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Kingofthedead (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

@JamesBWatson: I have absolutely no idea what is going on. I have never and never will abuse multiple accounts. What was the account that I am a suspected sockpuppet of? Use CheckUser to confirm this. I have dedicated over 1 year and countless hours of my time to make Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons a better place and to improve its content, and would be incredibly upset if that journey had to end right now. MB298 (talk) 23:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC) ::p.s. @Another Believer: I guess that was why the Red Cap Garage image was deleted... MB298 (talk) 23:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Accept reason:

It still seems to me that this account may well be a sockpuppet, but following discussions with other administrators I am persuaded that there is an element of doubt, and we have to give you the benefit of that doubt. I apologise once again for the time it has taken to resolve this. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:08, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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p.s. @Another Believer: I guess that was why the Red Cap Garage image was deleted... MB298 (talk) 23:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Also with the West Virginia elections: I have done nothing but help improve the content and quality of Wikipedia, which includes creating articles for many of the West Virginia gubernatorial elections. When I saw they had been deleted, I lost a sense of determination and confidence in seeing all that work gone to the article graveyard for no reason other than "created by blocked user in violation of block". It is hard to describe how disheartened I feel in seeing that an innocent user is accused of something completely against the policy of Wikipedia, something that I would NEVER even consider doing. MB298 (talk) 23:23, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

@Bbb23: @Winkelvi: I was investigating into the reasons of my block and came across Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kbabej/Archive; I am not sure if this was related to the block but as Bbb23 pointed out, CheckUser confirmed I am completely unrelated to Kbabej. MB298 (talk) 02:17, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Checkuser only confirmed that there was no technical link between the accounts, which is all it can do. Also, I'm curious as to how you found Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kbabej/Archive, as I see no obvious link from here to there - though I'm sure there's an innocent explanation, if you'd care to offer it. Anyway, I've just declined an unblock request at User talk:Kbabej, so I'll leave this one to someone else. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

• MB298, when I ran a check against you on June 7, 2016, I had technical data for you from about March 10 to June 7. I also had technical data for Kbabej for March 30-31. Based on that check, technically it was clear that you were two different people. Because of this block, which I too assume to be be based on Kbabej, I've rerun a check against you through the present, as well as Kbabej's data for June 28 (his latest unblock request). The technical data is consistent with the last check, both yours and Kbabej's. The two of you are editing from different states. Each of you is editing from the same state you were the last time. Your other technical data hasn't changed. Kbabej's other technical data has also not changed. Boing! is correct that a CU cannot rule out the possibility of socking, but in my experience the quality of the data demonstrating no relationship varies. Here the quality is very high. I don't know what triggered James's block a few weeks after the CU, but I have no authority to override the block. There would have to be some sort of administrative or community consensus that it is unjustified. There are also WP:UTRS and the arbitration committee, but those procedures should be invoked later rather than sooner. Thus far, things don't look good for you because Boing! apparently agrees with the block. All I can suggest is that you play out the unblock procedures and remain civil and respectful (James and Boing! are very good administrators).--Bbb23 (talk) 14:00, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

@Bbb23: @Boing! said Zebedee: I entered the search term "MB298 sockpuppet" and it was the fifth or sixth result that came up. I recall in October there was another sockpuppet investigation involving me, Kbabej, and CookieMonster755, which proved me to be unrelated to both. MB298 (talk) 14:48, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

OK, seems reasonable, thanks for clarifying - I'll probably have a word with Bbb23. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:51, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

I'll have a word with Bbb23, and the two of us can discuss what evidence we each have, and I hope come to an agreement one way or the other. Unfortunately, I won't have time to that for a while, but I'll get onto it as soon as I can. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:43, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: That would be great, I don't really care how long it takes as long as the matter is looked into. MB298 (talk) 22:04, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Well, I hope it doesn't take too long. Having read what you have said below, I still think that the evidence for sockpuppetry looks very convincing, but whichever way it is, I would prefer it to be cleared up as quickly as possible, even more so if it turns out that I am wrong than if I am right. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:24, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

I'll say a few things here:

I have been editing Wikipedia for over three years now. First, I edited anonymously (with different IPs as they changed over time; evidence can be found on User:MB298/Miscellaneous#IP address history). This account was created on March 24, 2015, and I edited the article Mayotte. Since I hadn't clicked the "keep me logged in for up to 30 days" box, I was logged out and revered to editing anonymously under IPs for well over a month, using 50.53.90.161 (before March 30) and 50.53.96.140 (after April 1). I decided to create article Panamá Oeste Province (was started by another user in June 2015), however needed to log in to do that. A draft article was created on May 9, 2015, although was declined due to a lack of citations. I have been editing almost exclusively on this account since then (I still occasionally edit anonymously; generally because I am feeling too lazy to log in on a mobile device; then I will generally state "This is MB298" before the edit summary). As Bbb23 pointed out, Kbabej and I are editing from different states (I am unsure of the specific state Kbabej is editing from, but I am from Beaverton, Oregon).

I have been investigated as a possible sockpuppet twice that I am aware of; both times by Winkelvi. The first was in Oct. 2015 (can be seen here; I was known as "Mr.Bob.298" at the time (I shortened it to MB298 shortly after). The evidence given was that both Kbabej and I were interested in Oregon-related topics; which for me, due to being a resident of the State of Oregon, wouldn't be surprising (I joined WikiProject Oregon in Sept. 2015). At the time, Kbabej and I had 7 articles in common, now report here shows 27 in common. Of those, 3 are commonly edited Wikipedia pages, including the Participants page for WikiProject Oregon. The rest are mostly minor edits I made to the pages of generally politicians, as I am interested in politics and political matters. I wouldn't describe myself as a content creator.

I was investigated again earlier this month; again by Winkelvi. Winkelvi strongly believed I was a sock, however checkuser run by Bbb23 confirmed unrelated to Kbabej. Winkelvi made some convincing points, including the articles in common, described above. He/she pointed out some old versions of Kbabej's user page, including this; which states, "My name is Konrad and I live in Portland, Oregon. I have always been a fan of Wikipedia and started writing articles in June of 2013 as I search for information and don't find an entry.

My interests:

memoirs
fundamentalist Mormon sects
psychology
politics
genealogy
abnormal behaviors
My projects:

Susan Ray Schmidt
Brent W. Jeffs
The Advocacy of Jack & Trudy Collins section on Suzanne Marie Collins

"

I only regularly edit articles on one of the options on Kbabej's interest list, which is politics. I have edited some articles on fundamentalist Mormons, including Brent W. Jeffs, which was one of Kbabej's projects as stated on that page; however it was removing persondata template, which has been deprecated since 2015, and changing the template {{reflist}} to include the 30em parameter, which splits the refs into two or more columns; something I do often; and looking through Kbabej's contribution list can find zero instances of that type of edit. I very rarely edit on articles related to psychology, genealogy, memoirs, or abnormal behaviors. Most of my edited articles I edit once or twice and do not visit again.

In that diff, Kbabej states he resides in Portland, OR, which is close to but not including Beaverton. Evidence proving I was residing in Beaverton at the time that userpage was displaying is shown through IP address lookup here.

In the same investigation Winkelvi states that, "Suspected sock account was created on March 23, 2015, after Kbabej was blocked indefinitely and in-between the creation of Kbabej socks Garden of Edith and ID man12 ID. The MB298 sock account was not used, for more than six months, until October 6, 2015. MB298 is obviously another one of Kbabej's many sleeper accounts." As stated above, I reverted to IP editing for about a month and a half, but edited Flag of Quintana Roo on 8 May 2015, as proven here; and have continued editing using near exclusively (see above for explanation) this account ever since.

Winkelvi also makes a point in this paragraph: "Additionally, I think it is very important to note that Kbabej requested the standard offer on March 30, 2016 at his talk page. The reviewing admin, PhilKnight stated in his decline reason, "Before we go any further, I want you to provide a complete list of accounts that you've created". Kbabej replied with the following accounts: AndyGibsonSon, Cagepanes, Garden of Edith, Gibsonson27, Helpmechoose54, ID man12 ID, Kittykane UT, LDS_FLDS, Lgbtq pride, OpusDayNotDei, PDX er1. Conspicuously left out of the list is the sock account being reported here. Kbabej stated in his standard offer/unblock request, "When I evaded, it was because I believed my blocking to be an oversight and I wanted to still contribute. I realize that evading was wrong, and I have committed to no longer trying to go around Wikipedia rules.... I am sorry for the evading I've done; it's taken time away from other editors...I would like to...earn the trust back from the people I've disappointed." If the result of this SPI is yet another block of another Kbabej sock (and I believe it will be), it's obvious Kbabej is not true to his word, as evidenced by what he said in his unblock request as he intentionally left off the account being reported here from the list of socks he knew he created when his request for standard offer was being considered. If this does end up as another sock block, I think it's time to see something more permanent done so that Kbabej can never ask for another standard offer/unblock, because of his complete dishonesty. Time for a community ban?"

The reason Kbabej left me out of the sockpuppet list is simple: because I am not a sockpuppet. At the time, it is unlikely Kbabej was even aware of me; I was most likely first brought to his attention as a result of the June investigation.

I agree with Winkelvi: I do believe, given his long history of socking, that Kbabej should remain blocked for the time being. It is possible he has used another sock account since March, however that account is definitely not me.

Also ping @Mike V: @Salvidrim: @PhilKnight: as stated to be familiar with Kbabej and sockpuppets related to Kbabej. MB298 (talk) 00:00, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

this also shows Kbabej stating he contributes using Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows. I use Safari on Apple (the only evidence I have to prove this is uploaded images File:Slither.io gameplay.png and File:GTA San Andreas iOS gameplay.jpg), but several of my uploaded images on Commons have metadata showing I used Photos 1.3 to edit the file; which comes automatically installed on Apple computers.

Kbabej also states he uses Show Preview button, which as seen on some of my older contributions (such as at Bentor) I wasn't using it.

As seen here Kbabej states he is of Scandinavian ancestry. I am of German ancestry, as seen at User:MB298/Userboxes.

MB298 (talk) 00:13, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

MB298, I think your analysis is helpful. The pings of so many other editors, not so much.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:36, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm inclined to unblock this account, particularly as they have been patient and understanding. Any objections? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:20, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: I have now sent an email to User:Bbb23, giving my reasons for believing it is sockpuppetry, together with a few comments on arguments against that. I am willing to send you a copy of that email, to help you assess the situation. Let me know if you would like me to do so. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:17, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

I was pinged but the ping was deleted without comment. My contribution to the matter, which was removed by Kbabej, was to point out the similarity in both editors' adding of an overabundance of irrelevant genealogical information to biographical articles. Many of Kbabej's articles consisted almost entirely of this kind of content and were deleted. I considered it a rather broad hint for any potential sockpuppeteers to tread carefully. My duck sense has always been rather triggered by the situation. It's probably a coincidence that both editors are friends with AnotherBeliever, who I consider a friend. Unrepentant socking isn't good for the wiki, however, it's possible that neither is the relentless pursuit of this matter. I'm otherwise neutral on the outcome of this as I have not been active enough lately to have an opinion. Valfontis (talk) 02:05, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

@Valfontis: – I do recall doing that once, on Don Vaughan (landscape architect); in which back in December I added some irrelevant genealogical content to biography. You reverted that, and I learned from the mistake; which I haven't done since. Most of the other biographies I have created (e.g. Denis Amici, Anna Peterson, Denny Doyle (politician), John McKibbin, Patrick Sheehan) contain little to no genealogical content, at most a mention of their parents. MB298 (talk) 02:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

@Valfontis: Since my username was pinged above and mentioned again later, just for the record, I do know User:Kbabej in real life, but I do not know the identity of User:MB298. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 03:18, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

@Another Believer: as the result of a block, most of the images I have uploaded in the last month or so were deleted. MB298 (talk) 05:30, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

As I am currently unable to edit outside of this talk page, you could find an image of the Red Cap Garage (I don't recall the source of the original, but most likely Yelp or Flickr) and upload it under fair use. MB298 (talk) 05:32, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Waiting...

I am sorry you are having to wait so long for this to be resolved. I just thought I would let you know that you have not been forgotten. Discussions are taking place, but I'm afraid there are still differences of opinion. I hope it will be sorted out before too long. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: – No problem. I am just glad the matter is being investigated. MB298 (talk) 23:49, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: and @MB298: My apologies that I was not paying attention when all this went down. Had I been tuned in, I would have expressed my apprecication for MB298, who at the pages related to that occupation at the Malheur Natl Wildlife Refuge has been exactly the sort of editor I like to interact with most. Not that (s)he always agrees with me, just that I can always count on meaningful (and succinct) BRD from this ed. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:24, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

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Tech News: 2016-30

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

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [1]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [2]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [3]
• Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [4]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [5]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [6]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [7]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #219

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Playing with Wikidata: communities over water
  • Interview with Lydia for her upcoming keynote at the DBpedia conference
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Olympic Games are coming up soon. Let's make Wikidata a good place to get open data about the Olympics!
  • StrepHit's grant is up for renewal and could use your endorsement
  • There is a sub-reddit for Wikidata
  • We now have P3000 and Q26000000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
  • Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
  • Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
• Development
  • Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
  • We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
  • When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
  • Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
  • Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #220

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Notability of items for templates
  • One or more property examples?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Repository Fringe
  • Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
  • Upcoming: CCBWIKI
  • Localités au fil de l'eau
  • WDQ, obsolete?
  • BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
  • You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
  • You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
  • There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
  • Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
  • You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
  • IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
  • WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
  • Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
  • Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
• Development
  • Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
  • Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
  • Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
  • Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
  • Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
  • Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2016-31

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

• A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [8]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [9]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 August 2016

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Women and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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Tech News: 2016-32

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

• In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [10]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [11]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [12]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [13]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [14]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [15]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [17]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #221

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
  • Past: WikiConference India 2016
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
  • Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
  • Livin’ on the edge
  • Communes orphelines?
  • Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
  • Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
  • WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
  • Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
  • Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
  • 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
  • Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
  • Job opening at TIB
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
  • Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
  • Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
• Development
  • Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
  • Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
  • Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
  • Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
  • Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
  • Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
  • Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
  • Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
  • Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
  • Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
  • Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
  • Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [18]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [19]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [20][21]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [22]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [23]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [24][25]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [27]

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Wikidata weekly summary #222

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
  • History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
  • ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
  • You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status

    

    Structures in London on Histropedia

  • The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
  • Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
  • New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
  • Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
• Development
  • mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
  • Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
  • Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
  • Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
  • Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
  • Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
  • Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
  • Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
  • Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [28]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [29]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [30]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [31]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [32]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [33][34]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [35]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-35

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

Recent changes

• Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [36]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [37]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [38][39]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:03, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

housekeeping suggestion

MB298, would you mind if I combined your new section and indented it as a comment/reply under the original one Scott started? That would be consistent with WP:MULTI, and will preserve comprehensibility when these threads get archived. Else your thread which ambiguously mentions "the above thread" might get separately archived far from each other, producing nonsense and a lost and valuabe cross ref (thanks for adding that). NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:27, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

@NewsAndEventsGuy: sure, that would be fine. MB298 (talk) 17:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

OK, thanks for speedy reply. I'll take care of it. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:48, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Done, I confess I went beyond my proposal and put some words in your mouth that elaborate. Where you said "see" I changed that to "The same subject is being discussed at". Just thought that would make it even more clear for folks. If you object, I'll happily change it back to your original. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:54, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

@NewsAndEventsGuy: no really, that's fine. MB298 (talk) 17:56, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

I figured, still thought I oughtta check. Thanks, happy editing. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:04, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Augustine Washington

Just a note to say that I undid your unsourced addition of the nickname "Gus" to the lede of the article. -- BCorr|Брайен 01:43, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

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whatever works

'nuff said. Thanks for your attention NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 02:56, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Crips subsets

Hey, thanks for the much appreciated Oregon gangs you added to the List of Crips subsets list. QubixQdotta (talk) 06:58, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

• Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [40]
• Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [41]
• When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [42]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [43][44]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [45][46]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [47]

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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Copyvio problem and solution

Hi, The image I uploaded the other day and you moved to commons? Its got a copy vio problem. I have asked for speedy delete on the local wiki, can you do the same at the commons? (I don't know how). Meanwhile, a 100% free alternative is to just use the FBI-only vid, which I have already done, and substiuted at LaVoy Finicum NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:15, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

@NewsAndEventsGuy: thanks, I thought the image I'd transferred was from the FBI video (that's why I added PD-USGov-FBI). MB298 (talk) 23:27, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

a basically identical pic from the shorter 100% FBI vid can be found here -- File:LaVoyFinicumJustBeforeBeingShot.png. I'm going to seek speedy delete of the first one... and one you moved to commons. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:56, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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RE: Luke Bryan EP

I redirected on behalf of users Eric444 and TenPoundHammer, as the EP was not notable due to not charting, and did not receive notable reviews or attention. --Jack Gaines (talk) 22:04, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

@Jack Gaines: Thanks for the clarification. MB298 (talk) 22:06, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [48]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [49][50]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [51]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [52][53]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [54][55]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [56]

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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you...

... for assessing so many Trump related articles, and for many other contributions to Wikipedia. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 01:54, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

No problem. MB298 (talk) 03:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

Recent changes

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [57]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [58]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [59]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [60][61]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [62]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [63]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

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Evan McMullin

Your rationale: Castle has enough write-in access to hypothetically be elected President; McMullin does not. This is simply not true. 322 electoral votes > 270 electoral votes. McMullin has enough write-in access to win. JC · Talk · Contributions 01:10, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

@JCRules: sorry, I was unaware of that. MB298 (talk) 01:11, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, it's good we cleared this up. JC · Talk · Contributions 01:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [64]

• <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [65]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi, User:MB298.

My name’s Chris, and I’m a reporter with The Washington Post. I’m working on a story about edits being made on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Wikipedia pages during the 2016 presidential election cycle. I'm interested in interviewing some people of the Wikipedia community who have contributed edits to the pages.

I saw you’re a participant of the WikiProject Donald Trump project, and I’d like to ask you some questions about your participation thus far.

Please let me know if you’re interested in talking. You can ping me on here or send me an email: chris[dot]alcantara[at]washpost[dot]com. If you are working with anyone else who is editing these pages, feel free to pass my contact information along.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your response.

Cheers, Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chriswapo (talk • contribs) 20:15, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Questions for Washington Post story

Hi, User:MB298.

My name’s Chris, and I’m a reporter with The Washington Post. I’m working on a story about edits being made on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Wikipedia pages during the 2016 presidential election cycle. I'm interested in interviewing some people of the Wikipedia community who have contributed edits to the pages.

I saw you’re a participant of the WikiProject Donald Trump project, and I’d like to ask you some questions about your participation thus far.

Please let me know if you’re interested in talking. You can ping me on here or send me an email: chris[dot]alcantara[at]washpost[dot]com. If you are working with anyone else who is editing these pages, feel free to pass my contact information along.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your response.

Cheers, Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chriswapo (talk • contribs) 20:16, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Transfermarkt

Since most of its content is user-generated, Transfermarkt is not a reliable source. Please don't cite the website in articles, like you did with Atkin Kaua and Timothy Bakale. Thank you. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:51, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. I wasn't aware. MB298 (talk) 18:25, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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

Recent changes

• You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [66]
• The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [67]
• Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [68]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [69]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [70]

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A page you started (West Virginia gubernatorial election, 1884) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating West Virginia gubernatorial election, 1884, MB298!

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Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[71]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[72] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[73]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[74]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[75]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[76] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[77]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

17:48, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Commons image for Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, France

I've added to the description of File:Musee-national-interior-MCB.jpg. Thanks for the reminder! MCB (talk) 21:32, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. MB298 (talk) 23:41, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-42

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

• Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [78]
• Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [79]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [80]

Future changes

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

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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [81]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [82]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [83]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hi MB298, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 16:02, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

As a side note, JamesBWatson may wish to consider undeleting some of the articles you created which were deleted as per WP:G5 given the unblock. Alternatively, I imagine you could request undeletion at WP:RESTORE. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 16:04, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

@BU Rob13: I've recreated the West Virginia gubernatorial ones; the others remain deleted for now. MB298 (talk) 23:15, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Castle 2016 logo

Could you please explain what is too complex about this logo to meet PD-logo? It is basically stars, circles and text. Bcharles (talk) 17:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Above comment mistakenly placed on wrong user's page. Bcharles (talk) 19:21, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Instant-runoff voting

I see that you're a Bernie supporter, which indicates to me that you would support fair voting reform. The Wikipage: Instant-runoff voting.

For the group fighting for it, check out: http://www.FairVote.org.

To see why it's necessary, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqblOq8BmgM.

It's supported by the Green Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb7MQ7da6sg.

Suggestions:

• Share on Facebook
• Twitter
• Everywhere
• Post a sign in your front yard that says, "The USA needs Instant-Runoff Voting!"

^Knowledge_Battle ^(Talk) | ^Godless_Infidel ︻╦╤── 19:51, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

Recent changes

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [84]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [85]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [86]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [87]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [88]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [89]

Miscellaneous

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

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Virginia gubernatorial election, 1859 fixes needed after disambiguation of linked page

Hi,

Thanks for contributing! I see that you created this page and so far, it appears that you are the only one that's edited it. Since that time, the Opposition Party (United States) page has been split into separate pages for the three distinct movements that called themselves that in the 1850-1870. I'm currently helping to dab all the linked articles, however, this one features formatting that I'm just not quite sure how to fix. If you wouldn't mind changing your links to Opposition Party (Southern U.S.), that would be great.

Also, if you'd like to help to dab the remaining pages, there's a list here — Preceding unsigned comment added by InformationvsInjustice (talk • contribs) 19:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-45

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

Recent changes

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [90]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [91]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [92]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [93]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [94]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [95][96][97]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Beaverton superintendent

I notice you changed the superintendent at Beaverton School District but left a <ref> unchanged, including the |accessdate=January 8, 2009, which makes it look like someone looked at the BSD website back in 2009 and found that the superintendent was Don Grotting. Hope I've explained this well enough so you can figure out how to fix it. If not, reply here and I'll try to explain better. Thanks! YBG (talk)

Democratic primaries page

Yeah hey
The page just looked weirdly formatted to me at that part so I just shifted it down one row to make it look better. But maybe it just looks that way on my end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.255.53.105 (talk) 00:45, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 US Presidential election

I would like to remove third party candidates due to the chances of winning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NHL36 (talk • contribs) 01:15, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mark Callahan

Hello! Your submission of Mark Callahan 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) 00:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Donny Trump listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Donny Trump. Since you had some involvement with the Donny Trump redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 05:58, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Tom McCall

I see your point, but can you find a better picture for the infobox other than the current one? I was thinking that the well-taken picture of him reading under the lamp can represent him (and his legacy) better than the lower-resolution of his close-up. That is, until we can find a better, free-use picture. --AsianHippie (talk) 05:42, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

@AsianHippie: There are a few more possibilities, see commons:Category:Tom McCall. I'll leave the lamp one in place for now; however it would be nice to have it cropped to focus more on McCall himself. MB298 (talk) 05:47, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

That's actually a good suggestion. I'll get on that in the near future. I just think the current pic doesn't do him justice. Thanks for your suggestion. --AsianHippie (talk) 06:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Reflist is uppercase

Reflist is uppercase, please don't change it to lowercase, see Template:Reflist • Sbmeirow • Talk • 16:05, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:MB298/Panamá Oeste template

Hello, MB298. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Panamá Oeste template".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 18:48, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help!

I really appreciate your warmth, kindness, and welcomes. Ramires451 (talk) 02:09, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

No problem! MB298 (talk) 02:09, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers

Hi Kingofthedead,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [98]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [99]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [100]

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you kindly. No trouble at all - now I've figured out the trick it's really quite simple. As for the challenge, I hope to participate a little more myself, but we'll see...finding time to actually create content is rather difficult at the moment.

Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:42, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Just so you know

The bogeyman is going to sleep at your house tonight. 2602:306:3357:BA0:6948:4648:B9A:94E4 (talk) 06:03, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

I take that as a compliment. Only the best and brightest bogeymen would choose to sleep at my house. Maybe I'll invite him in to have some tea and chat. MB298 (talk) 06:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [101]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [102]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [103]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [104][105][106]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [107]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [108]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, MB298. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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

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

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• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

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DYK for Mark Callahan

On 27 November 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mark Callahan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to siphon votes from the Democratic candidate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Callahan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mark Callahan), 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, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [109]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [110]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [111][112]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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

Recent changes

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [113]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [114]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [115]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [116]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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Deletion discussion about Jim Francesconi

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Thanks, Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:44, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

SC Senate

Hi, thank you for your work to help edit election pages. I just wanted to say I'm reverting your edit on the SC Senate election page this year, as I don't believe alliances are pertinent enough to elections to have it be in the infobox. Thanks for editing! PalmerTheGolfer (talk) 23:53, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Invites?

Well thank you kindly for that but I'm just a little unsure, does this mean what you say and is this just a link so that I can get involved, or is this some special secret invite to join the freemasons or some secret society, do I have to wear a funny hat? By the way that Moreno feller, he sure is a stickler, is there really a right and a wrong way like that, who makes the rules? — Preceding unsigned comment added by LikkerdySplit (talk • contribs) 05:32, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

@LikkerdySplit: Nope, if you want to join all you have to do is put your name in at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mississippi/Members. MB298 (talk) 05:35, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Righty-o then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LikkerdySplit (talk • contribs) 05:40, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Twitter

Regarding your comment to me on the 2018 D.C. mayoral election page - I disagree. I find Twitter to be a reliable source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdavid1111 (talk • contribs) 14:54, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Well, according to Wikipedia guidelines, it isn't. Please read WP:RS. MB298 (talk) 16:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Arliss Sturgulewski image

I'm missing the point of that. I have a number of high-quality photos I took of Sturgulewski in 2013. You could have just asked, instead of dragging down the quality of an article which clearly needs improvement with a low-quality, out-of-focus, out-of-context crop which renders the caption irrelevant. See Abdul Fakir and compare that crop with the original image for perhaps the worst example of a really bad practice. I would have uploaded many of my photos already if not for the fact that practices such as this fuel awareness about protecting my intellectual property from abuse. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 22:50, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Yuhrup listed at Redirects for discussion

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

1796 presidential election

If 7 different people received electoral college votes in 1796, then please update that Wikipedia article as well, because it certainly doesn't indicate that.

@Littlebum2002: My mistake, I mean 1792. MB298 (talk) 06:38, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

try again, that election was unanimouslittlebum2002 06:43, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

@Littlebum2002: Prior to 1804, presidents were elected in a different way, all ballots were for president and each elector voted twice. Scroll down to the electoral vote tally for 1792 and look at it. MB298 (talk) 06:44, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Gotcha. Well then you were right, it was 1796. I'll update the article accordingly

Nomination of Talk:Christopher Suprun for deletion

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Just a note, I've moved the discussion to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Suprun, since this is about the article, not the talk page. clpo13_(talk) 23:22, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

HI Percentages

Hi, I'm Palmer The Golfer, a Political but and avid Wikipedia editor. I saw on HI Senate 2016, you changed percentages from 70 to 73, and 21 to 22. While I know this was not intentionally misleading on your part, but your numbers do not correlate with % from HI Sec of State. If I am wrong about anything, please feel free to message me! Thanks!!:)PalmerTheGolfer (talk) 00:03, 21 December 2016 (UTC)PalmerTheGolfer PalmerTheGolfer (talk) 00:03, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination of Esther John (faithless elector) for deletion

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