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Wikidata weekly summary #319

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Hi JarrahTree

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Thank you!

This Month in GLAM: June 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #320

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Geoscientific investigations from the Scott Plateau off northwest Australia to the Java Trench, Geoscience Australia, retrieved 19 July 2018

Dashboard =

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How do I find the dashboard. (WikiHow?)

(I’m sure you know this:) I found the list of my edits: under the “contributions” tab. I didn’t have to search for it when I was just an IP address.

Any advice on how to get info from knowledgeable people? I’ve got a few Qs on Talk pages (for articles) that are over a month old: I thought they’d be answered in less than 2 days. MBG02 (talk) 03:57, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #322

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Dump months tag

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As much as I am proud of that article and wish it could stay tag-free, I can't help but admit you had a point with this.

The thoughts did occur to me while I was researching the article originally that a) other countries' movie release calendars might have different annual rhythms for reasons specific to those countries and their cultures, and b) the North American calendar might thus have effects on other countries' release calendars.

I tried to look for some information on those questions, but not really hard, and anyway there was a lot of research to do just to get the article to the level it's at now (My hope is to eventually nominate it for FA, and if approved to have it run on the first Friday in January). Do you know of anywhere I might find something I could put in the article? Or start to look? Daniel Case (talk) 22:54, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

While I do think changing the wording in the intro would probably be the best solution, believe it or not I did find one source so far, an LA Times article, that discusses the Chinese release calendar and how it is affected by holidays there. The bit about how Avatar did surprisingly well during China's New Year period at the beginning of the year seems like something we could include. Daniel Case (talk) 05:08, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
So how does it look now? Daniel Case (talk) 20:48, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #014, 27 July 2018

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Development of design continues, full speed ahead...

Excerpt slideshows are here!

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Can you say "paradigm shift"?

Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.

Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.

For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...

We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:

{{Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}

For this one, you specify the page names where the excerpts are to be extracted from.

{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}

This one accepts source pages from where the page names are gathered from list items. Then an excerpt from one of those pages is displayed. The selection of what is included in the slide show can be limited to a specific number from the collection (of the page names gathered), and that selection is renewed from scratch each time the page is purged.
For example, if you specify Template:World Heritage Sites in Spain as a source page, the slideshow will cycle through those sites. Now you don't have to type them in one-by-one. This greatly reduces portal creation time.

{{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}

Same as above, but gathers links instead of just linked list items.

Panoramic banners

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{{Portal image banner}} displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.

Give resizing the page a try:

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

You can now balance section boxes

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Before:

Reptile types
Selected amphibian type

After:

Reptile types
Selected amphibian type

Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.

The template used for this is {{Flex columns}}.

By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.

Box-header colour

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You may have noticed the new {{Box-header colour}} template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.

Testing, testing

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Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...

Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...

To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile

If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Until next time...

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Have fun.    — The Transhumanist   00:24, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello JarrahTree, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules
  • New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
  • Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
The Signpost
  • The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 00:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #323

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The Signpost: 31 July 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #324

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Tell me

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Num1. I’m still wondering what you meant by “go into your dashboard”.

Num2. I’m staggered by the vandalism: I’m sure what I’ve seen is only a drop in the ocean; but gosh! I’m waiting to see if a pagewatcher is going to revert something - but my Q for you is; He (weirdly) added 1 letter (to make a typo) in a Talk item, by a person who has no other entries (on Wiki) and probably hasn’t logged on for over a year. What happens?

Do you want me to read a treatise on editing rules/ policy? MBG02 (talk) 07:20, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]