User talk:Timotheus Canens/Archives/2016/8
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The Signpost: 04 August 2016
- Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information
And the Signpost loses and gains a co-editor-in-chief
- News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
WMF and Alphabet are developing an algorithm designed to detect personal attacks
- In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias
Plus Android and Taylor Swift
- Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
Condolences are being left on his English Wikipedia talk page
- Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
Pokémon Go led the chart for two weeks running
- Featured content: Women and Hawaii
Eight articles, two lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
- Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more
- Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most
WMF announces enhancements to the notifications system
- Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
New user scripts and other tech news
SPI script
Hi Tim, a good while ago on someone's Talk page we discussed your changing the SPI template that blocks/tags accounts so we could specify that the block was a CU block. You said it was doable but you didn't have time to do it right away. Do you have some time now? It would be very useful, particularly when the list of accounts to be blocked is long, which, unfortunately, seems to happen all too frequently. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Done. CUs now get two checkboxes they can use to mark all the blocks as CU blocks and optionally suppress the usual block summary. T. Canens (talk) 16:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 16:57, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
August 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
| Wednesday Auugust 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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  You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Featuring special guest presentations on WikiVerse and Bringing Wikipedia to the Last Mile. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent (UN Women!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:20, 16 August 2016 (UTC) P.S. Prep for our chapter elections next month in September (and add your candidacy!): Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Elections | |
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The Signpost: 18 August 2016
- News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
Conference draws highly diverse and productive participation, and several years' advocacy pays off in a new government policy
- Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
Guest post recaps in-depth engagement of experts to address Wikipedia gender gap while improving coverage of their field
- In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
Wikipedia coverage ranged from sobering to playful in this issue's roundup
- Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
Eight articles, eleven lists, one topic and five pictures were promoted
- Traffic report: Olympic views
Politics gives way to sports, TV and film
- Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)
A review of numerous useful Wikipedia customizations
- Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case
New case opened, and a reminder to administrators not to impose blocks based on private information
Archiving SPIs
Quite some time ago I was under the impression that the archive script would either fail or not perform properly if the report being archived was malformed. I don't recall what aspect of the report had to be malformed. It's been so long I figured I'd ask whether the archive script can handle a report that is structured incorrectly or in some other way doesn't comply with the usual format. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
- The code is written on the assumption that the report is well-formed, so malformed reports result in undefined behavior. :) The current rule is that it always archives everything starting from the first L3 or L5 header to the end. No promises that it will keep behaving this way in the future. T. Canens (talk) 22:01, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, good to know I wasn't imagining things.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:16, 21 August 2016 (UTC)