book again please if you can. I'll be thinking about linking it. It appears he is still alive. Thanks you.

CIC7 (talk) 01:32, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Trident (UK nuclear programme)

On 23 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trident (UK nuclear programme), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the UK's Trident nuclear missile submarines (HMS Victorious pictured) use a version of Windows XP known as Windows for Submarines? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trident (UK nuclear programme). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Trident (UK nuclear programme)), 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.

— Maile (talk) 01:06, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations

...for getting your article on the main page list of DYKs. I found it very interesting. Best Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 21:15, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

The one on Anne Beaumanoir? I thought the hook was dopey, but it had a nearly treble the expected number of page views. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:24, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for John C. H. Lee

On 24 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John C. H. Lee, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during World War II, Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee had his own railroad train? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John C. H. Lee. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John C. H. Lee), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:51, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

German war effort ArbCom case

Hey, just in case you didn't notice the ping, you have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort/Evidence despite not being named a party to the case. --Pudeo (talk) 06:42, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 May 2018

• From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

• Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

• Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

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• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Hawkeye7, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
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Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018

We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

New news template ready for testing

Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

{{Transclude selected current events}} is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Alternative to Wikinews.

Thank you, Evad.

Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)

Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please check Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

New portal, still needs work

• Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy of Mozart834428196. See also, the discussion.

Drafting a new portals guideline

Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#RfC on new portal guidelines

RfC on new TOC layout for main portal list

There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals.

See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals#RFC on layout update.

Deletion discussion survivors

Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...

• Portal:Quidditch survived its 2nd deletion nomination
• Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica did the same

Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page.

Portal space clean up

While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per {{Db-p1}} or {{Db-p2}}). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

{{Db-g6|rationale=of subpage clean up – this subpage's function has been migrated to the portal base page and is no longer needed}}

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

Please help list the unlisted portals!

There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope to see you there!

Wrapping up

These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon.    — The Transhumanist   00:31, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Whoa, I missed one...

There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined!    — The Transhumanist   01:36, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Vickers Valiant

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Vickers Valiant you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 17:01, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Vickers Valiant

The article Vickers Valiant you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Vickers Valiant for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 20:01, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Operation Black Buck

Hi, If it's helpful, I have a semi-complete article on the 1 May 1982 fighting at User:Nick-D/Drafts14 which might have some useful references. I might also take advantage of the long weekend to actually finish it (...after 5 years). Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:05, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I hope you don't mind that I lifted a paragraph. I thought that adding references to Black Buck would be quick, but it was nearly as bad as writing it from scratch. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:28, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Membership list

Hi Hawkeye. I remember a few months ago that I suggested automatically updating the Milhist membership list using MilhistBot. The idea got a positive reception overall, and you mentioned that it would be possible, so I just wanted to ask if you've gotten around to that. Thanks. Biblio (talk) 01:32, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes. A BRFA was processed, and the Bot has been maintaining the lists for a few months now. The run is carried out monthly. 02:26, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Good. Thank you. Biblio (talk) 04:58, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

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 now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [134][135]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [136]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [137]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [138]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [139]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [140]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [141]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [142]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [143]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [144]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [145]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [146][147]

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018

We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive.

Welcome

A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:

• Evad37
• Checkingfax
• Grey Wanderer
• Voceditenore
• TestPAKISTAN
• Godsy
• Greatedits1
• Charlesdrakew
• Ww2censor
• Simon Burchell
• TheGridExe

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

The portal set has shrunk

There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV.

Maintenance runs on the portals set have begun

This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

Thank you, you

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

Thank yous all around

I've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page).

Sockpuppet, and reverting his work

It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:

• Portal:Plymouth
• Portal:Bedfordshire
• Portal:Suffolk
• Portal:Norfolk
• User:JLJ001/tag
• Template:Non-standard portal flag
• Template:Portal flag

Automation so far, section by section...

• Intro – {{Transclude lead excerpt}}
• Selected article – {{Transclude random excerpt}}
• In the news – {{Transclude selected current events}}
• Associated Wikimedia – {{Wikimedia for portals|species=no|voy=no}}
• Categories – {{#tag:categorytree|{{PAGENAME}}}}

Automatic article alerts is up and running

Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Choosing workflows, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Other things that could use some automation

Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Deletion discussion survivors

Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).

• Portal:Juanes – see the discussion

(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page).

Portals needing repair

• Portal:Toys

Wrapping up

There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project.    — The Transhumanist   12:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...

... for the TFA, X-10 Graphite Reactor, a Manhattan Project experimental reactor, "built at the Clinton Engineer Works known as the X-10 Graphite Reactor. It operated for many years, and is now a tourist attraction", and for the steady flow of GAs and interesting DYK. For the cabal, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-23

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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [148]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [149][150]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [151]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [152]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [153][154]

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Jack Kirby GA review

Hi there! When you have a chance, can you please take a look at all the work that has been done at Talk:Jack Kirby/GA2? Thanks! BOZ (talk) 11:22, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Random Question

Do you think Felix Agnus is ready for a GA nom? Thanks! Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:58, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018

The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins.

Welcome

A warm welcome to the newest members of the team:

• Keith D
• RL0919

Be sure to say hi.

Congrats

Pbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him.

The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone."

New feature: Picture slideshow

Picture slideshow

• 
  Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
• 
  Sacramento from near the Sacramento River
• 
  Old Town Sacramento, the capital as it looked like in 19th century
• 
  Pocket Sacramento Canal
• 
  US Bank Tower
• 
  Capitol Mall, seen from the Capitol
• 
  Tower Bridge
• 
  State Capitol Building

Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the > to go to the next picture or < to instantly show the previous feature. The feature also shuffles the pictures when the page is initiated, so that they are shown in a different order each time the user visits the page (or purges it).

It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right.

Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Refining the Picture slideshow.

The one-page portal has been achieved

We now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own.

I commend you for your teamwork

This is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you.

In conclusion...

There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page.    — The Transhumanist   02:09, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Wheel warring claim

That claim you made at WT:DYK, please could you either confirm you were mistaken or could you link the diff where Arbcom said that one revert of an admin action by another admin was indeed wheel warring? I was deadly serious when I noted that sanctions could now apply to dozens of admins, including members of Arbcom themselves and I'd like to explore that. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:29, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

I confirm that I was mistaken; the proposed extension to resolve the "second mover" issue was not adopted. All that we have is Administrators are expected to have good judgment, and are presumed to have considered carefully any actions or decisions they carry out as administrators. Administrators may disagree, but administrative actions should not be reversed without good cause, careful thought, and (if likely to be objected to), where the administrator is presently available, a brief discussion with the administrator whose action is challenged. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:26, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on a supergun of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 10:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Black Buck

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Operation Black Buck you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 15:20, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [155]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [156]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [157]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [158][159]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Manhattan Project

Would you have a moment to respond at Talk:Manhattan Project#Image size. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:09, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Could you please respond. Before I pursue dispute resolution, your comment about this is helpful. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:23, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

It's like this. When one editor suggests a change I will normally make it. But if another suggests a different change, then I will wait for a consensus to develop. As there is a conflict here, I was awaiting input from other editors. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:51, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Last Question (I promise)

Should List of most successful American submarines in World War II list every single american submarine in World War II, because we certainly can? Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 20:04, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

I don't think there is any need for that, but I would go for the top 25. The list seems to mix wartime claims with JANAC figures; I would suggest settling on the latter, even though we know they are flawed. A successful could be in terms of number of ships sunk (Blair, Appendix J) or tonnage of ships sunk (Blair, Appendix k). Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Black Buck

The article Operation Black Buck you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Operation Black Buck for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 14:41, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Vickers Valiant

On 16 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Vickers Valiant, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Vickers Valiant XD818 (pictured) dropped the first British hydrogen bomb as part of Operation Grapple? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vickers Valiant. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Vickers Valiant), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Hawkeye7, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Portals WikiProject update #009, 15 June 2018

(Article slideshow prototype)
Selected animals

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  The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from extinct gray wolves, and the gray wolf is the dog's closest living relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Experts estimate that hunter-gatherers domesticated dogs more than 15,000 years ago, which was before the development of agriculture. Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids.
  
  The dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior, and the human–canine bond has been a topic of frequent study. This influence on human society has given them the sobriquet of "man's best friend". (Full article...)
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  The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticed species in the family Felidae. Recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC. It is commonly kept as a house pet and farm cat, but also ranges freely as a feral cat avoiding human contact. It is valued by humans for companionship and its ability to kill vermin. Its retractable claws are adapted to killing small prey like mice and rats. It has a strong, flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp teeth, and its night vision and sense of smell are well developed. It is a social species, but a solitary hunter and a crepuscular predator. Cat communication includes vocalizations like meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting as well as cat body language. It can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by small mammals. It also secretes and perceives pheromones.
  
  Female domestic cats can have kittens from spring to late autumn in temperate zones and throughout the year in equatorial regions, with litter sizes often ranging from two to five kittens. Domestic cats are bred and shown at events as registered pedigreed cats, a hobby known as cat fancy. Animal population control of cats may be achieved by spaying and neutering, but their proliferation and the abandonment of pets has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, contributing to the extinction of bird, mammal and reptile species.
  
  the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned and around 42 million households owning at least one cat. In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats there were an estimated 220 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the world. (Full article...)
• 

  

  House mouse (Mus musculus)

  
  A mouse (<abbr title="
  '"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000004D-QINU`"'
  ">pl.: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally common. They are known to invade homes for food and shelter.
  
  Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size. Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered, its common name includes the term mouse if it is smaller, or rat if it is larger. The common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically specific. Typical mice are classified in the genus Mus, but the term mouse is not confined to members of Mus and can also apply to species from other genera such as the deer mouse (Peromyscus).
  
  Domestic mice sold as pets often differ substantially in size from the common house mouse. This is attributable to breeding and different conditions in the wild. The best-known strain of mouse is the white lab mouse. It has more uniform traits that are appropriate to its use in research. (Full article...)
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  The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated and historically linked to the megafauna category of species. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.
  
  Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess an good sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under a saddle or in a harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.
  
  Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses. (Full article...)

Don't mind that box to the right. We'll be talking about that later, below.

Almost done...

With the portals upgrades?

No. :)

What is almost done is the updating of the main list of portals!

There are 23 portals left to be listed.

Kudos to the WikiGnome Squadron, for spearheading this.

Once it is fully updated, we need to keep it up to date. When you complete a portal, remember to add it to Portal:Contents/Portals.

Concerning portal upgrades, we are working on those section-by-section...

Associated Wikimedia section conversion task complete

The Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the {{Wikimedia for portals}} template rather than reiterated copied/pasted code.

So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course).

Further section conversions (using AWB)

Work is underway on converting Portals' introduction sections, and the categories sections.

If you would like to help, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Upgrade introduction sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#AWB task: Convert category sections

Further section conversions (by hand)

Work has also started with converting selected picture sections to picture slideshow sections. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Install picture slideshows.

Quality rating system for portals under development

Currently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See the discussion.

What's coming: excerpt slideshows

Evad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner.

Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show the direction portal development is heading. See the discussion.

Wow

I'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :)    — The Transhumanist   11:04, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Operation Black Buck DYK review

Hi. I am reviewing this for DYK. I cannot find where the mention of the flight time occurs in the article. I am probably being short sighted, but could you point it out for me?

Also, there is a notable overlap according to Earwig. I assume that the Waddington Heritage Centre has lifted from the Wikipedia article, but I am not experienced enough to prove it. Could you suggest how I might do that?

Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:08, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [160]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [161][162]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [163][164]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [165]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

13 years of editing

Hey, Hawkeye7. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 22:45, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Wow. Has it been that long? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:51, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-26

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

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [166][167]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [168]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Re: red links

Regarding: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robots_exclusion_standard&type=revision&diff=810777707&oldid=810745105

Not for nothing, and I have no plan on actually opposing such an edit from you or anyone else really, but "…guideline…is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply…" is not the same thing as "not permitted". If I were you (like if I were in your position and wanted the MoS adhered to), I would phrase it more like "Adhering to MoS" or something.

Although really I would just read Wikipedia:Red link where it says this:
"Red links for subjects that should have articles but do not, are not only acceptable, but needed in the articles. They serve as a clear indication of which articles are in need of creation, and encourage it. Do not remove red links unless you are certain that Wikipedia should not have an article on that subject.".

They're somewhat contradictory, I know, but to me I would allow something that one person has pushed for if my only interest were to uphold guidelines where one guideline says it might be good to not keep something and another says not to remove something unless you are certain there is no reason not to. Excelsiorsbanjo (talk) 00:01, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I presume you mean the part in WP:red link where it says: * Links in any of the various {{About}} and {{Otheruses}} hatnotes, in {{Main}}, {{Details}}, {{Further}}, and {{Seealso}} notes, as well as in "See also" sections, are meant to serve a navigational purpose. Red links are useless in these contexts; if possible they should be replaced by a functioning link, or else be removed. I wouldn't have removed it if I thought its creation was imminent. Now that the article exists, you can add it to the See Also section. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

You presume from a direct unmodified quote something altogether separate? Are you trying to be cute or something? This does not make me think you're taking your strange guidelines patrol role seriously, but instead just like attempting to enforce rules. Anyway, that guideline is littered with reasons to add red links including reasons for why I added one, but I do find it humorous that you find a potential contradiction and latch onto it rather than remembering a moment ago when I reminded you that guidelines are almost always contradictory. I've no idea who you think you're helping out, it isn't your fellow editor, and I'm not sure who else is present.
I wonder why they built red links into the software and have such guidelines for their use if they're so useless.
You removed it 6 hours and 25 minutes after I made the addition, the duration of which seems to have corresponded with 4:30am to 10:56am GMT or 12:30am to 6:56am EST, which means out of all the people in the USA, for example, that might've looked at that link, I'd wager the percentage that actually got a chance to was around maybe 0.001. My congratulations on living in Australia, a wonderful country which contains a staggeringly tiny fraction of the native fluent English speakers of the world.
Now that the article exists, as it would have much earlier had you actually cared about the guidelines you so profess to, how's about you add it back, because you care so much about links? Excelsiorsbanjo (talk) 19:10, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

That's an interesting point. During the Paralympic Games in Rio, six of the top ten articles were on various nations at the Games. The UK was first, Australia was second, both in terms of number of editors and numbers of edits. The US article was not in the top 25. So the conclusion drawn was that there are more editors in Australia than in the US. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:11, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

It's certainly accurate, at any rate. …& I see you have countered my hard facts with the most tenuous of anecdotal correlations. Excelsiorsbanjo (talk) 05:42, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

BEF

@Hawkeye7: I haven't had an equivocal comment like that since I got suspended in 1994 ;o). Did I submit it before? I'd like your view on what the article needs so that I can do something about it. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 11:49, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

No, just concern about criterion B2: It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. I felt that the article does have some omissions. The question then is how "obvious" are they. ie "questions a general reader (not a specialist) might have". I can only guess at this, so I gave the article a B rating. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 12:34, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Your guesses are as good as mine; what are they? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 20:39, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

I have put some comments on the article talk page. I don't know if you intend to take it to ACR or GA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:50, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks again. Keith-264 (talk) 23:53, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for your tireless responses during the lengthy FA review of Quebec Agreement. While I translated many featured articles to zhwiki, this article was of the highest quality thanks to your efforts. Did you know... that you can talk to Dingruogu? 06:32, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #010, 30 June 2018

We've grown to 94 participants.

A warm welcome to dcljr and Kpgjhpjm.

Rating system for portals

We are in the process of developing a rating system specifically for portals, as the quality assessment scheme for articles does not apply to portals. It is coming along nicely. Your input would be very helpful. See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/General#Proposed new quality class assessments.

Better than a barnstar

One of our participants got involved with this WikiProject through interest in how the new generation of portals would be handled in WP's MOS (Manual of Style). It didn't take long before he got sucked in deeper. This has given him an opportunity to look around, and so, he has made an assessment of this WikiProject's operations:

I'm quite frankly really impressed and inspired by what's happening here. If you'd asked me a year ago if I thought portals should just be scrapped as a failed, dragged-out experiment, I would have said "yes". This planning and the progress toward making it all practical is exemplary of the wiki spirit, in particular of a happy service-to-readers puppy properly wagging its technological and editorial tail instead of the other way around, and without "drama". It's also one of the few examples I've seen in a long time of a new wikiproject actually doing something useful and fomenting constructive activity (instead of acting as a barrier to participation, and a canvassing/ownership farm for PoV pushers). Kudos all around. — SMcCandlish

Congratulations, everyone. Keep up the great work.

Slideshow development

We've run into a glitch with slideshows: they don't work on mobile devices.

Initially, we will need to explore options that allow portals to have slideshows without adversely affecting mobile viewers. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Mobile view support.

Eventually, we may need another way to do slideshows. If we do go this route, and I don't see why we wouldn't, then (user configurable) automatic slideshows also become a possibility.

TemplateStyles RfC passed

Once implemented, this will allow editors to create and edit cascading style sheets for use with templates. This will expand what we can do with portals. For more detail, see mw:Extension:TemplateStyles and Wikipedia:TemplateStyles.

Automation effort

We've run into an obstacle using Lua-based selective transclusion: Lua is incapable (on Wikipedia) of reading in article names from categories. Because of this, we'll need to seek other approaches for fully automating the Selected article section. We are exploring sources other than categories, and other technologies besides Lua.

Speaking of using other sources, the template {{Transclude list item excerpt}} collects list items from a specified page, or from a section of that page, and transcludes the lead from a randomly selected link from that list. Courtesy of Certes. So, if you use this in a portal, and if the template specifies a page or section serviced by JL-Bot, you've now got yourself an automatically updated section in the portal. JL-Bot provides links to featured content and good articles, by subject.

What is "fully automated"? When you create a portal using a creation template, and the portal works thereafter without editor intervention, the portal is fully automated. That is, the portal is supported by features that fetch new content. If you have to add new article names every so often for it to display new content, then it is only semi-automated.

Currently, the Selected article section is semi-automated, because it requires that an editor supplies the names of the various articles for which excerpts are (automatically) displayed. For examples, look at the wikisource code of Portal:Reptiles, Portal:Ancient Tamil civilization, and Portal:Reference works.

So far, 3 sections are fully automatable: the introduction section, the categories section, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

Where is all this heading?

Henry.

Or some other name.

Eventually, the portal department will be a software program. And we won't have to do anything (unless we want to). Not even tell it what portals to create (unless we want to). It will just do it all (plus whatever else we want it to do). And we will of course give it good manners, and a name.

But, that is a few years off.

Until then, building portals is still (partially) up to us.    — The Transhumanist   13:31, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

Would you have time to look at this article, presently at Peer Review? Good work on Armstrong, so I figured it might be up your alley.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:18, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

• JustinTime55 is more the expert, but I'll have a look. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Unsolicited comment

Sorry for this unsolicited comment. I have always thought that for the past two years, if you could have spend minimal effort in trying to address the opposing comments against you in the previous RfA, even if you think they were frivolous, your next RfA would easily end up with a landslide. And with all due respect, continuing to complain about how you were unfairly treated in the process and the aftermath of that RfA is simply unproductive, in my opinion. I know there are far better nominators out there, but I am willing to write a nomination statement for your consideration. My sole request is that if you would stop talking about how not having the tools is frustrating for your content creation without reciting specific situations; Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Muboshgu is a good reference point for building a stronger argument for your case. Regards, Alex Shih (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

I have not complained about being treated unfairly. Nor do I have any reservations about my nominator. If you have specific suggestions, I am willing to act upon them. Here's a specific example of why it's so frustrating, from last week. [169] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:33, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Operation Black Buck

On 3 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Operation Black Buck, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during Operation Black Buck, Avro Vulcan bomber XM607 (pictured) flew for nearly 15 hours to drop 21 bombs on the Falkland Islands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Black Buck. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Operation Black Buck), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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Recent changes

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [170]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [171]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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April to June 2018 Milhist article reviewing

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Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [172]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [173]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [174]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [175]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [176]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [177][178]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [179]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [180]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [181]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [182]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

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• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [184]

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23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Falklands Logistics FAC, MILHIST-A reviewing, apologies over slowness

Apologies for spreading my review over a number of days. It is a thorough review and a thorough article. I think you can understand from my comments that I'm very impressed.

Part of the need for thoroughness is due to heightened quality standards since I was on FAC (all of which the article is passing so far of course), and partly due to observed problems in the general editorial community needing to be double checked (which in this article's case has been pro-forma). I hope you understand that a number of questions (historiography, military science as a discipline, unpalatable conducts, WEIGHT & structure following HQRS) aren't targeted at the article, but are a result of long standing quality issues with articles proposed or passed as FA.

I am likely to engage these queries and review topics at FA / MILHIST-A reviews in future to remind the general editorial community which strives for quality articles of the standard's we've previously agreed we would meet at certain levels.

The reason you've probably copped a few queries is that you've had easy and pleasant to review articles up at both forums. I hope you can read that I'm generally querying, not criticising absence.

In relation to the independent deterrence articles I hope you can see I'm not asking for rewrites over misstructure, but small weight coverage points due to elements of social history in the articles' coverage. Fifelfoo (talk) 05:30, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

All done. Now supporting. One style fixit required with an unclear pronoun. Fifelfoo (talk) 05:08, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

FWIW

Re: your thread at BN - I feel you, mate. I hope you decide to run again, although it sucks that you have to. 96.82.77.60 (talk) 06:08, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: This month's external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on the murder of the Romanovs Timeline: This month in World War I

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Portals WikiProject update #011, 10 July 2018

We now have 97 participants.

Be sure to welcome our newest members, BrantleyIzMe, Coffeeandcrumbs, and Nolan Perry, with warm regards.

Work is proceeding apace. We have 2 major thrusts right now: converting the intro sections of portals, and building the components of the one-page automated model...

Converting the intro sections

We need everybody, except those building software components, to work on converting intros. If you have AWB, definitely use that. If not, then work on them manually. Even one a day, or as often as you can muster, will help a lot. There are only about 1,000 of them left to go, so if everyone chips in, it will go pretty quickly. Remember, there are 97 of us!

The intros for most of the portals starting with A through F have already been converted to use the {{Transclude lead excerpt}} template.

The standard wikicode for the automated intro that we want to put into place looks like this:

{{/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|}}
{{Transclude lead excerpt | {{PAGENAME}} | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1}}
{{Box-footer|[[{{PAGENAME}}|Read more...]]}}

That works for most portals, but not all. For some portals it requires some tweaking, and for others, we may have to use a different or more customized approach. Remember to visually inspect each portal you work on and make sure that it works before moving on to the next one.

Be sure to skip user-maintained portals. They are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Specific_portal_maintainers.

AWB tips

I've started an AWB tips page, for those of you feeling a bit overwhelmed by that power user tool. Feel free to add to it and/or improve it.

Portal automation

We have some very talented Lua programmers, who are pushing the limits of what we can do in gathering data from Wikipedia's various namespaces and presenting it in portals. Due to their efforts, Lua is powering the selective transclusion core of our emerging automated portal design, in the form of selected article sections that rotate content, and slideshows.

To go beyond Lua's limits, to take full advantage of Mediawiki's API, we are in the midst of adding another programming language to the resources we shall be making use of: JavaScript. The ways that JavaScript can help us edit portals to boost the power of our Lua solutions, are being explored, which will likely make the two languages synergistic if not symbiotic. Research is under way on how we can use JavaScript to make some of the portal semi-automated features fully automatically self-updating, in ways that Lua cannot. Like gathering random members from a category and inserting them into a portal's templates as parameters. Once the parameters are in place, Lua does the rest.

If you would like to get involved with design efforts, or just keep up on them, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

When should we start building new portals?

Well, not at the present time, because building portals is quite time consuming. The good news is that we are working on a design that will be fully automated, or as close to that as we can get. And the new design is being implemented in the portal department's main portal creation template. This means, that not only will portals update themselves, their creation will be highly automated as well. That's the nature of templates. You put them in place, and they just... work.

What I'm getting at here, is that it would be better to wait to build lots of new portals until after the new design is completed. Because with it, instead of taking hours to create a new portal, it will likely take minutes.

That does not mean we should be idle in the meantime. The main reason most of us are here is because it became apparent that portals were largely unmaintained and had grown out-of-date. This had become so apparent that a proposal was made to delete all the portals and the portal namespace to boot. That makes our main objective in the short term to improve all the existing portals so that the community will want to keep them—forever.

Building lots of new portals comes later. Let's fix up the ones we have first. ;)

And on that note, I bid you adieu. Until next newsletter, see ya 'round the WikiProject.    — The Transhumanist   12:30, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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Armstrong FAC

Sorry, did not see you were editing at the same time. Wanted to move this sidebar over here and not flood the FAC with it. After I read the section on publisher in both the news and web templates, it seemed clear that the publisher is who owns the website/newspaper/periodical/etc (like my edits w/ Space.com). It also seemed clear that the website/newspaper/periodical/etc was preferred over the publisher if they have similar names (like in the New York Times example given). Can you explain to me what I am missing? Kees08 (Talk) 06:42, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

That's right. But the upshot is that |newspaper= appears in italics, and by using |publisher= for TV stations etc, they do not. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:55, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I suppose TV stations not being italicized is the distinction I missed there. Another question on the FAC, do you have a better source for his heritage? The Guardian source is a passing mention for Scottish, Irish Central seems like it could fall under the 'organizations that make up connections to Armstrong' umbrella, and the Hansen one is, of course, reliable. I do not have my Hansen book on me, what does it say his heritage is? Does Barbree's book have a mention of it? I only have the audiobook, and it is not great for skimming. Kees08 (Talk) 23:30, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

I have both books at home. I'll have a look tonight. Hansen probably has it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Hansen says Viola's grandfather was German and married a German-American. That would make Caroline, Viola's mother, German. The page that was scanned to me did not indicate the nationality of Viola's father, or Armstrong's father. Hopefully that saves you two minutes of work :). Located on page 20 of Hansen. That makes him at least 25% German. Kees08 (Talk) 06:27, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Managed to get to it today, as my edit summary says, no Irish ancestry per Hansen, though Scottish and German ancestry exist. Adjusted article accordingly. Kees08 (Talk) 05:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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 now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [185]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [186]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [187]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [188]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

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Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:00, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

WP:ERRORS

Thanks much for catching the problem with the Romanov article. - Dank (push to talk) 11:30, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #013, 18 July 2018

I got overwhelmed IRL (in real life) during the production of issue #12. So, here is a catch-up issue, to help bring you (and me) up to speed on what is happening with portals...

By the way, we still have 97 participants. (Tell all your friends about this WikiProject, and have them join!)

Panoramas!

One cool feature of some of the geographical portals is a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section.

Check these out:

• Portal:Kyoto
• Portal:Miami
• Portal:Seattle
• Portal:Houston
• Portal:Tokyo
• Portal:New Orleans
• Portal:Brisbane
• Portal:Calgary
• Portal:Moscow

The Portals WikiGnome squadron is busy adding panoramas to geographical portals that don't yet have one. Feel free to join in on the fun. See task details at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Add a panorama or skyline to a geographic portal.

Caveat: avoid super-huge pics, as they can cause portal scripts to time-out. Please try to keep picture size down below 2 megabytes. Thank you.

Auto-populated slideshows

Speaking of pictures...

We now have two slideshow templates. You may be familiar with {{Random slideshow}}, in which the editor types in (or copies/pastes) a list of pictures he or she wants it to display.

Well, now we have another template, courtesy of Evad37, which accepts one or more page names instead, and displays a random image off of the listed pages. So instead of listing dozens of files by hand, you can include a title or three to be scanned automatically. It even lets you specify particular sections.

The new slideshow template is {{Transclude files as random slideshow}}.

Here's a sample, that grabs images from a single page:

Selected motorcycle or motorcycling pictures

• 
  2015 BMW R1200RT Sport Touring Motorcycle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
• 
  Honda CB750 inline four, the first to be called a 'superbike', and the archetypal Universal Japanese Motorcycle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
• 
  A 1954 Triumph T110 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  BMW's first motorcycle, the 1923-1925 R32 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  FIM Motocross World Championship, taking place at Mallory Park, England (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (left) holding the handlebars of his 500 cc single cylinder Norton motorcycle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Brough Superior SS 100 1925 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Joey Dunlop on his Honda RC30 ready for the Senior TT (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  A 1969 Harley-Davidson chopper, a replica of the 'Captain America' bike from Easy Rider (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Logo of the British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Honda Super Cub, the archetypal underbone and the world's best-selling motor vehicle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Lucius Copeland 1894 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)

New Template:Box-header colour

Speaking of new templates, here's another one!

Also from Evad37, we have a new component for starting section boxes, that is color configurable, and that bypasses the need for box-header subpages altogether. It is {{Box-header colour}}.

For color support, see Web colors.

For the discussion in which this was inspired, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#Colour combinations for accessibility.

(In case you didn't notice, the slideshow box above uses this new template).

BTW, don't forget to close your box with {{Box-footer}}.

Where are we on the redesign?

The answer to this question is quite involved, and would fill this page to overflowing. Therefore, this subject, including a complete update on where we are at and where we are going with portal design, is covered at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Where are we on portal conversion?

An AWB pass to convert intros on the portals has been completed. The pass couldn't convert them all (due to various formatting configurations, etc.).

All but about 170 portals now have introductions selectively transcluded on the base page. Not counting manually maintained portals, that leaves about 70 portals that either need their intros converted, or they need an intro.

Next, we'll be converting the categories sections!

What's the plan, man?

The course of action we have been taking goes something like this, with all steps being pursued simultaeneously...

1) Design a one-page automated portal model

2) Convert existing portals to that design (except those being manually maintained)

3) Remove subpages no longer needed

4) Develop further tools to empower editors working on portals

Later, when the tools are up to the task, filling in the gaps in coverage (with new portals) will also become practical.

Are we caught up yet?

Probably not.

Who knows what our programmers and editors have dreamed up while I was writing this.

See ya again soon,    — The Transhumanist   11:07, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-30

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• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [189]
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• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [191]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).

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Portals WikiProject update #014, 27 July 2018

Development of design continues, full speed ahead...

Excerpt slideshows are here!

Can you say "paradigm shift"?

Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.

Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.

For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...

We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:

{{Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}

For this one, you specify the page names where the excerpts are to be extracted from.

{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}

This one accepts source pages from where the page names are gathered from list items. Then an excerpt from one of those pages is displayed. The selection of what is included in the slide show can be limited to a specific number from the collection (of the page names gathered), and that selection is renewed from scratch each time the page is purged.

For example, if you specify Template:World Heritage Sites in Spain as a source page, the slideshow will cycle through those sites. Now you don't have to type them in one-by-one. This greatly reduces portal creation time.

{{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}

Same as above, but gathers links instead of just linked list items.

Panoramic banners

{{Portal image banner}} displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.

Give resizing the page a try:

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

You can now balance section boxes

Before:

Reptile types

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  Male gharial

  
  The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. Mature females are 2.6 to 4.5 m (8 ft 6 in to 14 ft 9 in) long, and males 3 to 6 m (9 ft 10 in to 19 ft 8 in). Adult males have a distinct boss at the end of the snout, which resembles an earthenware pot known as a ghara, hence the name "gharial". The gharial is well adapted to catching fish because of its long, narrow snout and 110 sharp, interlocking teeth. (Full article...)
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  An American alligator (top) and a Chinese alligator

  
  An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the late Eocene epoch about 37 million years ago. (Full article...)
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  Turtles from different families; clockwise from top-left: Red-bellied short-necked turtle, Indian flapshell turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle, and Galápagos tortoise

  
  Turtles, or testudines, are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There are 360 living and recently extinct species of turtles, including land-dwelling tortoises and freshwater terrapins. They are found on most continents, some islands and, in the case of sea turtles, much of the ocean. Like other amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water. (Full article...)
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  Blanus cinereus, Spain

  
  Amphisbaenia /æmfɪsˈbiːniə/ (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As many species have a pink body and scales arranged in rings, they have a superficial resemblance to earthworms. While the genus Bipes retains forelimbs, all other genera are limbless. Phylogenetic studies suggest that they are nested within Lacertoidea, closely related to the lizard family Lacertidae. Amphisbaenians are widely distributed, occurring in North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Western Asia and the Caribbean. Most species are less than 6 inches (15 cm) long. (Full article...)
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  Aldabra giant tortoise
  (Aldabrachelys gigantea)

  
  Tortoises (/ˈtɔːr.təs.ɪz/) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks and heads directly backward into the shell to protect them. (Full article...)
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  Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae). (Full article...)
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  Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

  
  Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae) among other extinct taxa. (Full article...)
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  Clockwise from top left: veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus), rock monitor (Varanus albigularis), common blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides), Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula), giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus), and legless lizard (Anelytropsis papillosus)

  
  Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The grouping is paraphyletic as some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. (Full article...)
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  Northern tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus)

  
  The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand. Despite its close resemblance to lizards, it is part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name tuatara is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back". (Full article...)
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  Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare

  
  A caiman (/ˈkeɪmən/; also cayman as a variant spelling from Taíno kaiman) is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators. Caimans inhabit Mexico and Central and South America from marshes and swamps to mangrove rivers and lakes. They have scaly skin and live a fairly nocturnal existence. They are relatively small-sized crocodilians with an average maximum weight of 6 to 40 kg (13 to 88 lb) depending on species, with the exception of the black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), which can grow more than 4 m (13 ft) in length and weigh in excess of 1,000 kg (2,200 Ib). The black caiman is the largest caiman species in the world and is found in the slow-moving rivers and lakes that surround the Amazon basin. The smallest species is the Cuvier's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), which grows to 1.2 to 1.5 m (3.9 to 4.9 ft) long. There are six different species of caiman found throughout the watery jungle habitats of Central and Southern America. The average length for most of the other caiman species is about 2 to 2.5 m (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long. (Full article...)

Selected amphibian type

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  Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum

  
  Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm.
  
  Salamanders never have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults.
  
  This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. The remarkable ability of salamanders to regenerate is not just limited to limbs but extends to vital organs such as the heart, jaw, and parts of the spinal cord, showing their uniqueness compared to different types of vertebrates. ⁤⁤This ability is most remarkable for occurring without any type of scarring. ⁤⁤This has made salamanders an invaluable model organism in scientific research aimed at understanding and achieving regenerative processes for medical advancements in human and animal biology. (Full article...)
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  European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

  
  Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.
  
  A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)
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  Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae)

  
  Caecilians (/sɪˈsɪliən/; New Latin for 'blind ones') are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales.
  
  Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /ˌdʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However, Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales.
  
  The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...)
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  Various types of frog

  
  A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ἀνούρα, literally without tail in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history.
  
  An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees.
  
  Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)

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Reptile types

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  Aldabra giant tortoise
  (Aldabrachelys gigantea)

  
  Tortoises (/ˈtɔːr.təs.ɪz/) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks and heads directly backward into the shell to protect them. (Full article...)
• 

  

  
  Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae). (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  An American alligator (top) and a Chinese alligator

  
  An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the late Eocene epoch about 37 million years ago. (Full article...)
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  Male gharial

  
  The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. Mature females are 2.6 to 4.5 m (8 ft 6 in to 14 ft 9 in) long, and males 3 to 6 m (9 ft 10 in to 19 ft 8 in). Adult males have a distinct boss at the end of the snout, which resembles an earthenware pot known as a ghara, hence the name "gharial". The gharial is well adapted to catching fish because of its long, narrow snout and 110 sharp, interlocking teeth. (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  Blanus cinereus, Spain

  
  Amphisbaenia /æmfɪsˈbiːniə/ (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As many species have a pink body and scales arranged in rings, they have a superficial resemblance to earthworms. While the genus Bipes retains forelimbs, all other genera are limbless. Phylogenetic studies suggest that they are nested within Lacertoidea, closely related to the lizard family Lacertidae. Amphisbaenians are widely distributed, occurring in North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Western Asia and the Caribbean. Most species are less than 6 inches (15 cm) long. (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

  
  Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae) among other extinct taxa. (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  Clockwise from top left: veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus), rock monitor (Varanus albigularis), common blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides), Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula), giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus), and legless lizard (Anelytropsis papillosus)

  
  Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The grouping is paraphyletic as some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  Northern tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus)

  
  The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand. Despite its close resemblance to lizards, it is part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name tuatara is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back". (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  Turtles from different families; clockwise from top-left: Red-bellied short-necked turtle, Indian flapshell turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle, and Galápagos tortoise

  
  Turtles, or testudines, are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There are 360 living and recently extinct species of turtles, including land-dwelling tortoises and freshwater terrapins. They are found on most continents, some islands and, in the case of sea turtles, much of the ocean. Like other amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water. (Full article...)
• 
  
  

  

  Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare

  
  A caiman (/ˈkeɪmən/; also cayman as a variant spelling from Taíno kaiman) is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators. Caimans inhabit Mexico and Central and South America from marshes and swamps to mangrove rivers and lakes. They have scaly skin and live a fairly nocturnal existence. They are relatively small-sized crocodilians with an average maximum weight of 6 to 40 kg (13 to 88 lb) depending on species, with the exception of the black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), which can grow more than 4 m (13 ft) in length and weigh in excess of 1,000 kg (2,200 Ib). The black caiman is the largest caiman species in the world and is found in the slow-moving rivers and lakes that surround the Amazon basin. The smallest species is the Cuvier's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), which grows to 1.2 to 1.5 m (3.9 to 4.9 ft) long. There are six different species of caiman found throughout the watery jungle habitats of Central and Southern America. The average length for most of the other caiman species is about 2 to 2.5 m (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long. (Full article...)

Selected amphibian type

• 
  
  

  

  Various types of frog

  
  A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ἀνούρα, literally without tail in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history.
  
  An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees.
  
  Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)
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  Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae)

  
  Caecilians (/sɪˈsɪliən/; New Latin for 'blind ones') are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales.
  
  Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /ˌdʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However, Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales.
  
  The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...)
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  European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

  
  Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.
  
  A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)
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  Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum

  
  Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm.
  
  Salamanders never have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults.
  
  This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. The remarkable ability of salamanders to regenerate is not just limited to limbs but extends to vital organs such as the heart, jaw, and parts of the spinal cord, showing their uniqueness compared to different types of vertebrates. ⁤⁤This ability is most remarkable for occurring without any type of scarring. ⁤⁤This has made salamanders an invaluable model organism in scientific research aimed at understanding and achieving regenerative processes for medical advancements in human and animal biology. (Full article...)

Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.

The template used for this is {{Flex columns}}.

By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.

Box-header colour

You may have noticed the new {{Box-header colour}} template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.

Testing, testing

Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...

Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...

To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile

If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Until next time...

Have fun.    — The Transhumanist   00:23, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Hawkeye7, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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Recent changes

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [192]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [193][194]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [195][196]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).

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Portals WikiProject update #015, 31 July 2018

Now that we have lots of toys to play with, it's play time!

Here are some fun activities to use our new toys on...

Fun activity #1: put the improved panorama template to use

Would you like to travel around the world? Well, this may be the next best thing...

Here's another fun toy to play with: {{Portal image banner}}

To see what it looks like, check out the panoramas at the tops of the following portals:

• Portal:India
• Portal:Melbourne
• Portal:Perth
• Portal:Monaco
• Portal:South Sudan
• Portal:Thiruvananthapuram
• Portal:Lithuania
• Portal:Brisbane
• Portal:Abu Dhabi
• Portal:Athens
• Portal:Barcelona
• Portal:Calgary
• Portal:Dhaka
• Portal:Dresden
• Portal:Edinburgh
• Portal:Florence
• Portal:Houston
• Portal:Miami
• Portal:Milan
• Portal:Moscow
• Portal:Munich
• Portal:Seattle
• Portal:Stockholm
• Portal:Turin
• Portal:Bermuda

The task: There are many geography portals that lack panoramas. Please add some. Please keep the file size down below 2 megabytes, and keep in mind that you may find quality banners at commons: at less than 200K (.2 megabytes). Good search terms to include with the place name are "banner", "cityscape", "skyline", "panorama", "landscape", etc.

Related task: There are also lots of geography portals that have panoramas used as gaudy banners (with print or icons splattered across them) or that display them in some random location on the page. In many cases, those pages would be improved by displaying the panorama as a clean picture at the top of the intro section, like on the examples above. This works best with banner-like panoramas. Please fix such pages when you come across them, if you believe it would improve the look of the page.

Taller images might be better suited displayed further down the page, or in the "Selected images" section.

Note that {{Portal image banner}} supports multiple images, and displays one at random upon the first visit, and each time the page is purged.

Fun activity #2: install "Selected images" sections

That is, image slideshows!

Over 200 have been installed so far. Just 1200 to go. (Be sure not to install them on portals with active maintainers, unless they want you to).

The title "Selected images" reflects the fact that not all images on Wikipedia are pictures, and encompasses maps, graphs, diagrams, sketches, paintings, pictures, and so on.

The toys we have to work with for this are:

{{Random slideshow}}

and

{{Transclude files as random slideshow}}

The task: Using one of the above templates directly on a portal's base page, replace static "Selected picture" sections, with a section like one of these:

Selected images

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  Salmon fry hatching (Salmo salar) - the larva has grown around the remains of the yolk - visible are the arteries spinning around the yolk and little oildrops, also the gut, the spine, the main caudal blood vessel, the bladder and the arcs of the gills.
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  A discus (Symphysodon discus) is guarding its eggs. As for most cichlids, brood care is highly developed with both the parents caring for the young. Additionally, adult discus produce a secretion through their skin, off which the larvae live during their first few days.
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  Koi are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp Cyprinus carpio, originated from China and widely spread in Japan. They are very closely related to goldfish. The word "koi" comes from Japanese meaning "carp".
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  The red lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The red lionfish is also found off the east coast of the United States, and was likely first introduced off the Florida coast in the early to mid 1990s.

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  Charred shrubland in suburban Sydney (2019–20 Australian bushfires). (from Wildfire)
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  Phylogeny of the Pinophyta based on cladistic analysis of molecular data. (from Conifer)
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  Animation of diaphragmatic breathing with the diaphragm shown in green (from Wildfire)
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  In Abies grandis (grand fir), and many other species with spirally arranged leaves, leaf bases are twisted to flatten their arrangement and maximize light capture. (from Conifer)
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  Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, British Columbia: Giant Douglas firs (left) and red cedars (right) fill the grove. (from Old-growth forest)
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  Dry Mountain Fire Lookout in the Ochoco National Forest, Oregon, US circa 1930 (from Wildfire)
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  A surface fire in the western desert of Utah, United States (from Wildfire)
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  A Russian firefighter extinguishing a wildfire (from Wildfire)
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  Wildfire burning in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, United States, in 2020. The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km²) of forest. (from Wildfire)
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  Downed wood replenishes topsoil as it decays. (from Old-growth forest)
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  Araucariaceae: awl-like leaves of Cook pine (Araucaria columnaris) (from Conifer)
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  Cupressaceae: scale leaves of Lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana); scale in mm (from Conifer)
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  Elk Bath, an award-winning photograph of elk avoiding a wildfire in Montana (from Wildfire)
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  A coniferous forest pictured in the coat of arms of the Kainuu region in Finland (from Conifer)
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  The narrow conical shape of northern conifers, and their downward-drooping limbs, help them shed snow. (from Conifer)
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  Eucalyptus regnans forest in Tasmania, Australia (from Old-growth forest)
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  Fungus Climacocystis borealis on a tree stump in the Białowieża Forest, one of the last largely intact primeval forests in Central Europe (from Old-growth forest)
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  Old-growth forest in the Opal Creek Wilderness, a wilderness area located in the Willamette National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, on the border of Mount Hood National Forest. It has the largest uncut watershed in Oregon. (from Old-growth forest)
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  Global fires during the year 2008 for the months of August (top image) and February (bottom image), as detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. (from Wildfire)
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  Wildland firefighter working a brush fire in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, US (from Wildfire)
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  Wildfire smoke in atmosphere off the U.S. West Coast in 2020 (from Wildfire)
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  A wildfire in Venezuela during a drought (from Wildfire)
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  Cool temperate rainforest in Tasmania, Australia (from Old-growth forest)
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  National map of groundwater and soil moisture in the United States. It shows the very low soil moisture associated with the 2011 fire season in Texas. (from Wildfire)
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  The northern spotted owl primarily inhabits old-growth forests in the northern part of its range (Canada to southern Oregon) and landscapes with a mix of old and younger forest types in the southern part of its range (the Klamath region and California). (from Old-growth forest)
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  Wildfire near Yosemite National Park, United States, in 2013. The Rim Fire burned more than 250,000 acres (1,000 km²) of forest. (from Wildfire)
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  Pinaceae: unopened female cones of subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) (from Conifer)
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  Redwood tree in northern California redwood forest: According to the National Park Service, "96 percent of the original old-growth coast redwoods have been logged." (from Old-growth forest)
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  Lightning-sparked wildfires are frequent occurrences during the dry summer season in Nevada. (from Wildfire)
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  2003 Canberra bushfires, visible from Parliament House (from Wildfire)
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  Sediment off the Yucatán Peninsula (from Wildfire)
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  Tāne Mahuta, the biggest kauri (Agathis australis) tree alive, in the Waipoua Forest of the Northland Region of New Zealand. (from Conifer)
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  Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro (from Old-growth forest)
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  A thin transverse section showing the internal structure of conifer wood (from Conifer)
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  Fire Propagation Model (from Wildfire)
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  Old-growth red cedar stump near Port Renfrew, British Columbia (from Old-growth forest)
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  Globosa, a cultivar of Pinus sylvestris, a northern European species, in the North American Red Butte Garden (from Conifer)
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  A dirt road acted as a fire barrier in South Africa. The effects of the barrier can clearly be seen on the unburnt (left) and burnt (right) sides of the road. (from Wildfire)
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  Forest fires visible from a distance in Dajti National Park, Tirana, Albania (from Wildfire)
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  Virgin forest about 2500 m above sea level in Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei, China (from Old-growth forest)
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  First growth or virgin forest near Mount Rainier, 1914 (from Old-growth forest)
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  A Monterey pine forest in Sydney, Australia (from Conifer)
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  Pinaceae: needle-like leaves and vegetative buds of Coast Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) (from Conifer)
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  Charred landscape following a crown fire in the North Cascades, United States (from Wildfire)
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  Aerial view of deliberate wildfires on the Khun Tan Range, Thailand. These fires are lit by local farmers every year to promote the growth of a certain mushroom. (from Wildfire)
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  Smoke from the 2020 California wildfires settles over San Francisco (from Wildfire)
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  Antarctic beech old-growth in Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia (from Old-growth forest)
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  A prescribed burn in a Pinus nigra stand in Portugal (from Wildfire)
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  Ecological succession after a wildfire in a boreal pine forest next to Hara Bog, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia. The pictures were taken one and two years after the fire. (from Wildfire)

The one on the left uses {{Random slideshow}} (which accepts file names), and the one on the right uses {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} (which accepts source pages from which the filenames are gathered).

The above section formatting is used on many of the pages you will come across, but not all. In those cases, use whatever section formatting matches the rest of the page.

Note that you may come across "Selected picture" sections done with {{Random portal component}} templates. That template call is the entire section. Replace it with a section that matches the other sections on the page, and put the new slideshow inside that.

For example, in Portal:California, this code:

{{Random portal component|max=21|seed=27|header=Selected picture|subpage=Selected picture}}

was replaced with this code:

{{/box-header|Selected images|noedit=yes}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow
| {{PAGENAME}}
| Culture of {{PAGENAME}}
}}
{{Box-footer}}

And the new section blended right in with the formatting of the rest of the page. Note the use of the {{PAGENAME}} magic word. Plain article titles also work. Don't feel limited to one or two page names. But be sure to test each slideshow before installing the next one. (Or if you prefer, in batches - just don't leave them hanging). Report technical problems at the Portal design talk page.

Fun activity #3: upgrade "Selected article" sections

These sections, where unmaintained, have gone stale. That's because 1) the excerpts are static, having been manually copied and pasted, and 2) because they lack automatic addition of new entries.

They can be upgraded with:

{{Transclude random excerpt}}

or

{{Transclude list item excerpt}}

or

{{Transclude linked excerpt}}

All three of these will provide excerpts that won't go stale. The latter two can provide excerpt collections that won't go stale, by providing new entries over time. The key is to select source pages or source sections that are frequently updated, such as root article sections, mainstream lists, or navigation templates.

Where will this put us?

When the above tasks are completed for the entire collection of portals (except the ones with specific maintainers), we'll be more than half-way done with the portal system upgrade.

Keep up the great work.    — The Transhumanist   19:11, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

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Threat

If it is your usual tactic to threaten people instead of explaining then you have a great approach with the edits concerned. This action is exactly why some WP editors have a reputation of being bullies rather than explaining why is it that they reverted. I would suggest you do so in the future. This may sound sharp from someone that obviously feel you do not have to show that respect but it is suppose to be courtesy that we all participate in this activity. You effectively created the conflict. Explaining after the fact is not the way.2605:E000:9149:A600:B0BD:BEA8:89BB:89CD (talk) 04:29, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nick-D -- Nick-D (talk) 01:20, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Astronaut FA

Do you think either Roger Chaffee or John Glenn are ready for FAC? Would you be willing to co-nom either of them with me? I will try to work on Collins' article in the meantime as well. Kees08 (Talk) 03:50, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

I'd be happy to co-nominate either one. Roger Chaffee looks fine. John Glenn would be my preference though. Did you manage to clean up all the issues left over from the last FAC run? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:08, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

As far as I know I did. The only two issues I want to clean up in regards to Glenn are the awards table (going to convert to prose and remove unit citations) and his biography could be used more in his later years. I have a copy of it (signed, I was going to avoid using it, but no use letting it go to waste), so I will try to take care of both of those issues pre-nomination. If you have time to do a read-through of the article to see if anything is amiss or glaringly poor, that would be great, otherwise I will be nominating once I fix the two issues I noted. Kees08 (Talk) 20:53, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

I made major changes. Let me know if you disagree with them. Outstanding issues:

• One of the distinguished flying crosses in the infobox is repeated twice, since it is listed in the astronaut and military portions of the infobox.
• Not positive that the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal was won in the Korean War
• I need to finish going through his political life section and through his book, making sure they roughly align.

If you could check my first two bullet points that would be great. Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 02:08, 31 July 2018 (UTC) I went through his book, mostly around his senate career and his second spaceflight, and heavily edited the article. Can you take a look at my edits? I think everything flows a little better now, and a lot of missing pieces are now included. If you could also take a look at the top two bullet points I made above that would be great. We can nominate it for FAC at any point that you think it is ready. Kees08 (Talk) 01:08, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [197]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [198][199]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

USAF Birgadier General (Retired) Regis F. A. Urschler

@Hawkeye7: - Hi. I hope this isn't an intrusion. I found you listed on the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Military page as a Project Participant and hope you can help me out with some advice. I've been working on an article about retired USAF Brigadier General Regis Urschler, and wondered if you could take a look at what I've got so far. I want to take extra care because I am relatively sure he is still living. I'm still working on the article, and I don't really think it is nearly ready. But I was hoping for some pointers as this is my first real attempt at an original article in many years. If you could lave a note directly on that talk page, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 17:40, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

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helpful arguments

"Tech companies are notorious for appearing in the night like mushrooms and disappearing after a short time, but articles may still benefit the reader. " this will be a good phrase to use in many other situations also. The reliance of so many WPedians upon the first page of Google can cause them to lose historical perspective. DGG ( talk ) 02:46, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

WP:TFAP

Assuming you don't have this page watchlisted ... the most recent edit changed your request. - Dank (push to talk) 00:30, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. There's this long-running thing about the dates in the Moon landing articles. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight decided long ago that UTC would be used for dates and times on the Moon. Americans feel that we should use American time. But since TFA runs on UTC, everything will appear when Americans expect it to, if they will just leave it alone. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:55, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Mildly related, do you think there is any chance of running Collins, Aldrin, and/or Apollo 11 alongside Armstrong on the same day? Presuming they are all completed of course. I intend to get a featured list up as well. Also, if you get a chance to look at the Glenn article, we can get that nominated soon. Kees08 (Talk) 03:46, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

They would let us run multiple articles together... although I'm not enthusiastic about the idea. Time is running out on getting all three done, as each takes about three months to go through FAC. We should get Collins and Aldrin to GA standard. These should be ready to run if either dies. I will be away for a few weeks, but will resume work on Apollo 11 then. We have a to-do list for that article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:41, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Copy. Collins at GAN now, and working hard on Aldrin's. We will see what we can have ready by then. Kees08 (Talk) 03:30, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018

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• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [200]

Changes later this week

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• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [201]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for V bomber

On 14 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article V bomber, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Britain's V bombers (Avro Vulcans pictured) were brought to readiness on 15 minutes' notice with the aircraft armed with nuclear weapons and crews standing ready? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/V bomber. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, V bomber), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Stewart Menaul

Hi Hawkeye7! I just approved the DYK nomination, but there is a recommendation I'd like to make, if you'll kindly forebear. Thanks! 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Appreciation

I read the article Neil Armstrong, think it is excellent, and if there was ever a rating above "featured" it would have to be on the list. I just happened to look and you are the principle editor, the same one I have been communicating with on another article, so I went to your user page. I am not very familiar with barnstars but you rate one above "Tireless editor" and a thanks for your hard work. Otr500 (talk) 17:04, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

My work

I suppose when I am doing what I consider maintenance I should include looking at the editors involved. Every day is a new day to learn. I do not have the intent to "bump heads", seem asinine, or in anyway seem other than a concerned editor. I have been working in the appendices section attempting to maintain a close following to MOS and other policies and guidelines. I have seen many articles that have been what I consider "degraded", likely by incremental edits over time, then see they are sometimes slowly walked in the direction of reassessment and downgrading with "Former featured article" placed on them. I started looking into better classed articles in an attempt to work on one area that has often become bloated and maybe just neglected. I have concerns with "bot" project group assessments, think the overall idea not bad, but have seen one project (or one editor in a project) elevate an article prematurely then all the other projects are thrown on-board by a bot equalization assessment. To me it just means more work at the other end so I have been looking at some of these. I just have limited time and "many thousands" of articles. Thank you for your time. Oh! And keep up the excellent work. Otr500 (talk) 17:04, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

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Mark Oliphant

I hear this will show up at TFA in September ... any interest in doing a blurb of roughly 1000 characters? - Dank (push to talk) 04:15, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

I note that his 117th birthday will; be on 8 October. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:11, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Pinging Wehwalt. - Dank (push to talk) 00:49, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Sure, if you'd prefer.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:36, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Not urgent at all ... Wehwalt has picked Metallurgical Laboratory in its place, if you want to do the blurb. - Dank (push to talk) 22:06, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Looks great, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 16:43, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

advice?

When you get a moment (no hurry), would you mind commenting on the Peer Review of Ira T. Wyche? Thank you. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 19:46, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #016, 15 Aug 2018

Future portal tool

Discussions are underway on the design of a portal tool (user script) that will hopefully have features for modifying portals at the click of a menu item, to make editing them easier. It might do things like change the color for you, add to a selection, add a new section, move a section, and so on.

If you'd like to be involved and suggest features for the tool, please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#What would you want a portal tool to be able to do?.

Progress report: upgrade of portals

As new portal components are built by our Lua gurus, those components are being used to upgrade portals. Each component automates a section of a portal in a particular way.

The sections that are mostly upgraded so far are the Intro, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

The sections currently undergoing upgrade are: Selected image, Categories, and the Intro.

The Intro? Isn't that done already?

Yes, and no.

The upgrade of the excerpt in intros is mostly complete (there are about 70 non-standard portals that still need it).

Now we are doing another upgrade of intros in the form of adding a panoramic picture at the top of the intro, on portals for which such a picture is available on Commons:. Dozens of panoramas have been added so far, and they are really starting to affect the look of portals — the portals that have them look really good.

Regions are the most likely subjects to have panoramas, but a surprising number of other subjects have banner-shaped pictures too. Some examples of non-geographic portals that they have been added to are:

• Portal:Underwater diving
• Portal:Sharks
• Portal:Reptiles
• Portal:Meat
• Portal:Cheese
• Portal:Cereals
• Portal:Tea
• Portal:Milk
• Portal:Wheat
• Portal:Rice
• Portal:Clothing

Speaking of pictures, several hundred Selected image sections have been upgraded to include image slideshows.

Progress report: design

The push for automation continues, with new components under continuous testing in the field. As problems are spotted, they are reported to our programmers, who have done a fantastic job of keeping up with bug reports and fixing the relevant Lua modules fast. I am highly impressed.

Construction time on new portals is now down to as little as a minute or less. Though not in general. If you are lucky enough to spot portals that fit the profile of the new tools (their strengths), then a portal can be complete almost as soon as it is created, with the added time it takes to find and add a panorama. Source page titles are not generally standardized, and so it source pages in many cases must be entered manually. Where source page titles follow a standard naming convention, portal creation for those subjects goes quickly.

So, we still have some hurdles, but the outlook on portals is very good. New features, and many improvements to features are on the horizon. I'll be sure to report them when they become available.

What will the portal of the future look like? That is up to you!

See you on the project's talk pages.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   21:04, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Leonard Owen

On 17 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leonard Owen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Leonard Owen oversaw the building of Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity on a commercial scale? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leonard Owen. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Leonard Owen), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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Metallurgical Laboratory selected as TFA

September 5, 2018. You know the drill. Thx, --Wehwalt (talk) 17:41, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operation Tight Screw (4th nomination)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operation Tight Screw (4th nomination). your signature DBigXray 12:50, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class cross
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class cross for Neil Armstrong, Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge, Polaris (UK nuclear programme), Trident (UK nuclear programme), and MAUD Committee. MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

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• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
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DYK for Jack Kirby

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #017, 22 Aug 2018

This issue is about portal creation...

Creating new portals

Myself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals.

The templates are ready for general use for portal creation.

They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them.

I look forward to seeing what new portals you create!

Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD.

The main portal creation template is {{box portal skeleton}}.

Portal creation tips

After starting a portal using {{box portal skeleton}}...

1. Placing a panorama (banner picture) at the top of the intro section is a nice touch, and really makes a portal look good. {{box portal skeleton}} doesn't automatically insert panoramas. So, you will need to do that by hand. They can be found at Commons:. For some examples, check out Portal:Sharks, Portal:Cheese, and Portal:Florence
2. The search term provided in the Did you know? and In the news sections is very basic and rarely matches anything. It is best to replace that term with multiple search arguments, if possible (separate each argument with a pipe character). For example, in Portal:Capital punishment, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Capital_punishment&diff=855255361&oldid=855137403 Searches in templates use Lua search notation.
3. Check the In the news and Did you know? sections for mismatches. That is, sometimes entries come up that shouldn't be displayed. If there are any, refine the search strings further, so they don't return such results.
4. Finish each portal you've created before creating a new one. We don't want unfinished portals sitting around.

Need a laugh?

Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism.    — The Transhumanist   02:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

Hey, can you please stop re-adding the scores on the right side of the groups as we don't need that because we already have the scores in that group and not needing scores on the right side of the group. This is properly the third time that you have re-added back to it. We are not the French page for this article and I am trying to make it similar to the 2010 one. Thank You and have a good day. Animation is developing 00:01, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

We were intending that it would look like the one I wrote for 2014. Are you here in Hamburg? Make yourself known to us. We'll be at the Gliders and Rollers games. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:39, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

No I am not from Hamburg, but I have keeping an eye on the scores to see how the Australian teams go by watching the live streams on the FIBA YouTube channel as they are live streaming the World Championships from the Quarter Finals onwards. Animation is developing 13:25, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Operation Mosaic

On 26 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Operation Mosaic, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the second test in the Operation Mosaic series under the command of Hugh Martell was the largest detonation of a nuclear device ever to take place in Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Mosaic. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Operation Mosaic), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Hugh Martell

On 26 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hugh Martell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the second test in the Operation Mosaic series under the command of Hugh Martell was the largest detonation of a nuclear device ever to take place in Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hugh Martell. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hugh Martell), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

• You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [203]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [204]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [205]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [206]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [207]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [208]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [209]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

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Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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Incomplete DYK nomination

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The Signpost: 30 August 2018

• From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

• In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

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• Special report: Wikimania 2018

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Reactor Images

X-10 Graphite Reactor, maybe?

Hawkeye7,

The Department of energy recently uploaded to Flickr several public domain images of what I believe is the X-10 Graphite Reactor - I'm not knowledgeable enough to say for sure, and the description isn't always specific. But I've uploaded to Commons anything that wasn't there before. They're currently under c:Category:Nuclear reactors in the United States until I know enough to be more specific. Given your work in this topic area, I thought you might be better able to put them to use than I could. MarginalCost (talk) 21:04, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

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Your GA nomination of Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom

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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

• Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
• Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
• Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
• Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Nova Crystallis, Iazyges, SounderBruce, Kosack and Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-36

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 user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [210][211]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [212][213]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [214]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [215]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [216]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [217]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [218]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [219]

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Portals WikiProject update #018, 04 Sept 2018

Bug hunt!

As you know, portals are now supported by a number of new templates, which are in turn supported by some new Lua modules.

Those templates and modules are being put to the test, in the new portals that have been created since this WikiProject rebooted, plus a number of existing portals that have been revamped.

The new portals, and revamped ones, can be found at Category:Single-page portals.

Please browse the new portals at your leisure, and report any and all problems that you spot. Post bug and other portal problem reports at WT:WPPORTD. Please report bugs, quirks, awkward aspects, or anything weird or off that you notice. Compliments and suggestions are also welcome. :)

When you report a bug, please indicate the portal's name, the section that the problem appeared in, and the name of the article appearing (first) in the section with the problem. Most problems will likely be encountered in the Selected general articles" section, due to quirks in a displayed article's wikicode that the lua modules don't handle yet. Your help in spotting those is of utmost value. Thank you.

Don't delete portal subpages just yet

For portals that have been converted to the single-page design, we are not deleting their subpages at this time, because we are working on ways to harvest the data from those pages. For example, the Selected picture subpages include filenames and captions that would be valuable for the image slideshows. Please don't delete portal subpages, for now. They'll be slated for d-batch speedy deletion after harvesting. Thank you.

Development notes

We are currently testing a feature added to {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} that allows it to accept both sourcepages and filenames. Courtesy of Evad37. This will pave the way for harvesting files and their captions from portal subpages, for use in image slideshows.

We need your help

The bulk of the work is being done by a handful of editors. But we can't do it all. We need help with spotting bugs, refining the search parameters in new/revamped portals (in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections), adding images to slideshows for a broader selection (they default to showing the images on the root article page but are capable of showing so much more), adding panoramic pictures at the top of the intro section of region portals (cities, counties, states, provinces, countries, continents, and other regions), to name but a few task types.

It is rewarding to be a part of the growing portal phenomenon. And you get to see its expansion and refinement up close.

Feel free to join in on the fun. ;)

Thank you,    — The Transhumanist   06:51, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the Metallurgical Laboratory, "one of the key sites of the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bombs"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

FAC bot malfunctioning

Hi Hawkeye, the bot is continuing to malfunction (e.g. see the duplication here). The nominations should be listed in chronological order, and if it needs to maintain an "older nominations" section (which seems pointless), the nominations in that section should be older than the others. Many thanks, SarahSV ^(talk) 16:21, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bot was altered to sort the nominations into chronological order. Previously it assumed that they were. There seems to be a bug with the Featured article removal candidates section. The only reason it does this is to maintain the "older nominations" marker. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:06, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Fix implemented. Let me know if there is an entry that you believe is not in the correct chronological order. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:07, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at it. As of now, they're not in chronological order. For example, the final entry in the regular section, Æthelbald, King of Wessex, was nominated on 17 August and the second-last entry, Head over Heels (U.S. TV series), on 22 August. If we fix the order manually, the bot reverts. In case it helps, Brian keeps a chronological list in reverse order at User:Brianboulton/Sandbox17.

Additionally, there are younger entries in the "older nominations" section. The first section in the older section, James Wood Bush, was nominated on 15 August.

Ideally the regular section would contain entries up to four weeks, and the older section from five weeks on. SarahSV ^(talk) 03:23, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Maybe, but the current rule is twenty days. I don't understand what is wrong. The entries you cite look like they are in the correct order. 22 August; yes, 17 August, yes. So the 17 August one appears after the 22 August one, as it is older. Good. And it is in the newer set, as 20 days after 17 August is 6 September; tomorrow. Good. The 15 August one therefore leads off the Older nominations, followed by another nominated that day, but three hours earlier, then John Glenn from 14 August and Aldus Manutius from 13 August. These are older, not younger. So the entries are in strict reverse chronological order so far as I can tell. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:18, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I've looked again and they're in chronological order, so thank you for fixing that. I'm not sure what you mean about the current rule being twenty days. It means most nominations are in the older section, but I'm less concerned about that. Thanks again. SarahSV ^(talk) 21:33, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Mark Oliphant scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the Mark Oliphant article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 8, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 8, 2018, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:40, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Windscale Piles

Hello! Your submission of Windscale Piles at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 23:20, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

There are no issues. I presume this was sent in error. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:42, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Stub articles

See Wikipedia:STUBDEF. Articles below 1,500 characters or 500 words are stub. Tables are not included. Kraose (talk) 07:09, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

That isn't what it says; the 1,500 character minimum is for DYK only. The actual criteria can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Assessment. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:10, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Your recent editing history at Courtney Ryan shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Indy Beetle and Nick-D on the Katangese Gendarmes and India during World War II Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at two important treaties of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Tech News: 2018-37

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Recent changes

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [220]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [221]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [222]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [223]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [224]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [225]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Edel-optics.de Arena

On 14 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edel-optics.de Arena, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship took place at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edel-optics.de Arena. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Edel-optics.de Arena), 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) 00:02, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Mosaic

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Operation Mosaic you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 06:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Your GA nomination of Operation Mosaic

The article Operation Mosaic you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Operation Mosaic for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 08:41, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Mosaic

The article Operation Mosaic you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Operation Mosaic for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 04:02, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [226]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [227]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [228]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [229]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Hawkeye7, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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DYK for Windscale Piles

On 19 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Windscale Piles, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while the filters added to the chimneys of the Windscale Piles (pictured) were mocked as "Cockcroft's Follies", they prevented what might have been a disastrous radioactive accident? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Windscale Piles. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Windscale Piles), 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) 00:01, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Stewart Menaul

On 20 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stewart Menaul, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during Operation Mosaic, Group Captain Stewart Menaul flew a Canberra bomber through a fallout cloud? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stewart Menaul. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Stewart Menaul), 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) 00:02, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #019, 22 Sept 2018

Portals progress report

Don't blink. You might miss something.

As of a few days ago, portals had doubled in about a month and a half.

Also, there were 98 incompleted portals in Category:Portals under construction. Now there are just 43.

The WikiProject page has been thoroughly revised

The goals, plans, and task sections have all been updated.

Orphaned portals need a home...

Many new portals are still orphans, and need links pointing to them:

1. A portal link at the bottom of corresponding navigation footer template. E.g., Template:Machines for Portal:Machines. See examples of a portals link at the bottom of Template:Robotics and Template:Forestry.
2. A {{Portal}} box in the See also section of the corresponding root article for each portal. If there is no See also section, create one and place the portal template in that. (Rather than placing them in an external links section -- they're not external links).
3. A {{Portal}} template placed at the top of the category page corresponding to each portal.

All new and revamped portals can be found at Category:Single-page portals.

Portal:Contents/Portals

This is the main list of portals.

Nearly 2,000 of the new portals need to be listed here.

They can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.

Customized Portal Rating system is now in place

Portals now have a new rating system of their own designed specifically to support portal evaluation! We were trying to use the standard assessment system for articles, but that doesn't fit portals very well.

Many thanks to Evad37, Waggers, AfroThundr3007730, SMcCandlish, Tom, BrendonTheWizard, and Pbsouthwood for their work and input on this.

The new system can be found at the top of all portal talk pages, in the WikiProject portals box. Those with "???" ratings need to be assessed, which makes up most of the older portals.

Most of the new portals were started out with an initial "Low" level of importance when their talk pages were created. Those deserving higher importance should be promoted as you come across them.

Improving the new portals

The starting point for new portals included minimal parameters and content, in the form of default values in the template(s) used for their creation.

Embellishing embedded search strings

So, for the search strings in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections, this was the magic word {{PAGENAME}}, which represents the portal's name. Unfortunately, the resulting term is alway capitalized, which limits its effectiveness as a search string for anything but proper nouns. Results for those two sections can be improved, by replacing the "PAGENAME" magic word with multiple search strings, and search strings that begin with lower case letters. There is no inherent limit as to how many search parameters may be included. Lua search notation is used. The more general the subject, the more subtopic search terms you may want to include. For example, on Portal:Avengers (comics), {{PAGENAME}} turned up nothing. But, when more parameters were added, as in the wikicode below...

{{Transclude selected recent additions | {{PAGENAME}} | Iron Man | Spiderman | Antman | Hawkeye | The Hulk | Incredible Hulk | David Banner | Captain America | Scarlet Witch | Black Widow | Tony Stark | Nick Fury | Age of Ultron | Infinity War | months=36 | header={{Box-header colour|Did you know... }}|max=6}}

... that returned several results in the portal's DYK section.

Be sure you make the improvements to both the DYK section and the "In the news" section, as they both require the search strings.

Expanding the slideshow contents

The default starting selection for the image slideshow in most new portals is whatever images happen to be in the corresponding root article (via the PAGENAME magic word). You can improve image slideshows by adding more sourcepages and filenames as parameters in the "Selected images" section of portals.

See Template:Transclude files as random slideshow/doc for instructions.

More exciting things are to come...

Portals used to take about 6 hours or more to create. Now, for subjects that have particular navigation support, we've got that down to about one minute each, with even more content displayed than ever. True, that means the new portals pick you, rather than the other way around. Creating a specific portal that doesn't happen to have the requisite navigation support is still pretty time consuming. But, we are working on extending our reach beyond the low-hanging fruit.

And efforts are ongoing to keep shaving time off of the creation process. Eventually, we may get it down to seconds each.

In addition to improving automation, we're always looking for new features and improvements that we can add to portals, and there is plenty of potential to expand on the standard design so that new portals are even better right out of the starting gate. Additional designs are also possible.

On the horizon, there are many more portals waiting to be created. And we can expect to see at least a few more section types emerge. I never expected slideshows, for example, especially not for excerpts. Who knows where innovation will take us next?

Keep up the great work everyone.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   07:07, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

FYI on old FAC archive

Hi - I don't know if anything should be done about it, but FYI this 2015 FAC was apparently never processed by the bot. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:26, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Same thing here. Do you want to know about these when I find them? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:49, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

Hello! Your submission of 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 15:46, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Have your say!

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations and welcome back!

		The Coordinator stars
		On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, I present you with these Coordinator stars as a mark of the responsibilities you have volunteered to take on for the project for the next year. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:37, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

On 30 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship saw the best-ever performance by Team Great Britain, which won the men's competition and was runner-up in the women's? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship), 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) 00:02, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Modification to MilHistBot

Do you think you could modify MilHistBot to automatically list all passed GA nominations with the subtopic Warfare under Wikipedia:Good articles/Warfare? Currently users are expected to manually add them, but many have not. Aside from myself, I have noticed several other users who did not add the passed nominations to the list (though I am aware that it is in the instructions). This makes the list incomplete and reduces our progress to meeting the GA target. Kges1901 (talk) 13:04, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

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Tech News: 2018-40

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• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [231][232]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [233][234]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

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• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

July to September 2018 Milhist article reviewing

		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded these stripes for reviewing a total of seven Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period July to September 2018. Thank you for supporting Wikipedia's quality content processes. Kges1901 (talk) 11:07, 3 October 2018 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at the use of so-called "substandard" manpower in armies Interview: On the Bugle turning 150 (issues that is!) Op-ed: TomStar81 on the collapse of empires at the close of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For turning dozens of articles into A-class, FA-class, and GA-class. WP would literally be a bit worse-off without your work and efforts. Glad I stumbled upon your page in the John Glenn FA nom. Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs) 01:05, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

TFA

Thank you for Mark Oliphant, "an Australian scientist who played a key role in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II. He is credited with the discovery or co-discovery of deuterium, tritium, helium-3 and nuclear fusion. Regrettably, he is not as well known as he should be." - Thank you for changing that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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Recent changes

• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [235]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [236]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Madeleine Thompson

On 12 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Madeleine Thompson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the age of 13, Madeleine Thompson (pictured) was the youngest wheelchair basketball player ever to represent Great Britain? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Madeleine Thompson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Madeleine Thompson), 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) 00:01, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #020, 12 Oct 2018

Whew, a lot has been happening.

A bit of defending of the portals has been needed. But, most activity recently has been directed upon maintenance and development of existing portals.

The majority of portals now use the new design, about 2400 of them, leaving around 1200 portals that still employ the old style.

Newest portals

• Aceh
• Aegean Sea
• Arthur Wellesley
• Azores
• Bashkortostan
• Birmingham
• Black Sea
• Canary Islands
• Carpathian Mountains
• Caucasus
• Columbia River
• Davao City
• Dnieper
• Easter Island
• Exploration
• Galápagos Islands
• Glasgow
• Great Wall of China
• Guangdong
• Kaliningrad Oblast
• Kanpur
• Kigali
• Kuril Islands
• Kuwait City
• Leeds
• Lhasa
• Loire Valley
• Lucknow
• Lviv
• Map projections
• Marseille
• Midwestern United States
• Missouri River
• Multan
• Mysore
• Niger River
• Northeast India
• Odessa
• Orchestras
• Panama Canal
• Peshawar
• Polynesia
• Poznań
• Pretoria
• Rat Pack
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Shandong
• South China Sea
• Southern United States
• Suez Canal
• Svalbard
• Tatarstan
• Tigris River
• Visakhapatnam
• Volga River
• Western Ghats
• Western United States
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yosemite National Park

Please inspect these portals, and report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.

MfDs

Since the last issue of this newsletter, Nineteen portals were nominated for deletion. All posted by the same person.

Two portals were deleted.

One resolved as "no consensus".

Sixteen resolved as "keep".

Links to the archived discussions are provided below:

1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Air France
2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Alexander Korda
3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:August Derleth
4. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Average White Band
5. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bee-eaters
6. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ben E. King
7. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benny Goodman
8. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bill Bryson
9. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Billy Idol
10. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Billy Ocean
11. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bob Hope
12. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
13. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Body piercing
14. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Canton, Michigan
15. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Compostela Group of Universities
16. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Diplo
17. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Diversity of fish
18. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Pebble Beach
19. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Peter, Paul and Mary

Many thanks to those who participated in the discussions.

To watch for future MfD's, keep in mind that the Portals WikiProject is supported by automatic alerts. You can see them at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD

Creation criteria

There was also some discussion of creation criteria for portals. The result was that one of the participants in the discussion reverted the portal guidelines to the old version, which has the minimum number of articles for a portal included in there: "about 20 articles", a guideline that was in place since 2009.

Many of the portals that existed prior to April 2018 do not have that many (being limited to however many subpages the portal creator created), and therefore, these portals need to be upgraded to the new design (which automatically provides many articles for display). Using the new design, exceeding 20 articles for display is very easy.

Linking to the new portals

Efforts have been underway to place links to new portals (all 2200 of them created since April).

1. Link (portal button) from corresponding category pages.  Done
2. Link from See also section on corresponding root articles. Partially implemented
3. Link from bottom of corresponding templates. Partially implemented
4. Link for each portal on Portal:Contents/Portals. Partially implemented

Your help is needed. It is easy to access the page mentioned in #1, #2, & #3 from the portals themselves.

AWBers could do these tasks even faster (that's how the category pages were done), except #4...

Item #4 above pretty much has to be done by hand. (If you can find a way to speed that up, I would be very impressed). The links needing placement can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.

The conversion effort: news sections

There are still around 1200 old-style portals that have only undergone partial conversion to the new design concepts, still relying on subpages with copied/pasted excerpts that have been going stale for years, out of date (manually posted) news entries, etc.

The section currently being tackled on these is news. You can help by deleting any news section on the old-style portals that has news entries that are years old (that is the dead giveaway to a manual news section). Be sure not to delete the news sections of portals that have up-to-date news, or active maintainers. For maintainers, look at the portal's categories, and/or check the participants list at WP:WPPORT.

Eventually, conditional news sections (that appear only when news items are available for display) will be added using AWB to all portals without a news section.

News items (and even the news sections themselves) are automatically generated for portals that were created using the Basic portal start page. On those portals, there is a hidden comment at the top of the page (that you can see in the edit window), that says this:

<!-- This portal was created using subst:Basic portal start page -->

Design development

Presently, we are in the process of implementing the new design features, creating new portals with them, and installing them in existing portals.

But, what about development of new new design features?

We have a wish department.

Post your wishes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Discussions about possible cool new features, and they might come true. Many have already, and for many of those, this is where they were posted.

Cascade effect

A resource that has been elusive so far will be obtained eventually: categories. That is, the ability to pull category member links to populate a page.

Rather than populate portals directly with such links, it may be more beneficial to the encyclopedia to utilize them in navigation footers, because portals already have the ability to generate themselves based on those.

So, this would create a cascade effect: auto-gathering entries from categories, would enable the construction of new navigation footers, that would in turn support the development of new portals.

The cascade effect would also be felt by existing portals, as existing navigation footers could be expanded using the category harvesting methods, which would in turn expand the coverage of portals that access those navigation footers.

You can help by providing leads about any potential category harvesting methods. Please report anything you know about harvesting categories at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.

Looking into the future: the quantum portal?

One idea that has been floating around is the concept of a pageless portal. That is, a portal that isn't stored anywhere, instead being generated when you click on a menu item or button.

Many of the new portals were generated by a single click, and then saved via a second click.

Therefore, it seems likely that the portals of the future will employ the one-click concept.

Because of the need for customization by users, this concept would need to be augmented with a way to integrate user contributions. This could be done in at least two ways: posting an existing portal, autogenerating one from scratch if such does not yet exist, or have a special data page for user contributions that is folded into the auto-generated portal.

How soon? That is up to you. All that is needed are persons to implement it.

Until next time...

Keep up the good work on portals. They are improving daily. Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   04:19, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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FACbot and the FQSR RfC

I'm currently drafting an RfC for the featured quality source review process that is being discussed at WT:FAC. It would need a bot like FACbot to do the same tasks. Would you be willing to support that process, if the RfC passes? I would like to mention in the RfC that a bot will be available, but I don't want to presume on your time. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:11, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I will do it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:23, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:28, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Élodie Tessier

Hello! Your submission of Élodie Tessier at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:32, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [237]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [238]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [239]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [240]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Vixen

Hey Hawkeye7. When I first wrote the British Nuclear Test List, and read about the Vixen tests, I wondered about including them in the list of tests. What convinced me is that the same sorts of safety and prime explosion tests were done as well in the US (namely Project 57, 58 and 58A, Plumbob/Pascal, Saturn, Coulomb, Venus, Uranus and so on - about 90 US tests in all, 41 USSR tests, a dozen French and even 4 Chinese tests, are all counted as tests. If we are to have even-basis comparisons between the countries, I think they need to be counted. Cheers, and congrats on all the pages you've made GA. SkoreKeep (talk) 04:20, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

I decided to take them out because other tests were not being counted. British Tim, Rat and Kitten tests were not on the list, nor were similar tests conducted in the US such as Clean Slate. I admit I didn't notice Plumbob/Pascal. what I looked at was the List of United States' nuclear weapons tests, which ends in 1992. The sub critical tests since then are not listed, and there were 28 of between 1997 and 2015, including two jointly with the UK. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:01, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Hmmm, ok, but safety tests aren't the same thing as subcritical tests. In safety tests, the whole core is in place, and can possibly cause a nuclear event (as quite a few early US tests did). Vixen, as far as I can find out (which is very little), was safety and dispersion tests, as were the Plumbbob tests, while the subcritical tests, like Rat, Tim and Kitten were subcritical tests which cannot cause a nuclear explosion (or at least aren't really supposed to; some gray area there) because of the small amounts of plutonium present. Clean Slate I & II are indeed listed in Operation Roller Coaster, and are in the counts unless my SQL was really faulty. It's your edit, but if we're to be fair about it we'll have to take out about 90 US safety tests, 41 USSR safety tests, and a couple dozen others (all listed in various canonical sources). When I did the original lists I thought about why the British tests weren't any more detailed, but couldn't find anything, and just dropping 88 tests in wasn't my inclination, but if I wanted a straight line.... So it was safety tests in, subcriticals out, except for the list in "Nuclear Weapons Testing", because that best matched the canonical lists. I do have a listing of subcritical tests in my database- the US had 138, Kittens 5, Tims 4, Rats 1, 2 other UK tests Vito/Etna and Krakatau (at the NTS), France 3, China 7, Pakistan 1. SkoreKeep (talk) 19:32, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Why was Vixen included and Roller Coaster left out? My strong preference would be to keep the nuclear tests separate from the safety tests, like Norris et al does. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:07, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Why do you say it was left out? Operation Roller Coaster In any case, I've said my piece, I'm done. There's a lot of safety tests that need to be removed, then, starting with Operation_Roller_Coaster, Project 57 et al. Regards. SkoreKeep (talk) 16:41, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm clear in my mind what the difference is between a safety test and a subcritical test is now. The British definition of a safety test was one where the fission yield was less than that of the high explosive. I have no objection to Vixen and Roller Coaster being restored to the List of nuclear weapons tests of the United Kingdom. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:20, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Edit for re-including Vixen in the table made. Best regards. 07:13, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Template:Did you know nominations/Super League XXIV

 You are invited to join the discussion at Template:Did you know nominations/Super League XXIV. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:03, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Sandrine Bérubé

On 19 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sandrine Bérubé, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Sandrine Bérubé is a brown belt in karate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sandrine Bérubé. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sandrine Bérubé), 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) 00:02, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Barbara Gross

On 21 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Barbara Gross, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that German wheelchair basketball player Barbara Gross plays for the University of Alabama team, which includes two other Germans? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara Gross. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Barbara Gross), 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) 00:02, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

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Prep 2

Hi, although we discussed saving this for April Fools Day, another editor felt it would work better as a quirky hook right now, and promoted it to Prep 2. Is that okay with you, or should I hold it for April Fools Day? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 17:04, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Fine with me. I know how hard it can be to locate the quirky last hook sometimes, and April is still six months away. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:09, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Yoninah (talk) 07:48, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Hawkeye7, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 20:49, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Siege of Erivan (1804)

Thank you for your time! :-) - LouisAragon (talk) 16:25, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Totem

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Operation Totem you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 07:21, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Totem

The article Operation Totem you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Operation Totem for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 09:01, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

atomic vs nuclear

When I was young, in the dark old middle ages of the 20th century, it was my understanding that "nuclear" technology was properly different than "atomic" tech. As such, wouldn't Oak Ridge and the Manhattan Project all fall under atomic, rather than nuclear, which involves fusion weapons. I'm not being argumentative: in looking at your userpage and talkpage, you might be just the person to settle this issue for me, as I've wondered about it for decades. Oak Ridge, Hanford, Los Alamos and the MetLab developed the A-bomb, based on splitting heavy atoms of U-235 & plutonium, fission. The H-bomb, a fusion or "nuclear" weapon, based on fusion of heavy hydrogen into heavier elements, came later. I was itching to 'be bold' and change the article lede (ORNL), but it occurred to me that my edit would be quickly reverted, as the page has a history of protection and vandalism, so here I am to see what you think. I'm assuming you are conversant with nuclear fission and fusion reactions. I suppose one might be an historian of the period w/o being a physicist, but I'm guessing your physics is adequate for what I'm asking. rags (talk) 07:14, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

I took enough physics classes to follow cross section calculations and the like, but your question is actually about the history. The two terms are interchangeable. The physicists wanted to use "nuclear" from the start, which they felt was more accurate, but Groves and others felt that it was less familiar to the general public than "atomic", since "atomic bomb" had been in widespread use since at least 1913. Nonetheless, the term "nuclear" overtook "atomic" in the 1960s. [241] Our preference for "nuclear" on Wikipedia is based on pedagogy rather than physics, as it has the greatest recognition among present-day readers. The Manhattan Project indeed developed the atomic bomb (fission weapon), but also worked on the hydrogen bomb (fusion weapon), which they called the "Super". I've written a brief summary of this work in Project Y#Super; a more detailed discussion can be found in the article on the History of the Teller–Ulam design. Note that experiments related to fusion were carried out at Argonne and Oak Ridge, and tritium was produced at Hanford. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:19, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Totem

The article Operation Totem you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Operation Totem for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 00:22, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Élodie Tessier

On 25 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Élodie Tessier, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian national basketball player Élodie Tessier is 3 feet 11 inches (1.19 m) tall? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Élodie Tessier. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Élodie Tessier), 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) 00:02, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #021, 24 Oct 2018

Portals have passed the 4,000 mark.

More new portals...

Here's a list of portals created since the last issue

Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you.

What's next?

There is still lots to do...

There are many subject gaps that need to be filled. This can be done by creating new portals, or by adding Selected article sections to existing portals. To create a new portal, simply place {{subst:Basic portal start page}} on an empty portal page, and click "Preview". If the portal is complete, click "Save". After you try it, come share your experience and excitement at WT:WPPORTD.

Each new portal is just a starting point. Each portal of the new design can be further developed by:

• refining the search parameters to improve the results displayed in the Did you know and In the news sections.
• adding more specific Selected articles sections, like Selected biographies.
• inserting a Recognized content section.
• adding more pictures to the image slideshow.
• placing a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section (especially for geographic portals).

Besides the new portals, there are still about 1200 portals of the old design that need to be converted to the new design.

Many portals need to be de-orphaned, by placing links to them (in the See also section of the corresponding root articles, at the bottom of the corresponding navigation footer templates, and on the corresponding category pages).

Many of the new portals still need to be listed at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Bugs keep popping up in portals. These need to be tracked down and reported at WT:WPPORTD.

Tools are needed to make developing and maintaining portals quicker and easier.

Dreaming up new features and capabilities. Innovation needs to continue, to design the portal of tomorrow, and the portal development-maintenance-system of the future. Automation!

So, if you find yourself with a little (or a lot) of free time, pick an area (or more) above and...

...dive in!    — The Transhumanist   07:26, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

• Technology report: Bots galore!

• Special report: NPP needs you

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

• In focus: Alexa

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DYK for Anne Patzwald

On 29 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anne Patzwald, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the wheelchair basketball player Anne Patzwald works as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other members or former members of the German women's national team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anne Patzwald. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Anne Patzwald), 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) 00:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Two FACs

Hi Hawkeye, two promoted noms didn't get picked up by the bot in the last couple of days (although three archived ones did). The offenders are:

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Albert Pierrepoint/archive1
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/William Matthews (priest)/archive3

As usual, nothing obvious strikes me as causing an issue... :-( Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:31, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

• The Bot says:

  • "WARNING: FAC closed but Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Albert Pierrepoint/archive1 has NOT been moved to the archive page"
  • "WARNING: FAC closed but Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/William Matthews (priest)/archive3 has NOT been moved to the archive page"

  This is because it cannot find them on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2018. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:35, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [242]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [243]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [244][245]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

do you mind...

Can you recall the answer to this BS? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:14, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes. Added. Passed the nomination. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:29, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

TY, that was getting entirely out of hand. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:34, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Carl J. Seiberlich

On 1 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carl J. Seiberlich, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carl J. Seiberlich was the first naval aviator qualified to land airships, airplanes, and helicopters on an aircraft carrier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carl J. Seiberlich. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Carl J. Seiberlich), 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) 00:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA

Hi Hawkeye7, your BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 4) has been approved, along with a blanket approval for similar task provided you coordinate with that WikiProject. Please see the BRFA for notes. Please update User:MilHistBot with task changes added under that blanket approval for reference. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 18:50, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Ethnicelebs.com as a source

Hi Hawkeye7 . I noticed that you recently used ethnicelebs.com as a source for information in a biography article, Buzz Aldrin. Please note that there is general consensus that ethnicelebs.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. (See User_talk:XLinkBot/RevertList#EthniCelebs.com). If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 00:24, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Removed the entire sentence. It would have been better to note on the article talk page. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:21, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

I saw your edit summary about it, but thought it best to leave to you. --Ronz (talk) 03:17, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British nuclear testing in the United States

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article British nuclear testing in the United States you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:03, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-45

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

• You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [246]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [247]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Alfred George Pither

On 8 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alfred George Pither, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Wing Commander Alfred George Pither established a network of radar stations (example pictured) in northern Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alfred George Pither. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Alfred George Pither), 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) 00:01, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Leonard Cuthbert Lucas

On 9 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leonard Cuthbert Lucas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Brigadier Leonard Cuthbert Lucas was decorated for his part in the construction of facilities for the British Operation Totem nuclear tests at Emu Field, South Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leonard Cuthbert Lucas. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Leonard Cuthbert Lucas), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British nuclear testing in the United States

The article British nuclear testing in the United States you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British nuclear testing in the United States for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:01, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #022, 11 Nov 2018

Welcome AmericanAir88

Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:

• Portal:Blueberries
• Portal:Olives
• Portal:Bananas
• Portal:Bone fractures
• Portal:Carbohydrates
• Portal:Cherries
• Portal:Coconuts
• Portal:Hartford Whalers
• Portal:Integumentary system
• Portal:Exercise
• Portal:Fatty acids

Way to go!

Where's Evad?

Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.

He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.

Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.

The conversion continues

Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.

One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.

This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.

Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.

This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.

Going wide...

We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.

We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...

Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:

{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}

Using both maxheight=120px and overflow=Hidden produces this:

Project's status

There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.

Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.

Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.

Until next issue...

See ya round the portal system!    — The Transhumanist   11:43, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [248]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [249][250][251]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [252]

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19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Puisand Lai

On 13 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Puisand Lai, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Puisand Lai represented the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in 2018, and was also rated the world's seventh overall in girls' wheelchair tennis in 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Puisand Lai. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Puisand Lai), 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) 00:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLI, November 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Peacemaker67 looks at the Sydney Wars Op-ed: TomStar81 on the end of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 09:39, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Hawkeye7,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder

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 Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder/Evidence. Please add your evidence by November 27, 2018, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 21:10, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Battle of Cape Gloucester

G'day, Hawkeye, just letting you know I am thinking about putting the Battle of Cape Gloucester article up for GAN. Given your work on the article previously, I will list you as a co-nom. I have a few weeks off work coming up before the December posting madness, so I am hoping that I might be able to get it through before I lose all my books for a while. Are you ok with this? Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:28, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Fine with me. The article looks good. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:41, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Cheers, I will nom it in a while. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 22:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for British nuclear testing in the United States

On 18 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article British nuclear testing in the United States, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/British nuclear testing in the United States. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), 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) 05:53, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work on Trident UK nuclear programme. Sammartinlai (talk) 13:18, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Military rank in the lead section

Hello! Referencing your comment on Talk:Buzz Aldrin/GA1, you mentioned that you wouldn't include "Col, USAF Ret." after Buzz Aldrin's birthday in the first sentence, as it would conflict with MOS:BIO. This surprised me, as I have seen it on many pages, and have included it on every astronaut biopgraphy to which I've contributed. I've been looking through the MOS:BIO and other relevant pages, and I haven't seen anything dictating one way or the other. Could you point me in the direction to find the guidance on that? Thanks! Balon Greyjoy (talk) 00:47, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-47

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

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [253]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [254]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [255]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

WAVES article

@Hawkeye7: The WAVES article is undergoing a FAR, and some of the questions posed concern the edits you made to the article during the ACR – MacGregor related. So, would you consider helping me out by fielding these questions? Should you be so inclined, the reviewer is Factotem, the heading containing the questions is Spotchecks, and the website is Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/WAVES/archive1 Thank you in any event. Pendright (talk) 02:52, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks - Pendright (talk) 00:01, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Battle of Talasea

G'day, Hawkeye, if you have some time, I wonder if you wouldn't mind taking a look at the Battle of Talasea article? I was hoping that you might add something about base development, if you have anything relevant to add, or anything else you might think important. I am looking towards maybe taking it to GA later next month (depending on how my other articles fare at ACR and GAN). Thanks for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:17, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) If you can find copies, Gordon Rottman's books Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle and World War II Pacific Island Guide would be worth checking out - they provide authoritative and up to date summaries on the topics (the island guide book can be particularly useful). I have his Osprey books on the USMC's order of battle which cover much the same ground as the OOB book, but in less detail if it's helpful. Nick-D (talk) 06:26, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

I have Rottman's World War II Pacific Island Guide on the shelf behind me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:03, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Cheers, Nick and Hawkeye. When I get to the new house in late December I will look this up at the local library to see if they have it, too. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:08, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

1. Courcelles (submissions)
2. Kosack (submissions)
3. Kees08 (submissions)
4. SounderBruce (submissions)
5. Cas Liber (submissions)
6. Nova Crystallis (submissions)
7. Iazyges (submissions)
8. Ceranthor (submissions)

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
• Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
• Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
• Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
• Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
• Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
• Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

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.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018

There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers,    — The Transhumanist   06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

1. Advanced Micro Devices
2. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
3. Aquatic ecosystems
4. Blackberries
5. Blade
6. Blake and Mortimer
7. Climate
8. Democratic Party
9. Dua Lipa
10. Eels
11. Eggs
12. Emmy Awards
13. Fallout
14. Flutes and whistles
15. Geophysics
16. Ghost
17. Hartford Whalers
18. HBO
19. Hot sauces
20. International System of Units
21. Jawaharlal Nehru
22. Kendrick Lamar
23. KFC
24. Kingdom of England
25. M.I.A.
26. Marvel Comics
27. Marvel Entertainment
28. Minerals
29. Mixed martial arts
30. Money
31. MTV
32. Museums
33. National Hockey League
34. Natural resources
35. Nature
36. NBC
37. Nehru–Gandhi family
38. Orthoptera
39. PATH
40. Pears
41. Physiology
42. Ponds
43. Pope Francis
44. Potatoes
45. Presidents of the United States
46. Republican Party
47. Salad dressings
48. Santiago
49. Six Flags
50. Stan Lee
51. Starbucks
52. Stem cells
53. Systems of measurement
54. SZA
55. The West Wing
56. Tintin
57. Tomato sauces
58. Tove Lo
59. Viticulture
60. Waffles
61. Wendy's
62. White House
63. Will Smith
64. Winemaking

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

In closing

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio,    — The Transhumanist   07:46, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

Recent changes

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [256]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [257]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [258]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [259]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

• From the editor: Time for a truce

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

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GA review?

Hello! I see you conduct Good article reviews. I was wondering if you might be interested in giving Bell Tower (University of Portland) a review. In short, another editor reviewed the article, but closed the review before giving me time to actually address their concerns. However, after the failed nomination, I addressed all of the reviewers' concerns, as you can see here: Talk:Bell Tower (University of Portland)/GA1. The article has also received a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors, and three other editors have made some minor improvements as well. The editor who failed the nom does not wish to complete the second review, but has essentially said all concerns have been resolved and supports the article's promotion. I nominated the article again back in early September, but so far no one has reviewed. Might you care to take a quick peek? I think you'll find the article meets criteria. If you're not interested, no worries, and happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh. The Christine Ford article. Normally I do mainly military articles, but I do write others, and have been reviewing some in the hope of making my reviews:nominations ratio look more respectable. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:25, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look. I've responded to your initial comments. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:12, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

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. [260]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [261]
• 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. [262]
• 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. [263][264]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Operation Totem

On 4 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Operation Totem, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Atomic Tank (pictured) was subjected to the Operation Totem nuclear tests, but remained operational for another 23 years, including 15 months in the Vietnam War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Totem. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Operation Totem), 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) 12:01, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Enrico Fermi - I have reverted to an earlier version

Hi, I have made this edit on Enrico Fermi. It may be that my edit has removed elements that were useful changes based on your discussions with DePiep. If so, please could you re-install any such useful changes. And my apologies for the inconvenience. Many thanks. MPS1992 (talk) 01:30, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 8

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Apollo 8, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Command module (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:14, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Landing at Jacquinot Bay ACR

Hi, I'm a bit surprised by the lack of reviews to date of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Landing at Jacquinot Bay. If you have time, could you please post a review? It goes without saying that it should be a negative review if you don't think the article is up to standard. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 04:43, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Sure. I will post one when I get back to Canberra. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:40, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr.

On 9 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Buzz Aldrin's father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., married Marion G. Moon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr.. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr.), 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) 00:02, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: Indy beetle looks at military newspapers in East Africa

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 10:34, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

TFA

Enrico Fermi for December 10, 2018. You know the drill.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Reduced the word count. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for one of the most important scientists of the 20th century! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

• 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

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [265][266]
• 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. [267]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Mars cycler nomination

Hi Hawkeye7, am I missing something, or should the article have a nominations page (Mars cycler/GA1)? --mfb (talk) 09:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

GA nomination pages are created when someone starts the review. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:54, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Ah okay. --mfb (talk) 05:38, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA

Hello Hawkeye7, your recent BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FACBot 5) has been speedily approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 15:40, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Apollo 11 stuff

I'm trying to figure out why the caps for the Seismic thing and the Lunar Laser Ranging thing. This edit cites ref name="ALSJ 4"/ for these, but I find no mention there, capped or otherwise. What am I missing? Dicklyon (talk) 03:22, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

You mean Cosmic Thing? I have corrected the ALSJ link, and removed the drive-by {{cn}} tag. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:17, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Much appreciated. It's nice to see the cn tag actually get resolved so quickly! Dicklyon (talk) 05:10, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

2016 Summer Paralympics Great Britain women's wheelchair basketball team roster listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 2016 Summer Paralympics Great Britain women's wheelchair basketball team roster. Since you had some involvement with the 2016 Summer Paralympics Great Britain women's wheelchair basketball team roster redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Stefan2 (talk) 21:08, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Hawkeye7,

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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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

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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. [268][269]
• 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. [270]
• 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. [271]

Changes later this week

• 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

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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.
• 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. [272]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia

		Happy Saturnalia
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

I remember something I read, once, in Opera News about the great Tatiana Troyanos. Here was a woman that had every right to complain at the Fates over her lot in life...she was abandoned by her parents to an orphanage, and she battled health issues for many years before dying of cancer at 55. (I remember reading that selfsame article about her and being amazed at what she had overcome.) And yet she remained ever gracious in her career and her professional dealings. The writer of the article, I remember, recalled assisting in a Metropolitan Opera performance of Giulio Cesare in Egitto, in which Kathleen Battle was singing. Battle was then in the throes of some of her worst behavior, and she was really letting people have it over trivial matters. And the writer said that when the curtain fell, he was about ready to tell her off, when he felt a tug at his elbow. It was Troyanos - she took him aside, smiled, and said, "Don't. It doesn't matter." It can be so tempting to get wound up over the least little thing around here. But every time I do, somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind...so deep that I feel her presence rather than hear it...I'm sure Troyanos is reminding me, too: "It doesn't matter." If she, with all that she overcame, could say it, then I damn well can, too –Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Thanks for all the work you do to make Wikipedia a better place, and your welcoming demeanor as we have interacted this year. Wishing you and yours a very happy holidays! Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:22, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Michael Collins's rank

Hey, I see you're doing some substantial heavy lifting and improvements on the Michael Collins (astronaut). Thanks for that.

In this edit, I saw your edit summary "second paragraph is NOT true". A few years back I did a deep-dive on Collins's rank, trying to reconcile various sources, and I summed it up in the talk page under the heading "Rank". You may find some of the sources in there helpful (assuming the links still all work).

The user "KCMCAC6" in that discussion is purportedly Collins's daughter Kate Collins, but of course, there's no guarantee of that authenticity.

Feel free to depart from my research findings if you think that's appropriate. You may have better information than I could unearth. i'm just pointing you to that discussion in case it helps. TJRC (talk) 22:49, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I have a cite for his promotion to MG in 1976, and retirement in 1982. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:35, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Query

G'day Hawkeye, do you reckon Milhistbot is ready for the quarterly reviewing awards at the end of the month? Or will it need to be the end of March? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:30, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

I've scheduled a run for January. I think nearly all of the problems have been resolved. The only outstanding one is Ian - the Bot relies on him making the appropriate declaration in the comment - but he will be easy to double check from the Bot log - only have to check a handful of reviews instead of them all. I'm hoping it will save us a lot of work. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:17, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Don Z. Zimmerman

Hello! Your submission of Don Z. Zimmerman at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:05, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Do you have any comment on my new hook suggestion? Yoninah (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Buzz Aldrin

On 23 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Buzz Aldrin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that astronaut Buzz Aldrin created a rap single with Snoop Dogg to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Buzz Aldrin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Buzz Aldrin), 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) 00:20, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Apollo 15

Do you think it's ready to be reviewed? And do you advise going to MilHist A-class as an initial step? Holiday greetings,--Wehwalt (talk) 20:58, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

I recommend taking it to MilHist A-class a n initial step. On looking over it, I think it is pretty good, nearly FA class, but I do have some comments in mind. There are still some unreferenced sections that should be dealt with beforehand. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:57, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

• From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

• Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

• Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

• News and notes: Some wishes do come true

• In the media: Political hijinks

• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

• WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

• Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

• Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

• Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone

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• Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

• Essay: Requests for medication

• From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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Seasonal Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Hawkeye7, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 06:50, 25 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018

Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

Portals status

We now have 4,620 portals.

And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...

Can we make it?

The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Evad is back!

After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner

User:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.

Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway

Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.

Spotting missing portals that are redirects

In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.

Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.

The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.

Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.

Keep 'em coming!

And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   08:08, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

A11 comment

Just reading through the FAC and I note you say that all the astronauts who landed wore their spacesuits throughout their time on the Moon. Beginning with 15, they took them off to sleep, which is mentioned in the article on 15. All the best,--Wehwalt (talk) 08:53, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:06, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, but...

was this silly edit in my comment intentional? Dicklyon (talk) 05:52, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

No. It seems to have come from Firefox. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:56, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mars cycler

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mars cycler you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 02:21, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Mars cycler GA review on hold

Hello! Just wanted to let you know that I have completed my GA review for Mars cycler, and have placed it on hold! Nice work so far! Balon Greyjoy (talk) 09:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mars cycler

The article Mars cycler you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Mars cycler for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 10:01, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.

User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}...

So, this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Becomes this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Here's the code for the above banner:

{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}

To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.

About that end of the year goal...

We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).

We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!

And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.

Congratulations!

What's next?

The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:

1. The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
2. On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
3. A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
4. Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
5. Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
6. Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
7. Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
8. Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
9. Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
10. Update the portal building instructions.
11. Update the portal guideline.
12. Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
13. Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Happy New Year!

Hawkeye7, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   12:27, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

A-Class Medals

Hi Hawkeye, pls remind me, does MilHistBot place ACM notes on user pages and update the list under the MilHist Awards page? If so it seems to have missed the latest to myself and White Shadows... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

The A-Class run adds nominations to the nominations page when an article is promoted to A-Class. The Awards run places notices on the user pages when the award is authorised. Which articles are we talking about? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:07, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Ian Rose (31) and White Shadows (2) on the Awards talk page. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:32, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Kges1901 changed "nominated" to "awarded" instead of "approved", so the Bot assumed that he had awarded them manually. Now that I'm a MilHist coordinator, I have changed "awarded" to "approved", and the Bot should do its thing shortly. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:39, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, that was my mistake, I misread the instructions for those and was wondering why it didn't appear to work myself. Kges1901 (talk) 14:20, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

  No worries. The Bot has presented the awards now. I was a little surprised that no A class articles were credited to Ian since then. I hope he wasn't waiting for his award first. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mars cycler

The article Mars cycler you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mars cycler for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 23:21, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Excellent review of an excellent article. Kudos to you both. –xeno^talk 23:45, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup of page that caused a bot error

Hi Hawkeye7, sorry about causing the FACBot error with this edit to the page Wikipedia:Good articles/all that you had to revert. Understandable to revert if I really caused your bot to error. Could you please clarify, however: Does removal of the empty div with the comment at the top of that page cause an error? I deleted it because I am simply cleaning up text that I believed was no longer needed, as I found that this empty div and comment was added to this page twelve years ago December 2006 and I would be surprised if it is still needed. This page was later split into fifteen other subpages, the empty div and comment carrying over to those as well, and I just cleaned out the div and comment from those as well yesterday.

Does removal of the comment further down mentioning LivingBot cause your bot to error? I had given the LivingBot author a heads up re: the deletion of this comment yesterday, on his Talk page.

Why does FACBot run on this GA page?

Perhaps we are not sure which of these two deletions caused your bot to error. If so, I respectfully suggest we redo the first deletion at the top of the page, but leave the LivingBot comment deleted, and test it. We could also restore the anchor I added and redo the fix I made to reflect the renamed subpage. Then, hopefully the bot would run. Let me know your thoughts. Cheers. —Prhartcom♥ 21:24, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

The FACBot uses the page to navigate to the appropriate GA page to remove articles that have been promoted to FA. But my problem is not the div tags. It's in the top line where {{Wikipedia:Good articles/header|shortcuts={{shortcut|WP:GA/ALL}}}} was changed to {{Wikipedia:Good articles/Summary|shortcuts={{shortcut|WP:GA/ALL}}}} The Bot was looking for GA headings of the form Wikipedia:Good articles/[A-Z]\w+. Putting the capital letter in made it look for a non-existent page. If we can make the change without changing that line, all will be well. Otherwise, I have to code around it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:28, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Got it, thanks for the clear answer on what was causing the bot error. I guessed wrong about caused the error. And I understand now that FAC would certainly need to make use of the GA all page. There were 4 things I changed (and listed in the edit summary) in my edit and I am ready to put the other 3 changes back, as they are needed, keeping your revert to my 'Fix renamed subpage'. But I could put all 4 back if your regex was rewritten; I mean it relies on nobody ever using a capital letter in the first character of a page? This page was renamed from 'header' to 'Summary' years ago and I am just now fixing the call to the actual page instead of the redirect. Let me know your thoughts. Cheers. —Prhartcom♥ 23:13, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

It was a dumb thing for me to rely on, but it seemed unlikely that someone would add another matching template to the page that was not a new subpage. Changing the regex to cater for "Summary" will need careful testing. (Although "summary" with a lower-case s already works okay.) The other three changes do not concern the FACBot. I'll let you know when I have a modified version of the FAC script available. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:35, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Understood about the testing; that is agreeable. To be clear: we are testing FACBot to use the renamed subpage Wikipedia:Good articles/Summary from the called Wikipedia:Good articles/all page. In the meantime, I have replaced the other 3 changes I had made to the all page and kept your revert of the 1 change that caused the bot issue (please test to ensure this change is good). I have also added an informational comment re: FACBot calls the page. Let me know how it goes. —Prhartcom♥ 00:00, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Hawkeye7, sorry to bother you; may I ask two other questions: Without disrupting the bot, may I add the folllowing to Wikipedia:Good articles/all:

{{Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Tab header}}

It would be the very first line and {{Wikipedia:Good articles/Summary|shortcuts={{shortcut|WP:GA/ALL}}}} would be the second. Then this page would have the usual GA header like the rest. Also,

Some day in the future, would it be all right to rename Wikipedia:Good articles/all to Wikipedia:Good articles/All? There is no immediate need to do this rename now. I wanted to give you the heads up about both of these. All the best on the testing, take your time, and let me know later. Cheers. —Prhartcom♥ 23:38, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

1. For the tab header change, the Bot would look for the article in Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Tab header and will not find it. The same would have happened with [[Wikipedia:Good articles/Summary|shortcuts={{shortcut|WP:GA/ALL}}]] but for the pipe, which created an invalid page name.
2. For changing Wikipedia:Good articles/all to Wikipedia:Good articles/All. I would have to simultaneously change the Bot script, as Wikipedia:Good articles/all would point to a redirect, and no templates would be found in the page.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:13, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

2018 Military Historian of the Year

		2018 Military Historian of the Year
		As voted by your peers within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiProject Barnstar for being nominated for the 2018 Military Historian of the Year Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts in 2018. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:20, 31 December 2018 (UTC)