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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.
March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.
The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

You Are Always Welcome

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.
Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.
Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.
If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.
Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

If You Listen

Thank you for your message. The boredom is that my knowledge in English is mediocre and I often turn to the on-line translator. So, I am always afraid that my texts are incorrect or incomprehensible. It is true that for London I shall have of notice some error. Regards Lézard (talk) 11:13, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

James George Barbadoes

Thank you for your comments and corrections, I would like to make this wikipedia as accurate as possible. Once the corrections are made will the "disambiguation pages" warning be removed from the Top of the James George Barbadoes Wikipedia?

Bot notification for disambig page creators?

Would it be possible to create a bot that finds instances where an editor moves an existing page with incoming links, and then creates a disambiguation page at the original title, and leave a note (after a suitable time) asking that editor to please fix the incoming links resulting from that page move? An example of what I have in mind would be this message I recently left to a User who has been doing exactly that. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:44, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Correction

Thanks for your message.I fixed my article Al-Meshkhab district according to your advise.Bassammahdi (talk) 16:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.
Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.
The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.
2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.
Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.

Orphaned images

Hi Jason. Is there any chance that http://toolserver.org/~jason/orphaned_images.php and http://toolserver.org/~jason/Verwaiste_Bilder.php will become available on toollabs one day? I miss your tools. --Leyo 18:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) no need to miss them. Find them at http://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:11, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Great. Then, some link fixing is needed. I've already completed this in de.wikipedia. --Leyo 22:14, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Done also in en.wikipedia. --Leyo 16:58, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Problem with DPL Bot

DPL Bot added a notice to the disambig Ainslie Wood of multiple links. Most relate to Template:Local Nature Reserves in Greater London, which is on almost all the pages listed on the disambig fix list, but I fixed this on 26 April. However, DPL Bot still keeps putting up the out of date notice. Can you advise what the problem is and how to fix it? Thanks. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

I just received a DPL bot message with the following non-boilerplate contents:

Mantra
added a link pointing to Katha
Æ
added a link pointing to Ligature

The message about Æ was accurate, and I've fixed that link. But while I also edited Mantra recently, I don't remember linking to katha... and in fact the Revision History says:

The version history of Mantra is being searched for katha as plain text
500 versions found
  • Comparing differences in 06:36, 24 September 2012 between 250 and 251 while coming from 499:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 10:47, 20 March 2011 between 374 and 375 while coming from 250:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 19:09, 24 November 2010 between 436 and 437 while coming from 374:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 03:15, 2 October 2010 between 467 and 468 while coming from 436:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 07:24, 11 September 2010 between 482 and 483 while coming from 467:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 09:12, 26 July 2010 between 489 and 490 while coming from 482:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 04:03, 17 July 2010 between 492 and 493 while coming from 489:OO [Search from here]
  • Comparing differences in 00:58, 15 July 2010 between 493 and 494 while coming from 492:OO [Search from here]
katha was already present in the first revision found dating from 13:36, 28 June 2010.
There are probably earlier revisions. [Search from here]
Execution time: 28 seconds

Please {{ping}} me if you want to discuss this. --Thnidu (talk) 19:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Just wanted to drop you a line and say how much I LOVE the DPL bot. One of the best I have seen. SO useful!!!! Zackmann08 (talk) 18:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

[1] and related pages have not been updated/run in over 2 days. Special:Contribs/DPL bot shows useless edits to User:JaGa/Short leaderboard because the tool has not been updated, but the bot is still updating from old data. KonveyorBelt 22:40, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.
Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.
artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.
Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.
Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.
Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.
There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.
Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

Downloading "Disambiguation pages with links" data

Is there a way to download the data on the "Disambiguation pages with links" page? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:29, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

I would like to download the data so I can compare against articles in a couple projects so these articles can be corrected. Please let me know if it's possible. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:16, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.
British media reports on Wikipedia editing to articles of Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prior to the May 7 United Kingdom general election from IP addresses assigned to Parliament.
To many, Internet Relay Chat is an old relic, but not to Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has an IRC help channel designated to help and assist editors with editing Wikipedia.
Fifteen featured articles, four featured lists, and six featured pictures were promoted this week.
Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.
As usual for the time of year, pop culture rules this week. The start of summer vacation in the US means a focus on summer movies, particularly blockbuster sequels Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.
...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.

JA GA, PLEASE ACCEPT THIS TOKEN AND SIMPLE NOTE OF THANKS...FROM A VERY SIMPLE MAN.

BE WELL, -RONALDSeawind Alliance (talk) 21:44, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks so much from Origen 22 (researcher = writer, not editor nor actor).... Seawind Alliance (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.
Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..
More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap
The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.

POTD notification

POTD

Hi JaGa,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:San Francisco Ferry Building (cropped).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 27, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:52, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.
"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."
UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.
The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.
This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.
We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.
A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.
It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.
During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.
The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...
The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

DPLbot

I don't see why I should have to opt out. I never opted in. It is your responsibility as a bot owner to make sure DPLbot behaves responsibly. It is not my responsibility, as a humble editor, to mend your ways. Now please delete your DPL bot warning from my talk page, because it had no place to be there in the first place: complete abuse of your bot to start whacking shit on people's talk pages.

Do I make myself clear? I don't like bots, and I don't like yours. I am not going to talk or reply to a bot but the person who owns the bot, namely you. Si Trew (talk) 09:16, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.
A week now remains until the vote, expected on 9 July, when the European Parliament will express either its approval, disapproval, or lack of opinion on the question of freedom of panorama in the European Union.
Here to share their wisdom are Dodger67, Penny Richards, LilyKitty, and Mirokado of WikiProject Disability
Four featured list and twelve featured pictures were promoted this week.
For the week of June 21 to 27, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.
Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

Rejected reference to Spintronics

I cannot figure out what is wrong with the additional reference that I proposed to the Spintronics page. Don't you wish any additional references to this page, or the form of the reference was wrong? This is a standard reference to a paper published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). What is wrong with it? Thank you.--TooOldMan (talk) 13:36, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

The reference was fine, it's just you added a link to Rashba (click on it, you'll see the problem) instead of Emmanuel Rashba. I went ahead and took care of it. Nice contribution to the article, by the way. Cheers, --JaGatalk 23:14, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

It seems like a good time to discuss the various communications channels available to community members.
Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.
The mayor of Esino Lario warns that Wikimedia 2016 is "at risk of disappearing".
It's July 4 weekend and on this list that means only one thing: Wimbledon. Sure, the American Independence Day gets noticed too, but it can't hold a candle to that staggeringly British sporting event.
12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

The Signpost: 15 July 2015

"How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ...
However coy they may be about it in public, Americans love to win. And when they do, they make no secret of it.
We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.
In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.
Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.
One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community

Where is the template

I suppose the notification DPL bot drops in task #2 is a template somewhere. Where can it be found? Or is it part of the source code? Debresser (talk) 18:23, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

It's part of the source code. It's customized to give the right type of message depending on the number of articles to fix. --JaGatalk 02:56, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
I don't remember why I started to be interested in this. Perhaps the template opens a new section without leaving a whiteline between sections. Debresser (talk) 20:07, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
I'd appreciate it if you could look into this. Debresser (talk) 09:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
No problem. Could you show me an example? --JaGatalk 14:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes, that was the reason. Here you have a diff. [2] Debresser (talk) 16:33, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Did you have a chance to fix this? Debresser (talk) 08:40, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 July 2015

We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost.
Wikimania features remarks from some leading players from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the free knowledge movement.
WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.
Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.
Summary:When I was a kid, being a nerd meant wanting to go to Pluto.
WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom
Three featured articles, two featured lists, and 29 featured pictures were promoted this week.
46 years ago this week, humanity set foot on the Moon.
Community technical news.

The Signpost: 29 July 2015

An RFC proposes to create a "Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee" (BARC) composed of bureaucrats empowered to remove adminship rights.
Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum.
An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.
"Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."
Five featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
For the first time since this list began, India-related topics have claimed both the top two slots.

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

That particular artists would be omitted through oversight or happenstance is reasonable, but that one of the world's leading publishers of art books is completely unaware of their major omissions is startling.
The public interest in remembering the facts about trials and convictions is, in my view, at least as strong as any "right to be forgotten."
VisualEditor is now on slow roll-out on the English Wikipedia.
The Report checks in with WikiProject Templates.
The Indian government has launched an investigation into the source of Wikipedia edits regarding Jawaharlal Nehru that caused outrage in that country.
Death is no stranger to this list, but it has never cast such a pall as this week, when for the first time half the slots in the top 10 were devoted to it, including the top 3.
Three featured articles, seven featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.
What if there was a gathering place on Wikipedia for newer editors to find a mentor?

The Signpost: 12 August 2015

Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning.
The Atlantic discusses "The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay".
The community speaks out on paid editing.
Our ongoing Wikimanía coverage.
The charts are led this week by UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey, who won her last match at UFC 190 (#9) in 34 seconds.
Watch out for icebergs.
Wikimedia technical news.
During World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to Allied convoys travelling across the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea.

[[Harry, Braun, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Dear (JaGa), Thank you for noticing the defective Wikipedia link to "Constitutional Conventions." I failed to include (United States) in the link, but have now corrected the problem, thanks to your careful observations. Thank you again.Harry W Braun III (talk) 12:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Harry, Braun, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Dear (JaGa), Thank you for noticing the defective Wikipedia link to "Constitutional Conventions." I failed to include (United States) in the link, but have now corrected the problem, thanks to your careful observations. Thank you again.Harry W Braun III (talk) 12:37, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Respect to the AUC link in List of haunted locations in Colombia: Thank you :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juandavid ph (talk • contribs) 21:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Nothing makes Wikipedians more angry than a discussion of gender and feminism on Wikipedia.
A new article in PLOS ONE about Wikipedia's science coverage has attracted media attention.
This week's featured content.
Tony the Tiger tours New York City.
It's a long way from the leafy bowers of Greenwich, Connecticut to the concrete barrens of Compton, California.
Community technical news.
Wikipedia is capable of covering news like any news agency.

DPL Databases

DPL databases are not publicly readable (such as by tool), the database should end with _p. — Dispenser 04:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Not true. Have you tried lately? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:16, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Didn't see p50380g50692__DPL_p when I search the other day. — Dispenser 21:47, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 August 2015

Does the data mean good news for the encyclopedia?
The Russian Wikipedia is blocked, more blocks may be on the on the horizon.
Should paid event staff supplement the work of volunteers?
The Wikimedia Foundation's grant structure.
This week's featured content.
The recently closed Arbitration Enforcement case.
A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.

Move Watch

I said so on AN, but I guess this is a better place for the discussion. I'm already active at WMF Tools Labs (or whatever the right incantation is) and I'm up for a bit of development, if you're looking for someone to help out with Move Watch, or to take it over. I'm not familiar with the original tool - I guess I'm thinking something along the lines of querying for the database for the n users with the most page moves in the past m days and plot them as points on a scatter chart, with one axis the number of moves and the other axis the time since account creation. Each point on the chart is then a link to the editor's user page. Sound about right? n and m default to something like 1000 and 60, and I'm guessing an option for logarithmic axes will be useful. GoldenRing (talk) 14:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm going to have to review it myself - it's been a while since I bothered with it. If I remember correctly, I couldn't get the information I needed from the database, so I put together some crazy page content reading thing. I'm sure there's a much better way to do it, but for now I'm just going to see if I can get it working again. --JaGatalk 22:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Note that I've come up with my own tool, independently: See movestats. Is that the sort of thing that MoveWatch was intended to show, or was there more to it? GoldenRing (talk) 09:17, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Hey, that's really nice. That's it, but mine was more of a plain list format that gave grand totals for all pagemoves. I'll probably try to fire it up and show you the result. --JaGatalk 15:45, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Well, I've got it working again. Here's the page. Not pretty, but aimed squarely at getting a quick idea of who's moving what. --JaGatalk 13:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
I see. I might try to incorporate some of that information into my graphical display when I get a couple of hours (eg use colour to show rough edit count). GoldenRing (talk) 14:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Just wanted to say Kudos! for getting Move Watch back up and working again!! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:13, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Importing your DPL bot

Hi JaGa, I like your disambig bot very much and I think it could be very usefull in the Hebrew Wiki as well. When I asked about it, I was told by bot owners in the HeWiki to ask you if it's possible to import it with an easy translation. So, Is it? Liadmalone (talk) 01:38, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.
The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.
A conflict regarding fundraising banners on the Italian Wikipedia is resolved.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 August to 24 August.
Also vital statistics regarding Ja Rule.
The late-summer smash success of Straight Outta Compton remains the chief talking point of the English-speaking world, interrupted only by the welcome return of a Google Doodle.
Community technical news.

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

The National Library is now releasing some of the nation's most treasured collections to Wikimedia Commons for everyone to use and enjoy.
Tony1 interviews a prolific featured content participant, Ian Rose.
Fram tells us why DYK is a problem.
First bot-created article generated from Wikidata; the Orange Bar of Doom has finally met its doom; active editor numbers still on the rise; arbitrator to resign; ne templates added in wake of Orangemoody case
This week's theme in popular articles revolved entirely around mass media productions.
section begin "tech-newsletter-content"
A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

On Wikipedia's commitment to open access and its obligations to readers and editors.
WMF CFO to depart, notifications come and go, and questions about the possible editing by a recently arrested terrorism suspect.
Probably not. Also, Whitehall still editing Wikipedia.
This week's featured content.
No particular trends to spot in this week's top article traffic.
Community technical news.

DPL bot

Hi JaGa, I've just been notified by your bot and I'm considering how feasible is using it on my homewiki (it.wiki), then I have some questions for you. Does it run from labs? Do you release sourcecode in any way? Are you interested in running it elsewhere? What does it take to change localisation? Did I make too many questions? --Vituzzu (talk) 13:55, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
It dawned on me today how incredibly useful, practical, and unobtrusive DPL Bot is. An excellent job that enhances the encyclopedia. Gamaliel (talk) 12:27, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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Hi and thank you for pointing out my mistake. On the page there are visible co-ordinates for Rothes Castlewhich have been there in full view rather than a link but I do not know how to fix this. Please help. Thanks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dingerwarren (talk • contribs) 14:05, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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Kazakhstan and Wikipedia: A marriage made in hell.
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DAB Fix list; Still down?

Thanks for maintaining the Dab Fix list; it's a great tool, but I note that it has been down for a few days (at least, when I've tried). I did notice the forthcoming maintenance warning, but wondered when it might be back? Klbrain (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2015 (UTC) All looking fine to me for the last few days.Klbrain (talk) 23:12, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Ron Holden

We are not sure why nobody has done a page on entertainers. Many singers are also entertainers. Ron's a good example, but we have removed the link to The Entertainer per your request. User:Cozgem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.179.187 (talk) 19:26, 21 October 2015 (UTC)


CONCERNING JOE COLEMAN REFERENCE -

Please be so kind as to explain what you stated against addition of the page for Joe Coleman as any person reading the page in question would know who he and his father are and were ... Seems these far too many Wikipedia editors know nothing, or very little, about what they are editing / correcting / removing whereas we are sports historians / researchers / biographers, with more than 55 years of working experience, and in this particular instance know and knew both of the Colemans, son and father ...

Seems your time woiuld be much better spent on the many corrections on too many pages which are totally, completely wrong, adjusting bad or poor grammar, and so on, and not making continuing errors in removing accurate, true sections like recent important additions we made to the page for TOM CHEEK, per example, which neither his family nor we appreciate ...

In other words, why not do some solid thinking and some proper, further research before sending out waste of your time notices such as this ' disambiguation ' rubbish ...

Thank you very much for taking time to read this response.

PLEASE BE SO KIND AS TO SEND YOUR RESPONSE TO - CLAYMARSTON@HOTMAIL.COM -

COLONEL77

COLONEL77 (talk) 14:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi! Wanted to ask one question about Disambiguation pages with links. How did you deal with redirects? I have a similar query for Latvian Wikipedia, where redirects are ignored, but it would be nice to include them. Maybe you could post the SQL query here? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 11:58, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

PAGANISM a recognised religion in europe but not in america. Why not?

Why are pagans persecuted and derided in America? Why is paganism not taught in schools in Britain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.126.102.56 (talk) 01:56, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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The Melody-Maker

Thank you for letting me know about  the incorrect link on The Melody-Maker.I have corrected it with your help.Atlantic306 (talk) 11:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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Mobile friendlier

Put <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0"> on every dplbot page and iOS Safari/Android will stop rendering pages to a virtual 980px wide screen (Its all very IEtastic). — Dispenser 00:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Move watch down?

JaGa, I think Move Watch is down again, as no longer seems to be returning any results. Just so you know... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 07:19, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

An expanded bot role

Could DPL Bot take on the role discussed here? Or could you help to create a bot for that role? Thanks! —Swpbtalk 17:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

So I tried quickly building it off my mosdab_checker.js script. It shows the before and after status of an article. Its a long way from being bot ready. — Dispenser 04:40, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Hey JaGa. The dablinks and dab solver links used by DPL Bot don't seem to be working anymore (I get a 404 at least). I think it should be a simple fix, just change, for example with dab solver, http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/Article_title to http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Article_title. Likewise with dablinks, the change would be from http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/Article_title to http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py?page=Article_title. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 13:38, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Fixed Those are supported links which broke with a feature I added over the weekend. — Dispenser 16:35, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! Jenks24 (talk) 06:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Glossary of baseball index

Template:Glossary of baseball index has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 01:47, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

--Meher Mansion (talk) 14:16, 14 November 2015 (UTC)Thank you for pointing out the disambiguation pages which I have rectified.

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Paris and Diwali.

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:17, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

List of California Colleges and Universities

Silly Bot - you removed all of the counties that Wikipedia asked for in the page "List of California Colleges and Universities" ... I spent a lot of time adding them. I will try again so please don't delete the counties. Backgammom (talk) 01:45, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Backgammom

(talk page stalker) @Backgammom: Silly human. First of all, there is no page called List of California Colleges and Universities. I guess you probably meant List of colleges and universities in California. Second, JaGa's bot didn't remove anything from that page. The human user who did revert your edit left you a message on your user talk page saying what he did, and why he did it. Perhaps you overlooked it. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for calling to my attention my inadvertent error on the Newburgh (town), New York page. You are 100% correct. It was NOT my attention to link to a disambiguation page. I believe I have now corrected it. I did not know Mr. Gross was a former resident of Newburgh until I read his obit in the New York Times last week. I am now searching for that newspaper so that I can add it as a source. Nghtownclerk (talk) 15:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)nghtownclerkNghtownclerk (talk) 15:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Advice on the Teamwork Barnstar

Greetings JaGa.

If you'll kindly check my talk page you'll see that another user recently awarded me a Barnstar. While I much appreciate barnstars (as evidenced from my user page), I fear this particular case is inappropriate because the barnstar he used was the Teamwork Barnstar, and it does not appear that it was given to any other users as part of a "team". I was about to graciously decline when I decided to look up the origin of the Teamwork Barnstar in order to help craft my declination message. I see in the archives that you are the originator of this barnstar and that your initial proposal had that it could be given to an individual. As the progenitor of this award I'd like to know your thoughts, should I decline it or do you still believe it can be given to an individual?

Ironically when I finally get some time to look over all his work on the VAW squadrons I was going to either give that user a barnstar and/or nominate him for a wikiproject level award (I just don't have time in this part of the year)

Cheers, Gecko G (talk) 23:41, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Coimbatore-Salem MEMU for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Coimbatore-Salem MEMU is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coimbatore-Salem MEMU until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 05:29, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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Suggested improvements- meat before fluff

The bot works really well- I rely on you messages but have you ever considered making it less verbose- after nearly 20,000 edits I don't need a welcome, or to shilly shally around. I just want the meat. I am concerned that the email tells me on the first line - the article name, and gives a link to dabsolver. This is so I can see the meat in the email summary without having to open it. Similarly in the message- it is a bit jarring for a serial offender- how about

Hi.Looking at Council house, there is a wikilink to Labour party, which is a disambiguation page.

Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles it should be refined.Read the [[User:DPL bot/Dablink notification FAQ|FAQ]]{{*}} Join us at the [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|DPL WikiProject]].

I would like to do something like that, but I'm not sure how I would differentiate those who want the short message from others. Some sort of opt-in scheme? I'll give it a think, but it'll be some time before I could get to it. Thanks for the suggestion! --JaGatalk 02:08, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

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Apamin structure

Hi JaGa... I saw your structure for apamin on your user page, and am sorry but I need to point out it has two errors. There are bare C atoms on either side of one of the disulfide links. I suspect these should be CH2's, or even just have the C labels removed, but the structure as shown indicates C atoms with only two bonds. Regards, EdChem (talk) 12:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

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Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages - violation

Disambiguation pages#Given names or surnames "Articles only listing persons with a certain given name or surname, known as anthroponymy articles, are not disambiguation pages, and this Manual of Style does not apply to them."

By applying disambiguation rules to list articles you are violating Wiki standards and disambig rules. Please stop your bot. You have created great confusion. Please revert all the damage you have done to list articles.

Example: List of people with surname Spencer [edit] Shortcut: WP:APOLIST The Spencer (surname) has a good deal of content, so adding the full list of people with the surname would be excessive. There are enough persons with that surname to support its own list. List of people with surname Spencer is not a disambiguation page; it is a List.

Thank you. Jrcrin001 (talk) 18:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Can you provide a diff showing a specific edit made by User:DPL bot to the page List of people with surname Spencer? I am unable to find any such edits. Or, if that is not what you mean, please clarify. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:27, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
I got the same message from this editor. It's nonsense. bd2412 T 19:47, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Company Secretary

Many thanks for bot alert re my inadvertent link to the disambiguation page re stakeholders. Have corrected to stakeholders .--Observer6 (talk) 10:33, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

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DPL bot

I noticed that you don't really follow what is going on on the talkpage of your bot. That is not good (and I am sure there must be some guideline that bot operators must be attentive to talkpages of their bots). Please tell me I am wrong. Debresser (talk) 16:05, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

You're wrong. :) Not responding is not the same as not checking, so rest easy. --JaGatalk 19:54, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
I am glad to be wrong. Still, editors have a right to have their concerns addressed. Debresser (talk) 22:28, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for advising me that I had mistakenly linked to a disambiguation page - I have corrected that link

Bebe Jumeau (talk) 11:13, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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The Oscars, Super Tuesday, and Super Saturday"

Hello, not a robot, JaGa. I just want to thank you for bringing to my attention the disambiguation link notification for March 18[edit] you provided. I will check to make sure all is OK. Also, I had a cookie, thank you, and it wasn't stale!Magdalamar (talk) 17:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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Help with introducing a photo, please!

Hello JaGa. As you have been so patient with my disambiguations, I am getting the hang of it finally, could you advise me please on how to get a photo into an Infobox? The subject is John Young, City architect and surveyor. I have been sent a scan from the London Metropolitan Archives of his b/w 1860s photo and I have their permission to reproduce, providing I mention them and give the reference. I know I have to get it onto Wikimedia, but I have no idea of the pixels, or how to do it. I seem also to be jammed on the Infobox template, but can't see why. If you had a moment, I would be most grateful. --Po Kadzieli (talk) 00:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you, JaGa, for nudging me from my stupor!

Thank You so much, JaGa, for nudging me awake,
after I had groggily double bracketed a word
that then started pointing in scads of desperately disparate directions
while I lay, still stupidly sleeping  :—(
Wordsmith (talk) 12:42, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Hello JaGa

Am currently creating an article and i am through. Could you just check it for me? Thank you 

Dantunkuran (talk) 11:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Okie From Muskogee

Thanks so much!!! I corrected the entry!!!BinaryPhoton (talk) 11:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)BinaryPhoton

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