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Please comment on Talk:Autism

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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
On 2 May 2012, the Wikimania jury announced that Hong Kong's bid to hold the 2013 event had beaten four other proposals. Moderator James Forrester wrote: "The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off a magnificent Wikimania,"—and indeed there were positive comments about the event from most attendees.

WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.

News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: "Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library." Just what is this?

Featured content: On the rocks
Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
Eurovision is known for being political, and it was a doozy this week.

Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
The Media Viewer is scheduled to launch on the English Wikipedia next week.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
21	Dennis Joseph (talk)	Add sources
10	Hisatsu Line (talk)	Add sources
25	Viji Thampi (talk)	Add sources
30	India national under-23 football team (talk)	Add sources
266	Somatic-cell nuclear transfer (talk)	Add sources
18	Sedoheptulose (talk)	Add sources
79	Mycoplasma laboratorium (talk)	Cleanup
399	Lambda phage (talk)	Cleanup
58	S.S. Lazio fans (talk)	Cleanup
687	Water polo (talk)	Expand
1,063	Genetically modified crops (talk)	Expand
201	Elections in Uttar Pradesh (talk)	Expand
2,714	Draupadi (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
45	Bharata Khanda (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
743	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
40	Spermatocytogenesis (talk)	Merge
3,197	Polymerase chain reaction (talk)	Merge
198	Shear thinning (talk)	Merge
53	Fosmid (talk)	Wikify
42	The Trash Can Sinatras (talk)	Wikify
752	Knossos (talk)	Wikify
13	RK2 plasmid (talk)	Orphan
2	Jamieson J (talk)	Orphan
0	Castra of Tileagd (talk)	Orphan
4	Helen Morgenthau Fox (talk)	Stub
65	Sibi Malayil (talk)	Stub
53	Ghar Ho To Aisa (talk)	Stub
23	Stepps (talk)	Stub
46	Crystalline fructose (talk)	Stub
46	Carbohydrate chemistry (talk)	Stub

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Please comment on Talk:Gout

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Reasons my Article was Denied?

T-SUM27 (talk) 04:12, 19 May 2014 (UTC)Hello Herald Can you please tell me why my article about Adam Carter was denied? I am not seeing the reasons anywhere and I would like to make necessary edits. Thanks for your help.

Tech News: 2014-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates

Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1] [2] [3]
MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [4] [5]
VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [6] [7]
You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] [9]
VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [10] [11]
VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12] [13]
VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15] [16]

Future software changes

User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [17] [18]

Problems

For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [19]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cro-Magnon

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.

Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
It's a relief to see Google Doodles having an impact again; their wide coverage means that they inspire curiosity on many subjects which, for reasons of nationality, ethnicity or gender, might not be known in the English-speaking world. It's a shame then, that Wikipedia so often fails to keep up; articles on Google Doodles are almost invariably C-class, and seldom do justice to their subjects. Still, interest in Google Doodles has been waning in recent months—Audrey Hepburn last week was the first to top the list since December—so any rise in popularity is worth celebrating.

Please comment on Talk:5:2 diet

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
213	Transgenesis (talk)	Add sources
48	Detection of genetically modified organisms (talk)	Add sources
641	Mohanlal filmography (talk)	Add sources
70	Genetic engineering in science fiction (talk)	Add sources
55	Nepalgunj (talk)	Add sources
219	Maha Shivaratri (talk)	Add sources
402	Synthetic biology (talk)	Cleanup
22	Molecular probe (talk)	Cleanup
164	Hindu cosmology (talk)	Cleanup
3,424	Coffee (talk)	Expand
17	Vistive Gold (talk)	Expand
2,673	Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap (talk)	Expand
112	Genetically modified bacteria (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
122	Mufaddal Saifuddin (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
385	Craig Venter (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
92	Refined sugar (talk)	Merge
157	History of genetics (talk)	Merge
196	Optical rotation (talk)	Merge
248	Hybridoma technology (talk)	Wikify
5	In vitro recombination (talk)	Wikify
370	Prashanth (actor) (talk)	Wikify
5	CellSqueeze (talk)	Orphan
18	William A. Haseltine (talk)	Orphan
1	Castra of Plosca (talk)	Orphan
82	Selectable marker (talk)	Stub
25	Genetically modified insect (talk)	Stub
79	Gene knockin (talk)	Stub
4	2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams (talk)	Stub
61	Lipofection (talk)	Stub
38	Ahilawati (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2014-22

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Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [20] [21] [22] [23]
A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [24] [25]
VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [26] [27]
It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [28]
VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [29]

Future software changes

Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [30]
It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [31] [32]
Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [33] [34] [35]
You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [36] [37]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cdrtools

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Please comment on Talk:Richard C. Hoagland

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Hi I am just wondering what you are looking for in order for my submission to get accepted. Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Barry_King_(tennis)

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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.

Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.

Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.

Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
140	Pharming (genetics) (talk)	Add sources
167	Molecular genetics (talk)	Add sources
56	Genetic enhancement (talk)	Add sources
68	Plant genetics (talk)	Add sources
415	Cre-Lox recombination (talk)	Add sources
734	Pac (wrestler) (talk)	Add sources
56	Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing (talk)	Cleanup
8	Gene therapy for osteoarthritis (talk)	Cleanup
13	Yeast expression platform (talk)	Cleanup
209	Regulation of genetically modified organisms in the European Union (talk)	Expand
172	Medical genetics (talk)	Expand
917	Asian American (talk)	Expand
900	Duryodhana (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,045	Cannabidiol (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
31	Web brigades (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
14	Yāska (talk)	Merge
56	Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (talk)	Merge
2,775	Mitochondrion (talk)	Merge
27	The Battle of Barrington (talk)	Wikify
356	Microsatellite (talk)	Wikify
171	Claire van der Boom (talk)	Wikify
12	Lentiviral vector in gene therapy (talk)	Orphan
1	Media (castra) (talk)	Orphan
4	Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committees (talk)	Orphan
122	Gene knockdown (talk)	Stub
25	DNA construct (talk)	Stub
74	Phagemid (talk)	Stub
63	Dow AgroSciences (talk)	Stub
19	Diose (talk)	Stub
15	Bobby Kottarakkara (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2014-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [38]

VisualEditor news

Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [39]
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [40] [41]
VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [42]
There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [43]

Future software changes

MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [44] [45]
The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [46] [47]
You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [48] [49]

Problems

For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [50]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Super-spreader

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