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DYK nomination of Principality of Erfurt

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✗ Not done. Hells no. :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:40, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

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languages + liberté
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Tone policing

Want to work on this sometime this month? --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 01:10, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

@Guerillero: I don't tend to collaborate on articles much and it's not really an area I edit, to be honest. I mean, I could, but I'm not sure I'd be very good at it and the time I spend here varies wildly according to what's going on in my life. So, erm, maybe? :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:25, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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@Ed Erhart (WMF): Sorry, I have seen your email; I've been doing a handful of things the last few days and should be able to get back to you on Thursday or Friday :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
No worries, Owen—we went ahead and published at the end of the 26th. Apologies. :-/ Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 05:45, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
@Ed Erhart (WMF): No problem. Sorry, it's an area I don't know a huge amount about, tbh. My editing time tends to steer clear of controversial topics. Where was it you published? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 07:50, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Blog! We're mainly a public-facing outlet, but one of my personal goals (having been in the community for eons) is telling Wikipedians' on-wiki stories to the world. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 08:15, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Ah awesome; I'll go look :-) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 09:04, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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 Done — OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:29, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

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✗ Not done. If it were a coherent RfC I'd consider it. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 09:46, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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 Partly done This isn't an RFC. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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✗ Not done I have no strong feelings on this matter. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 15:24, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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Jacob Applebaum

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✗ Not done Deliberately ambiguous link is deliberate. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:12, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

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EU referendum results

Sorry for edit conflict there, I'm trying to tone down those colours simultaneously with you getting extra row in. I'll let you work out best option there ;)--Nilfanion (talk) 08:27, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

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Please don't "fix" redirects

I saw from your post to Template talk:Infobox person that you've been bypassing redirects with pipes. For several reasons why it's not a good idea, please see WP:NOTBROKEN. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:03, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Don't worry. I know which kinds of redirects should not be bypassed, thanks. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 23:12, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
Okay. This was the one that made me wonder, but I now conclude that you didn't like the capitalisation of FOX, right? That would have been a better edit summary than "bypassed redirect to Fox Broadcasting Company". Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, at Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge we're striving to bring about 10,000 article improvements and creations for the UK and Ireland and inspire others to create more content. In order to achieve this we need diversity of content, in all parts of the UK and Ireland on all topics. Eventually a regional contest will be held for all parts of the British Isles, like they were for Wales and the Wedt Country. We currently have just over 1900 articles and need contributors! If you think you'd be interested in collaborating on this and helping reach the target quicker, please sign up and begin listing your entries there as soon as possible! Thanks.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

Medical school class's Wikipedia contributions profiled as case study; and a remembrance of Ray Saintonge, Wikimedian since 2002
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Nineteen articles, eleven lists, one portal and twelve pictures were promoted
TRM, CUOS '16, R&I, RfC
Four weeks of Wikipedia's most popular articles examined
Titles with numbers now sort numerically, and a new tool to check how template parameters are used
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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection
A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities
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A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch
Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted
Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel
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Tech News: 2016-10

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team is delighted to publish its first newsletter! Your feedback is welcome.

This quarter the team will focus on improving Special:RecentChanges and create a ReviewStream, a new feed designed to improve the edit-review process. Both are part of the new Edit Review Improvements project.

Notifications [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

  • Documentation concerning Notifications types has been updated. That page is ready for translations. [1]
  • For developers, how to create a new Notification type has been updated. [2]
  • Tools owners will be notified when OAuth app changes state. [3]
  • When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [4]
  • 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. [5]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. Now you can get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This is an opt-in option in your preferences. [6][7]
  • On Notifications, the badge is colored if you have some notifications. If you see these notifications, the badge will turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [8]

Problems

  • 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. It has been fixed. [9][10]
  • When a title was created with some wikitext inside of it, Notifications were not linking that title when they were mentioned. This is now fixed. [11]
  • Some Notifications messages were not supporting {{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [12]

Future changes

  • On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore. [13]

Flow [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

  • Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia. [14]
  • A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016. [15]
  • Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font. [16]
  • It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it. [17]
  • It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel. [18]

Problems

  • It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation. [19]
  • Some Flow messages were not supporting {{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [20]

Future changes

  • Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process. [21]
  • Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow. [22]

Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]

Recent changes

  • Informations about Edit Review Improvements project have been published. That page is ready for translations. [23]
  • ReviewStream feed product description is available. ReviewStream is a machine-readable feed that’s designed to be used by a variety of edit-review tools.

Future changes

Miscellaneous

  • On that newsletter, some particular items are highlighted by an icon, to ease reading. The For translators icon highlights items that may interest volunteer translators and the Advanced item icon highlights items that are relevant for readers with technical knowledge.

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Please comment on Talk:Red Shirts (Southern United States)

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license
Plus our roundup of recent media stories
Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled
Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist
Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure
Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob
Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights
A recap of recent research in our realm
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-11

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Our quarterly goal is to add filters to the Recent Changes page, that show ORES good-faith and damaging tests and filters around new users. The work on this is proceeding mostly as planned. We hope it shall be available as a Beta feature (only on wikis where ORES is available as a Beta feature) before the end of the quarter.

Edit Review Improvements [More information]

Recent changes

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Notifications concerning Flow are no longer all grouped together in your preferences. The "Edits to my talk page" category will now include Flow notifications about your user talk page (if your user talk page uses Flow), and the "Mentions" category will now include mentions on Flow pages. Previously, all notifications related to Flow were grouped together in the "Structured Discussion" category. [28]
  • The orange bar will now also be displayed when a message is posted on a your user talk page if your talk page uses Flow; previously, it was only displayed if you had a wikitext talk page. [29]

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Please comment on Talk:California

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, OwenBlacker. 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)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

An overview of the English Wikipedia ArbCom election; brief notes as Asian and African initiatives wind down
Election prompts media to explore themes important to Wikipedians, including news literacy, privacy, and data security
115,000 images were submitted as part of the annual competition.
A sampling of photo submissions to the annual photography campaign
Eight articles, two lists and nine pictures were promoted
A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review
Empowering volunteers and local chapters to engage with fundraising would yield varied benefits
Someone is likely to dominate traffic for a long time
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DYK nomination of Bobbi Campbell

Hello! Your submission of Bobbi Campbell at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 11:22, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Bobbi Campbell

On 1 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bobbi Campbell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bobbi Campbell. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bobbi Campbell), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Please comment on Talk:Johor Bahru

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-12

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

A decision has been made about how the Recent Changes filtering scheme will affect current ORES beta feature users. When this new filtering system rolls out as part of the beta, it will replace the current ORES display on the Recent Changes page. That means the automatic color coding, the red “r” symbol and the “hide probably good edits” filter will go away, to be replaced by the new, more nuanced set of filters and user-defined color coding. All other pages that have ORES features, like Watchlist and Related Changes, will remain as they are now for ORES beta users. We think those pages could also benefit from the new filtering system. But we'll wait to see how users react to the beta test—and make any necessary changes—before we start spreading the new UI around. That's the plan as it currently stands. As always, please let us know if you have any thoughts, in any language.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Problems

  • Sometimes, after marking an important number of cross-wiki notifications as read, the counter remained at 1. This is now fixed. [31]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Due to a bug, it was not possible to activate Flow on user talk pages as a Beta feature. This is possible again for wikis that have that feature. [32]
  • Flow boards can be moved without constraints. However, this requires the move-Flow-board right. [33]

Miscellaneous

  • The MoodBar extension has been removed from all wikis. [34]

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All the best for 2017!

Hello OwenBlacker,
Enjoy the Winter Solstice and the Christmas and holiday season.
Thank you for all your good work during 2016 in maintaining, improving and expanding Wikipedia.
All the best for 2017! Cheers, — Gareth Griffith-Jones | The Welsh | Buzzard |  16:31, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

Roundup of the year's news from the Wikimedia world, featuring Wikipedia's 15th anniversary and organizational disarray at the Wikimedia Foundation
WMF reflects, to some degree, on its past approaches to strategic planning
The German Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee loses more than half its members amid political feud
A proposal from the Inspire Campaign to address harassment was recently implemented to prevent unconstructive and malicious editing on user pages
Even a well executed outreach event can yield disappointing results
Wikipedia women in the news, and media reacts to 2016 ad banner campaign
Twenty-three articles, ten lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted
And a roundup of recently-added tools
Four weeks of popular article analysis
Winning photos in world's largest photography contest reveal a world of monuments—and the volunteers who love them
Privacy and Tor, and several other studies
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.location error in entry for the film Local Hero

Mr Blacker: I was just reading the entry for the film Local Hero and my memory tells me that the HQ location in Houston of Knox Oil was not One Shell Plaza but the building now known as the JP Morgan Chase Tower http://www.chasetower.com/ To confirm, I have viewed the trailer (in lieu of accessing the film itself) which has a brief shot of Felix Happer in the plaza of this building at 1:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4WQZbGMrl4. I'm not an editor but when I saw your name I decided to contact you in case you're interested in checking it out. I've been an off-and-on follower of yours on various social media over the years, which prompted me to approach you about this. Forgive me for bothering you with such a small detail...the problem may originate with IMDB which shows the incorrect location. Happy Christmas/best for the new year, Claude Glover. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.19.8.75 (talk) 17:41, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

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