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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
71		Albion's Seed (talk)						Add sources
27		Hughes County, South Dakota (talk)						Add sources
44		Lemmon, South Dakota (talk)						Add sources
20		Live for the Night (Krewella song) (talk)						Add sources
977		University of Minnesota (talk)						Add sources
2,545		Midwestern United States (talk)						Add sources
17		Mayo High School (talk)						Cleanup
543		Glossary of geography terms (talk)						Cleanup
397		South of the Border (attraction) (talk)						Cleanup
39,408		United States (talk)						Expand
250		Google Data Centers (talk)						Expand
15		Commissaire (cycling) (talk)						Expand
892		Chicago metropolitan area (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
612		Qualcomm Stadium (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
64		Deregulation of the Texas electricity market (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
269		Mixed reality (talk)						Merge
1,774		History of the St. Louis Rams (talk)						Merge
65		Equipotential surface (talk)						Merge
4		Association for Theatre in Higher Education (talk)						Wikify
328		Minesweeper (video game) (talk)						Wikify
380		2014–15 NBA season (talk)						Wikify
4		Anna Bagriana (talk)						Orphan
6		Aleph (pianist) (talk)						Orphan
5		Appreciative inquiry in education (talk)						Orphan
9		Kiki (magazine) (talk)						Stub
6		Bald Eagle, Minnesota (talk)						Stub
5		Justin Cronin (politician) (talk)						Stub
3		Kristin Conzet (talk)						Stub
11		Fort Pierre National Grassland (talk)						Stub
5		Al Novstrup (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2016-37

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [1]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [2][3]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [4]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [5][6]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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3,726		San Diego (talk)						Add sources
8		University of South Dakota–Springfield (talk)						Add sources
41		Metro (Minnesota) (talk)						Add sources
12		Saint Anthony Park, Saint Paul (talk)						Add sources
3,912		Seven Years' War (talk)						Add sources
296		The Lady, or the Tiger? (talk)						Add sources
7,125		North America (talk)						Cleanup
514		Collaborative filtering (talk)						Cleanup
30		The Ensworth School (talk)						Cleanup
11		Index of South Dakota-related articles (talk)						Expand
257		Power function (talk)						Expand
18		2003 in Israel (talk)						Expand
280		Spoke–hub distribution paradigm (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
989		Sioux Falls, South Dakota (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
22		Twin City Rapid Transit Company (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
53		Metro Green Line (Minnesota) (talk)						Merge
56		Reality–virtuality continuum (talk)						Merge
94		Old Dutch Foods (talk)						Merge
995		2015–16 NBA season (talk)						Wikify
9		The Panopticon (book) (talk)						Wikify
7		Public Libraries (journal) (talk)						Wikify
9		8 learning management questions (talk)						Orphan
4		16th century BC in architecture (talk)						Orphan
3		Antonio Kim Ciccarelli (talk)						Orphan
17		Munn Park Historic District (talk)						Stub
8		Brauer Museum of Art (talk)						Stub
3		Tona Rozum (talk)						Stub
6		Spencer Hawley (talk)						Stub
7		Fort Sisseton (talk)						Stub
3		Patrick Kirschman (talk)						Stub

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.

Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official dealine is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

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Tech News: 2016-39

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

• In the media: Wikipedia in the news

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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2,784		Bourgeoisie (talk)						Add sources
3,464		Devils Tower (talk)						Add sources
14,711		Philippines (talk)						Add sources
346		Super Why! (talk)						Add sources
705		Death Valley National Park (talk)						Add sources
3,776		Ontario (talk)						Add sources
18		Frank Schoonover (talk)						Cleanup
1,762		Progressive rock (talk)						Cleanup
3,351		Hannibal (talk)						Cleanup
982		Surveillance (talk)						Expand
355		Average absolute deviation (talk)						Expand
73		U.S. Route 83 (talk)						Expand
19,140		Ronald Reagan (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
3,840		Mississippi River (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
50		Sunrise problem (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
67		Computational photography (talk)						Merge
642		Rockford, Illinois (talk)						Merge
180		Stable distribution (talk)						Merge
60		Omnidirectional treadmill (talk)						Wikify
2,318		Nebraska (talk)						Wikify
149		East Turkestan independence movement (talk)						Wikify
2		Alfred Gregory Yewen (talk)						Orphan
3		Alexander violin (talk)						Orphan
2		Aryana Commandar (talk)						Orphan
6		South Dakota Magazine (talk)						Stub
4		Tim Rounds (talk)						Stub
3		Fred Carillo (talk)						Stub
4		Emory G. Bauer Field (talk)						Stub
5		Roberts Regional Recreation Area (talk)						Stub
5		Mike Stevens (South Dakota politician) (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2016-41

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

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

Changes this week

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

Future changes

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

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)