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AWB edits

This could be the poster child for useless, careless use of AWB. Making purely cosmetic changes and adding an "uncategorized" tag to the main page? Please be more careful with AWB. Thanks. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

And here is another purely cosmetic edit. From WP:AWB, Which I would hope you are familiar with, "Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit." You may want to consider scaling back your use of automated tools so that you can more easily manage them and ensure you are actually making desirable edits. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Oddly enough, you're not the first admin to do this! Mark Arsten (talk) 17:52, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

The tagging of the Main Page is partially AWB's fault. rev 9256 removed the restriction on Main Page. I may have to put it back. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:29, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

rev 9271 Re-excluded Main Page from tagging. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:42, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Maintenance tagging articles with Menobot

Under which task authority are you allowed to add maintenance tags to articles with Menobot? Gigs (talk) 16:29, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Gigs: The BRfA is Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MenoBot II (I am assuming that since I got the task approved that I can operate it under any of my two bot accounts.) --Meno25 (talk) 16:34, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
You should probably link to all the BRFAs from the bot's user page if you intend to use them interchangeably. I don't think there is a strict rule against it, but it is kind of a bad idea, because if there is an error that necessitates a bot block, we will have to remember or know to block all the bots. It would be good to note that you do use the bot accounts interchangeably on both their user pages, or which BRFAs both bots are operating under. Gigs (talk) 16:42, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Gigs: I will update the two bots pages with a description of all tasks. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 08:23, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 June 2013

Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.
The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.
Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.
This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.
With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.
Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.
Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

Tech news: 2013-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [1]
  • Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [2]
  • The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [3]
  • The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [4]
  • After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [5]
  • VisualEditor news:
    • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
    • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [6]
  • It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [7]
Future software changes
  • The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [8]
  • Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [9]
  • The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [10]
  • The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [11]
  • It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [12]
  • MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [13]
  • The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [14]
  • The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [15]

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18:05, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

With most TV shows on hiatus for the summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.
The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.
A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.
Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviews Adam Cuerden, a Wikimedian who has been for years gathering featured pictures, and who constantly participates in what could be his favourite part of the project. Cuerden dedicates most of his time to scanning and restoring old, valuable illustrative works. He explains to us how the featured process works, its relation with other parts of the encyclopedia, and how pictures evolve before reaching featured status.
This week, we walked the runway with WikiProject Fashion. Started in March 2007, the project is home to 4 Featured Articles and 41 Good Articles. The project has a lengthy list of how you can help and a list of Article Alerts.
Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

User:MenoBot at pl.wp

Done. Replied at pl:Dyskusja_wikipedysty:Meno25#Odp:User:MenoBot. Matma Rex talk 22:37, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
  • On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [16]
  • A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [17]
  • There was a short site outage on June 28.
  • The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [18]
  • The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [19]
  • There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [20]
  • The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [21]
  • VisualEditor news:
    • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
    • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
    • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
    • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
    • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
    • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
    • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [22]
Future software changes
  • VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
  • From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [23]
  • The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [24]
Erratum

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14:20, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.
Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.
The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.
The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.
Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

Re: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost

Thanks, good spot. - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 21:29, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

  • VisualEditor news:
    • VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
    • A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [26]
    • Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
  • Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [27]
  • Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [28]

Future software changes

  • MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #8480). [29]
  • It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [30]
  • The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [31]
  • The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [32]
  • Table of contents will now use the HTML <div /> element instead of <table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [33]
  • First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [34]
  • A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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18:30, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Baseball ratings

All the baseball articles that were left as automatically assessed were ones I had not gotten to changing from stub-class yet. If you're just removing the auto tag without reassessing then you just made a huge amount of work for me tracking them down again... Wizardman 16:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Wizardman: OK. Point taken. I will redo the edits manually. Thank you for your message. --Meno25 (talk) 22:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Not a problem; checking the automatically assessed articles are useful, it's just always better to check manually. Remember that most of those assessments are from 2007-2008, so that's six years of editing that may have happened since. Wizardman 02:13, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Auto tagging articles is inappropriate (stop it)

A tag is a very heavy-handed ugly thing that just lingers on an article forever. It is a state of Wiki (of the design!) that articles are unfinished. Tags really belong on the TALK page as they are commentary on the article. And for that matter, instead of tagging, FIX.

And don't give my any crap about lists or categories...the damned bot can add hidden categories if needed. But tags are bad, bad news.

TCO (talk) 14:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

TCO do you mean tags like {{orphan}} in the article page or wikiproject banners in the talk page? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:32, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Orphan. (Talk page stuff is great and I approve. But defacing tops of articles is extremely off-putting. P.s. I won't argue it...you have the commentary.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TCO (talk • contribs)
(talk page stalker) I'm not seeing a problem here. Numerous consensuses have said it's OK to tag articles pbp 14:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Magio: He is probably talking about Perfluoroheptane specifically this edit.

TCO: There is a consensuses in favor of tagging articles with maintenance templates such as {{deadend}} and {{orphan}}. Many bots (including my bot) do this task and many users do this task with their primary accounts without a bot flag. So, I am not sure how can I help you here. If you want the maintenance templates to be added in the talk pages instead of in the articles, then I suggest that you raise this issue first in the Village pump. --Meno25 (talk) 15:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.
This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.
The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".
Five articles, six lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

Carl Schmidt (Coptologist)

The article has been assesed as stub, but now is enhanced a lot. It contains enough details of importance to an average reader, has sources, literature, works, links and everything else that is needed for an article. So I request to assess the article again. --Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 10:30, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Giftzwerg 88: Article reassessed. Thank you for your work on the article. --Meno25 (talk) 22:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

Future software changes

  • A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [38]
  • The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [39]
  • Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [40] [41]
  • Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [42]
  • Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [43]
  • A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
  • An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [44]

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17:30, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

This week, we explored the fantasy worlds of video game developer Square Enix by interviewing WikiProject Square Enix. The project began in September 2006 as a spin-off of WikiProject Final Fantasy, but today covers that, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and a variety of other game series, with exceptions explained in the interview below. The project is home to 32 pieces of Featured material and 104 Good and A-class articles.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
Last week the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual plan for July 2013 to June 2014. It provides a surprisingly frank view—of past achievements and failures, and future goals and risks—that could be afforded only by a non-profit that is confident and beholden to no commercial or political interests.
Four articles, five lists, and sixteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds was opened. Voting on the Tea Party movement case continued, after a failed attempt at moderated discussion. A group tasked with deciding the content of the lead section of the Jerusalem article has reported back to the committee. Applications for checkuser and oversight permissions close on 22 July.

Tech News: 2013-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

Future software changes

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21:01, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.
This week, the Signpost delved into the vast and complex areas of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that make up religion. WikiProject Religion has been around since 2005 and has a complex scope, in that it only takes articles that deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense, along with any articles that do not have a dedicated daughter project.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Contributors to Wikivoyage, the sister project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. ... The Wikimedia Foundation has announced via press release that it has partnered with Aircel to provide free mobile access to Wikipedia.
Death hangs over the top 10 this week, as tragic deaths both past and present continued to cast their pall over an already troubled world. The death of Corey Monteith led to a spike in interest in the man himself, his girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele, and the show that made them both famous, Glee.
Twelve articles, seven lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Infoboxes was opened. The evidence phase continues in Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Voting on the proposed decision continues in the Tea Party movement case.
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