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The Signpost: 15 July 2017 News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017 Gallery: A mix of patterns Humour: The Infobox Game Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:49, 15 July 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox country The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox country. Legobot (talk) 04:35, 15 July 2017 (UTC) How to monitor edit-filter log? Whenever i try, get to the page where it says this edit filter was disabled by this user. —usernamekiran(talk) 15:09, 15 July 2017 (UTC) @Usernamekiran: It can be viewed at Special:AbuseLog. The reason why the filter can't be viewed is because it is private, which means that it can only be viewed by administrators. —MRD2014 15:20, 15 July 2017 (UTC) Thanks. I am aware about filters being private, and about edit filter manager user flag, but I could never even find this log. Thanks again :) —usernamekiran(talk) 15:24, 15 July 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2017) The room of the editor-in-chief for the Seattle Daily Times in 1900 Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Editor-in-chief Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Chicken as food • Visual technology Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 17 July 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-29 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 "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [1] Problems On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [2] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [3] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [4] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:59, 17 July 2017 (UTC) WP:AFD/USA Reads- 'This is a high level category for deletion sorting. It is strongly recommended you do not add discussions directly to it. Instead, please add them to a more specific category, such as a state and/or relevant subject area.' You should not have entered the AFD for Stelos Alliance there. The article on Stelos clearly says it is based out of Texas, the page for Texas AFDs is where it belongs....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:18, 20 July 2017 (UTC) @WilliamJE: Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep that in mind. —MRD2014 14:36, 20 July 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Portal talk:Current events The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Portal talk:Current events. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 21 July 2017 (UTC) NPR Please be very careful when taking pages for deletion. List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, October 2017 was a very serious attack page and you only marked it 'too soon'. Also , the clues were there to know that the user had also made a string of further serious BLP vandalisms claiming that people had died, and posting fake photos to the articles. Please see WP:NPP for guidelines to patrolling and if you are not sure what to do, please leave a page for another patroller. Attack pages however, MUST be tagged immediately and will send a red alert to all admin's control panels. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:22, 22 July 2017 (UTC) @Kudpung: Got it. I had added WP:G3 at the beginning to specify that this was a hoax. —MRD2014 02:28, 22 July 2017 (UTC) Talk:Nival (company) Hi, I think you've shorted out an active discussion at Talk:Nival (company)#Nival got hacked last year. Encyclopedic to include?. Please only close it when the discussion produce a definite outcome. Thanks! Pavel Novikov (talk) 13:08, 22 July 2017 (UTC) @Pavel Novikov: The discussion had been closed per Wikipedia:Deny recognition. IPs that were evading their blocks were trying to reopen it. You had added a comment after it had been reopened, which it should not have. However, because you made the comment, I will leave it open. —MRD2014 13:43, 22 July 2017 (UTC) Thanks, however my wife warned me that prolonged squabbling over the edit will exhaust my time and invite more trouble I think it's time to heed her advice and withdraw the proposed edit. Pavel Novikov (talk) 13:49, 22 July 2017 (UTC) RfA Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 17:00, 23 July 2017 (UTC) @Cullen328: You are very welcome. —MRD2014 17:04, 23 July 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2017) Illustration of Dijkstra's algorithm search, a search algorithm for finding path from a start node (lower left, red) to a goal node (upper right, green) in a robot motion planning problem. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Search algorithm Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Editor-in-chief • Chicken as food Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 July 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-30 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 CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [5][6][7] .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [8] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar). It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [9] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join. Future changes New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:58, 24 July 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Barcade The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Barcade. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 26 July 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Recent death Aboriginal Aus The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Recent death Aboriginal Aus. Legobot (talk) 04:32, 30 July 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2017) The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Pictured is an image denoting global participation in the Genocide Convention in 2008. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Genocide Convention Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Search algorithm • Editor-in-chief Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 31 July 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-31 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 Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [10] Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report. Changes later this week Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [11] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [12] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – August 2017 News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017). Administrator changes Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 (first RfA to reach WP:300) Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem Guideline and policy news Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined. A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink). An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation. Technical news LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account. The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:12, 1 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Taxonbar The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Taxonbar. Legobot (talk) 04:36, 2 August 2017 (UTC) There was no vandalism The article Swati Chaturvedi was updated with relevant links, yet you undid it for vandalism. You can not defame a person who has been accused of crimes! please check the links again, all are backed with facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:8486:32B2:DC48:AEDD:D15D:7539 (talk) 12:50, 2 August 2017 (UTC) The updates were sourced, but please don't use terms like "abusive Twitter troll". Articles, especially those on living people, should be written with a neutral point of view. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits 12:53, 2 August 2017 (UTC) The Signpost: 5 August 2017 News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities! Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality WikiProject report: Comic relief In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic Featured content: Everywhere in the lead Technology report: Introducing TechCom Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 5 August 2017 (UTC) G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:Geoscientists Canada Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 5 August 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2017) Films based upon the theme of blackmail have been made, such as the 1929 film Blackmail. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Blackmail Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Genocide Convention • Search algorithm Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Please comment on Talk:2017 The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:2017. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 7 August 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-32 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 now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [13] The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [14] Problems You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [15] The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [16] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar). Future changes Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [17] Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [18][19] Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [20][21] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC) Question on USA banner on your page I cannot view the underlying script on your page. What is the script to display the "Born in USA and lives there" banner Thanks. RSStockdale (talk) 15:42, 9 August 2017 (UTC) @RSStockdale: See {{User in the United States}}. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 16:03, 9 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Bot policy The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Bot policy. Legobot (talk) 04:36, 10 August 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2017) An automobile engine is an example of an intermediate good, and is used in the production of the final good, the assembled automobile. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Intermediate good Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Blackmail • Genocide Convention Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 14 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-33 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 Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [22] Problems The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [23][24] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Parvenu The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Parvenu. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 15 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:2017 The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:2017. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 20 August 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2017) East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent emigration westward. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Emigration Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Intermediate good • Blackmail Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-34 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 now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [25][26] Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [27] If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [28] The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator. Changes later this week Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [29] The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [30] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar). Meetings You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 18:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Birth date and age The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Birth date and age. Legobot (talk) 04:35, 24 August 2017 (UTC) New Page Reviewer Newsletter Hello MRD2014, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages! Backlog update: The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day. Technology update: Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories. General project update: The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features. Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script. To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC) G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:International Fall Workshops on Geometry and Physics Draft:International Fall Workshops on Geometry and Physics Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 26 August 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2017) Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Maya mythology Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Emigration • Intermediate good Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 28 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:Biostrap Draft:Ernst H. Beutner Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 28 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox scientist The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox scientist. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 28 August 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-35 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 Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [31][32] You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [33] Problems Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [34] Changes later this week You can block users from sending you notifications. [35] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [36] New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [37] The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC) about Yunus Gülnar page Hey, thanks for your review. i added some references. Can you check the page again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunus_G%C3%BClnar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azsport (talk • contribs) 23:23, 28 August 2017 (UTC) @Azsport: It's enough that the {{Prod blp/dated}} template could be removed, which it was. Should be good now. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 00:09, 29 August 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 1 September 2017 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – September 2017 News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017). Administrator changes Nakon • Scott Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee Guideline and policy news ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion. Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation. Technical news You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions. Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages. In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well. Arbitration Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2017) One 24-ounce energy drink has 330 calories, more than a fast-food cheeseburger, and the equivalent of 18 single-serving packets of sugar. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Calorie Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Maya mythology • Emigration Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-36 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Tech News We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get. Recent changes The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [38][39] Problems Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps. [40] Changes later this week New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [41] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [42] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC) FYI Hello M. In the case of this Draft:Water It isn't an actual draft article. Other than adding the template which transcludes the article to the page no editing has ever occurred on it. IPs have done this a few times for some unknown reason. The reason I chose A3 is that it was one of the rationales used in the previous deletion. I used the other one this time and it has been deleted as such. I didn't know whether you had seen this or not so I wanted to drop you a note. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 18:45, 5 September 2017 (UTC) @MarnetteD: The reason I removed the {{db-a3}} template was because any speedy deletion criterion that starts with "A" cannot be used on drafts, only articles. Only the general criteria (starting with "G") can be used. It has now been deleted per CSD G2, which can be used on drafts, and I agree with the deletion under G2. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 21:44, 5 September 2017 (UTC) I wasn't complaining M so my apologies if it seemed that way. I was just trying to explain. Thanks for taking the time to give me your reasoning. MarnetteD|Talk 22:16, 5 September 2017 (UTC) G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:Richard Ikiebe Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 6 September 2017 (UTC) The Signpost: 6 September 2017 From the editors: What happened at Wikimania? News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful? WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube Technology report: Latest tech news Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up Humour: Bots * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:44, 6 September 2017 (UTC) Photograph I gave no one permission to use that photo on my Wikipedia page can you remove it please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jckglo (talk • contribs) 11:23, 6 September 2017 (UTC) @Jckglo: I don't know what photo you are talking about. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 13:19, 6 September 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Module talk:Basketball color/data The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Module talk:Basketball color/data. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 7 September 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2017) A small pond hockey field Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pond hockey Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Calorie • Maya mythology Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 11 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Legobot (talk) 04:35, 11 September 2017 (UTC)