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Post new messages below. MB298 (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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• You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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Schwede66 12:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

• You can now upload WebP files to Commons. [6]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [10]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [12]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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What's your rationale for this edit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=760608806 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.230.115 (talk) 04:29, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

What portrait do you refer to? MB298 (talk) 04:32, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

The portrait of Senator John Thune at that link. 208.53.230.115 (talk) 04:35, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

It is the official portrait of Thune, and is of higher quality. MB298 (talk) 04:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

It's the official portrait from the last Congress. The one you removed is the current one. I'm not trying to start a fight, but how would you say the old one is of higher quality? 208.53.230.115 (talk) 04:39, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Because, they are the exact same image except that the one I removed was on a blue background, and the one I put in, which was the longstanding image, is the original and has a flag in the background. MB298 (talk) 04:57, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mr. Trump. Since you had some involvement with the Mr. Trump redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 06:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

• You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [15]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect The President Obama. Since you had some involvement with the The President Obama redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 08:43, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

I'll get to that as soon as I can. --Mr.Election (talk) 02:33, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

@Mr.Election: Thanks! MB298 (talk) 02:33, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

@MB298: All done!

Thanks! MB298 (talk) 03:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

The article Bret Chiafalo has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:BIO. Article says "he didn't vote how he was supposed to. Er...that's it"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. AusLondonder (talk) 06:17, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bret Chiafalo is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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• The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [16]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [18][19]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Would you have a moment to look at Ron Vitiello? I'm usually pretty confident about my articles but this one may get a lot of traffic in the next few days and I'd appreciated your review. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 20:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

@Magnolia677: I've done a little bit of cleanup, but other than that it looks good. Definitely could be expanded in the future if info about his early life (pre-Border Patrol) becomes available. Thanks for creating! MB298 (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

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• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [20]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [21]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [23][24]

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19:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

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Not sure I understand the "It's okay to not provide a source because it's used under a claim of fair use" explanation here. It clearly contradicts WP:NFCC#10, and it seems pretty obvious Quack Watch is not the copyright holder here. Ytoyoda (talk) 02:35, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

@Ytoyoda: it appears the image is from Nutrition: The Cancer Answer II, a book by Salaman ([25]), so it can be assumed the copyright holder is "Statford Publishing". MB298 (talk) 02:40, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [26]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [27]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [28]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [29]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [30]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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• The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [31]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [32]
• There has been a problem where the CSSofgadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [33]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [34]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi MB298, I know we have an ongoing beef RE Connecticut map, but I need your help with getting rid of false info on the main 2016 election page. Uncorroborated vote tallies have been posted to the website, and I have multiple sources, Dave Leip's Election Atlas, Cook Political Report, etc, that contradict these totals. I can't revert more than once a day on that page, so could you help some how with this? ThanksPalmerTheGolfer (talk)PalmerTheGolfer PalmerTheGolfer (talk) 01:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

@PalmerTheGolfer: I'd be happy to help, but could you point out where exactly the falsehoods are in the article? Thanks! MB298 (talk) 01:35, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

The final tallies are incorrect, along with their percentagesPalmerTheGolfer (talk)PalmerTheGolfer

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• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [35]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [36]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [37]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [38][39]

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19:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for uploading File:Natalie Babbitt.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:48, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for uploading File:Joseph Wapner.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:31, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:

23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello MB298. There is a discussion going on about using which type of treemap for 2016 United States presidential election in each state articles. Please join the discussion, so the dispute can be resolved. Thank you. Ali 19:09, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

• You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [40]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [41]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [42]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [43]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [44]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [45]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Sean Spicer. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your excellent edit at Virginia Conventions clarifying that the early map shows 1827 county boundaries.

I've found some public domain VA Senate district maps with period boundaries that will be suitable for the daughter articles for 1780, 1830, 1852, 1871 and 1902. I hope to upload them in the next week, but they are problematic in that they are the counties just AFTER the conventions...not necessarily the precise boundaries of the convention election districts.

Are you familiar with the County Formation maps that www.goldbug.com has put together for all 48 contiguous states? I have an email into them for book use of their maps, do you know if they will allow unlimited free use to qualify for Wikipedia article use? TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 20:01, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:57, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

• You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [46][47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [48]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [49][50]