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Relay Ball Sport
Hi I created a new Ball and sports game call Relay Ball it’s on YouTube and such here are the rules Relay Ball also known as Relayball is a ball and sports game developed by Zane Gardner and is created in his back yard of DeKalb Junction, New York and it's a non contact sport involves passing. ... Developed as passing game designed for all players with all types of abilities to enjoy the game. Relayball47 (talk) 18:06, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2019)
 Concert attendees at the Electric Daisy Carnival, Los Angeles, California, 2010
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New and unique sports
https://www.topendsports.com/sport/new/list.htm I believe some sports don’t get enough recognition I want to add this to new and unique sports Relayball47 (talk) 00:53, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-45
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
- At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expirycan set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ipto set a different default block length for IP editors.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2019)
 The Coleco Gemini video game console, a console clone of the Atari 2600 produced by Coleco in 1983
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Tech News: 2019-46
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
- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2019)
 The National Museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare, and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded in 1818 and is located in Prague.
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Tech News: 2019-47
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
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauthdatabase. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2019)
 The steam hammer is a type of hammer
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Tech News: 2019-50
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
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
- There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Trout
Hi, I don't mind getting trouted, but what's the reason? Anythingyouwant (talk) 02:57, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
Ah, my bad. I clicked on the wrong talk page while reverting an RCP edit. Apologies Jakesyl (talk) 04:53, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2019)
 A ballet leap performed with modern, non-classical form in a contemporary ballet
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Tech News: 2019-51
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
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.
Changes later this week
- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)