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Hey

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Hey Katstrout44 (talk) 00:12, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hey back! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

Hey II

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Heh Rich I need someone to write about my biography in Wikipedia that is considered reliable who would I seek out ? Markpain (talk) 23:24, 11 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

If you meet the requirements for WP:Notability you could leave a request at the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Requested articles. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

April 2018 at Women in Red

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Welcome to Women in Red's April 2018 worldwide online editathons.


Focus on: April+Further with Art+Feminism Archaeology Military history (contest) Geofocus: Indian subcontinent

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list or Women in Red/international list. To unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list. Follow us on Twitter: @wikiwomeninred --Rosiestep (talk) 12:05, 29 March 2018 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

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Is The Signpost on its last legs?
Wikimedia events, group recognition, and individual appointments are ongoing.
Arbcom considers new discretionary sanctions for infoboxes and an extension of 1RR.
Diplomats join Wikipedia for International Women's Day, the perfect "Human", how fringe theories are sustained, and perennial plagiarism from our pages.
Wakanda still fascinates; the Oscars happened; Winter Olympics come to a close; and International Women's Day gets over a million page views.
A plethora of content.
Reviewing a browser skin providing equal emphasis on both content and editing tools simultaneously.
Retrospective on article creation trial.
Nostalgia and trips down Memory Lane.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG
  Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

  Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

  Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
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Wikidata weekly summary #306

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
    • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Using AWB to clear maintence categories, is it allowed?

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I was given permission to use AWB to clear the backlog of articles in the Category:Biography_articles_without_living_parameter and have done so. Every so often I open up AWB to clear the category once again, but it has been raised to my attention that in clearing the category it won't always be inline with the rules, as when I add living=n this does not actually affect the page visually. I assumed that because it was a mandatory field (as noted on the WikiProject page), this would be still acceptable. Is my assumption right? Thanks. Wpgbrown (talk) 17:32, 3 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) Adding or removing a category changes the visual appearance of a page. Technically. You might get some pushback, but plenty of people use AWB to fix errors and subsequently cause a category to appear or disappear. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Jonesey is perfectly correct. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:01, 4 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

Slate Blue listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Slate Blue. Since you had some involvement with the Slate Blue redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 14:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

SearchSuite

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Rich,

As you know, I've been learning JavaScript.

Well, I've created a user script...

It provides menu items on Wikipedia's search results page to enhance search output. Boy was it a bitch to get them to work on each other's output.

Hope you have a fast computer. :)

I'd be honored if you gave it a test drive.

If you do, let me know what you think of it.

All comments are welcome.     — The Transhumanist    02:34, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

P.S.: It is especially useful when &limit is set high, like &limit=500 to &limit=5000

Most of my hardware is at least 10 years old. But I'll take a look anyway... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

Resident evil the final chapter plot misspelled word

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In the plot of “Resident Evil the final chapter” movie article Alice the main character Kills the Villain Isaacs by using a grenade. The word “grenade” is misspelled. Maybe you could edit that? Thank you for your time. SKRAT567. SKRAT567 (talk) 09:49, 7 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

I fixed this, but you can easily fix this sort of thing yourself. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #307

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
    • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
    • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
    • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
    • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
    • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
    • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
    • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Nomination for deletion of Template:Plot hook

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 Template:Plot hook has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 02:27, 10 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Units attention

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 Template:Units attention has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 02:40, 10 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Unreferenced small

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 Template:Unreferenced small has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 02:42, 10 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Request

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There's an RfC going on to eliminate all portals and portal space.

Would you use your programming acumen to determine how many views the portals got over the past year?

That figure would sure help.     — The Transhumanist    05:00, 12 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Massachussetts

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Hello Rich, just realised that you've been changing MA in a few articles. I'm curious, why? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 22:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

We try to avoid postal abbreviations such as these. Firstly they are not widely known outside the US, secondly they can be ambiguous, for example WA is both Washington (state), and Western Australia. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:12, 13 April 2018 (UTC).Reply
Bloody hell! I've been abbreviating them for years; are you going to paint the Forth rail bridge for an encore? ;O).Keith-264 (talk) 22:26, 13 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
  It will probably end up being a bot task. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:30, 13 April 2018 (UTC).Reply
Will this be done to all US place names? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 09:54, 14 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Ideally. There is a lot of work to do before we can do that. On a naive basis, for example, Evolution contains the strings "CO", "SC", "VI" and "ID" which should not be changed, so I will need a proper gazetteer. Most likely I will create a learning algorithm. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:45, 14 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

Question

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How do you transclude just the lead section from an article?    — The Transhumanist   06:03, 14 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

P.S.: please {{ping}} me.

The Transhumanist, see WP:LST for information about how to transclude any section of an article into another. Primefac (talk) 15:54, 14 April 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)Reply
Alternatively I think you would need to use <onlyinclude> tags, or write custom lua. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:58, 14 April 2018 (UTC).Reply
Yeah, <onlyinclude> would also work if you knew you just wanted the lead. LST is better for copying different parts of pages to different locations. Primefac (talk) 16:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #308

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
    • Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
    • Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
    • Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
    • Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
    • Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
    • Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
    • More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
    • Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
    • Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
    • Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
    • New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
    • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

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Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #309

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
    • Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
    • Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
    • Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
    • Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
    • Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
    • Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
    • Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
    • Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
    • New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


The Signpost: 26 April 2018

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Following Kudpung's op-ed "Death knell sounding for The Signpost?" in the 29 March issue, user comments encouraged a burst of enthusiasm to keep the newspaper in print.
How to revive and evolve The Signpost? Big blue-sky proposals and small concrete proposals from the community and from two regular Signpost contributors.
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The most popular articles from March 25 to April 14.
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Material promoted from March 2 through April 20.
Honoring a day in military history, as well as peaceful borders
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Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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please help translate this message into your local language via meta
  The 2017 Cure Award
In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:54, 26 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

May 2018 at Women in Red

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Welcome to Women in Red's May 2018 worldwide online editathons.
 
 
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New: "Women of the Sea"

New: "Villains"

New: "Women in Sports"

New: "Central Eastern European women"


Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 23:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

Wiki Loves Food

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Curd Rice

Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 02:30, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #310

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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