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Wikidata weekly summary #326
Tech News: 2018-34
16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
You'd better be busy
So you went past my house this afternoon and didn't drop in to say hello. --RexxS (talk) 23:29, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
- Last week, with nephews and parents in tow. I had half expected to see you in costume, in one of the cottages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Category:Animals and plants named after David Attenborough has been nominated for discussion
Category:Animals and plants named after David Attenborough, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor (talk) 19:35, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Agent
Template:Agent has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 03:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Ponte Morandi - viaduct vs bridge
I've had to revert this again twice today. You may wish to opine on the talk page. Thryduulf (talk) 14:11, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 29
Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018
- New partners
- Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
- Wikimania
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
September 2018 at Women in Red
September is an exciting new month for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons!
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DYK nomination of Thomas Hawker (British Army officer)
Hello! Your submission of Thomas Hawker (British Army officer) 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! Edwardx (talk) 19:25, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #327
Tech News: 2018-35
16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 August 2018
- From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
- News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend
- In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
- Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Special report: Wikimania 2018
- Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
- Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work
- Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
- Humour: Signpost editor censors herself
- From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in August! - Did you know that I heard the symphony again that marked my blackest day on Wikipedia, 5 years ago? In much better mood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for September 2
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Jizz (birding), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Country Life (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:21, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).
- None
- Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz
- Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam
Interface administrator changes
- Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
- Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example isarticle_text
which is nowpage_title
. - Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age
.
- The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.
Tech News: 2018-36
16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)