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. Dictionary of National Biography Project Work: Dictionary of National Biography

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.

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Note to self and anyone else interested.

Category:Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania should it be a portal too? If yes, we really need a means to autopopulate (minor) portals so we do not have do lots of work in that space.

If it is not, we need to look to adapt {{authority control}} so it can be utilised with arbitrary access to WD so AC can be filled on such a page. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:26, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Move template data to WD

Category:Pages using authority control with parameters has pages with {{authority control}} data that should be housed on the WD page of the item. Look to set to utilise PLbot to move the data to WD, save some queries on its use and set up tracking. Need to be a good lad and set up fully-fledged maintenance pages. Oh for more time! — billinghurst sDrewth 06:31, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

https://books.google.com/books?id=F4EsAAAAYAAJ import

import work so we can migrate text French Constitution of 1848

New Index pages

I just discovered that Special:NewPages does not allow for a search of the Index: or :Index talk: namespaces. Is this easily added? --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:28, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: It does, change your dropdown at the top of the page to "all". I am not certain whether that is a stored preference for a later visit, so if it is not, then for that we can submit a phabricator ticket. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:47, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

What I mean is that I cannot search with a restriction, so that I am searching only and specifically for new Index / Index talk pages. I have to search "all" and then scroll through however many recent sets of pages there are listed. Other namespaces can be searched exclusively, but not Index and its associated talk. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:50, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

OK, for some reason the option is showing up now, whereas it wasn't before. Hmmmm. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:51, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

If you are looking for watching Index ns, I suggest starting with this RC filter and adjusting for what you want specifically to see. Once you have it, then creating it as a link. — billinghurst sDrewth 07:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Edith Harwood

Can you locate any information about the dates of birth/death for Author:Edith Harwood? I've had no luck at all, though I can find references to her, and can find works of hers dated as early as 1901 or as late as 1916. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:48, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

I think that it is the (Cammilla) Edith Harwood (1866-1926, Florence) shown at https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=harwood&yearOfDeath=1926&page=1 Also showing in find-a-grave. So either born overseas and has (next to) no census records, or it is the Edith Mary Harwood born in Northfleet in 1865. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:53, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

It would be a remarkable coincidence if it wasn't the Florentine Edith Harwood, since she seems to have been an expert in Renaissance art of Florence. --EncycloPetey (talk) 08:13, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [2]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [3]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [4]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [5]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [6]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [7]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [9]

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 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [10][11]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [12]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Long time

Long time. I uploaded the file you recommended: [[13]]. Don't know how to bring it to Wikisource. Any tips? I have not used this site very often and am a beginner. I herd you liek mudkips (talk) 21:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

@I herd you liek mudkips: From Help:Proofread there is a page about Index: pages, that is the direction that you want. As a direct helper, from the commons file there is a Wikisource icon and link that you generated with the {{book}} template that will take you directly to the Index: page for you to create. Plus I would recommend turning on the local gadget (via Special:Preferences) Upon creation of an Index: page enables addition of metadata from the file at Commons. More information at Help:Proofread as that makes life easier as you have the book template in use. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:23, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [14]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [15]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [16]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [17]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [18][19]

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15:29, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

d:Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Dictionary entries

Hello. Could you please take a look? There's some Wikisource thing… Ratte (talk) 12:35, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

It seems ru-WS is creating data items for individual entries in a language dictionary. Whatever the outcome, it looks like we need to be sure the resolution of the issue doesn't take down individual entries for DNB, EB1911, etc. by extension --EncycloPetey (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Sure, let us see what is the actual concern by asking why why why until we drill down to something that we can specifically address. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:34, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [20]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [21]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-06

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Integrated Filters

• The team is moving full speed ahead on a follow-up project to the New Filters for Edit Review beta dubbed "Integrated Filters." The name refers to the fact that we are integrating the Recent Changes tools that currently remain in the old user interface (like Namespace and Tag filters), along with some tools and capabilities from Watchlist and elsewhere, into the new Recent Changes interface.
• You can get an overview of the Integrated Filters projects, and the general release strategy, on the description page of the project Phabricator board. Among the more interesting new capabilities:
  • Category filters: We'll be adding the ability to filter by category. This is a little tricky, since wiki categories often work in a somewhat counter-intuitive way, with the broadest categories returning the fewest results—because categories like "Science" or "Art" tend to contain not articles but other categories. So we're exploring solutions where a category search will crawl at least a layer or two down the category treat to, hopefully, bring back more useful results. [23]
  • User filters: We're adding the ability to filter by any username, similar to what's available already on the the User Contributions page. [24]
  • Live update: Users will have the ability to look at a more or less continuous flow of changes. This is a much requested feature that we expect will open up new possibilities for Recent Changes, especially for patrollers who want to see vandalism or other changes as they happen. While the updates won't truly be "live," the page updates will be frequent, similar to the way real-time tools (like RTRC or LiveRC) works. [25]

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Have time for a talk?

• We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchenwikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in.

Recent changes

• It is now possible to save your favorite filters sets by using bookmarks. [26]
  • This feature documentation can be translated.
• It is possible to filter only the last edits done on a page on the Recent Changes page. [27]
• ORES review tool has been deployed to French Wikipedia. This wiki can use predictions filters. To have the predictions filters on your wiki, you need to work on the labeling campaign for your wiki or request it. [28]
• There were some issues with loading highlighted results when the URL was copied and pasted. This is now fixed. [29]
• A "Watchlisted pages" filter group now lets reviewers use Recent Changes, and all its tools, to patrol changes to pages they've Watchlisted. If you have any feedback about how useful this is nor isn't—especially given that we plan to add the new filtering interface to the Watchlist page — let us know.
• There were issues with the tools still in the older filtering UI — like the Namespace filter and the number of results selectors. These have been fixed. [30]

Future changes

• Integration of new features on recent changes pages is planned. They will include menus to filter users, tagged edits, categories and namespaces. See the "What's new" section above for more information.
• Now that users can save filter settings, and declare any settings they want as the Recent Changes page default, we'll be reviewing the RC page Preferences with an eye to getting rid of as many as we can. For instance, if you want to hide minor edits or Category changes by default, you can now do that right on the RC page, instead of having to go to a separate page to manage defaults.
• On many Recent Changes Pages, the community has defined a large number of links that are displayed directly under the page name (example on Polish Wikipedia). Many of these links are unrelated or only peripherally related to Recent Changes, add informational complexity of the RC page. Research shows that they are used only rarely or never. We want to clarify RecentChanges page functionality, so we plan to put the links into a collapsible panel.
  • Should the panel default to open or closed? That is, should the default state (which users can change with one click) show the links as hidden or displayed? Let us know what you think.
  • The most used links are shortcuts to certain type of edits, (Mobile, Newcomers...). Users can already save their favorite filter settings to the Saved Settings menu, which should make some of the existing links redundant. We plan to provide default bookmarks for the most used filters combinations. [31]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland have scheduled the notifications of Wikibase notifications to Wikimedia projects: all the Wikivoyages on May 3; all the Wikipedias except en, fr, de on May 30; all other projects on June 13 and Wikipedias en, fr, de on September 5. [32]
• It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications. [33]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Flow has been activated on all talk pages on Catalan Wikiquote. [34]

Future changes

• On the Beta feature page, the activation message has been review to emphase the fact that the unstructured wikitext page will be archived. [35]

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08:41, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

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 <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [36]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [37]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [38]

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15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Deleted TOC and Preface

Can you please explain why the Contents and Preface pages were deleted and their contents moved to the bottom of this main page, so that nobody can find it? — Ineuw talk 08:57, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

You are here asking about edits from over 6 years ago? Really? My commentary from today is that you are seeing a more usual presentation of a work where the table of contents is added in the lead part of a work so that a user can see and navigate, not have to click through a series of subpages to see about a work. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:28, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Didn't want to override your deletion without asking for a rationale. However, I can't lead readers to nowhere, so I am recreating the missing pages of Contents and Foreword. My reason being that I consider this, and two other works about Mexico to be outstanding, each within their scope. That is why I am revisiting each — to perfect and polish them. I hope you understand. — Ineuw talk 22:59, 28 June 2017 (UTC)