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Hi. I assume that more than one person covers the news as it occurs and posts it for Wikipedia. There may even be several people who do it. Why would the news not got posted for, what is now 6 days in a row, without having coverage by someone else who is remaining to tend the embers of Wikipedia's daily presentation? Is someone asleep? I don't mean to be impolite at all, but I don't know how else to phrase the obvious question or whom to pose it to. How does this happen in an awake world? Regards to whom it may concern. Stevenmitchell ( talk) 10:01, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
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When viewing the Current Events page on a narrow screen (mobile device) the sidebar boxes would be more easily viewed if they were to shift down to the bottom of the layout rather than using a simple float:right. I'm unsure how to go about this myself, even in putting together a sample layout. While WP has a long way to go before incorporating a mobile-first mentality, it would be an easy win to get this layout issue dealt with. If there is an example of a page that supports the mobile layout in this fashion, I would be happy to review it and see how it would apply to the Current Events portal page.
I have deconstructed the page and identified that the layout is HTML table-based. Perhaps a more responsive layout will simply be a mater of using a non-table-based layout technique? I have a sandbox version of the page to work up an alternative now. — RossO ( talk) 04:19, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Can an administrator please admonish Farolif ( talk · contribs) for his disruptive editing at WT:Current-Events-Sidebar. Specifically he seems to take issue with the addition of an Argentine minister of culture and a Chinese provincial party chief (highest office of a province), questioning their "notability" and reverting without discussion. This user has had numerous previous offenses with this type of behavior as evidenced on his talk page. Colipon+( Talk) 04:18, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
I notice after the most recent muslim truck attack it's not on the frontpage despite multiple casualties, yet after the 'white supremacist' car attack which killed only one, it was on the frontpage before you know it. Also don't see the news of the guy getting stabbed by radical leftists for 'not denouncing nazism strongly enough'. Imagine my shock 2A00:23C4:E0AA:4200:E5D1:ECC9:5A96:DDA5 ( talk) 16:44, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
They should be added to ongoing disasters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex of Canada ( talk • contribs) 21:09, 5 August 2017 (UTC) Edit: there is an article on it now. Please insert. /info/en/?search=2017_British_Columbia_wildfires — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex of Canada ( talk • contribs) 07:50, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
There were two big boat wrecks in Brazil this week, at least 39 people died in those wrecks: 1) https://www.shipwrecklog.com/log/2017/08/comandante-ribeiro/
3) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41042849
PMLF ( talk) 07:25, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
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"In women's golf, the United States win the Solheim Cup" should be "In women's golf, the United States wins the Solheim Cup". HapHaxion ( talk / contribs) 21:06, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
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The headline "The Supreme Court of India rules that the practice of instant divorce is unconstitutional." is ambigious in its context. It can be construed that instant divorce is a common practice in India, however this practice is only applicable to a specific religious group and is not a common practice, as can be mistakenly construed.
Please resolve the ambiguity in context.
The suggested change in headline is "The Supreme Court of India rules that the Islamic practice of instant divorce is unconstitutional." Pvpoodle ( talk) 07:53, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
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Over the past few weeks I have worked up a set of code changes for the Current Events page that will improve display on mobile devices. The key changes have been to wrap the right column down underneath the primary column and then make sure the content of both columns expand to be full width. The use of the flexbox css styling is perfect for this purpose. (An alternate approach of using columns seems to be un reliable when it comes to column of unequal widths.)
I have created a set of Sandbox pages that show the changes that are necessary to implement this layout update and included links to display the diffs that show the exact changes I'm suggesting.
I would like an admin to make the following changes:
As only the first change requires admin permissions, I am able and happy to make the second two changes if the overall project effort is accepted.
Thank you to Mr. Stradivarius, xaosflux, and SMcCandlish for comments already made. — RossO ( talk) 18:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
:css{
width = '100%',
float = 'initial',
-- Next 2 lines are temporary until release
float = 'right',
width = 'calc(100% - 15px)',
-- Previous 2 lines are temporary until release
...
}
float
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keys, they overwrite the contents of the first ones. Is this what you intended? Also, what does "temporary until release" mean? Isn't the release what we are proposing to do now? Best regards —
Mr. Stradivarius
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11:01, 19 August 2017 (UTC)-- Next 2 lines...
and -- Previous 2...
, inclusive) can be removed. They will no longer be needed as the primary layout will use flexbox styling to control the gutters. That should resolve the Firefox and Chrome issues. Thank you, again, for your time.
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06:54, 20 August 2017 (UTC)@ Nakon: I'm not seeing any objections to the change. I would appreciate it if you could apply the changes I've outlined. Or, if you can do the first one, I'm happy to apply the 2nd and 3rd. Thanks! — RossO ( talk) 17:20, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Even with recent improvements to this page and to Template:Current events header by User:RossO, the layout tables are still causing minor visual problems with mobile skin, especially at tablet widths, 720 px and up. See Template:Current events header/testcases. I've sketched out Template:Current events/sandbox as a possible tableless replacement going forward. But it would change the syntax, something along these lines:
From:
{{Current events header|2017|08|30}}
<!-- All news items below this line -->
'''News'''
* Something happened today, making it a current event.
<!-- All news items above this line -->|}
To:
{{Current events|2017|08|30|content=
<!-- All news items below this line -->
'''News'''
* Something happened today, making it a current event.
<!-- All news items above this line -->}}
Would this be acceptable? Pinging Cyberpower678 since this affects his bot. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 18:56, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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The portal now renders in a single column for mobile devices. There will be additional updates to various components to improve the display on narrow-width devices. There is one additional set of changes that need to happen in order for the desktop layout to return to a proper proportion in some instances.
I would like an admin to make the following changes (after line 6):
This change will take care of some margin issues and deal with the category issue noted by 194.50.51.252. It will NOT resolve the mobile layout issue. (@ Mr. Stradivarius: the issue you found was not fixed by removing the calc() func.) I will deal with that over the next week or so. @ Nakon: I hope you (or another admin) will see fit to make this change for me when you have a moment.
Thank you to Mr. Stradivarius, xaosflux, SMcCandlish, 日本穣, and Nakon for comments and assistance. — RossO ( talk) 08:39, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I recently added additional top-division leagues to the sidebar under Current sporting seasons > Football (soccer) 2017, which were removed. After initiating a related discussion on the deleting editor's talk page, I'd like to open the discussion to others for input.
The section title in the sidebar is Current sporting seasons. Should all current sporting seasons for football/soccer (including top women's leagues) be included in the sidebar? My edit was done to optimize space and keep each country's listing on one line, where possible. For some countries, there is more than one men's league listed. Hmlarson ( talk) 21:47, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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On Thursday, Lyft announced a new self-driving car partnership with the Mountain View-based startup Drive.ai 72.95.104.248 ( talk) 23:28, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
I have surveyed the Archive pages and found that the years 2003 and 2004 were not migrated to the one-page-per-day-included format that most all other years have followed. I have begun migrating them, starting with Portal:Current events/January 2003. I will continue to update the remaining ~23 pages over the next few weeks. This work falls under my efforts to make the Current Events portal have a mobile-friendly layout. Anyone who is interested in the work I'm doing can see my notes here: User:RossO/sandbox. Please reach out to me if you have any questions. — RossO ( talk) 22:12, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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<span id="coordinates">[[Portal:Current events/Edit instructions|Edit instructions]]</span>
<span id="coordinates" class="noprint">[[Portal:Current events/Edit instructions|Edit instructions]]</span>
This link, like section edit, purge, and other non-content convenience links, should be noprint. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 03:45, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Please unlink Khoramshahr missile, it goes to the city with the name, not to anything the viewer would seek from news.-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 11:55, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
I have continued my efforts to cleanup the portal archives in support of making the pages mobile-friendly. I have just completed day 3 of my second survey of the month pages. I would appreciate comments here on changes and progress I've made.
I'm working on a prototype to replace the hand-coded Month pages with a small Lua script that will generate all of the necessary content for the Month pages in an automated fashion. With such a tool in place it will be easy to migrate the archives to a mobile friendly layout today and support archive-wide changes in the future as well. — RossO ( talk) 19:23, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Survey completed: I finished my survey of the archives for code issues and inconsistencies. See my Day 3 report for details.
Module created: I have created the module and it comprises the following pages:
Currently this module will only fill in the initial paragraph, but I expect to add arguments that will allow it to express the parts needed to support the layout of the page contents. Comments and questions are greatly appreciated. If there are no significant concerns noted in the next 4 days, I will begin replacing the intro paragraphs on the archive pages with this module call. — RossO ( talk) 20:09, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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In the Nobel Prize news, change "Americans" for "United States scientists". The United States of America is not the whole of America, and it's a very common mistake for U.S. citizens to use this word to refer to their country, when obviously it refers to the whole of the Continent. 201.224.130.142 ( talk) 15:36, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of white space between the empty "Wednesday 11th" box and yesterday's "Tuesday 10th" box. Usually I can fix this by removing white space from one of the boxes and then purging, but I'm stuck this time. I'm using Firefox 56.0.1. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:34, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Module extended: I have updated the Monthly Archive module module to produce the structural code for the flexible layout.
All: Take a look at the source code to compare the sandbox versus the Original. Nearly all of the content is generated and no longer needs to be manually maintained. I would really like to get feedback from anyone familiar with the technical aspects of modules (cough, Mr. Stradivarius, cough) specifically the workload that they add to the system and whether the approach I'm prototyping is reasonable, rational, and responsible. — RossO ( talk) 18:23, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
template
parameter to the module, to make it render using a different template than
Template:Current events monthly archive/display. Then you can make one template that just displays the calendar, one that displays the intro blurb, etc. —
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If wikipedia is truly an encyclopaedia, it is paramount that the growing and ongoing tension between Catalonia and Madrid in Spain are given consideration in the current events news. You do not need a Phd in History to appreciate that this could be the prelude a civil war. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.187.169.251 ( talk) 19:26, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
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This branch/thread was broken off of the previous starting paragraph. — RossO ( talk)
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MOS:PSEUDOHEADs in the content, to improve screen reader output and keyboard navigation.
Matt Fitzpatrick (
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pseudoheads and older ones not. I'll work on the regex for the bot once I've looked through older pages and checked their format, but it shouldn't be hard.
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width:12em
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20:20, 9 November 2017 (UTC)So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Looks like the same issue that hit us back in October, as per this archived Talk page topic, is back again. I'm going to go ahead and ping Mr. Stradivarius and John of Reading as they seemed to figure out the problem last time. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 04:03, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
All the monthly archives currently begin with the text "This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from <month> <year>". The page Portal:Current events was created in June 2006, so from that month onwards the text is fine. From, I think, January 2002, the content was compiled day by day, as the events unfolded, but on some other page - the logs and history are rather complex, but see the edit summary here. Those archives need a different heading, perhaps "This is an archived version of Wikipedia's coverage of current events from <month> <year>". All the pages before that aren't really archives at all; they were compiled months or years after the events listed in them, and are still being created today. Questions:
@ RossO and Malmcp85: -- John of Reading ( talk) 10:26, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Under the heading Syrian Civil War, there is a link to a story from Sputnik News. Does Wikipedia consider that organization to be a valid news source? 159.83.54.2 ( talk) 17:26, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
A user named Malmcp85 decided to extend the portal backward all the way to Portal:Current events/December 1994. That user, however, put many events in the text of the pages themselves rather than in transcluded daily subpages. Also, on some of the pages, such as Portal:Current events/January 1996, the user did not even put any events on the pages at all. All of the necessary subpages have now been created, with some copying events added on the month page itself, but most just copying events from the corresponding section of the year article. We cannot extend the portal backward forever, however, since December 1981 and many earlier months since January 1900 are well-sourced articles. Perhaps an RfC is needed to determine where we should set a cut-off point for this portal. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 02:20, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Why are Iranian protests on the main page as "ongoing", but not the 2018 Tunisian protests? Smells a bit biased, "Iran is the bad guy to the US, so let's cover their problems, but we don't care about Tunisia". FunkMonk ( talk) 00:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I think we should be very careful as to whether to mention a tsunami in Wikipedia's current events section. We need to understand that not every tsunami is on the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami. Tsunami statements actually happen more than most people think. Most of them get cancelled pretty quickly. Nevertheless, if a tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat is issued. PLEASE take it seriously. Get to high ground if you are by the coast. Tsunamis can move up to 500 miles per hour. And yes, a tsunami warning was issued in this instance.
What I am concerned about is the use of Wikipedia as a hazard warning system as it is operated by amateurs who are not tsunami experts. With tsunamis, warnings can be issued and cancelled within hours. On Wikipedia and on Current Events, citing sources is important, but we need to remember that newspaper articles are timebound and limited to the time of publication. Currently, something is written on there in present tense in a warn-the-masses kind of thing. If we do wish to use Wikipedia to be an alert relay system, perhaps Wikipedia should collaborate with tsunami warning centers. I think the warning has been cancelled, but I'm not an expert* on this, so I don't have the wisdom as to whether it should be taken down. I don't want to remove it if I shouldn't, but I don't think it should have been up there in the first place.
Regarding different tsunamis: Whenever there is an earthquake underwater, there is a risk of a tsunami. This happens relatively frequently. An issue arises when the earthquake is very strong. The Alaska earthquake was 8.2 according to one source, and that is a level of intensity we need to pay close attention to, as that magnitude creates great potential for an enormous tsunami. Yet the type of fault and amount of plate motion involved is what truly makes tsunamis giant (ie. the Indian Ocean one 2004.) This Alaskan earthquake was at a strike-slip fault which means that things move side to side (with very little up and down vertical action), which has the least danger for a giant tsunami. The Indian Ocean tsunami was an underwater Megathrust earthquake at a subduction zone (meaning where an oceanic plate is colliding and sinking beneath another plate, which involves vertical action ). These kinds of earthquakes are extremely dangerous for tsunamis at megathrust earthquakes because the plates move a considerable bit and tsunamis happen because of displacement of water. Strike-slip earthquakes don't displace much water. But a seismologist was surprised that this was a strike-slip earthquake as typically earthquakes in this area are thrust earthquakes [1]
To give you an idea of the contrast between this earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, In the Indian Ocean earthquake, 1000 miles of fault moved 50 feet. This created 100 foot waves in some places. I do not have data on how much the fault moved in Alaska, but the waves created were maximum 0.7 feet.
Because tsunamis travel at 500 miles per hour (800-some kilometers per hour), there is very little time to evaluate if there will be a significant wave, so the priority is taking action right away.
David Hale, a lead decision maker at the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska said this, "We don't have the luxury of time to be able to gather the data necessary to determine whether there is or is not a wave," Hale said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. [2]
Note: I am NOT trying to undermine the authority of tsunami warning centers. LISTEN to them. Follow their instructions. Get to higher ground. If the sea recedes, do NOT go into the area to collect seashells. That means the wave is about to inundate.
My concern is that using Wikipedia for tsunami alerts is that it is not run by professionals, usually, information changes by the minute, and without proper constant, up-to-the-minute updating, it could be wrong, only serve to cause panic, and other implications. At least people know tsunamis are dangerous and should be cause for concern and action; however, in a disaster, communication matters. Not only are lives at stake, trust is at stake, and this trust can save lives at other times. I don't think most Wikipedians are qualified to properly convey a tsunami threat. Even though I have a considerable amount of knowledge and insight on this, I do not consider myself qualified to be an emergency communications manager for when there is a tsunami. I would like to hand that over to the professionals. I'm also concerned that if one tsunami gets into Wikipedia's current events section, then there is a potential for every single tiny and cancelled tsunami to make it onto the page. Are there exceptions where we should put things about an ongoing tsunami on Wikipedia Current Events? Sure. If we had another incident like the 2004 event, where there is immediate damage and is going to spread globally with devastation, we need to go right ahead and put something on there. But we need to use proper discretion. Anyways, I'm not an expert on this or the warning process system. I have studied plate tectonics in depth, but I have not worked in a tsunami warning center control room, so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. Bottom line is to listen to tsunami warnings if they are issued and get to higher ground.
I think all warnings have been cancelled, but if we get to a point where we are sure, we should change the text from
2018 Alaska earthquake A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. A tsunami warning is issued for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and the entire U.S. West Coast is placed under a tsunami watch. Areas of Alaska remain under a tsunami advisory. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
to
2018 Alaska earthquake A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. A tsunami warning was issued for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and the entire U.S. West Coast was placed under a tsunami watch. A tsunami advisory was issued for parts of Alaska. All warnings, watches, and advisories have been cancelled. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
So I think at some point we should clarify this, but in the future, I think we should be more careful before putting tsunami information down.
Thanks, - TenorTwelve ( talk) 09:07, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43105171 there doesn't seem to be an article on this, or am I missing it?-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 09:50, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
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I have added a template for creating month archive pages: {{ Current events portal month archive}}. – Nixinova ⟨ T| C⟩ 19:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
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Please change the info about Tiangong. It has re-entered over the South Pacific at aprox. 00:16 GMT JustAnotherWikiUser0816 ( talk) 01:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
What are all the categories for news items? Alex of Canada ( talk) 18:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
I corrected the reference to what's going on in Gaza on April 7th from "protests" to "riots" because the "protesters" have been throwing stones and firebombs and burning tires. The edit was reverted back by someone with a slanted view of what's going on.
There is no MOS for Current events, but I think moving headlines with subject pages (format "* ARTICLE: \n ** HEADLINE") to the start of the subheadings.
For example, instead of:
It would be written as:
(This was just an example; if the topic article was "reactions to [the previous]" then it would stay the same as 2001/9/11, but in any other circumstances the above should be the format.)
Thoughts? Nixinova T C 08:04, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
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No other pages have something like that, so is it really necessary? Alex of Canada ( talk) 23:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
We have to remove the Rif Dimashq offensive from the list of things going on, since it ended 2 weeks ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AbhiramKapaganty ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Most Portals may be eliminated but this page is useful and high traffic and no one wants to delete it. Current events is just a redirect to News and would be a suitable place to host this page. Or put it at Wikipedia:Current events which is a redirect to this page. Legacypac ( talk) 17:43, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Many users have supported moving this page to Wikipedia space in the RfC. Removing this one from the discussion would make things much clearer. Legacypac ( talk) 18:44, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
a reckless deletion policy. 37.228.247.83 ( talk) 20:05, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
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Regarding the Nashville Waffle House Shooting where the bullet says: "A naked man, Travis Reinking of Illinois ...", please change it to "A partially naked man, Travis Reinking of Illinois ...", read the included sources and they say clearly that he was wearing a green jacket.-- John Cline ( talk) 19:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC) -- John Cline ( talk) 19:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
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In the sports section of 23 April, Matt Campbell was a semi-finalist of MasterChef: The Professionals, according to the source cited.
Also shouldn't the birth of the British royal baby be on there? — Gyaro – Maguus— 00:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi. I assume that more than one person covers the news as it occurs and posts it for Wikipedia. There may even be several people who do it. Why would the news not got posted for, what is now 6 days in a row, without having coverage by someone else who is remaining to tend the embers of Wikipedia's daily presentation? Is someone asleep? I don't mean to be impolite at all, but I don't know how else to phrase the obvious question or whom to pose it to. How does this happen in an awake world? Regards to whom it may concern. Stevenmitchell ( talk) 10:01, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
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When viewing the Current Events page on a narrow screen (mobile device) the sidebar boxes would be more easily viewed if they were to shift down to the bottom of the layout rather than using a simple float:right. I'm unsure how to go about this myself, even in putting together a sample layout. While WP has a long way to go before incorporating a mobile-first mentality, it would be an easy win to get this layout issue dealt with. If there is an example of a page that supports the mobile layout in this fashion, I would be happy to review it and see how it would apply to the Current Events portal page.
I have deconstructed the page and identified that the layout is HTML table-based. Perhaps a more responsive layout will simply be a mater of using a non-table-based layout technique? I have a sandbox version of the page to work up an alternative now. — RossO ( talk) 04:19, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Can an administrator please admonish Farolif ( talk · contribs) for his disruptive editing at WT:Current-Events-Sidebar. Specifically he seems to take issue with the addition of an Argentine minister of culture and a Chinese provincial party chief (highest office of a province), questioning their "notability" and reverting without discussion. This user has had numerous previous offenses with this type of behavior as evidenced on his talk page. Colipon+( Talk) 04:18, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
I notice after the most recent muslim truck attack it's not on the frontpage despite multiple casualties, yet after the 'white supremacist' car attack which killed only one, it was on the frontpage before you know it. Also don't see the news of the guy getting stabbed by radical leftists for 'not denouncing nazism strongly enough'. Imagine my shock 2A00:23C4:E0AA:4200:E5D1:ECC9:5A96:DDA5 ( talk) 16:44, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
They should be added to ongoing disasters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex of Canada ( talk • contribs) 21:09, 5 August 2017 (UTC) Edit: there is an article on it now. Please insert. /info/en/?search=2017_British_Columbia_wildfires — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex of Canada ( talk • contribs) 07:50, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
There were two big boat wrecks in Brazil this week, at least 39 people died in those wrecks: 1) https://www.shipwrecklog.com/log/2017/08/comandante-ribeiro/
3) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41042849
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"In women's golf, the United States win the Solheim Cup" should be "In women's golf, the United States wins the Solheim Cup". HapHaxion ( talk / contribs) 21:06, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
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The headline "The Supreme Court of India rules that the practice of instant divorce is unconstitutional." is ambigious in its context. It can be construed that instant divorce is a common practice in India, however this practice is only applicable to a specific religious group and is not a common practice, as can be mistakenly construed.
Please resolve the ambiguity in context.
The suggested change in headline is "The Supreme Court of India rules that the Islamic practice of instant divorce is unconstitutional." Pvpoodle ( talk) 07:53, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
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Over the past few weeks I have worked up a set of code changes for the Current Events page that will improve display on mobile devices. The key changes have been to wrap the right column down underneath the primary column and then make sure the content of both columns expand to be full width. The use of the flexbox css styling is perfect for this purpose. (An alternate approach of using columns seems to be un reliable when it comes to column of unequal widths.)
I have created a set of Sandbox pages that show the changes that are necessary to implement this layout update and included links to display the diffs that show the exact changes I'm suggesting.
I would like an admin to make the following changes:
As only the first change requires admin permissions, I am able and happy to make the second two changes if the overall project effort is accepted.
Thank you to Mr. Stradivarius, xaosflux, and SMcCandlish for comments already made. — RossO ( talk) 18:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
:css{
width = '100%',
float = 'initial',
-- Next 2 lines are temporary until release
float = 'right',
width = 'calc(100% - 15px)',
-- Previous 2 lines are temporary until release
...
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float
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keys, they overwrite the contents of the first ones. Is this what you intended? Also, what does "temporary until release" mean? Isn't the release what we are proposing to do now? Best regards —
Mr. Stradivarius
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and -- Previous 2...
, inclusive) can be removed. They will no longer be needed as the primary layout will use flexbox styling to control the gutters. That should resolve the Firefox and Chrome issues. Thank you, again, for your time.
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06:54, 20 August 2017 (UTC)@ Nakon: I'm not seeing any objections to the change. I would appreciate it if you could apply the changes I've outlined. Or, if you can do the first one, I'm happy to apply the 2nd and 3rd. Thanks! — RossO ( talk) 17:20, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Even with recent improvements to this page and to Template:Current events header by User:RossO, the layout tables are still causing minor visual problems with mobile skin, especially at tablet widths, 720 px and up. See Template:Current events header/testcases. I've sketched out Template:Current events/sandbox as a possible tableless replacement going forward. But it would change the syntax, something along these lines:
From:
{{Current events header|2017|08|30}}
<!-- All news items below this line -->
'''News'''
* Something happened today, making it a current event.
<!-- All news items above this line -->|}
To:
{{Current events|2017|08|30|content=
<!-- All news items below this line -->
'''News'''
* Something happened today, making it a current event.
<!-- All news items above this line -->}}
Would this be acceptable? Pinging Cyberpower678 since this affects his bot. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 18:56, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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The portal now renders in a single column for mobile devices. There will be additional updates to various components to improve the display on narrow-width devices. There is one additional set of changes that need to happen in order for the desktop layout to return to a proper proportion in some instances.
I would like an admin to make the following changes (after line 6):
This change will take care of some margin issues and deal with the category issue noted by 194.50.51.252. It will NOT resolve the mobile layout issue. (@ Mr. Stradivarius: the issue you found was not fixed by removing the calc() func.) I will deal with that over the next week or so. @ Nakon: I hope you (or another admin) will see fit to make this change for me when you have a moment.
Thank you to Mr. Stradivarius, xaosflux, SMcCandlish, 日本穣, and Nakon for comments and assistance. — RossO ( talk) 08:39, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I recently added additional top-division leagues to the sidebar under Current sporting seasons > Football (soccer) 2017, which were removed. After initiating a related discussion on the deleting editor's talk page, I'd like to open the discussion to others for input.
The section title in the sidebar is Current sporting seasons. Should all current sporting seasons for football/soccer (including top women's leagues) be included in the sidebar? My edit was done to optimize space and keep each country's listing on one line, where possible. For some countries, there is more than one men's league listed. Hmlarson ( talk) 21:47, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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On Thursday, Lyft announced a new self-driving car partnership with the Mountain View-based startup Drive.ai 72.95.104.248 ( talk) 23:28, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
I have surveyed the Archive pages and found that the years 2003 and 2004 were not migrated to the one-page-per-day-included format that most all other years have followed. I have begun migrating them, starting with Portal:Current events/January 2003. I will continue to update the remaining ~23 pages over the next few weeks. This work falls under my efforts to make the Current Events portal have a mobile-friendly layout. Anyone who is interested in the work I'm doing can see my notes here: User:RossO/sandbox. Please reach out to me if you have any questions. — RossO ( talk) 22:12, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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<span id="coordinates">[[Portal:Current events/Edit instructions|Edit instructions]]</span>
<span id="coordinates" class="noprint">[[Portal:Current events/Edit instructions|Edit instructions]]</span>
This link, like section edit, purge, and other non-content convenience links, should be noprint. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 03:45, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Please unlink Khoramshahr missile, it goes to the city with the name, not to anything the viewer would seek from news.-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 11:55, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
I have continued my efforts to cleanup the portal archives in support of making the pages mobile-friendly. I have just completed day 3 of my second survey of the month pages. I would appreciate comments here on changes and progress I've made.
I'm working on a prototype to replace the hand-coded Month pages with a small Lua script that will generate all of the necessary content for the Month pages in an automated fashion. With such a tool in place it will be easy to migrate the archives to a mobile friendly layout today and support archive-wide changes in the future as well. — RossO ( talk) 19:23, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Survey completed: I finished my survey of the archives for code issues and inconsistencies. See my Day 3 report for details.
Module created: I have created the module and it comprises the following pages:
Currently this module will only fill in the initial paragraph, but I expect to add arguments that will allow it to express the parts needed to support the layout of the page contents. Comments and questions are greatly appreciated. If there are no significant concerns noted in the next 4 days, I will begin replacing the intro paragraphs on the archive pages with this module call. — RossO ( talk) 20:09, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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In the Nobel Prize news, change "Americans" for "United States scientists". The United States of America is not the whole of America, and it's a very common mistake for U.S. citizens to use this word to refer to their country, when obviously it refers to the whole of the Continent. 201.224.130.142 ( talk) 15:36, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of white space between the empty "Wednesday 11th" box and yesterday's "Tuesday 10th" box. Usually I can fix this by removing white space from one of the boxes and then purging, but I'm stuck this time. I'm using Firefox 56.0.1. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:34, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Module extended: I have updated the Monthly Archive module module to produce the structural code for the flexible layout.
All: Take a look at the source code to compare the sandbox versus the Original. Nearly all of the content is generated and no longer needs to be manually maintained. I would really like to get feedback from anyone familiar with the technical aspects of modules (cough, Mr. Stradivarius, cough) specifically the workload that they add to the system and whether the approach I'm prototyping is reasonable, rational, and responsible. — RossO ( talk) 18:23, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
template
parameter to the module, to make it render using a different template than
Template:Current events monthly archive/display. Then you can make one template that just displays the calendar, one that displays the intro blurb, etc. —
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If wikipedia is truly an encyclopaedia, it is paramount that the growing and ongoing tension between Catalonia and Madrid in Spain are given consideration in the current events news. You do not need a Phd in History to appreciate that this could be the prelude a civil war. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.187.169.251 ( talk) 19:26, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.
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This branch/thread was broken off of the previous starting paragraph. — RossO ( talk)
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MOS:PSEUDOHEADs in the content, to improve screen reader output and keyboard navigation.
Matt Fitzpatrick (
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pseudoheads and older ones not. I'll work on the regex for the bot once I've looked through older pages and checked their format, but it shouldn't be hard.
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width:12em
from the editlink div (and the white-space:nowrap
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20:20, 9 November 2017 (UTC)So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Looks like the same issue that hit us back in October, as per this archived Talk page topic, is back again. I'm going to go ahead and ping Mr. Stradivarius and John of Reading as they seemed to figure out the problem last time. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 04:03, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
All the monthly archives currently begin with the text "This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from <month> <year>". The page Portal:Current events was created in June 2006, so from that month onwards the text is fine. From, I think, January 2002, the content was compiled day by day, as the events unfolded, but on some other page - the logs and history are rather complex, but see the edit summary here. Those archives need a different heading, perhaps "This is an archived version of Wikipedia's coverage of current events from <month> <year>". All the pages before that aren't really archives at all; they were compiled months or years after the events listed in them, and are still being created today. Questions:
@ RossO and Malmcp85: -- John of Reading ( talk) 10:26, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Under the heading Syrian Civil War, there is a link to a story from Sputnik News. Does Wikipedia consider that organization to be a valid news source? 159.83.54.2 ( talk) 17:26, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
A user named Malmcp85 decided to extend the portal backward all the way to Portal:Current events/December 1994. That user, however, put many events in the text of the pages themselves rather than in transcluded daily subpages. Also, on some of the pages, such as Portal:Current events/January 1996, the user did not even put any events on the pages at all. All of the necessary subpages have now been created, with some copying events added on the month page itself, but most just copying events from the corresponding section of the year article. We cannot extend the portal backward forever, however, since December 1981 and many earlier months since January 1900 are well-sourced articles. Perhaps an RfC is needed to determine where we should set a cut-off point for this portal. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 02:20, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Why are Iranian protests on the main page as "ongoing", but not the 2018 Tunisian protests? Smells a bit biased, "Iran is the bad guy to the US, so let's cover their problems, but we don't care about Tunisia". FunkMonk ( talk) 00:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I think we should be very careful as to whether to mention a tsunami in Wikipedia's current events section. We need to understand that not every tsunami is on the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami. Tsunami statements actually happen more than most people think. Most of them get cancelled pretty quickly. Nevertheless, if a tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat is issued. PLEASE take it seriously. Get to high ground if you are by the coast. Tsunamis can move up to 500 miles per hour. And yes, a tsunami warning was issued in this instance.
What I am concerned about is the use of Wikipedia as a hazard warning system as it is operated by amateurs who are not tsunami experts. With tsunamis, warnings can be issued and cancelled within hours. On Wikipedia and on Current Events, citing sources is important, but we need to remember that newspaper articles are timebound and limited to the time of publication. Currently, something is written on there in present tense in a warn-the-masses kind of thing. If we do wish to use Wikipedia to be an alert relay system, perhaps Wikipedia should collaborate with tsunami warning centers. I think the warning has been cancelled, but I'm not an expert* on this, so I don't have the wisdom as to whether it should be taken down. I don't want to remove it if I shouldn't, but I don't think it should have been up there in the first place.
Regarding different tsunamis: Whenever there is an earthquake underwater, there is a risk of a tsunami. This happens relatively frequently. An issue arises when the earthquake is very strong. The Alaska earthquake was 8.2 according to one source, and that is a level of intensity we need to pay close attention to, as that magnitude creates great potential for an enormous tsunami. Yet the type of fault and amount of plate motion involved is what truly makes tsunamis giant (ie. the Indian Ocean one 2004.) This Alaskan earthquake was at a strike-slip fault which means that things move side to side (with very little up and down vertical action), which has the least danger for a giant tsunami. The Indian Ocean tsunami was an underwater Megathrust earthquake at a subduction zone (meaning where an oceanic plate is colliding and sinking beneath another plate, which involves vertical action ). These kinds of earthquakes are extremely dangerous for tsunamis at megathrust earthquakes because the plates move a considerable bit and tsunamis happen because of displacement of water. Strike-slip earthquakes don't displace much water. But a seismologist was surprised that this was a strike-slip earthquake as typically earthquakes in this area are thrust earthquakes [1]
To give you an idea of the contrast between this earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, In the Indian Ocean earthquake, 1000 miles of fault moved 50 feet. This created 100 foot waves in some places. I do not have data on how much the fault moved in Alaska, but the waves created were maximum 0.7 feet.
Because tsunamis travel at 500 miles per hour (800-some kilometers per hour), there is very little time to evaluate if there will be a significant wave, so the priority is taking action right away.
David Hale, a lead decision maker at the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska said this, "We don't have the luxury of time to be able to gather the data necessary to determine whether there is or is not a wave," Hale said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. [2]
Note: I am NOT trying to undermine the authority of tsunami warning centers. LISTEN to them. Follow their instructions. Get to higher ground. If the sea recedes, do NOT go into the area to collect seashells. That means the wave is about to inundate.
My concern is that using Wikipedia for tsunami alerts is that it is not run by professionals, usually, information changes by the minute, and without proper constant, up-to-the-minute updating, it could be wrong, only serve to cause panic, and other implications. At least people know tsunamis are dangerous and should be cause for concern and action; however, in a disaster, communication matters. Not only are lives at stake, trust is at stake, and this trust can save lives at other times. I don't think most Wikipedians are qualified to properly convey a tsunami threat. Even though I have a considerable amount of knowledge and insight on this, I do not consider myself qualified to be an emergency communications manager for when there is a tsunami. I would like to hand that over to the professionals. I'm also concerned that if one tsunami gets into Wikipedia's current events section, then there is a potential for every single tiny and cancelled tsunami to make it onto the page. Are there exceptions where we should put things about an ongoing tsunami on Wikipedia Current Events? Sure. If we had another incident like the 2004 event, where there is immediate damage and is going to spread globally with devastation, we need to go right ahead and put something on there. But we need to use proper discretion. Anyways, I'm not an expert on this or the warning process system. I have studied plate tectonics in depth, but I have not worked in a tsunami warning center control room, so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. Bottom line is to listen to tsunami warnings if they are issued and get to higher ground.
I think all warnings have been cancelled, but if we get to a point where we are sure, we should change the text from
2018 Alaska earthquake A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. A tsunami warning is issued for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and the entire U.S. West Coast is placed under a tsunami watch. Areas of Alaska remain under a tsunami advisory. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
to
2018 Alaska earthquake A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. A tsunami warning was issued for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and the entire U.S. West Coast was placed under a tsunami watch. A tsunami advisory was issued for parts of Alaska. All warnings, watches, and advisories have been cancelled. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
So I think at some point we should clarify this, but in the future, I think we should be more careful before putting tsunami information down.
Thanks, - TenorTwelve ( talk) 09:07, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43105171 there doesn't seem to be an article on this, or am I missing it?-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 09:50, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
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I have added a template for creating month archive pages: {{ Current events portal month archive}}. – Nixinova ⟨ T| C⟩ 19:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
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Please change the info about Tiangong. It has re-entered over the South Pacific at aprox. 00:16 GMT JustAnotherWikiUser0816 ( talk) 01:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
What are all the categories for news items? Alex of Canada ( talk) 18:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
I corrected the reference to what's going on in Gaza on April 7th from "protests" to "riots" because the "protesters" have been throwing stones and firebombs and burning tires. The edit was reverted back by someone with a slanted view of what's going on.
There is no MOS for Current events, but I think moving headlines with subject pages (format "* ARTICLE: \n ** HEADLINE") to the start of the subheadings.
For example, instead of:
It would be written as:
(This was just an example; if the topic article was "reactions to [the previous]" then it would stay the same as 2001/9/11, but in any other circumstances the above should be the format.)
Thoughts? Nixinova T C 08:04, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
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No other pages have something like that, so is it really necessary? Alex of Canada ( talk) 23:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
We have to remove the Rif Dimashq offensive from the list of things going on, since it ended 2 weeks ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AbhiramKapaganty ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Most Portals may be eliminated but this page is useful and high traffic and no one wants to delete it. Current events is just a redirect to News and would be a suitable place to host this page. Or put it at Wikipedia:Current events which is a redirect to this page. Legacypac ( talk) 17:43, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Many users have supported moving this page to Wikipedia space in the RfC. Removing this one from the discussion would make things much clearer. Legacypac ( talk) 18:44, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
a reckless deletion policy. 37.228.247.83 ( talk) 20:05, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
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Regarding the Nashville Waffle House Shooting where the bullet says: "A naked man, Travis Reinking of Illinois ...", please change it to "A partially naked man, Travis Reinking of Illinois ...", read the included sources and they say clearly that he was wearing a green jacket.-- John Cline ( talk) 19:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC) -- John Cline ( talk) 19:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
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In the sports section of 23 April, Matt Campbell was a semi-finalist of MasterChef: The Professionals, according to the source cited.
Also shouldn't the birth of the British royal baby be on there? — Gyaro – Maguus— 00:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)