User talk:Billinghurst

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Wikisource has a number of active Wikiprojects that could use your help in tackling these large additions to our library. New Student's Reference Work Project Work: New Student's Reference Work

TO DO — DNB footer initials

• Update docs Done
• Look to manage new, eg. DNB HMS-r
• Work on 1912, check completeness of 1901
• HWP duplicates and will need disambiguating Author:Hugh Wodehouse Pearse // Author:Herbert Woodfield Paul

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [2]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [3]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Activity level

Due to unforseen and other reasons, my activity level at WS has dropped significantly. While I check in almost daily to oversee my Watchlist, my contributions have been insignificant. It is my intention to gradually chip away at projects on my "To do" list, but if this trend continues through next year, I will likely not seek continued adminship. Your vote of confidence in my nomination was very much appreciated, and it was/is still my desire to contribute to the maintenance of this site, but my own estimation of the role and expectations of an admin far surpasses my contribution in that capacity to date. Thanks! Londonjackbooks (talk) 12:28, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

<sad face> Hope that things are okay. Re adminship, there is no requisite admin activity level at enWS, it is solely to contribute (ie. not lost to the wind). The granting of the right is a statement by this community that we trust you to utilise the tools to enact the consensus point of view. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:14, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Things are going well, just a shifting of focus. Thanks for your words re adminship. Londonjackbooks (talk) 17:38, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

• Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [4]
• Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [5]
• When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [6]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [7][8]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [9][10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [11]

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

RecentChanges

It seems to me that this change did break RecentChanges interwiki as Special namespace does not seem to be supported by Wikidata. Maybe it is worth to restore the interwiki some way? Single interwiki to oldwikisource looks strange there. Ankry (talk) 06:32, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

missing page

What happens when the scan has a page missing? This is the only version available on IA, but it's missing the first page of the preface (/10). ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:00, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

For missing pages the community has been known to assist and hunt out those pages in other resources. Otherwise we have an incomplete work, and it will remain that way. It won't be the first or the last, and while it is imperfect it is not valueless. You then have to make the determination whether you wish to proceed with an imperfect work, or or not. With the work as is, I would recommend asking for someone to inset an extra (blank) page into the work, and then we reload it. Therefore if we ever get the missing page it becomes very easy to insert/replace it and have a complete work. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:04, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I see. Well, the scan on Google Books is complete. I'm thinking of taking that page from them, and add it to the IA DjVu file, while giving attribution to both sources. I'll look into it when I have more time. ~ DanielTom (talk) 11:23, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

It's easier for me to just upload the Google Books' version. I wasn't going to use IA's OCR text anyway. ~ DanielTom (talk) 17:00, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

@DanielTom: then reupload the image as an overwrite, update the description and source accordingly; then purge the file at Commons to ensure image and text layers are pushed through. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:04, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I did it a few hours ago; seems to have worked. ~ DanielTom (talk) 00:10, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37

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

• The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [12]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [13][14]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [15]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [16][17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [18][19]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [20]

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Over/under editing layout

Could you be so kind and check your over/under editing layout. I switched to monobook to test it and the problem is the same. Perhaps you can notice it even though you are not familiar with it. The upper window is open to the actual page size and I can't even take a screenshot to upload an image of it, it's so large. Usually it's about 12-14 rows high. I tried working side buy side but it just doesn't work for me. — Ineuw talk 05:21, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

PS: stitched this image together from three parts. — Ineuw talk 05:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Ineuw. It is broken as I reported a few days ago at WS:S. I am guessing that it is now full width and has lost its relationship to the under over window. <shrug> — billinghurst sDrewth 08:06, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Could you please provide a link to your comments in regard to this issue? I've been searching WS:S history and can't find anything. — Ineuw talk 16:26, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Crispi

Hi and thanks for the wellcome. I have a question about editing. I tried to limit the entry about Francesco Crispi to Crispi alone, but some other topics are included as well. How do you deal with that? Any tips? - DonCalo (talk) 13:06, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@DonCalo: we reproduce that article as it was published in the EB1911, we don't amend it. We are not the encyclopaedia that is WP's task, we are the library. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:08, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

I think DonCalo meant eliminating other EB 1911 entries from the Mainspace page, which I have attempted to do with sectioning. Londonjackbooks (talk) 15:21, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Indeed that was what I meant, but your attempt did not really work. Thanks for the effort anyway, but apparently something else is needed. - DonCalo (talk) 21:37, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@DonCalo: I am not seeing the other biographical entries on the same page anymore. Are you still? Londonjackbooks (talk) 22:06, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@Londonjackbooks: Not anymore, many thanks. - DonCalo (talk) 16:47, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [21]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [22]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [23]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [24][25]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [26]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [27]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)