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Listing for WikiProject R&B and Soul Music?

Would you please add a cleanup listing for WikiProject R&B and Soul Music? Thank you! Ziggyfan23 (talk) 15:30, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ziggyfan23: It has been added. I have added a link to it at Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music#Tools for this listing.--Bamyers99 (talk) 16:45, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Monthly error report updates?

I don't know if you are the right person to ask, but do you know when the TemplateData monthly error reports typically update? This one is dated 2018-01-01, so I would have expected an update on 2018-02-01, but it is now two days later than that. Thanks for any help you can offer. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:00, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: The error reports are generated from a database dump. The dump is as of the 1st of the month, but it takes a couple of days for the dump to finish. The error report can't be generated until the pages-articles.xml.bz2 dump has completed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 5 February 2018

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Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles

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Tech News: 2018-06

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 add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [1]
The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [2]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [3]

Problems

Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [4]

Changes later this week

When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [5]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [6]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [7]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

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Future changes

The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [9][10]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [11][12][13]
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [14]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [15]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [17]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Peter Adriaens tag

Hi, I've left a message on the talk page of a page you've previously editing, the Peter Adriaens article, which my COI prevents me from editing about having the tag removed from the page. I'd love your input. Thanks! Alex Thermopolis —Preceding undated comment added 15:35, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11

Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weather Radio category snafu

The revision of mine you undid has a funny situation behind it:

I created the NOAA Weather Radio stations category (in order to keep articles about NWR from being overwhelmed by the hundreds of articles about individual transmitters), and also initially added the NOAA Weather Radio category, because as you said, it seemed right to me.
But while I was retagging all of those NWR station articles for the new category, that NOAA Weather Radio category tag appeared as a _sub_-category, which I had never seen before, and didn't really seem right, and made the list very confusing, so I deleted it.
Now that you've restored the category, I can find no trace of the behavior I described above in either the current article or in the version history.

Any idea what caused the behavior I was seeing?

In any case, thanks for restoring the category in a way that somehow avoided the snafu I described above.PetesGuide (talk) (K6WEB) 00:11, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PetesGuide: No idea. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:24, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2018-08

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

The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [18][19]
You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [20]

Problems

Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [21]
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [22][23]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

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Future changes

The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [24]
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators

Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back

Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases

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Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks

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Stubs in the Signpost

Thank you for leaving your comment after the humour signpost article. I hope you know that I am not mocking you, as one editor has suggested. I find the behavior of bots entertaining and like to share that with people. Actually, I admit to being jealous of editors who know how to create bots. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 23:05, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Barbara (WVS): I found the article humorous. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for adding those categories back, I just realized I had accidently removed them when I saw you had just added them back. :) —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 00:38, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2018-09

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

Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [25]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [26][27]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [28]
Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [29][30][31]

Changes later this week

Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [32]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [33][34]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Cleaning up Jews

For a couple of weeks now, CleanupWorklistBot has been treating Category:Ashkenazi Jews as a cleanup category. I can't trace where the error crept in, but it obviously isn't a cleanup category. Thanks for your work maintaining the bot. DrKay (talk) 15:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DrKay: Thanks for reporting this issue. The error has been fixed and the listings regenerated. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template Data reports

Could you please take a look at this.

{{Sfn}} [35]

Has [36] (invalid parameters used, when <50).

However, the parameter |nopp= is Not legal, and has 448 usages (so >50). Stil, many are listed in the invalids-list. Is this a because the number of pages (not transclusions) is below 50? In that case it makes some sense, but the page listing has some 80+(?). Or is this a counter misinterpretation (write the first 50 in the <50 list?). - DePiep (talk) 22:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DePiep: |nopp= only has 3 "unique" values: y, y., and yes. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:15, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see. - DePiep (talk) 19:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No big issue, but maybe in case you want perfectionism:

About {{Cquote}}. It lists page God-fearer for having parameter |first1= etc. ~~However, these are parameters inside a <ref>{{cite book|...}}</ref> construct that renders OK.~~ - DePiep (talk) 19:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DePiep: If you are referring to reference 10, I don't see a cite book in there. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Sorry, sloppy bad bug report I made. - DePiep (talk) 19:35, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
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CWGC Wikidata edits

Hi there. I noticed the edits you made on Wikidata relating to the CWGC properties. I have been (slowly) working on the pages on Wikipedia that use links to the CWGC site. Would it be possible to co-ordinate the work on this? It will take me time to pull together links to previous discussions, but the comment I made here is a starting point. Carcharoth (talk) 12:14, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bit puzzled. The list I have of 'people' pages using CWGC links (which I know is not all the Wikipedia articles that could have links, as some are missing the links) is 'only' 1626, and that includes some indeterminate number of relatives where the casualty link is not the person who the article is about (the Wikidata listing, if complete, is 1708, some of which are only in other language Wikipedias). One of the motivations for doing this was to work out which people in the CWGC database have Wikipedia articles. I thought that the way I was approaching this (starting from the use of CWGC external links) was one way to work that out (at least in part), but it seems that you are matching articles and CWGC ids in a different way? For Lancelot Holland you created the CWGC person id claim, but there is no indication in the en-Wikipedia article about the CWGC id. Did you maybe get the id from another language article, or are you matching direct with a different list? Carcharoth (talk) 12:57, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Am currently trying to match (in an Excel spreadsheet) the two lists (1626 and 1708) and it is throwing up some corrections that are needed. For example, Angus McLeod (footballer) shows up on the list of articles with an external link to their casualty details, but they don't appear on the list of articles that have the CWGC person ID. You added the CWGC person ID as the CWGC burial ID. I changed that here. I did five other corrections: [37], [38], [39], [40], [41]. I think I found all the corrections needed - is there a way to double-check? Carcharoth (talk) 15:09, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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+== CWGC Wikidata edits ==
+Hi there. I noticed [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Bamyers99&offset=201803050143&limit=2012&target=Bamyers99 the edits you made on Wikidata] relating to the CWGC properties. I have been (slowly) working on the pages on Wikipedia that use links to the CWGC site. Would it be possible to co-ordinate the work on this? It will take me time to pull together links to previous discussions, but the comment I made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GreenC&diff=prev&oldid=828897345 here] is a starting point. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 12:14, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
+:Bit puzzled. The list I have of 'people' pages using CWGC links (which I know is not all the Wikipedia articles that ''could'' have links, as some are missing the links) is 'only' 1626, and that includes some indeterminate number of relatives where the casualty link is not the person who the article is about (the Wikidata listing, if complete, is 1708, some of which are only in other language Wikipedias). One of the motivations for doing this was to work out which people in the CWGC database have Wikipedia articles. I thought that the way I was approaching this (starting from the use of CWGC external links) was one way to work that out (at least in part), but it seems that you are matching articles and CWGC ids in a different way? For [[Lancelot Holland]] you [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q917014&diff=641166319&oldid=627648235 created the CWGC person id claim], but there is no indication in the en-Wikipedia article about the CWGC id. Did you maybe get the id from another language article, or are you matching direct with a different list? [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 12:57, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
+::Am currently trying to match (in an Excel spreadsheet) the two lists (1626 and 1708) and it is throwing up some corrections that are needed. For example, [[Angus McLeod (footballer)]] shows up on the list of articles with an external link to their casualty details, but they ''don't'' appear on the list of articles that have the CWGC person ID. You added the CWGC person ID as the [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q27828177&diff=643451035&oldid=604894862 CWGC burial ID]. I changed that [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q27828177&type=revision&diff=643927023&oldid=643451182 here]. I did five other corrections: [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q24205789&type=revision&diff=643947737&oldid=640279425], [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15996391&type=revision&diff=643948709&oldid=640198303], [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q11727856&type=revision&diff=643948549&oldid=640194817], [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4798283&type=revision&diff=643949483&oldid=643455443], [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q22087423&type=revision&diff=643949662&oldid=643456780]. I think I found all the corrections needed - is there a way to double-check? [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 15:09, 5 March 2018 (UTC)