Tech News: 2015-23
15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 03 June 2015
- News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
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.
- Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
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.
- Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.
- Featured content: It’s not over till the fat man sings
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia’s performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
- Special report: Towards “Health Information for All”: Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..
- In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap
- Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
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.
Good article nominations
The page isn’t updating and hasn’t since 11pm last night. — Calvin999 20:02, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
- Bot got stuck due to last night’s labs outage. Manually kicked it and it’s running now. Legoktm (talk) 22:43, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Graphs in the Signpost
Hello, I’m looking around right now in the community in the hopes of finding someone with enough time and technical know-how on tap to put together data visualizations for the Signpost, using the new Extension:Graphs function. I thought I could do it but with my editorial duties I am run out of thread time-wise. This in particular is a first project of interest for visualization purposes, just for starters. Do you know anyone that you think might be willing take on this task? I ask because you have better traction with the tech community than I do; I hope we can eventually find someone we can rely on for these. Also @Yurik (WMF), Tbayer (WMF), Mr. Stradivarius, and DarTar: ResMar 03:11, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-24
15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 June 2015
- News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
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.
- Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
“Happy families are all alike,” Leo Tolstoy said, “but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion.”
- In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.
- Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma’am
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
- Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.
Tech News: 2015-25
15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Duplicate parameter args
Could you add support for mask1=, mask2=, mask3=, … in [20] for parsing User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn transclusions? it looks like you could accomplish this with a simple regexp replace before the arg parsing to replace ‘mask[%d]=’ with ‘mask=’. this will allow the removal of a bunch of pages from Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 23:08, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes (talk) 17:33, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes (talk) 15:44, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes (talk) 00:16, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
- now started a thread at Wikipedia:Bot owners’ noticeboard#Help with getting a response from a bot operator, since you don’t seem to be reading your talk page. Frietjes (talk) 19:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
- responded at Wikipedia:Bot owners’ noticeboard#Help with getting a response from a bot operator Frietjes (talk) 19:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 June 2015
- In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
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.
- Arbitration report: An election has consequences
The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.
- In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.
- Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
- Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
- Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
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.
- News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
- Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
Author’s note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.
- WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back
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.
Bot req
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 37 Perhaps it is time to take a renewed look.–BabbaQ (talk) 23:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-26
15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 June 2015
- From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
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.
- Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
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.
- Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu 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.
- Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it’s done
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
- Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
- Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.
- News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
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 …
- In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; “Can Wikipedia survive?”; PR editing
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.
- Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
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.
- Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
Clausewitz’ pithy summary of warfare as “politics by other means” seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.
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Tech News: 2015-27
15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Site notice
I’m sure you noticed, but you forgot a closing div tag on your site notice. TrueCRaysball | #RaysUp 21:09, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah, should be working now? Legoktm (talk) 21:11, 30 June 2015 (UTC)