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2015 GA Cup - Round 2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup - Round 2 Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. The Rambling Man, who was eliminated during the first round in our last competition, earned an impressive 513 points, reviewed twice as many articles (26) as any other competitor. It was a tight race for second for first-time competitors BenLinus1214 and Tomandjerry211, who finished second and third with 243 and 224 points, respectively. Close behind was Wugapodes, who earned 205 points. The change in our points system had an impact on scoring. It was easier to earn higher points, although the key to success didn't change from last time, which was choosing articles with older nomination dates. For example, most of the articles The Rambling Man reviewed were worth 18 points in the nomination date category, and he benefited from it. BenLinus1214 reviewed the longest article, A Simple Plan (at 26,536 characters, or 4,477 words), the 1994 film starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda and directed by Sam Raimi, and earned all possible 5 points in that category. After feedback from our participants, the judges slightly changed the rule about review length this time out. Shorter reviews are now allowed, as long as reviewers give nominators an opportunity to address their feedback. Shorter reviews are subject to the judges' discretion; the judges will continue their diligence as we continue the competition. Despite having fewer contestants at the beginning of Round 1 than last time, 132 articles were reviewed, far more than the 117 articles that were reviewed in Round 1 of the inaugural GA Cup. All of us involved should be very proud of what we've accomplished thus far. The judges are certain that Round 2 will be just as successful. 16 contestants have moved onto Round 2 and have been randomly placed in 4 groups of 4, with the top 2 in each pool progressing to Round 3, as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 has already begun and will end on August 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here. Good luck and remember to have fun! Cheers from Dom497, Figureskatingfan, 3family6 and Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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My recent edits

Thanks for the complements. Unfortunately, my current work schedule makes it difficult for me to edit as often as I would like to.--Natsubee (talk) 20:08, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Like—M@sssly^✉ 09:22, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2015)

A farmhouse (bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland Hello, Masssly. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Farmhouse Music venue Social change Information Age Parable Previous selections: Igloo • Dessert • Kayaking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:18, 3 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Tech News: 2015-32

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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [1]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [2] [3] [4] [5]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (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 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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RE: Obey (fashion)

@Masssly: Thanks for your recent edits to the Obey page. Unfortunately, fashion is far from my area of interest or knowledge and I would appreciate all the help you can provide in improving the article. I'm not currently editing it so it would be fantastic for you to pop on over. Note that iv also left a note on the fashion Wikiproject talk page to inspire some helpful chaps to come and contribute their wealth of knowledge. Thanks again olowe2011 (talk) 00:11, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Great, I'll see what I can do.—M@sssly^✉ 17:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Retopia (Festival)

Hello the Retopia (Festival) page is in process. Please let me complete it so that it meets the necessary Wikipedia standards. --Abhinav619 (talk) 06:54, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

You're right Abhinav619, sorry about that, Cheers —M@sssly^✉ 07:01, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Stop editing other people's comments

Stop editing other people's comments. I assume you've screwed up an AWB filter and aren't bothering to check what you're editing before you click "save", but things like this or this (let alone this) are totally unacceptable. – iridescent 07:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

INWIT

Hello Masssly!
I've just added a link to INWIT page, the company is a subsidiary of Telecom Italia Group.
--Eleonora Dal Gobbo (talk) 11:53, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Your work appeard to be promotional. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Regards —M@sssly^✉ 17:39, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%).  There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. 

In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.  

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

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TAFI List of articles purge, part II

• Hello Masssly:

A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding the removal of entries from the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.

Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 17:23, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Dab pages

In this edit you labelled a disambiguation page as a stub and orphan. Please watch out for dab pages: they are intentionally orphan, and not tagged as such; they are not stubs. Thanks. PamD 23:28, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

edit Dominic Ayodele Solanke-Mitchell profile

Hi , it was written that Dominic Ayodele Solanke-Mitchell is eligible to represent Nigeria at international level , because of his parents , check his profile on chelsea wiki to comfirm http://thechels.info/wiki/Dominic_Solanke — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.220.101.92 (talk) 12:30, 9 August 2015 (UTC) :

Wikipedia must expose knowledge that is already established and recognized, using reliable sources to support claims. If you're ready to back your claim with a reliable source, free to re-include it. Thank you. —M@sssly^✉ 19:02, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2015)

Berries for sale at a farmers' market Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Berry Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Farmhouse • Igloo Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:27, 10 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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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. [11]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [12]
• 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. [13]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [14]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [15]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [16] [17]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [18] [19]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [20]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [21]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [22]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia 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. [24]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [25]

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. [26]

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This Month in GLAM: July 2015

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GOCE August 2015 newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2015)

Three plates of soufflés Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Soufflé Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Berry • Farmhouse Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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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 Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27] [28] [29]
• 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. [30]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [31] [32]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [33]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia 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. [34]

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Archiving

Hello User:Masssly could you please help me to archive my talkpage regards--Rberchie (talk) 18:45, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Sure, will work on it before going to bed.--—M@sssly^✉ 20:56, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

@Rberchie: Really tired now, but I've completed archiving 2013 and 2014. Following the same procedure 2015 should be pretty easy enough for you. Let me know if otherwise. Regards —M@sssly^✉ 23:10, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Archiving

Thanks for your favour. Regards--Rberchie (talk) 18:07, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Doucmentation Directory

Hi Masssly

I'm happy to tell you that the Wikimedia Documentation Directory is now available here. Many thanks for participating as a researcher, you can either add the resources to the tool directly or you can add the resources to this list on the Idealab page.

Thanks

Mrjohncummings (talk) 12:40, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Great.—M@sssly^✉ 12:16, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2015)

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Hi, I notice you're on Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls. Wikipedia would benefit from more admins. If you have been editing for more than 12 months (preferably 24+ months), and have been editing fairly consistently for the past 6 months (preferably 12+ months) with at least 100 edits a month (this tool will help) - or an explanation for any gaps, and haven't been blocked or topic banned in the past three years - or a good explanation for a recent block or ban, don't have a recent history of edit warring or arguing with other editors, feel you can explain why you wish to be an admin, can demonstrate some understanding of Wikipedia's procedures and processes, or know where to go for guidance, and are confident enough to go through a RfA, please get in touch with me. We can talk about it some more, and if all looks OK, I'll nominate you. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 12:17, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

I 'm glad you considered nominating me and I certainly would love to move forward with this conversation. Thank you for getting in touch,—M@sssly^✉ 12:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [37][38]
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