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GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive

Hello! Just a friendly reminder that the GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on December 31, 2013! If you know anyone outside of the WikiProject that may be interested, feel free to invite them to the drive! If you have any questions or want to comment about something regarding the drive, post them here--EdwardsBot (talk) 00:11, 3 December 2013 (UTC) |} Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page. Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. 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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with… 2 NY Rock (talk) Add sources 8 Chemistry (song) (talk) Add sources 118 Up (R.E.M. album) (talk) Add sources 118 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (talk) Add sources 1,134 PlayStation Network (talk) Add sources 18 Swiss Hitparade (talk) Add sources 2,759 History of video games (talk) Cleanup 15 GripShift (talk) Cleanup 3 Hot Klub (talk) Cleanup 1,369 Ages of consent in Europe (talk) Expand 326 History of the graphical user interface (talk) Expand 0 Krutynia (talk) Expand 9,163 Edward Snowden (talk) Unencyclopaedic 646 X&Y (talk) Unencyclopaedic 255 Doctor's Advocate (talk) Unencyclopaedic 5,576 Gray wolf (talk) Merge 63 Console manufacturer (talk) Merge 117 Sexual function (talk) Merge 472 Yeo Yann Yann (talk) Wikify 744 Diablo (video game) (talk) Wikify 214 The Neverhood (talk) Wikify 2 J.D. Walter (talk) Orphan 8 Grudge Warriors (talk) Orphan 1 Holy Rus (organization) (talk) Orphan 19 R v Brooks, Coulson and six others (talk) Stub 11 Nick Pollard (talk) Stub 25 Motorhead (video game) (talk) Stub 31 Life (Simply Red album) (talk) Stub 40 Ed Askew (talk) Stub 2 Cota (power) (talk) Stub SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:26, 3 December 2013 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #91 Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions Discussion about the RfD process Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikidata reached 100000000 edits d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th Did you know? Newest properties: none Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988) Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014) DevelopmentWord from John To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks. Monthly Tasks Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery Hack on one of these. Help develop the next summary here! Contribute to a Showcase item Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC) The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2) Books & Bytes Sign up for monthly delivery Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world. Wikipedia Library highlights: New accounts, new surveys, new positions, new presentations... Spotlight on people: Another Believer and Wiki Loves Libraries... Books & Bytes in brief: From Dewey to Diversity conference... Further reading: Digital library portals around the web... Read Books & Bytes The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs) 16:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC) Gary Alter It looks like his publications may be under Alter GJ. Check the history of the alterable for more, someone did a mass removal. Sportfan5000 (talk) 18:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC) Thanks for that, User:Sportfan5000. I'll have a look again at the weekend. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:36, 6 December 2013 (UTC) Time Persons of the Year 1951–1975 Hi there. I know you have contributed to Time Person of the Year in the past. It would be great to have your opinion on an ongoing RfC at Template talk:Time Persons of the Year 1951–1975, regarding how entries for 1960 and 1975 are listed. Thanks. - HIGHFIELDS (TALK • UPLOADS) 15:24, 6 December 2013 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #87 Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions Change the resysopping process Inactive administrators Open RfBs: The Anonymouse Events/Press/Blogs Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too) Other Noteworthy Stuff The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches A few new features which require your testing! Did you know? Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier Newest task forces: Periodicals task force Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol Development Finalized localization of quantity values Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities More work on improving diffs Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5 Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed) Database performance improvements Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/ Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization Open Tasks for You Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about. Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them. Help fix formatting and value issues for a property. Build a bot for one of the "bot requests". Hack on one of these. Help develop the next summary here! Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC) Tech News: 2013-49 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery. New features The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. VisualEditor You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. Problems Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. Future MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar). The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org. Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC) The Wikipedia Library Survey As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:48, 9 December 2013 (UTC) This Month in GLAM: November 2013 This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue XI, November 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: From East to West Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium and Luxembourg France report: Mass uploads; Wiki Loves Monuments; Edit-a-thon; GLAM conference Germany report: MS Wissenschaft; Science Gallery; Zugang gestalten; Science 2.0; OKFest 2014 Italy report: Libraries and librarians (but there are still shoes) Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 award ceremony; Day of the Dead photo contest winners Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Amersfoort; Wikipedia seminar Oslo; Wikimedia Nederland Conference; Europeana Fashion Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Fundación Joaquín Díaz González; Wiki Party in Salamanca Sweden report: Motorcycles, Norway and shoes Switzerland report: Wiki Loves Monuments Awards Ceremony; Wikipedians in Residence; Image Donations UK report: Open content at the BBC; edit-a-thons; photography USA report: GLAM-Wiki Activities in Philadelphia and Vancouver, Washington Open Access report: Open Access Button and Berlin 11 conference Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here. Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 23:01, 10 December 2013 (UTC) Tech News: 2013-50 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. New features You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used. If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences. VisualEditor The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net. The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". Problems There was a problem with the "Create a book" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. Future MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar). You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. Other You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features. Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)