User talk:Billytanghh/Archive 1
Speedy deletion declined: File:Hkbu logo.gif[edit]
Hello Billytanghh. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Hkbu logo.gif, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It is an image file, so it doesn't qualify for WP:F10. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 15:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: File:Logo of Lingnan University.gif[edit]
Hello Billytanghh. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Logo of Lingnan University.gif, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It is an image file, so it doesn't qualify for WP:F10. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 15:23, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: File:Logo ouhk2.jpg[edit]
Hello Billytanghh. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Logo ouhk2.jpg, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It is an image file, so it doesn't qualify for WP:F10. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 15:24, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Possibly unfree File:Internationale orchestral arrangement.ogg[edit]
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Internationale orchestral arrangement.ogg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:28, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Netherlands–Singapore relations[edit]
Hello! Your submission of Netherlands–Singapore relations at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
- Please see new note on DYK nomination template. Yoninah (talk) 23:12, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
- Please see new note on DYK nomination template. Yoninah (talk) 21:37, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- There is a new review that raises some still outstanding issues. Please stop by and address what remains to be done soon. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:31, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
- Please see new note on DYK nomination template. Yoninah (talk) 21:37, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Netherlands–Singapore relations[edit]
 | On 12 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Netherlands–Singapore relations, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Netherlands was one of the first European countries to establish diplomatic relations with Singapore? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Netherlands–Singapore relations. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Mexico–Singapore relations[edit]
| On 25 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mexico–Singapore relations, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that diplomatic relations between Mexico and Singapore were officially established only in 1975 although Singapore took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mexico–Singapore relations. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 14:09, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Singapore–Vietnam relations[edit]
| On 20 November 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Singapore–Vietnam relations, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Singapore is the third largest foreign investment country of Vietnam? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Singapore–Vietnam relations. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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HKIPA[edit]
Dear Billy，
You proposed deletion of the page which has been existing for several years. According to Wiki's criterion, notability can be proved by news such as http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1362702/hong-kong-patent-lawyers-get-boost-china. Thus, it should not be apt for deletion.
A barnstar for you![edit]
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The Asian Month Barnstar |
| Thanks for your great contribution in Wikipedia Asian Month 2015! --AddisWang (talk) 14:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC) |
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure![edit]
- Hi Billytanghh! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure![edit]
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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
- Phabricator has been upgraded. [1][2]
Problems
- There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [3][4]
Changes this week
- After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [5]
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 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
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
- Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
- The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
- The visual editor now follows the TemplateData
formatsetting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [6][7] - The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [8][9]
Changes this week
- On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [10]
- Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [11]
- Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [12]
Meetings
- Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [13]
- 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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
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
- Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [14]
- Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [15]
- The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [16]
- It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [17]
- Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications.
<pages from= to= section=1>will parse as<pages from="to=" section="1">instead of<pages from="" to="" section="1">as it used to. Please use<pages from="" to="" section=1>or<pages section=1>instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [18]
Problems
- Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [19]
- The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [20]
- The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [21]
- You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [22]
- Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [23]
Changes this week
- Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [24]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
- Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow
<mapframe>and<maplink>tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [25]
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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [26]
- The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [27]
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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Rulaizong[edit]
Hello! Your submission of Rulaizong at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! —♦♦ AMBER(ЯʘCK) 16:48, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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 mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [28]
- The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [29]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
- Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [30]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [31]
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 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Rulaizong[edit]
| On 19 March 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rulaizong, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that believers of Rulaizong use the phrase "Thanking Master, Praising Master" to praise the founder of the religion? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rulaizong. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
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
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
- In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [32]
Changes this week
- It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [33]
- You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [34]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [35]
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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
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 now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [36] [37]
Problems
- Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [38]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
- You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [39]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.
Future changes
- Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [40]
- Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
- Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
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 filter Special:Log in more detail. [41]
- Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [42]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).
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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [43][44]
- Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [45][46]
- ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [47]
- The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [48]
Problems
- There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [49]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
- The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [50]
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 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [51]
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20:45, 11 April 2016 (UTC)