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Filters and tags

How do they work? It says to report false positives. Recently, I added the bbc reports to some matches and on the filter log it says 'link spamming'. I also added the timestamp to the articles I had done before you left me that message. It says 'signing in article'. Should I report these as false positives? How does it work? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 17:29, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Unsure what you are trying to do, have you a diff of a change that causes the problem? At a guess the second problem is because you have entered 4 tilde characters rather than 5 and it thinks you are signing a post rather than giving a timestamp. Keith D (talk) 19:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

You mentioned that I should add timestamps after updating football appearances and goals to the infobox. I did this to the articles I edited before you told me about it. When doing this on the articles I'd already edited, it added Filter description: Signing in article to my filter log. On football seasons, today I added match reports from bbc. I did this, but it added Filter description: Link spamming. Should I report these as false positives? Could you guide me through it and how to do all my filter log mistakes at once (if possible). Thanks. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 19:17, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I have not come across a filter log. Had a look at all of the public logs and only see an entry for you creating an account. Can you give an article name and where it gives the message? Keith D (talk) 19:34, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

You can find it by going to the abuse log, and typing in the user 'Lees United FC fan'. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 19:47, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I mean 'Leeds United FC fan'. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 19:51, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Problem is where is this - when I select logs and enter your userid all I find is an entry for you creating an account, I get no entries in an abuse filter log. Keith D (talk) 19:55, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm very confused - is there another admin that answers the false positive page you could ask to join our conversation who could help? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 20:00, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Are you looking at your contributions such as this change which incorrectly indicates it is adding a user signature but actually correctly ads a timestamp. Keith D (talk) 20:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes and the BBC report links. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 20:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I think that the adding of the BBC URL is because you have been adding a number of these in quick succession and because you have made so few edits as yet. I think this will go away after a time. Keith D (talk) 20:07, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

So all these filter log things will go, or do I need to report them as false positives? It says to report 'false positives'. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 20:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I have ask someone else to butt in here so may be they will have more informed answers. Keith D (talk) 20:18, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks for your help. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 20:28, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Most edit filters work by testing the contents of the edit window against one or more regular expressions, they often also check the user's access rights and the tests are usually more sensitive for users who are not yet autoconfirmed. If there is a match, the edit filter will log the fact; in some cases, it can also warn the user, tag the edit so that somebody else can review it, or even reject the edit outright. The log for Leeds United FC fan (talk · contribs) is here, although I'm not sure if it's visible to non-admins. From that I see that Leeds United FC fan has triggered four filters a total of 48 times in four days, comprising:

• Filter 2 (Test filter: for testing private filters) once on 7 August 2015 on the article Sleights (example). I'm not sure what this one is for, it was set up by Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs).
• Filter 80 (Link spamming) twice on 9 August 2015 on the article 2015–16 Stoke City F.C. season (example). This one looks for external links being added by new users that are not being used as references.
• Filter 613 (Signing in article) 40 times on 8 August (20 different articles, example). This one is very simple: it looks for a sequence of three or more tildes being added to articles by new users. It therefore picks up a five-tilde timestamp.
• Filter 712 (Possibly changing date of birth in infobox) five times on 6-7 August (four different articles, example).

False positives should be reported at Misplaced Pages:Edit filter/False positives. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:41, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thank you, though I am able to see my filter log. As you have mentioned, false positives should be reported. Does this mean that I should report my log, as all edits have been in good faith? It mentions that bad faith reports could lead to a block. Should the private filter be reported also, as I am just fixing a grammar error? That could be classed as a bad faith report, as we don't even know the filter. What are the effects of the filter log? Do good faith edits on the filter log go away after time? Can I report multiple false positives at once? Is there a limit to this? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 07:18, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

I would report it if it's preventing you from making a genuinely valid edit. The four example edits that I linked were clearly not prevented; if you look at the log, you'll see that every entry has an "Actions taken:", which IIRC has four possible values: none; Warn; Tag; Disallow. You don't have any "Actions taken: Disallow" so all of those edits went through. If somebody has since reverted one or more of your edits, ask them why, and whether it was because of the edit filter log. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:29, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

So, I should not report my filter log? I noticed most people who have been on Misplaced Pages for years have very short logs. Do they disappear over time then? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 12:31, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

They're permanent; these are the oldest entries. But it's not a badge of shame: I'd ignore it unless there is a genuine problem, or if somebody sends you a message asking you to stop doing whatever it is that has triggered a filter. I've triggered filters myself, such as these two from earlier this year. Of those two, this was a revert of an improper edit; this was a new article. Nobody has challenged me on either edit. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:46, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Problem Editor

User 85.245.215.179 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is causing all sorts of havoc across various articles. They've even kept replacing user messages with a symbol meant to be a rude gesture. Help. Please. Crboyer (talk) 23:19, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I have blocked them for a month and reverted out their changes. Keith D (talk) 23:29, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33

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

• MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
• You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later.
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix.
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix.
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
• UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon.
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some things in the watchlist will get a new look.

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Date format in references

In Mobile country code, why did you change all the reference dates from e.g. "1 Dec 2010" to "1 December 2010"? MOS:DATEFORMAT specifically lists the "1 Dec 2010" format for references. Drahtlos (talk) 13:55, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

The article had a mixture of formats for dates from full dd-mmm-yyyy & mmm-dd,-yyyy to short for both of these and included some ISO dates. I selected what I thought would be an appropriate format for the dates and changed all to match that. As there is no space limitation, such as in a table, or brevity constraint, then I went for the full month names and as it was not specific to the US went with day first format. Keith D (talk) 16:17, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family

Hi Keith Imam hoping that you can check that my recent added citations are all correct on this page . Also, should the words "Lupton Hall' in the 20th century section at the end of the page, be in Italics - probably not according to another editor! Also, I have a drawing of the Lupton crest which we think should be on the page. It was done by me based on an old drawing given to me by a family member. What should I do? Cheers M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.217.169 (talk) 12:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I have had a look and changed the refs on the page to move information from the publisher field that is not a publisher, such as dates and page numbers. No obvious reason for "Lupton Hall" to be in italics so should not be italicised. The crest could be uploaded, as you are the author of it, though you will have to create an account to upload images. You will have to release it under one of our free use licenses so others can use it. Keith D (talk) 13:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Edward Davenport (fraudster)

Hi. I restored refs on Edward Davenport (fraudster), and a user Primefac has removed them. The edit history shows that he first removed them claiming they were "spam" and has now gone on to claim they are unreliable. Whilst not removing the text they are referencing. The refs are from official records and not unreliable at all. Needless to add, nor are they spam as they quite clearly reference what's in the article - this user falsely claims they are not in a bid to justify the edit, resulting in unreferenced text. Could you help?

2.98.131.59 (talk) 14:12, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Do not think that I can help here. The problem is that though they are copies of official records you have to make assumptions to locate the appropriate record which the last reversion indicates is original research. Keith D (talk) 10:33, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family

Hi Keith Do you mind checking if Refs 83 and 84 on Lupton family are correct - I have added an extra portion of a quote ton ref 83 and hope this is done correctly. Thanks so much M. E. R — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.217.169 (talk) 01:12, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Looks fine. I have tidied the second ref to reduce duplication. Keith D (talk) 10:16, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family again!

Ref number 94 on the Lupton family page is wrong and I cannot work out why. Please help again - you have been very helpful Thanks M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.217.169 (talk) 13:06, 15 August 2015 (UTC) (PS I have just seen your informative response regarding my queery about the inclusion of the Lupton crest on this page - Thanks again)

20015 is too far in the future. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:29, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing. Keith D (talk) 16:14, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

Hi Keith, I was told that ref. number 26 on the above page should be dome differently as it is from a book. Please help - I cannot do that! Thanks again, M 101.182.217.169 (talk) 11:18, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

You just have to use {{cite book}} in place of {{cite web}}. I have tidied up the page for you. Keith D (talk) 13:22, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

• Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Misplaced Pages article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
• Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
• You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family and Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

you are so reliable - I hope you can check ref. 106 on this Lupton family page - it is from an old newspaper report - is that OK? Also the same type of newspaper ref. on the 2nd page above - the last 2 refs. also - is Marquess of Lansdowne all OK and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne all OK. Cheers and thanks, you are invaluable! M101.182.221.219 (talk) 12:18, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Your comment at W. H. Auden

Hi KeithD; Thanks for your edit on the Auden Talk page. The author of that article seems to have requested that the peer review status be temporarily removed until they have a chance to update the article. If it is done and updated within the month (4-5 weeks) then I imagine the rating can stand as is. If it goes much beyond that or becomes indefinite then it seems that the status should be temporarily removed. Any thoughts on the best approach? MusicAngels (talk) 14:43, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

If you wish to remove the Good Article status then I suggest that you follow the procedure at Misplaced Pages:Good article reassessment, may be a community reassessment is called for by the comments of the main author. Keith D (talk) 20:54, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello. User MusicAngels has requested a reassessment of the page on W. H. Auden, and the request has some rather odd features that I think may be of interest to admins (including what seems to be a new kind of edit war - revenge by reassessment). The link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:W._H._Auden/GA1 I've made some comments on it, but I hope you might take a look at it and draw your own conclusions. Thanks. - Macspaunday (talk) 12:54, 22 August 2015 (UTC) - 12:53, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Keith; I did as you requested and started the formal GAR. No sooner was it posted there than the main editor involved began to publish a personal attack against both Harold Bloom and against myself. That editor appears to want to backpedal on his original promise to redraft and update the Auden article. I have spent a good deal of time to create the list of Auden updates which are needed and support them as submitted. They are needed for the benefit of the article improvement. That main editor has also just revealed previous edit conduct which I shall now need to investigate and of which that editor has not made any previous notification to me in the past. Please look at the GAR page and please offer some help against the personal attacks against both Harold Bloom and against myself. MusicAngels (talk) 15:08, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function.

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Keith D, apparently I've made a mistake in the Enrique Iglesias article because I didn't perceive the source that was next to his date of birth. I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience though. (N0n3up (talk) 02:34, 29 August 2015 (UTC))

Pippa Middleton

Thought you might be able to do a general check up on new refs. added today. eg; Should BBC ref. in "Parents" section be in italics? I think so! Cheers Srbernadette (talk) 07:54, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for delay in responding as I was away for a week without internet access. I have done a quick run though the refs and made some changes. Mainly italicising newspaper titles and moving date information out of publisher fields. Keith D (talk) 23:01, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead.
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9.

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Hull City

The Hull City page is not being updated, why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.172.38 (talk) 10:41, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

If you had cared to look earlier on the page I was away for a week without internet connection. Just be patient and it will eventually get updated as it appears to have been done. Keith D (talk) 23:05, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2015

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 89 - September 2015 August issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the eighty ninth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter. Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 12,031 last month to 12,045 on August 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 116 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,525 articles. Currently we have thirty four Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball There are also sixteen featured lists: York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. Article Activity History of York City F.C. PR started on July 30th [REDACTED] Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball featured as TFA on main page on August 1st List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) promoted to FL on August 7th Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal was nominated for GA on August 9th W. H. Auden was submitted for GAR review on August 21st Member News There are 76 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the August newsletter: The number of active members is still currently low. Thanks A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal. To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs. To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.  Great! Yorkshire articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total FA 2 1 15 60 78 FL 1 16 17 GA 2 7 36 180 225 B 9 67 137 372 585 C 5 146 304 1,518 1,973 Start 1 246 1,264 8,714 10,225 Stub 21 355 5,658 3 6,037 List 4 12 991 1,007 Category 3,926 3,926 Disambig 21 21 File 22 22 Portal 95 95 Project 228 228 Redirect 2 197 1,382 1,581 Template 624 624 NA 2 2 Other 9 9 Assessed 19 492 2,126 17,706 6,312 26,655 Unassessed 1 1 Total 19 492 2,127 17,706 6,312 26,656 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 97,426 Ω = 5.10 Assessment Assess and review As of 31 July 2015, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)  Thanks Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome! Aims After discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008. Specific aims for the project are:- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below) To recruit more active editors (See Member News) To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below) To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised. Priority Articles The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows - Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The September 2015 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page. Month Dates Article(s) B class choice Start class choice 65 1 May 2015 ~ 31 May 2015 Vale of York Yapham 66 1 Jun 2015 ~ 30 Jun 2015 Barnsley Central (UK Parliament constituency) Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire) 67 1 Jul 2015 ~ 31 Jul 2015 Holderness Acklam Hall 68 1 Aug 2015 ~ 31 Aug 2015 A15 road (England) Beck Hole 69 1 Sep 2015 ~ 30 Sep 2015 Kirkdale Cave City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire. Please bear in mind... The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible. Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly. Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

01:09, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-37

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 now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users.
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support.
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Misplaced Pages version.

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed.
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters.
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours.
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places.

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Bootham Crescent

Hi Keith, I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing Bootham Crescent at FAC? Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 22:02, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. will take a look when I have got though watchlist changes form a week away. Keith D (talk) 22:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look, I've addressed your concern. Mattythewhite (talk) 18:22, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family

Hi I have made some difficult edits on the above page and would really appreciate it if you could check them Thanks again M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 11:45, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

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 use the Wikidata query service.
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Misplaced Pages was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved.
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems.

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed.
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations.
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon.

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale

Please can you do an overall check for this page. you are so helpful. Thanks mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 01:40, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

I have had a quick look and tweaked a couple of things. Keith D (talk) 10:52, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

Please can you be kind enough to check the old archive refs I have added recently (numbers 7,8 and9) on the above page. Are they OK? Plus - can you do an accent over "nee" Marion.... - I always forget how to do it. Thanks again Srbernadette (talk) 11:00, 20 September 2015 (UTC) M. E. Reed

•  Done Keith D (talk) 11:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here.
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong.
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Misplaced Pages article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time.
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week.
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms.
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it.
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Leeds Festival (classical music) and James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale

Hi - I have made a few edits to both of the 2 above pages and I hope you might look at them and tweak them please. ThanksSrbernadette (talk) 09:44, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Michael  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 03:24, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

•  Done Keith D (talk) 11:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Leeds Festival (classical music)

Could you please check my latest refs. - all from old newspapers so hard to do. Thanks so much again Mike. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 07:36, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Also please both the 6th and 7th Earl Harewood pages - news refs too. Thanks if you can do this! Mike

 Done Keith D (talk) 11:34, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Poetry review, could you look at this

Hi Keith; The GAR at Auden has been open for one full month now, and there appear to be no editors coming forward to support the top editor there or the old 2009 assessment. My hope was that someone, anyone, would come forward to take up the slack there. Could you close out the GAR for Yeats as you see fit. I will try to support either way you decide. MusicAngels (talk) 15:38, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

I think the problem with no other reviewers coming forward is that you have set up an individual reassessment rather than a community reassessment as I suggested above. Keith D (talk) 17:41, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

My own assessment in actually to place it somewhere between a "B"-class and a "C"-class article largely due to no response to the many issues raised with the article, and the top editor there has indicated no interest in addressing the upkeeps. If you want to redo the GAR as a community assessment then its fine with me. Otherwise I will support your evaluation of it as you see fit as being in the best interest of Misplaced Pages readers. Cheers. MusicAngels (talk) 18:34, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D, you are right to wait for consensus beyond User:MusicAngels who wreaks havoc wherever he goes, most notably on poetry pages. He clearly knows nothing and badgers everyone. His pages on poetry were rightly shut down not only for copyright but also because they were ill-founded. He is not college educated and does not know the difference between a Misplaced Pages source and a scholarly source. Do not let him near any poetry page please! 128.90.91.240 (talk) 22:30, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Enrique Iglesias birth year is 1975

You changed Enrique Iglesias birth year to 1976 after i changed it to the correct year which is 1975!! Enrique Iglesias is born 1975. Change it if you can please I can't because there is a lock that means protection policy, please change it as soon as you see this message, if you can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annah25 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

As previously discussed on the age, where is a reliable source for the year you claim to want to change this to. I have retained the stable version until such point as a source is brought forward to indicate a change is required. Once the source is available I will make any appropriate changes. You can leave this here or on the article talk page. Keith D (talk) 21:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• Misplaced Pages pages with to-do lists