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Tech News: 2017-37 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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. Problems Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar). OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes. Meetings You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org. New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox writer The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox writer. Legobot (talk) 04:37, 14 September 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2017) A spelling error on a road sign Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Spelling Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pond hockey • Calorie Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions Tech News: 2017-38 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 contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC) New Page Reviewer Newsletter Hello MRD2014, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages! Backlog update: The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day. Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today! Technology update: The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225 General project update: On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page. Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it. To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC) G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:Damian Cotter Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 19 September 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 19 September 2017 (UTC) G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:Chi (company) Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 20 September 2017 (UTC) G13 Eligibility Notice The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Draft:Lockhart's Mountain Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 21 September 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Unreferenced The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Unreferenced. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 22 September 2017 (UTC) Thanks! Hi MRD, thank you for your comments at my RfA. I hope that I'll be able to answer your concerns with my actions rather than my words. Cheers, ansh666 23:07, 22 September 2017 (UTC) @Ansh666: You're welcome and congratulations on becoming an admin. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 00:30, 23 September 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017) George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014 Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: George Lazenby Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Spelling • Pond hockey Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 25 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions The Signpost: 25 September 2017 News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues Humour: Chickenz Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications Gallery: Chicken mania Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative Traffic report: Fights and frights Featured content: Flying high * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:20, 25 September 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-39 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 Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. Changes later this week You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar). Meetings You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change. You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Sex characteristics The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Sex characteristics. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 27 September 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Citing sources The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Citing sources. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2017) Ivan Tsarevich, a hero of Russian folklore Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Hero Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: George Lazenby • Spelling Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions Query to do not delete the page Draft:Insurance Inclusion Good evening, My user is MartinSaenz. I just created the page Insurance Inclusion, considering that this concept is not explained in Wikipedia. I believe that the changes I am proposing are well fundamented and cited. I hope this page can contribute to the promotion of insurance markets, especially in developing countries and or for underserved people and businesses. I am afraid that my proposal was deleted. I will appreciate your assistance to find the way to create this page about INsurance Inclusion. Best MartinSaenz — Preceding unsigned comment added by MartinSaenz (talk • contribs) 02:41, 2 October 2017 (UTC) @MartinSaenz: I don't think it's getting deleted. The first time you created it, it had just "ZZZ", so it got deleted as a test page, per section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You re-created it, and it is now a draft and not a test page. At this point, it should only be deleted if it is not edited for six months. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 02:47, 2 October 2017 (UTC) Follow up - Draft:Insurance Inclusion Good evening, Thank you very much for your prompt response to my last message. Which process do I need to follow to convert "Draft:Insurance Inclusion" from a Draft version to a permanent page? Best regards, MartinSaenz If you have 10 edits and 4 days' tenure, you can move the page to mainspace. If not, you can send it through Articles for Creation by adding {{subst:submit}} to the page. Even if you can move pages, I still recommend the latter option. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 11:58, 2 October 2017 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – October 2017 News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017). Administrator changes Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box Guideline and policy news Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them. Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators. Technical news You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work. Arbitration Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11. A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-40 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 You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. Changes later this week If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC) Page protection Re this edit: sometimes there is a backlog of hours at RFPP. I was going round in circles with this idiot who had ignored repeated warnings in a very short space of time, and felt that ANI was the best solution. The newly created account was a classic example of a SPA designed to disrupt.-♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 13:14, 3 October 2017 (UTC) @Ianmacm: Yes, sometimes I use ANI for things like that, but usually only if it is urgent. Otherwise I would go to RFPP. If it’s backlogged, you can always leave a note at WP:AN. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 15:06, 3 October 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox World Heritage Site The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox World Heritage Site. Legobot (talk) 04:35, 4 October 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2017) Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Circular reporting Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Hero • George Lazenby Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 9 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions Please comment on Talk:Ducati Monster The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Ducati Monster. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 9 October 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-41 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 number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. Problems You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. Changes later this week The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 13 October 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2017) A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Fire sprinkler Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Circular reporting • Hero Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions Tech News: 2017-42 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 When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers. Problems There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. Changes later this week Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Username policy The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Username policy. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 17 October 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Legobot (talk) 04:30, 21 October 2017 (UTC) New Page Reviewer Newsletter Hello MRD2014, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages! Backlog update: The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day. We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive. Technology update: Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel. General project update: The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look. To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2017) A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Little John Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fire sprinkler • Circular reporting Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions The Signpost: 23 October 2017 News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office! Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables Humour: Guys named Ralph In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example In the media: Facebook and poetry Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 23 October 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-43 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 You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. Changes later this week When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC) Please comment on User talk:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on User talk:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 25 October 2017 (UTC) Please comment on MediaWiki talk:Sp-contributions-footer-anon The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on MediaWiki talk:Sp-contributions-footer-anon. Legobot (talk) 04:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2017) Choreographed dancing at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show in 2015 Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Choreography Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Little John • Fire sprinkler Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions Tech News: 2017-44 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – November 2017 News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017). Administrator changes Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93 Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite Technical news The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page. A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text. Arbitration Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10. Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections. Obituaries The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:50, 2 November 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:White power The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:White power. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 3 November 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2017) "Pay no more than Ceiling Prices", WWII U.S. poster Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Price ceiling Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Choreography • Little John Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions Tech News: 2017-45 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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. Changes later this week The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar). Meetings You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. 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Legobot (talk) 04:29, 11 November 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017) An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.) Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Illusion Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Price ceiling • Choreography Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 13 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions