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User page query

Hi Keith. Do you think this is OK? I wasn't sure and I'm not an admin and didn't want to get up the guy's nose unnecessarily. It's not the most offensive thing I've ever seen here (!) but I did worry a little about its wisdom. But maybe it's fine. Would you mind having a look please? Thanks! Best wishes DBaK (talk) 21:48, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, had a look and it could be a bit provocative to other users. May be drop them a note on talk page to see if they would mind changing it to less offensive wording. Keith D (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I have had a little try. Watch this space ... best wishes DBaK (talk) 22:22, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Looks like someone thinks it is a sock account and has blocked it. Keith D (talk) 22:27, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Yup - I've been overtaken by events it would seem. Ho hum. Thanks anyway for your help. DBaK (talk) 22:29, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [1] [2] [3] [4]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [5] [6]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [7] [8]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [9]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [10]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [11]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [12] [13]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [14] [15] [16]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [17] [18]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Keith D. You have new messages at Talk:Longnewton.
Message added 10:22, 31 May 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

DBaK (talk) 10:22, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [19]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [20]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [21] [22]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [23]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [24]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [25] [26]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [27] [28]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [29] [30]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [31]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2014

Delivered June 2014 by MediaWiki message delivery.
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01:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Bramhope Tunnel

Hi Keith. Please could you kindly look at what is happening to the above article, and its talk page. Today and yesterday there has occurred a large number of edits made by a single editor to this Good Article, in which a few valid copyedits were made, many arbitrary and unnecessary changes to language were made, some erroneous changes to content/meaning were made, and some updates which may have been valid but not discussed in advance on the talk page. In the middle of this massive edit, your own valid copyedit, removing the word "was" was reverted for no good reason by the same editor. I have reverted all of this accumulated two-day edit, and put a message on the talk page asking for discussion before each detail is changed. However this editor may respond in a problematic manner, as has happened previously regarding edits of Wetherby Town Hall, so this is why I am asking you whether you could please kindly monitor the situation and intervene if/when you see fit. Thank you. --Storye book (talk) 11:27, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [32] [33]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [34] [35]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [36] [37] [38]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [39] [40]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [41]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [42]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [43] [44]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [45] [46]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [47] [48] [49]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [50] [51]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [52]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Yorkshire Newsletter

Hello mate, I'm aware that you're behind the Wikiproject Yorkshire Newsletter, which I receive monthly for being a member of Wikiproject Yorkshire. I've had an idea, I was wondering if it would be possible in future to advertise the Leeds Wikimedia meetups? It is going to be our third meet-up in Leeds (the only current one in Yorkshire) and we'd like to get a bigger turn out of Yorkshire wikipedians. I think the Wikiproject Yorkshire Newsletter would be a great opportunity to notify Yorkshire wikipedians of the Leeds Wikimedia meetups. I think many Yorkshire wikipedians are unaware of the meetups in Leeds and this is a great opportunity for Yorkshire Wikipedians to meetup and discuss all things Wikipedia and Yorkshire. It'd also be an opportunity to expand Wikiproject Yorkshire. The next meetup is this Saturday. Kind regards IJA (talk) 17:03, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, many thanks for the idea, will not be possible for the one this weekend but if I know about it the month before it happens then I could publicise it in the monthly newsletter. You can write a paragraph that I can insert into the newsletter if you like or if I know it is coming up then I can put something together to see if we can get more people to attend or get involved. Keith D (talk) 18:17, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Cheers Keith. The newsletter goes out towards the beginning of the month, so next time I'm aware of another meet up, I'll inform you before the newsletter goes out. There was a York meet up back in 2011, I'm going to try and sort out another one at some point. Regards IJA (talk) 18:38, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

• You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

• You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [53]
• When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [54] [55]
• You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [56] [57] [58] [59]
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [60] [61] [62]

Future software changes

• Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [63]
• You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [64]
• You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [65] [66]
• It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [67] [68]
• Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [69]
• The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [70]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
• You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [71]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

changes

Hi, or as someone said to me a short while ago, heyup, and I had to stop and think as it was a long time since I’d heard that It’s nice to know someone is taking an interest in my hard work, I had a quick look at your profile and it says you are a male native speaker of English, like me, but then it sez thas from Yorkshire; you are also an exile, again like me, probably doing missionary work, but you’re daan sarf and I’m oop north just over the border in Durham County But down to the nitty gritty. You had altered my Yorkshire Cup articles, and I bow to your greater superior knowledge re your comments on the text box (although the text box on my first article on the Lancashire cup, yonks ago, was modified by A N Other), so please carry out any modification required and also reference the bolding (which was my error and is easily rectified). However, I disagree with your change to the wording, which now doesn’t make sense. The Yorkshire cup is a metal article and not an occasion, and it was held by the winning captain/team, the occasion was the date The articles were rough checked by several friends prior to entering on Wiki, and speaking to them since, they agree that “mine is better than yours” Maybe my phrasing wasn’t perfect, but rather than both of us playing silly things, I would like to hear more of your thoughts on the errors in my phrase I’m sure between us we can come up with the perfect answer, Thanks in anticipation Alan Alanfromwakefield (talk) 10:24, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, the change I made was to bring the articles in line with the WP:MOS where it indicates the articles normally start with the article title in bold text. As the first word would be a number I inserted the word "The" before this as you do not start sentences with a number. The name of the competition is presumably Yorkshire Cup so the way I phrased it was suitable indicating it was the competition that took place in that particular year. Keith D (talk) 11:32, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Settle railway station

I've corrected the page number of the reference. Mjroots (talk) 15:52, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Change of date format in footnote on number format on Triumph TR7 Sprint

I shall have to check the certificate referenced in the article, but I think the format that was used is that on the certificate being referred to. And since this is a footnote specifically on the subject of numerical format, and on the basis of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Quotations, titles, etc., I shall return the article to using that format and make it clear that this is a reproduction of what is there, despite that being a format that is deprecated by the MoS, whatever the reason for that may be.

The only alternative I can see would be to cite a reference in the footnote, which seems to me to be a bit too incestuous.

Graham.Fountain | Talk 08:11, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

There was rather a mixture of date formats in the article and standardising it seemed appropriate. None appeared to be direct quotes and so appeared to be modifiable. Keith D (talk) 09:29, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [72] [73]
• When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [74] [75]
• You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [76] [77]
• You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [78] [79]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [80] [81]
• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [82]
• CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [83]
• You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [84] [85]
• An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [86]

Problems

• On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
• Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [87]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-27

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [88] [89]
• A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [90] [91]
• VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [92] [93] [94] [95]
• Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [96] [97]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [98] [99]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
• CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [100]
• All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [101] [102]
• Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [103]
• You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [104] [105]
• You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [106]

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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2014

Delivered July 2014 by MediaWiki message delivery.
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00:34, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Referencing

Hi Keith. As you know recently I've been adding quite a few articles on Lincs Grade I churches - a happy hunting ground. I would like advice on referencing architectural detailing. National Heritage, Kelly's, Cox and Pevsner are good sources, but in abbreviated form and typically very limited, which I develop somewhat elaborately, and enthusiastically stray into involved description based on photos I've taken, and use this within the info from the sources above. I am a little uncomfortable about this kind of thing which might be seen as original research and hiding non-reffed stuff within reffed—something I come down hard upon in others—even though the pictures show clearly the fact of the written detail. Can I use an inline citation link to the photos on Wikimedia to prove the text ? Am I straying onto dodgy ground with the developed text ? Any advice ? Acabashi (talk) 13:06, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi, difficult one this best advice I could locate was this which seems to imply that they are not useful as sources but can be used to give obvious descriptive details. Hope this helps. Keith D (talk) 13:26, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I suppose if the "descriptive details" use could be seen as reasonable, how do I point to the details in photos. I think I will get further advice from the Wikipedians involved in that discussion. Acabashi (talk) 14:11, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

I have opened up a discussion on this here. Thanks. Acabashi (talk) 15:24, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Smoggie

Hi Keith. Would you consider a semi-protect on this one please ? Thanks. Acabashi (talk) 22:08, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Looks sensible, I have given it a month semi-protection for now. If it needs longer then let me know when protection lapses. Keith D (talk) 22:13, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [107]
• It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [108] [109]
• You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [110] [111]

VisualEditor news

• Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [112] [113]
• You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [114] [115] [116]
• When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [117] [118] [119]
• The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [120]
• Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [121] [122] [123]

Future software changes

• Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
• A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [124]
• If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [125] [126]
• Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [127] [128]
• Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [129] [130]

Problems

• Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [131] [132]
• For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [133] [134]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Bramhope Tunnel and Talk:Bramhope Tunnel

Hi Keith. Please could you kindly give me some advice on this one? It's the same problem and technically so far I've done two reverts (one compound 8 June, one simple 8 July). I don't want to do a third. I have explained the difficulty at great length and detail on the discussion page. I think the editor concerned believes he/she is well-intentioned, but has so far been unable to learn that his/her edits are not helpful. The editor is also refusing to discuss on the talkpage before editing.--Storye book (talk) 14:37, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi, cannot immediately think of what to do with this one. There is some engagement on the talk page which is at least promising but resorting to IP edits is not very helpful, especially as it leaves a red-link in the infobox. The new section on the accident needs looking at as the English needs sorting out as it does not read right in places. I think that all you can do is to try and engage the editor on the talk page and to correct errors they introduce. If there are specific content problems then you could try Third opinion or Request for comment but probably over the top. Hope this helps. Keith D (talk) 21:43, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Template:cite doi RfC

Because you commented at this discussion, I would appreciate your views at this RfC on the larger issue of DOI templates. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:24, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Informal note

Hey, I notice that you have HighBeam access and you seem to have a few topicons. That being said, if you are interested, I've created {{Wikipedia:HighBeam/Topicon}}. No reply to this message is necessary (and I won't see it unless you ping me), just wanted to let you know it was available. Happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 23:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [135] [136]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [137] [138]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [139] [140] [141]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [142]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [143]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [144] [145]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [146]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [147] [148]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [149] [150]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [151] [152]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [153]

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07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [154] [155] [156]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [157]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [158] [159]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [160]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [161]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [162]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [163]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] [169]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [170]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [171]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [172]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [173]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Bradford History

Hi there. I am new to wiki and noticed your edit of Bradford page. I am not sure yet how to edit. I think 3 important events are missing and wondered if you might add them. Even if it just a sentence for each event The wool combers strike 1825 The planned chartist uprising (to join in with Newport uprising Dec 1839) in Jan 1840 The 1842 plug riots (general strike ) at Halifax when Bradfordians marched to Halifax , some armed

All the best — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.237.93 (talk) 13:59, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

I have put in a sentence about the wool-combers strike as I found a place to fit it into the text, though I could not find the page number for the reference as Google books did not give the page numbers. I could not find anywhere to fit the other items into the text as it stands. If you have any suggestions then I can revisit. May be we need to think about creating a History of Bradford article to give more details. Keith D (talk) 01:25, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

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Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

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• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [174] [175]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [176]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [177] [178]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [179] [180]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [181] [182]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [183]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [184] [185]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Fryatt

Hi, I was just wondering where you found the names of Matty Fryatt's parents? Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 22:53, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Used the GRO Index on ancestry.co.uk. Keith D (talk) 22:55, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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01:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-32

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Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [186]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [187] [188] [189]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [190]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [191] [192]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [193] [194]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [195]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [196] [197] [198] [199]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [200] [201] [202] [203]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [204] [205]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [206]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [207]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [208]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [209]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Check edit

Hi. I recently tagged a new user's article for deletion. I then checked their contribs and saw they made this change to an article which you'd previously reverted a similar edit. I'm assuming you know something about this athlete then, so could you please check if this edit is also vandalism? Thanks, Brambleclawx 22:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks like someone has already reverted this. I assumed it was vandalism as the height change what rather drastic and was not in accordance with the external link on the page. Keith D (talk) 22:52, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Consider unblock

User_talk:Ulfarf | You denied this user's unblock request under If you can pledge to avoid any other promotional activities, and outline what topics you would like to contribute to instead, it may be possible to move forward. As it is, you don't appear to be acting transparently. The user has done that, but in a rambling motion, but done it nonetheless. However, I like to assume good faith to exponential proportions, so as a result I am going to request that you unblock the user under the condition that they are banned from linking to any external site pending community consensus to the contrary as a term for unblock. Reblocks are very cheap, and a single edit out of line and it'll be back to indef. I know that you doing such does not seem very likely, so I won't fault you if you decline my request. I just want to see what articles they'll contribute to other than spamming links, given the condition of the ban on that specific portion. So in summary, I want you to give him some rope and he'll hang himself if he does it again. Tutelary (talk) 01:53, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for delay in responding but internet connection appears to be very poor at the moment and have only just managed to achieve a connection, after several tries during the day. I was the one who blocked the user, the denial you quoted above was by User:Kuru. I will take a look and see if an unblock is suitable though you will have to monitor the user's contributions closely to see if they overstep the mark. Regards. Keith D (talk) 17:49, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Suggest unprotect

Years ago you protected {{Track gauge/metric}} (edit talk history links # /subpages /doc /doc edit /sbox /sbox diff /test) (then named {RailGauge/metric}). Since the parent template is in Lua now for a year, this one is abandoned and deprecated. I suggest you remove the protection. -DePiep (talk) 18:59, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Same for its abandoned twin sister {{Track gauge/imperial}} (edit talk history links # /subpages /doc /doc edit /sbox /sbox diff /test) . -DePiep (talk) 19:15, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

 Done Keith D (talk) 20:29, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33

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• Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [210]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [211]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [212]

Future software changes

• Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [213] [214] [215]
• If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [216] [217]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [218] [219]
• An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [220]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-34

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• There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [221] [222] [223]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [224] [225]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [226]
• You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [227]
• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [228]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [229] [230]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Jahraldo-Martin

caluam jahraldo-martin has no squad number at hull city this year so why are you and others continually adding him to the squad list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.248.212 (talk) 16:52, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Because he has not left the club and made appearances in the pre-season matches - it does not matter if he has a squad number or not. Keith D (talk) 17:06, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

So you make up your own rules re Caluam Jahraldo-martin saying "it doesn't matter" if that's the case then what's the point of Wikipedia? factually incorrect information put on here by people like yourself. He isn't listed in the squad, has no squad number, and shouldn't be on the list. You also shouldn't be making up your own rules either — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.248.212 (talk) 08:10, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

can u answer the question re your cyber bullying and making up your own rules re Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.248.212 (talk) 09:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

You mis-read what I said. I said that a number is not the criteria for being in the list it is presence on the roll of the club. Caluam Jahraldo-Martin is still with the club as he played during pre-season so should be in the list. What evidence have you that he has left the club apart from absence from the players page? Keith D (talk) 10:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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