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4	Marilyn Tremaine ( talk)	Add sources
13	World's Largest Buffalo ( talk)	Add sources
25	Lemmon, South Dakota ( talk)	Add sources
2,291	Software testing ( talk)	Add sources
9	Rushmore Cave ( talk)	Add sources
131	Charlie Utter ( talk)	Add sources
50	Oliver Kamm ( talk)	Cleanup
1,266	James Gordon (comics) ( talk)	Cleanup
1,664	Crimea ( talk)	Cleanup
17	Lovelorn Leghorn ( talk)	Expand
17	Sigurd Raschèr ( talk)	Expand
175	Personalization ( talk)	Expand
288	Strong and weak typing ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
296	Clone Wars (Star Wars) ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
418	Class (computer programming) ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
728	Quora ( talk)	Merge
27	Kuro5hin ( talk)	Merge
170	List comprehension ( talk)	Merge
6	Mountain View-Whisman School District ( talk)	Wikify
20	Etruscan jewelry ( talk)	Wikify
449	Secret Warriors ( talk)	Wikify
3	Hazel Hannell ( talk)	Orphan
40	Kahoot! ( talk)	Orphan
6	ZeroCater ( talk)	Orphan
6	South Dakota Public Universities and Research Center ( talk)	Stub
4	Elk Mountains (South Dakota) ( talk)	Stub
13	South Dakota Board of Regents ( talk)	Stub
80	.gd ( talk)	Stub
6	Carlile Junction, Wyoming ( talk)	Stub
0	COACH e-Health Conference ( talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Tech News: 2015-40

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

In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [1]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [2]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [3]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [4]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [5]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [6]
MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [7]

Problems

Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [8] [9]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 ( calendar).
There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [10]
The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [11]

Meetings

You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [12]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 13

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior ( talk · contribs), Ocaasi ( talk · contribs), Sadads ( talk · contribs), Nikkimaria ( talk · contribs)

New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

Read the full newsletter

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:30, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2015

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania

In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism

Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators

Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?

Tech news: Tech news in brief

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [13]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [14]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 ( calendar).
UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [15]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [16]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [17]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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1,791	Peanut ( talk)	Add sources
48	Metro Transit (Minnesota) ( talk)	Add sources
120	Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack ( talk)	Add sources
37	Custer County, South Dakota ( talk)	Add sources
690	Human–computer interaction ( talk)	Add sources
264	Malbolge ( talk)	Cleanup
99	Three.js ( talk)	Cleanup
1,408	Virtual reality ( talk)	Cleanup
6	Index of Wyoming-related articles ( talk)	Expand
141	Logo of Wikipedia ( talk)	Expand
704	Conscientious objector ( talk)	Expand
2,425	War in Donbass ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
70	Covert racism ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
76	Shermy ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
344	Media type ( talk)	Merge
67	Pacific Lutheran University ( talk)	Merge
495	Hobbit ( talk)	Merge
6	Rainy River Community College ( talk)	Wikify
3	Reinhold Seeberg ( talk)	Wikify
1	School of Business (HiOA) ( talk)	Wikify
343	Data lineage ( talk)	Orphan
0	Gustavus Library Associates ( talk)	Orphan
7	Arts in Rome ( talk)	Orphan
82	DirectFB ( talk)	Stub
41	Langtang ( talk)	Stub
10	Michael Cisco ( talk)	Stub
2	South Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( talk)	Stub
2	Mark A. Heckler ( talk)	Stub
9	Register Cliff ( talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption

Traffic report: Reality is for losers

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?

Tech News: 2015-42

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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [18]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 ( calendar).
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [19]
Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [20]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2015

Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States

Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence

News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death

Featured content: A fistful of dollars

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid

Tech News: 2015-43

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

Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [21]

Problems

A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [22]
Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [23]
The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [24]

Changes this week

Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [25]
Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [26] [27] [28] [29]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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25	Northwest Accreditation Commission ( talk)	Add sources
13	History of Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( talk)	Add sources
241	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( talk)	Add sources
1,146	Rhetoric ( talk)	Add sources
283	GRASP (object-oriented design) ( talk)	Add sources
433	2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine ( talk)	Cleanup
880	Software bug ( talk)	Cleanup
101	Line wrap and word wrap ( talk)	Cleanup
81	Territory ( talk)	Expand
3	Cliché (Hush Hush) (song) ( talk)	Expand
94	Alberobello ( talk)	Expand
394	Long tail ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
66	Black Hills Land Claim ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
129	Young Lords ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
78	Bert (Sesame Street) ( talk)	Merge
214	Bert and Ernie ( talk)	Merge
14	Folding editor ( talk)	Merge
59	Reiser4 ( talk)	Wikify
340	Greater Khorasan ( talk)	Wikify
18	Little Chute, Wisconsin ( talk)	Wikify
8	Psychographic filtering ( talk)	Orphan
1	WeeVis ( talk)	Orphan
8	Disabled Veterans National Foundation ( talk)	Orphan
11	John M. Carroll (information scientist) ( talk)	Stub
96	Ahead-of-time compilation ( talk)	Stub
17	George S. Mickelson Trail ( talk)	Stub
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5	The Reed ( talk)	Stub
4	Steve Whittaker ( talk)	Stub

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Invite to the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Art edit-a-thon

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2015, 12pm–4pm
Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art Friends Community Room, 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis
Sponsor: Minneapolis Institute of Art

You are invited to attend an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon at Minneapolis Institute of Art which will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2015. This editing event is dedicated to improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to women artists.

For more information and to RSVP: → click here ←, you may register online for the event or call (612) 870-6323

-- gobonobo ⁺ ^c 21:08, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 October 2015

Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched

In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"

Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

Featured content: A more balanced week

Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing

Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet

Technology report: Tech news in brief

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5

Newsletter • October 2015

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

We did it!

In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.

Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.

Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The work continues!

There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation support WikiProjects?

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.

Until next time,

Harej ( talk) 09:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 ( calendar).
The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [30]
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [31] [32]
When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [33] [34]
Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [35]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Learning Quarterly: October 2015

L&E Newsletter / Volume 2 / Issue 6 / October 2015
Learning Quarterly

Frontpage:
#LearningTogether
#ProgramResources

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

Grow the Awesome:
Will University students edit in their free time?

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns
you can contribute to.

MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2015

From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help

News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles

In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA

Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying

Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement

Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth

Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community letter: Five million articles

Tech News: 2015-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [36]
If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [37]
Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [38]

Problems

On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [39]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [40]
Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [41]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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