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A fist bump for you
I just want you to know that I meant everything I said in your RFA; I really hope that you keep your head up despite how bummed out you're probably feeling right now (I'd know; I sure was when my RFA got clobbered). If you move on with your wiki-business, learn from this experience, keep yourself in check, let some time pass, and keep that consistency going...
This experience (if you let it) will make you a whole new editor; someone who had a small bump at ANI a long time ago but gained experience, knowledge, wisdom, and the ability to say "hey, I've been there! I get it!" when helping other editors in similar situations.
You will grow from this. Just give it time :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
- Well, I left a comment on Iridiscent's talk page. I'm rather unimpressed and disappointed at the oppose votes. I can see how CheckingFax could have addressed these concerns better upfront, but on the whole I don't see much substance from the "opposing" side behind these disputes. I think you, Oshwah (talk · contribs), were mistaken to be swayed by them. II | (t - c) 06:36, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
- I went to vote, but it closed mid-way through writing. As such, and based on advice given by HighinBC, here they are:
- Oppose per the excellent points raised by Iridescent. I don't like pointy comments like the closing sentence of this exchange. It was designed to humiliate and to belittle and they are two things I do not want to see in an administrator. CassiantoTalk 18:22, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hello Checkingfax. I see that about 12 hours ago your RfA was closed early. I did oppose you but I wanted to come by and say that I do appreciate your editing here and I hope you are not too disheartened by the result. For what it is worth I also failed my first RfA: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/HighInBC. HighInBC Need help? {{ping|HighInBC}} 18:56, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
I mentioned it on another talk page but it bears repeating here; you should read Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates carefully, and also the various essays linked from there. Simply being a nice guy just isn't enough to be an admin, you need to be able to judge situations well in order to reduce disruption. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:38, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest in the WP:RfA process, such as it is. I wish that the process could be more positive and constructive than it is. Right now it seems to cause a lot of problems without giving a benefit that is a clear match to its costs. I am not sure what I want, but I do wish that editors like you could also have a good experience with it, and that fails to happen too often. Thanks for what you do on Wikipedia. I regret any hassle you may have experienced. The infrastructure can be a beast and I do not know how to address the faults it has. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:43, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Cold seep
Hi, Checkingfax -- I was just looking at an interesting article, Cold seep, when I saw an external link in the first paragraph in the Cold seep#Stability section. I don't know what to do with it. Can you address this? Thanks in advance. – Corinne (talk) 00:43, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. That was a bit of a toughie because it turned out to be a dead link (404). I found a live link then converted the external link to a footnote link using a
{{cite web}}template. Addtionally, 3 templates were throwing CS1 errors so I fixed those, and some citation templates had pages where it should have been page. Fixed those too. All done now. Cheers!{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}05:31, 17 July 2016 (UTC)- Thanks! I couldn't have done all that. – Corinne (talk) 05:34, 17 July 2016 (UTC) Did you get the notification I left for you at User talk:Vsmith#Makran Trench? – Corinne (talk) 05:36, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2016)
 RMS Olympic's deck
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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
- Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [1]
Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [2]- In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [3]
Problems
- On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [4][5]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).- Special:Log now has a help link. [6]
- The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
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 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [7]
Future changes
- User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [8][9]
- Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [10]
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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #218
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
- TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
- The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
- The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
- Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
- StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
- Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
- Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
- Development
- Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
- A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
- More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
- Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
- More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
- Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
- 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.
Reserve force in Bangladesh ?
@faxcheckingman Bangladesh Army has no reserve soldiers. The references given on that page don't say that there are reserve troops in that force. Please edit that page immediately ... I had edited but now have been removed by another user.Senthoora poove (talk) 10:18 AM , 19 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Senthoora poove. Why are you using a Wordpress URL that points to a subscription link for the Financial Times? Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}13:10, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 July 2016
- Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
- Featured content: A wide variety from the best
- Traffic report: Sports and esports
- Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks
- Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality
Hull (watercraft)
I just stumbled across Hull (watercraft). In the section Hull (watercraft)#History, an image is missing. Can you figure out what happened to the image? – Corinne (talk) 02:00, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. It is an animated GIF and shows up for me. Are you still having trouble seeing the image and seeing it move around? Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}02:15, 20 July 2016 (UTC)- No, there is just a narrow black line frame, with nothing in it except a very small green "picture" or icon the upper left-hand corner. – Corinne (talk) 02:43, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. Do you know if you have AdBlocker software installed on Firefox? Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}23:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)- No, I don't, but I don't use Firefox. I use Google Chrome. – Corinne (talk) 03:05, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. I have heard of some Chrome versions being spotty about displaying animated GIFs. Maybe Redrose64 can help us figure out this conundrum. Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}15:46, 21 July 2016 (UTC)- Looks OK in Chrome 49. Maybe WP:VPT? --Redrose64 (talk) 22:42, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. Likewise in Chrome 50 on Android.
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}00:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC) reping Corinne{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}00:25, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. Likewise in Chrome 50 on Android.
- Looks OK in Chrome 49. Maybe WP:VPT? --Redrose64 (talk) 22:42, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. I have heard of some Chrome versions being spotty about displaying animated GIFs. Maybe Redrose64 can help us figure out this conundrum. Cheers!
- No, I don't, but I don't use Firefox. I use Google Chrome. – Corinne (talk) 03:05, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. Do you know if you have AdBlocker software installed on Firefox? Cheers!
- No, there is just a narrow black line frame, with nothing in it except a very small green "picture" or icon the upper left-hand corner. – Corinne (talk) 02:43, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
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Indigenous women & Polar women editathons
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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2016)
 Closeup view of a Squeegee
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sun deck • Rye Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 25 July 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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. [11]
Problems
- Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [12]
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. [13]
- 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. [14]
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. [15]
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. [16]
- Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [17]
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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #219
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 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.
Late breaking invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, July 27 (Wednesday) - change of venue - tonight
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We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. All info here. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! (Registering ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)
Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.
Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.
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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2016)
 History of the constellations, Ursa Minor constellation map
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Squeegee • Sun deck Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 1 August 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #220
- Discussions
- 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.
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. [18]
- 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. [19]
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
- News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
- 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
- Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2016)
 One of many icons associated with The Sims
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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. [20]
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. [21]
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. [22]
- 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. [23]
- 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. [24]
- The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [25]
- 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. [26]
- 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. [27]
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)