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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
- Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [1][2]
Changes later this week
- Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [3]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.
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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
MusikBot's indentation level for WP:PERM
A level of indentation was removed from the template {{rfp}}, so MusikBot's automated comments at WP:PERM may now be overindented. Winston (talk) 09:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Done, along with User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js and User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. — MusikAnimal talk 19:48, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2021)
 Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland, is the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Air sports • Isabel Adrian Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "
stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.
Problems
- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [4]
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [5]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2021)
 Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Geography of Iceland • Air sports Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2021)
 Proposed Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the Southern Ocean
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Wholesaling • Geography of Iceland Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 29 November 2021
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- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
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help with script needed
I need help with my JS script i used youre script loader
| Eugloutalk 14:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Euglou I see you installed User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. This is an admin-only script and will not work on your account. — MusikAnimal talk 17:31, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- @User:MusikAnimal must I delet the script or will it delete itself ?? | Eugloutalk 19:48, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Euglou: You used the script-installer gadget to install it, so you should be able to uninstall scripts just as easily. Look for the "Uninstall" button at User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager, or in the heading when viewing User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. — MusikAnimal talk 20:37, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- @User:MusikAnimal must I delet the script or will it delete itself ?? | Eugloutalk 19:48, 29 November 2021 (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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Need protection and support/help
Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. An user continues to placing the CSD for an article. Not allowing me to do anything. Help me. Thank you! Nonsmoker0000 (talk) 08:58, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
- I encourage you to run a check on the OP and compare with IveMadeAn; Nonsmoker seems to be a sock for removing the G4 template. Note also the other edits of this editor. JavaHurricane 09:01, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
- Nonsmoker0000 is indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet. JBW (talk) 09:23, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2021)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lazarev Sea • Wholesaling Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Font attributes
Would you please take a look there, Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header/Normal? --Mahmudmasri (talk) 16:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Mahmudmasri This seems like a very narrow use-case, but I don't have anything against the idea. Still, I'd rather defer to someone else (I assume you came to me because my bot protected the page). To request changes to protected pages, you should make an edit request, in this case using the {{edit template-protected}} template. In my opinion it would be helpful to be more specific on exactly what changes you'd like to make. I assume there are also other templates used throughout the Signpost that you may also want to modify accordingly. For this reason, it may be worthwhile to seek broader input at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost, since what you're trying to do is supposed to be a long-term change. Others may have input on the implementation. For instance, the words within CSS class names are usually hyphenated rather than CamelCase like you are using. Kind regards and hope this helps, — MusikAnimal talk 19:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
MusikBot and Template:already done at PERM
Hi MusikAnimal. Per the recent RfA RfC and T297058, autopatrolled will soon be unbundled from the admin toolset. Would it therefore be possible to stop MusikBot making this kind of edit at PERM? Thanks. – Joe (talk) 13:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- I was hoping my bot was smart enough to actually check that the user has the said permission, and not just blindly assume it's part of the
sysopuser group, but nope! It's an easy fix, though. I'll get on that soon. For now, we should feel free to remind admins that they can assign autopatrolled to themselves. — MusikAnimal talk 19:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)- Thanks! Maybe an automated reminder would be helpful, but I would guess if an admin as made it all the way to PERM that they've considered and rejected the idea of assigning it themselves? (For laudable reasons of transparency etc.) – Joe (talk) 19:22, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- I agree, and besides I'd rather not hardcode any policy-based logic. This bot task is someday supposed to work on other wikis, too (it's a long ways from that now, but I don't want to add more enwiki-specific things). So unless others request it I won't add any sort of automated reminder. — MusikAnimal talk 19:28, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! Maybe an automated reminder would be helpful, but I would guess if an admin as made it all the way to PERM that they've considered and rejected the idea of assigning it themselves? (For laudable reasons of transparency etc.) – Joe (talk) 19:22, 6 December 2021 (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
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project. 
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [6]- An old ResourceLoader module,
jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch tomediawiki.storageinstead. [7]
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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Bot didn't remove template until a while after protection expired
Hey! So your bot is supposed to remove protection templates from pages without protection. However on Jun Matsumoto the last protection of the page expired on November 28. However, the bot didn't remove the template for protection until today. Any reason why the bot waited so long? From what I've seen the bot removes the protection template shortly after it expires. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 22:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Blaze The Wolf It works off of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates, so for whatever reason it must not have been in that category until today. A simple software glitch could explain this; with background jobs failing to start, etc., and at some point that job finally ran (or maybe a purge to the article) which then caused it get added to the category. I can't say I've seen this specific issue much, but the other side of this bot task (adding protection templates to protected pages) does occasionally miss pages for completely different reasons. — MusikAnimal talk 03:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall
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In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) | ||
This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2021)
 People experiencing an adventure (close-up view)
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Bird food • Lazarev Sea Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
[[WB:]]will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]]namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [8]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2021)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Adventure • Bird food Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Musikbot incorrectly clerking WP:PERM/AP
Hi,
It seems MusikBot hasn't been updated yet to acknowledge the fact that admins no longer have the autopatrolled right as part of the sysop group, as its still marking request from admins as already done (see eg [9]). Could the bot be updated to reflect the fact admins no longer have that right? Thanks in advance, -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 09:54, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
- Oops, I meant to fix this last week but I forgot. It's
Fixed now, though :) Thanks for letting me know, — MusikAnimal talk 17:16, 20 December 2021 (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.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [10]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [11]
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
EasyWikiDev
Hi! I'm User:Ed6767. I'm probably best known for founding and developing Wikipedia:RedWarn, which is now one of the most used user scripts on the English Wikipedia. I couldn't help but notice that you also develop user scripts, so I was wondering if I could ask you to try and give me feedback on my new tool called EasyWikiDev. It's a new way to develop user scripts quickly and easily using Visual Studio Code, and only takes a few minutes to set up and install on your computer, whilst saving you the headache of constantly having to save edits and reload the page for every single change to your script you'd like to test. EasyWikiDev makes it so you can develop your script locally, on your own computer, and only publish the changes to your users when you are ready to - and unlike other solutions, EasyWikiDev reloads the page right away when you make a change, so you always see the latest version of your script. Plus, by using Visual Studio Code, you have access to some of the most extensive and helpful extensions and tools available to developers right now.
If you're interested, you can find the GitHub repository here and a video tutorial that shows both how to set up EasyWikiDev and how to use it (which you should watch) here. When you have tried it and would like to give feedback, or just need help, please let me know by pinging me - you'd play a big part in my goal to make user script development easier for all Wikipedians. Thanks again for your consideration, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 12:48, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
- Sounds very cool! I'm part of the IntelliJ family myself and am not looking to switch IDEs at this time, but I'm sure there are plenty who would make use of your plugin. I use a simple Node server (example) to serve my user scripts to the wiki and be able to develop from my IDE, which I'm guessing is basically how your plugin works. Anyway if/when you make an IntelliJ plugin, please ping me :) — MusikAnimal talk 19:12, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, and Visual Studio Code only serves as a user friendly way to start the server (mainly for node newbies). You can use the server script without Visual Studio Code, just run
node .wikidevfrom the root directory of the project. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 03:09, 18 December 2021 (UTC)- @Ed6767 Nice! I applaud you for making this easier for newbies. We need more of that across the board! As an aside, is there a reason User:Ed6767/EasyWikiDev.js has everything in the global scope? I would recommend wrapping it in an anonymous function and assign things to the
windowif necessary. I was also going to ask how it knows what dependencies the script you're developing requires, but I guess the script you're developing is responsible for usingmw.loader.using()etc. (which makes sense). When working on gadgets though, you don't normally usemw.loaderbecause the ResourceLoader definition has that, so I guess in that situation you should have a local wrapper script. Just goes to show how complicated this process really is! :) — MusikAnimal talk 04:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)- @MusikAnimal, I didn't wrap the code because I wrote it in a few hours quite early in the morning lol but it should be, thanks for pointing that out - the script doesn't need any dependencies, it basically runs as a user script would, and indeed, it can get quite complex and confusing sometimes ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 05:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Ed6767 Nice! I applaud you for making this easier for newbies. We need more of that across the board! As an aside, is there a reason User:Ed6767/EasyWikiDev.js has everything in the global scope? I would recommend wrapping it in an anonymous function and assign things to the
- Thanks, and Visual Studio Code only serves as a user friendly way to start the server (mainly for node newbies). You can use the server script without Visual Studio Code, just run
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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New scripts
- Ahecht:
- draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
- massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
- watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
- Awesome Aasim:
- Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
- Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
- Caburum:
- UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
- Chlod:
- CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
- DaxServer:
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one
{{cite book}}inside a<ref>...</ref>tag block into an{{Sfn}}.
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one
- FlightTime:
- OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
- Jon Harald Søby:
- diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
- warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
- JPxG:
- PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
- CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
- TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
- Nardog:
- CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
- IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
- TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
- NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
- ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
- CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
- LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
- QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
- Novem Linguae:
- DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
- NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
- UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
- VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
- WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
- P.T.Đ:
- TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
- Qwerfjkl:
- editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
- RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
- talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
- Rublov:
- diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
- Rummskartoffel:
- auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
- generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
- share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
- show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
- Tol:
- VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
- Venkat TL:
- ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
- Vukky:
- StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).
All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy holidays!
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! 
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. --A.S. Brown (talk) 08:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2021)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Goat meat • Adventure Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
MusikBot
Hello, any idea why this was created? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
- Some faulty logic in fetching the WikiProjects from the talk page. I believe that code predates Special:PageAssessments. These days we can query the API to get the WikiProjects. I'll try to fix this soon. — MusikAnimal talk 20:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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bot help
Hello.
I went through Help:Creating a bot, and related pages, and a few meta pages regarding pywikibot as well, but I couldn't find the answers I was looking for. Would it be okay if I email you with two - three questions? —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:02, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Usernamekiran I am not a user of Pywikibot, sorry! But there is lots of info on Mediawiki.org and Wikitech, for instance mw:Manual:Pywikibot and wikitech:Help:Toolforge/My first Pywikibot tool. There is fairly large community of volunteers who work with this framework who I'm sure could help you. You could try asking your questions on the mailing list, at mw:Manual talk:Pywikibot, or in real-time on IRC at #pywikibot connect. Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal talk 22:23, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- well, it's not a pywikibot either.
—usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:31, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- I see. Well, unless it's something sensitive, I generally recommend asking at public venues like wikitech-l so others can weigh in, and for searchability for others with the same questions, but you most certainly are welcome to email me. There's no need to ask first :) — MusikAnimal talk 22:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- thanks. It's a pretty simple, and non-confidential doubt. But it's that simplicity which makes it embarrassing lol. Hence the email. I will mail you in around 24 hours. Thanks a lot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- I see. Well, unless it's something sensitive, I generally recommend asking at public venues like wikitech-l so others can weigh in, and for searchability for others with the same questions, but you most certainly are welcome to email me. There's no need to ask first :) — MusikAnimal talk 22:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- well, it's not a pywikibot either.
sent. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 17:37, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- I found mw:Manual:Pywikibot/replace.py, but not how to deploy it. Its in python though, not in ruby. I am comfortable with C#/.net
but I think I can work with python too—usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:53, 31 December 2021 (UTC) - updated on, I dont I like python. 22:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- I also found dotnetwikibot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- I posted in detail at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#help creating a bot, your input will be appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 23:44, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:47, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year snowman}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.
- Same to you, thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 03:57, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Merchandise giveaway nomination
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Hi MusikAnimal! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
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- I commented on the Meta page but will write here for the record, that while I appreciate the sentiment, I have declined the offer given I am WMF staff. — MusikAnimal talk 03:59, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello Sir Why incomplete information attached? I want to add some information in Abhira tribe please unprotection this Page 2409:4053:E0D:579D:0:0:5789:2B10 (talk) 07:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm afraid due to frequent disruption this page cannot be unprotected at this time. You can make an edit request and someone else can implement the changes for you. Best, — MusikAnimal talk 04:03, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2022)
 A man playing the didgeridoo, an indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the history of music.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Carapace • Goat meat Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-en
lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
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My more menu gadget appears blank
I have rised a request on Teahouse and somebody pinged you there. could you check my request ? Onmyway22 talk 17:27, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
- Replying here for the record that I followed up at the Teashouse and the issue has been resolved. — MusikAnimal talk 19:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
TemplateProtector and sandboxes
Hi MusikAnimal, there have been a couple of cases recently where a template sandbox was used in article space and got a high enough transclusion count that the bot protected it and it had to got to RfPP to be unprotected. Do you think it would be sensible to exclude sandbox pages from the bot? In an ideal world recent editors of the sandbox and template would get some sort of warning that they were using the sandbox live so they could fix it. User:GKFXtalk 19:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
- @GKFX: hmmmm - if the sandbox is being used in articles, it would be a ripe vandalism target though, wouldn't it? — xaosflux Talk 19:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, it’s certainly a risk. I guess it’s not too much of a burden to go to RfPP, provided someone notices the problem. Automatic unprotection after the sandbox is removed from articles would be another answer; I know that would need to go through bot approval again. User:GKFXtalk 19:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
- @GKFX I like your ideal world! That's a solution I will definitely look into. For now, we absolutely cannot exempt sandboxes. On many or perhaps most occasions, the editor forgot they were transcluding the sandbox version, in some cases with millions of transclusions. The automatic protection in those cases to me is more of a feature, not a bug, since it surfaces the mistakes. But as you say there are other ways to do that, too :) Thanks for the fine idea! I'm going to be extremely busy for the next few weeks but after that I should have time to work on this. — MusikAnimal talk 19:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: History of music • Carapace Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- A
oauth_consumervariable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [12] - Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [13]
- Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example,
|actions=edit,historywill load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [14] - Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the
withgadgetURL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks likewithJSorwithCSS. [15] - At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [16]
- The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [17] [18]
- Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [19]
- The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).
Events
- Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.
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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2022)
 A NeXTstation graphics workstation from 1990
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Reader Rabbit • History of music Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
- You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [20]
- When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).
Events
- Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.
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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Workstation • Reader Rabbit Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
- The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
- You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [21]
Events
- You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
- You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.
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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Television ratings • Workstation Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Edit Filter #846
Hello!
Is there any way that I could request some changes to filter 846 (T-Mobile/LTA tracking)?
2607:fb90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 is currently globally blocked, so there's no real need to have that anymore. 2607:FB91:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 would be good to add, though.
Here are all the ranges used by T-Mobile as well: https://isprangefinder.toolforge.org/hint.php?type=asn&range=21928 (it's a lot)
wizzito | say hello! 20:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Wizzito I'm afraid I'm not sure what we're tracking with this filter. I don't personally use it. @TheresNoTime and @Beetstra are probably the better edit filter managers to consult about this. — MusikAnimal talk 22:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Wizzito: Meh, I don't know this filter either - I don' t use it. I guess your best bet will be to go to the Edit Filter Request page and see whether it needs to be updated. Dirk Beetstra T C 05:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi!
Are you the responder at Wishlist on meta right? Can I add another proposal there? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 02:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, we are no longer accepting new proposals. I see you got in a few at least, so that's nice :) Hope you see you voting, and further participation in next Survey, too! Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 04:20, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- When the next wishlist? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 04:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- To be determined! At least a year, perhaps two years – since we've received a lot of feedback that it's better to work on addressing older wishes than running a new survey. You can watchlist meta:Community Wishlist Survey/Updates for updates. — MusikAnimal talk 17:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- When the next wishlist? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 04:46, 31 January 2022 (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
- If a gadget should support the new
?withgadgetURL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specifysupportsUrlLoadin the gadget definition (documentation). [22]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).
Future changes
- A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.
- The user group
Events
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.
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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
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Conclusion
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) | ||
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Saturday Feb 5: ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (and monthlong campaign)
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Social equality • Television ratings Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
- Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [23]
Problems
- A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for
vectorshould be updated to also check forvector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).
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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community
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Hi Wiki-Yorkers, We are reaching out as part of our community-building efforts at Wikimedia NYC. Our regional group is engaged in a strategic planning process to sharpen our strategy for the next three years, and we would like your input. Given your connection to us and your experience with Wikimedia NYC, I would be grateful if you would be willing to share some of your perspectives and insights as we think about our next chapter. Attached is an anonymous survey, which will remain active until February 28. Responses will go directly to Barretto Consulting and the Wikimedia NYC board will receive responses in aggregate and to identify cross-cutting themes. Please take some time to answer it and share your thoughts with us.
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--Wikimedia New York City Team 18:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Joseph Lelyveld • Social equality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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responseHelper indentation
Hi MusikAnimal! Regarding your responseHelper script, I think it would make sense to change the indentation for WP:AIV (line 53) and WP:UAA (line 173) from :: to *: to match the current bullet formatting used on those pages. This would make the script consistent with the recommended indentation in the editnotices for those pages (see AIV and UAA), fix an issue that was mentioned here, and it would also help my new script for removing false positive bot reports at UAA. Thank you! DanCherek (talk) 18:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Sure thing, Done. Thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal talk 04:08, 14 February 2022 (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
- Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [24]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
- In the AbuseFilter extension, the
rmspecials()function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses ofrmspecials()withrmwhitespace()wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [25]
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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
- AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
- The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2022)
 Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cult of personality • Joseph Lelyveld Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [26]
- At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [27]
- You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup
class=notpageimage. For example,[[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [28] - There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.
Events
- Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).
Future changes
- The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [29][30]
- Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [31]
- Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.
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Could you possibly unprotect this article? It's been protected for five years and the protecting administrator is no longer active. 156.61.250.251 (talk) 13:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) The best place to ask is WP:RFPP. Near the bottom of that page are requests for reduced protection. EvergreenFir (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2022)
.jpg) Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Isabella I of Castile • Cult of personality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Pageviews analysis
Why is the pageviews analysis not working for massviews and others, and why did the look for the pageviews analysis change into a Times New Roman font that looks like it hasn't loaded? Could this be fixed soon? Thanks, Nearly but not perfect (talk) 06:48, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- @I'm not perfect but I'm almost Are you using a privacy browser plugin such as PrivacyBadger or uBlock? You will need to disable it for wmcloud.org. The fix to the ad blockers has been merged and will soon make its way to your plugins, at which time you can remove wmcloud.org from your allowlist if you want. — MusikAnimal talk 19:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- @MusikAnimal, yes, I do use uBlock origin. That's why it wasn't working. Thanks a lot! Nearly but not perfect (talk) 04:31, 28 February 2022 (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
- When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [32]
- Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [33][34]
- The user group
oversightwas renamedsuppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.
Problems
- The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [35]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).
Future changes
- Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
- If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes:
successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Google • Isabella I of Castile Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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.
Problems
- There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [36]
Changes later this week
- 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).
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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. MusikBot doesn't seem to want to archive this section. I'm guessing it's user error 😬, could you tell us what we're doing wrong? Courtesy ping for @Usernamekiran Thanks, FASTILY 00:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Fastily This is one is quite interesting... the bot is genuinely confused! Anyways, this is what {{User:MusikBot/archivenow}} is for. That worked when I used it. It archives as the most recent overridden resolution ( Done in this case because of the use of {{User:MusikBot/override}}} at Special:Diff/1076012502). It seems the bot's logic around archiving when someone doesn't have the said permission is perhaps overly aggressive. I will investigate when time allows, but in the meantime, {{User:MusikBot/archivenow}} should always work if all else fails. Sorry for the bugginess! — MusikAnimal talk 06:47, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2022)
 A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase Z with stroke letters.
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Hi! MusikAnimal, I know you are one of the contributors to Twinkle, I have a request given on the Twinkle talk page, the concerned users made a Ticket for my request, but still no consensus is happening. What I want to happen is, at the moment, after I revert, I warn the user, and their talk page opens in another Tab, and this is Twinkle's default settings. My request is, I would like to open after I revert, the user talk page on the same Tab, like RedWarn, because I am a mobile user. RedWarn team process RedWarn users requests promptly. In RedWarn, after rollback, the Warn menu opens and goes straight to war, and the page will reload to the user who was warned. That's what I want to happen with Twinkle, hopefully it will work out, even if it makes option settings for mobile users only, thanks. —Ctrlwiki (talk) 12:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- I don't have time to work on this right now, but it seems from both the on-wiki discussion and the GitHub issue, that the consensus is to make it opt-in. So I feel there is a path forward, once a willing developer devotes the time to implement it. It's also worth mentioning Twinkle isn't (yet) designed to work on mobile, so the use-case is perhaps questionable. — MusikAnimal talk 19:51, 14 March 2022 (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
- In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [37][38]
Problems
- There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
- There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [39]
Changes later this week
- 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).
- When using
uselang=qqxto find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [40] - Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights through their group memberships. Before, only those with thedeleterevisionright could access this special page. [41] - On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [42]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
- The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [43]
Events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.
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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
The page of Djibouti
Can you either lower the protection For this page? Skyscapercity (talk) 17:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Mar 27: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn
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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2022)
.jpg) Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • First Sudanese Civil War Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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.
New code release schedule for this week
- There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.
Recent changes
- You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [44]
- The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [45]
Future changes
- Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [46]
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The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2022)
 Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sikkimese cuisine • Letter (alphabet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.
Changes later 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).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [47][48]
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2022)
 Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball.
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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.
Problems
- For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [49]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be
Tech News: 2022-14anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [50] - Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.
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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. I think we managed to break the bot again. Whenever you have a moment, could you please take a look at this section and tell me what we've done wrong? Thanks, FASTILY 21:22, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- See Special:Diff/1081358452. The issue here was the mix of Done and
Not done, so the bot didn't know where to archive. I recommend relying on any combination of {{User:MusikBot/override}} and {{User:MusikBot/archivenow}}, but generally you shouldn't need the latter. The admin instructions (linked at the top-right of each WP:PERM page) is meant to explain this, though I admit it's still confusing! The bot could probably go by the latest comment with a resolution template, but I seem to recall there was a reason it wasn't programmed that way. — MusikAnimal talk 00:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- (note I accidentally force-archived as done, when it should be not done... fixed now :) — MusikAnimal talk 00:41, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ah, that makes sense. Thanks! -FASTILY 07:06, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- (note I accidentally force-archived as done, when it should be not done... fixed now :) — MusikAnimal talk 00:41, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2022)
 In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. Pictured is a chart of global bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Paddle ball • Pumpkin pie Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-15
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
- There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
- On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [51][52]
Changes later 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).
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New administrator activity requirement
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
- Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
- Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2022)
.jpg) Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960.
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Tech News: 2022-16
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [53]
- Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes:
successbox,errorbox,warningbox. The styles for those classes andmessageboxwill be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.
Future changes
- Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [54] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [55] [56] [57]
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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2022)
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Astrid Lindgren • Broadband Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-17
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
- On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [58][59]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [60]
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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2022)
 A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mountain pass • Astrid Lindgren Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-18
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
- On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [61][62]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
- Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [63] [64]
- If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [65]
- Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include
#mw-anon-edit-warning,#mw-undelete-revisionand 3 others.
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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Hey there MusikAnimal, I'd like to wish you a happy adminship anniversary! Congratulations on your special day, and thank you for all the contributions you've made.
𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC) On behalf of the Birthday Committee
OMG IT'S MUSKIANIMAL THE INVENTOR OF THE MUSKIBOT. I AM JUST IN AWE! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
- A belated thank you :) — MusikAnimal talk 22:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Potential MusikBot II Bug
I was looking through Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates manually as i do a lot, and i noticed that the bot had added the {{pp-move}} template to a move protected page (Anantapur), which makes sense. However, the protection level was set to autoconfirmed, which is the default protection level for moving pages anyways. Because of that, {{pp-move}} actually considers this an invalid use and flags it (See Module:Protection banner line 120). To be fair its probably more the fault of the person who protected the page for adding a functionless protection (I've already asked the acting person if the action was a mistake, so dw), but I'd recommend checking for this anyways. Hope this helps. Aidan9382 (talk) 06:12, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Note: The bot reverted my edit (Despite what the BRfA summary says about it not. I dunno, I probably somehow confused it or whatever), and ive noticed its not exclusion compliant. I'm not even gonna try edit war with a bot, so when you do fix this, please also correct the page. Thanks! Aidan9382 (talk) 06:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC) I think the error it had earlier today caused it to get a bit confused. I reverted it again and it hasnt added it back in its most recent edits, so im assuming its fine on that front. Aidan9382 (talk) 11:14, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- I think I may need to add some special handling for this. Thanks for letting me know! Right now I'm working on migrating all bot tasks to the new Toolforge jobs framework. The bot was edit warring with you probably while I was doing tests; it shouldn't normally look at pages that were protected that long ago. So anyway, there may be more of this today and tomorrow while I get things migrated. — MusikAnimal talk 16:21, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2022)
 Soil profile: Darkened topsoil and reddish subsoil layers are typical of humid subtropical climate regions.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Food court • Mountain pass Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 9 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-19
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 now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [66]
Problems
- Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [67]
- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [68]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [69]
- Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
- The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.
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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Soil • Food court Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 16 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-20
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [70]
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).
Future changes
- You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [71]
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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
MusikBot – DYK
Hi, MusikBot hasn't taken care of the daily DYK headings for a couple of days (User:MusikBot/RotateTDYK). MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM 07:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up! Something apparently broke with the migration to the new Toolforge jobs framework. What's weird is it's reporting that it has been successfully running, and there are no errors. I'm going to have to debug this by running the script manually right at 00:00 UTC, which I won't be able to do tonight but should be able to tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience. — MusikAnimal talk 19:56, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- I just manually updated the page to add May 15, and also to move the Current nominations section header to its proper place in the list. MusikAnimal, I'll be sure not to do so for tomorrow unless given the all-clear here. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- I tested from my local and on Toolforge (running the script directly) and it worked just fine. This suggests the Toolforge jobs framework is to blame, since it's not outputting any errors. I'm going to get in touch with the Cloud Services team and see if they have any ideas. Otherwise I can move this task back to the old grid engine, which should work.
- Just in case I can't get it fixed in time, I should let you know I'll be on holiday from this Wednesday through the end of the month. So in worst case this won't be fixed until June 1 at the earliest. I've got a lot of things to do before I leave but I will try to address this issue before then. — MusikAnimal talk 00:13, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, MusikAnimal. I saw that tonight's update was made (twice!). I hope you'll be able to get help from Cloud Services, or otherwise manage to fix things. Let us know if it's a worst case situation, and I'll do my best to do daily manual updates as long as necessary—after all, I was one of those who did them in the manual-update days before you added the job to your bot. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm happy to report that MusikBot updated the headers on the DYK Nominations page at midnight, so I think we're all set. I'll keep an eye on it, but I doubt it's necessary. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, MusikAnimal. I saw that tonight's update was made (twice!). I hope you'll be able to get help from Cloud Services, or otherwise manage to fix things. Let us know if it's a worst case situation, and I'll do my best to do daily manual updates as long as necessary—after all, I was one of those who did them in the manual-update days before you added the job to your bot. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- I just manually updated the page to add May 15, and also to move the Current nominations section header to its proper place in the list. MusikAnimal, I'll be sure not to do so for tomorrow unless given the all-clear here. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
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Tunneling into the replica English Wikipedia database via PHP on Windows
Hi. Nearly seven years ago you helped me with connecting to the replica database on Labs and we got as far as you can see your Labs MySQL credentials with
cat ~/replica.my.cnf.
I didn't actually ever get that far because, as I recall, someone else picked up the ball I was carrying, and... figuring it all out was just too hard and time-consuming.
Fast forward seven years and now I've picked up another ball which I resolved to hold onto until either I solved it or someone else took the ball.
I successfully installed PuTTY and finally logged into my account on
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"...a server of the tools Cloud VPS project, the home of community managed bots, webservices, and tools supporting the Wikimedia movement."
where after getting stuck at Passphrase for key "rsa-key-20150713": I kept getting Wrong passphrase until ~two days later I had an epiphany and remembered it!
Then cat $HOME/replica.my.cnf revealed my user ID and password. (I needed to type $HOME rather than ~)
Then I successfully installed MySQL Workbench and got it working by following these instructions. I've successfully used MySQL Workbench to make the same queries I made on Quarry (and got the same results).
Now I'm stuck at The next part is figuring out how to get your PHP app to connect to the database through the SSH tunnel... maybe with the connection open through Putty and your credentials defined in the app it will just work, I'm not sure. E.g. if the PHP app is looking for a local MySQL database and 127.0.0.1:3306 (default port) is routed to the labs db through the SSH tunnel, you might be all set
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See the example code at wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Database#PHP (using PDO). I've tried both PDO and MySQLi and it fails the same way on both:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: PDO::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.Warning: mysqli::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.Connection failed: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
The line where it fails only specifies four of the nine or ten parameters I needed to set for MySQL Workbench to work.
- $db = new PDO("mysql:host=enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud;dbname=enwiki_p", $ts_mycnf['user'], $ts_mycnf['password']);
- $mysqli = new mysqli('enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud', $ts_mycnf['user'], $ts_mycnf['password'], 'enwiki_p');
The PHP installation manual says:
In the official PHP Windows distributions, MySQL Native Driver is enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required to use it. All MySQL database extensions will use MySQL Native Driver in this case.
So I assume that the other five or six parameters need to be specified in the MySQL Native Driver somehow? wbm1058 (talk) 17:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- To clarify the above, when I try
$mysqli = new mysqli("enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud",..., I get- "No such host is known"
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$mysqli = new mysqli("127.0.0.1:3306"..., I get- "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" – wbm1058 (talk) 22:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Connecting to the database replicas from your own computer says to set up a tunnel so that connections to port 4711 on your own computer will be relayed to the enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud database replica's MySQL server on port 3306. This tunnel will continue to work as long as the SSH session is open.
Also, Windows 10 has OpenSSH included and the
ssh command can be used. On older versions of Windows, you can use the tool PuTTY by add in Connection → SSH → Tunnels the following settings.
I'm still running Windows 7 on my desktop which is my main Windows machine supporting Wikipedia 24×7. I have a Windows 10 laptop which I use for backup but which is often powered down. I can try the Windows 10 SSH command later but first I want to get this running on my desktop using PuTTY. My PuTTY session is still open, and my understanding is that I need to keep my PuTTY session open 24×7 to be able to run a PHP bot that tunnels to the database 24×7. I configured my PuTTY per How to set up PuTTY for direct access to your Toolforge account. There the Session configuration says to specify port 22. Why 22 and not 4711 or 3306? All these port numbers are confusing for someone still trying to understand what they all mean.
I see from the banner at the top that "This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." Sure wish you had a nice talk page watcher or stalker who could help. Trying to ask these questions via email or IRC seems difficult. wbm1058 (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hey, I solved it!!! I uploaded a picture of the key dialog box I needed to fill out. wbm1058 (talk) 01:54, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- I think I understand now that port 22 is for the bastion. Only PuTTY needs to know port 22 to get bastion authorization. Once PuTTY is inside, it can be configured to allow my PHP to tunnel in without needing to know the bastion's port number. – wbm1058 (talk) 02:15, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2022)
_(16279818861).jpg) A turkey in a field
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cheque • Soil Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 23 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello MusikAnimal,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 846 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Tech News: 2022-21
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
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [72]
- The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [73]
Problems
- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [74]
- Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [75]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Future changes
- Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [76]
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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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June 2022 Good Article Nominations backlog drive
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MusikBot and educated vandals
Can MusikBot please have a longer delay after protection templates are added to an unprotected page before it removes them? Some more innovative vandals add protection templates on with their vandalism, and the bot's removal of the template makes rollback useless. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
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- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Turkey (bird) • Cheque Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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A message from Letsnotstart re: Revision Deletion, Vandalism
Hello Looking for a revision deletion for page Rory Phillips of all 4 edits made by IP 95.147.222.131 on 27 March 2022 as these constitute vandalism, containing defamatory and unverified accusations of abuse, as well as some frankly childish digs. Also a revision deletion of subsequent edits made undoing them If this content would still be visible in those. Appreciate your help and apologise for my lack of rhyming. I blame the timing. Letsnotstart (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Letsnotstart (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-22
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
- In the AbuseFilter extension, an
ip_in_ranges()function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multipleip_in_range()expressions joined by|into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [77] - The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [78][79]
- The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the
uciprangeparameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [80] - A new parser function will be introduced:
{{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [81]
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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.
23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
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Something wrong with MusikBot
It seems that MusikBot perm clerking is saying that all users have 0 edits in mainspace, I have checked a few contributions pages and it seems untrue, just wondering if someone’s messed up the JSON or if the bot is broken. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- I believe this was due to phab:T309569; basically it was some maintenance the Cloud Services team was doing. I've removed the incorrect comments and the bot isn't re-adding them so I think we're back to normal now. — MusikAnimal talk 18:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
NYC Wiknic, June 26
Hold the date. Meetup/NYC Wiknic in Crotona Park, Sunday June 26.
Watch Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiknic June 2022 for further details as they become available.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:31, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
Barnstar of Awesomeness
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- My pleasure! Thanks for the barnstar :) — MusikAnimal talk 22:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2022)
 Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pop music • Turkey (bird) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 6 June 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Hey! I was looking over User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector for various reasons, and I noticed that, in the /config, for the regex_exclusions, Wikipedia:Tip of the day/.* is missing an ^, so that might be worth adding. Bit of a picky thing to point out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways. (Small request. Used to be bigger, but then I realised im a moron, so sorry about that) Aidan9382 (talk) 18:14, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Fixed Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:53, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-23
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
- A new
str_replace_regexp()function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [82]
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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
julio marcio silva
🍡🍕🍔🍖🍗🍘🍙🚄🚥⛅ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:18:CD:C754:69D1:3AC4:B342:B9FC (talk) 17:01, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2022)
 Bulletproof glass window of a jeweler after a burglary attempt
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Tech News: 2022-24
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
- All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [83][84]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [85]
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [86]
- The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [87][88]
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.
Future changes
- By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.
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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2022)
 Raw pork tenderloin
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Bulletproofing • Squash (sport) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 June 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-25
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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu
). [89] - Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for
site_statsat English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more. - A new
user_global_editcountvariable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [90]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
- Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [91]
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
- Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different
typeofattribute values, and instead usemw:Filefor all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects:mw:Image,mw:Audio, ormw:Video. [92]
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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
June 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
| June 22, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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Draft:Shrien Dewani
MuskiBot II which you run has placed my article "Shrien Dewani" in draft. Please kindly remove it from Draft's. Thank you kindly. WikiHuman2021 (talk) 23:48, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @WikiHuman2021 You created the draft, which I assume was by mistake. The bot is removing the protection templates you incorrectly keep adding to the page. Only admins can protect pages, but this is only done when there has been disruption from other users. Anyway, if you feel the article is ready for the mainspace, you can simply move it as you have the rights to do so. Let me know if you need help. Best, — MusikAnimal talk 01:19, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- Actually, I just noticed that Shrien Dewani already exists as a redirect to Murder of Anni Dewani. In that case, you may wish to expand the current redirect with the contents of the draft article. The old draft can then be deleted. — MusikAnimal talk 01:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal Thank you kindly for your timely response and assistance it's greatly appreciated. There is no article/page directly for the individual Shrien Dewani, only a redirect to his ex wife's murder article. Therefore that's why I've created him his own article/page. If you can please kindly assist in moving it so he can have his own. Really thankful for your help. WikiHuman2021 (talk) 07:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Update: I've managed to successfully fix the redirect and Shrien Dewani's page/article. The draft page will now be required to be deleted which I may need assistance in doing. Thank you again for your help. WikiHuman2021 (talk) 08:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- I've just changed the draft page to be a redirect to the mainspace page. Have a great day, — MusikAnimal talk 14:49, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Sun June 26: Bronx Wiki-Picnic
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello MusikAnimal,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. 
Barnstars will be awarded.
- TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 14919 articles, as of 06:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
- Reminders
- Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
- If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing
{{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page. - If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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More Menu
Hi Musik. I am here to talk about MoreMenu which you have created. It is a really useful gadget, and it has helped me a lot. Analysis has been lot easy because of your gadget. But one thing I don't understand is, what is the need of the "user thanks received" section? Many things, like RfA, RfB and all are important, but why did you include the user thanks received link? Can that be removed? No, I mean, I am not telling you to remove something just for my suggestion. You can start an RFC if you want. But how can I remove that for my use only. I think that is unnecessary for me atleast. Itcouldbepossible Talk 14:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Itcouldbepossible Many people are interested to know how many thanks a user has received, as it sort of helps gauge how impactful their work has been. For similar reasons we recently added a "thanks counter" to XTools (phab:T283542). Anyway, all links in MoreMenu have unique IDs, so you can hide them with your personal CSS. For this link, specifically, add the following to your global.css:That should do it. Kind regards, — MusikAnimal talk 19:57, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
#mm-user-user-thanks-received { display:none; }
- Thanks Musik. Yes, according to you the "received thanks" section is useful. But thanks for giving me a work around. Where can I get the other mm ids from? And like this, can I also some general links that wikipedia provides, like for example, I don't need the "Current events", "contact us", all the things under the "contribute" section and many other like this. If I get the id, then I can set it to not display it. Thanks for helping out this newcomer. Sincerely, Itcouldbepossible Talk 05:55, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 June 2022
- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2022)
 These flaming cocktails illustrate that some liquors can readily catch fire and burn.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pork tenderloin • Bulletproofing Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 June 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-26
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 Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
- All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [93]
- Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [94]
- Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [95]
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.
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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Liquor • Pork tenderloin Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-27
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
- This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable
proofreadpage_source_hrefwill be removed frommw.configand be replaced with the variableprpSourceIndexPage. [96]
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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
NPP -'NOINDEX'
Hi. Do we have an update on what's happening? It was thrown out of Phab because someone decided it needed yet another (3rd) RfC although the previous ones had clear consensus. Apparently one was started at the VP but I can't find it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:02, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
I finally located the post at the VP. It was indeed only a notification about the RfC at WT:NPR, which still has consensus as did the earlier original RfC which got somehow swept under the carpet. So as far as I can see there should be no reason for anyone to post at Phab in order to stall the request. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:35, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- There's nothing holding this back on the developer side. It is purely in the community's hands. Some editors (Xaosflux and TheresNoTime namely) have expressed it needs broader input, which I personally don't disagree with. Consensus within the NPP community I don't feel is sufficient, especially with two functionaries -- one of them a bureaucrat -- questioning if the current discussion accurately represents community-wide opinion. At any rate, I don't really have any desire to be a part of this debate. I would have been happy to help with the technical bits but that is already done. I suggest at minimum a formal closure by an uninvolved admin for the discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers#Picking a specific # of days for NOINDEX proposal at Village Pump, but I think first advertising it at WP:CENT for a week or so would be better. — MusikAnimal talk 17:44, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
FixPP Behaviour question
Hey! I have a question regarding this edit and others like it. Shouldn't the bot consider using a redirect-based template (like {{R semiprotected}}) when sorting protection templates on protected redirects? Aidan9382 (talk) 21:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- This is a good idea, but then the bot has to know about {{redirect category shell}} and use it properly. So it's not a simple change. Unless there's a policy-based reason for using {{R semi-protected}}, I may wish to decline this request on the basis of unnecessary added complexity. At any rate I'm afraid I won't have time to work on it in the near future. Sorry! If it is causing problems, I can at least have the bot skip the tagging of redirects, if that helps. — MusikAnimal talk 22:25, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2022)
 Temperature map of the United States during the Great Blizzard of 1899
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sexual abuse • Liquor Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Thu July 14: Astoria Beer Garden Wiki-Picnic
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Tech News: 2022-28
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
- In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [97]
- It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [98]
- The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2022)
 The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. Pictured above are four patrons and a flapper in 1921 awaiting the opening of the Krazy Kat Klub, a speakeasy.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Great Blizzard of 1899 • Sexual abuse Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-29
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 feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [99]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
Future changes
- The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.
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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
responseHelper
Hi MusikAnimal, hope you're doing well. Using the script, {{AN3|mr}} doesn't work properly at WP:AN3. It puts the result in the header but not at the bottom. Thanks in advance for looking into it.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:09, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2022)
 A retractable pen is a type of ink pen that has a spring-loaded ink cartridge which retracts and extends outside a protective housing.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Jazz Age • Great Blizzard of 1899 Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-30
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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [100]
Problems
- Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [101]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
- The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [102]
- Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [103]
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).
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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
July 27: WikiWednesday Salon NYC (+Aug in-person for Wikimania)
| July 27, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit the Zoom link on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page.
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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2022)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Retractable pen • Jazz Age Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Tech News: 2022-31
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
- Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting
Phantomtags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Future meetings
- This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.
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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
Technical news
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Warn the user feature is not working in ckbwiki
Hello MusikAnimal, I'm from ckbwiki. We tried to update Twinkle on ckbwiki and after updating the ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinklespeedy.js, we have noticed that the "Warn user on their talk page" feature is not working. I think ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-Twinkle.js and ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinkleconfig.js are related to the CSD options. Do you have any idea? If you have time to take a look at this issue, please feel free to use ckb:سخ article and the warning message should available on my talk page. And please, just try to use the first (A1) CSD because we already created the Delete and Notice templates with fully translated. Thanks! ⇒ AramTalk 21:26, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Aram I'm only so-involved with Twinkle development these days. I recommend asking at WT:TW instead. Hope this helps and good luck! — MusikAnimal talk 21:46, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
- I understand you and thank you for replying me honestly. ⇒ AramTalk 22:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
Fri/Sat/Sun Aug 12-14 with Saturday flagship Wiki World's Fair at Queens Museum
| Aug 12-14: Wiki World's Fair for Wikimania in NYC | |
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 You are invited to join the local Wikimedia NYC community for its flagship event to be held all-day on Saturday August 13, 2022 at the Queens Museum, in the context of the 1939/1964 fairgrounds at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. There will also be smaller sessions for much of August 12-14 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) as hybrid local gatherings for the global online conference Wikimania 2022. You are also encouraged to sign up for a lightning talk! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Flagship event:
Other sessions (subject to change, see full Agenda):
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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:03, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello MusikAnimal,
- Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
- Coordination
- MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
- Open letter to the WMF
- The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
- TIP - Reviewing by subject
- Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
- New reviewers
- The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
- Reminders
- Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
- If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing
{{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page. - If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
- To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2022)
 A home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) displayed in a web browser.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Diego • Retractable pen Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 8 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-32
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
- GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [104]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future meetings
- The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!
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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
WikiProject popular pages bot
Hi MusikAnimal: Sorry if you're not the right person to ping here; I got your name from the bot's talk page. The Community Tech bot's popular pages bot seems to have stopped working this morning. It was progressing nicely through this month's list until midnight last night. Now it hasn't updated anything today, despite the fact that there are still dozens of projects awaiting their list. Can you please check and see if something has made it hiccup? Thanks! MeegsC (talk) 08:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- It appears to be running as expected now. I'm guessing when you checked it was going through one of the really big WikiProjects such as WP:USA. — MusikAnimal talk 15:45, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, I was just about to come back and say it appears to have finished running. But I notice that it's skipped all the "newer" projects – that is, all of us who've added ourselves to the bot's list within the last few months. Is there some problem with those? I'm particularly interested in the report for the lichen task force, but I'm guessing a few other projects have been wondering why they don't get a list either! MeegsC (talk) 18:07, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- @MeegsC It's likely something covered by troubleshooting tips. If you or whomever is interested can confirm those tips don't help here, I'm happy to troubleshoot it further. I get these requests very regularly and it's almost always a configuration problem, which I'm hoping the community can learn to fix on their own. — MusikAnimal talk 18:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- That said, it would be helpful if the bot had a log or something that made it clear why a WikiProject was skipped. That's something I can look into when time allows. — MusikAnimal talk 18:35, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi MusikAnimal. Well, the project shows up as expected in the "Project" box on the Page Assessments page, and we have a subsection on the page we've set up for the results. So it appears that things should have worked. Would you mind having a look when you get the chance? MeegsC (talk) 20:43, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- I think I've figured it out. We should have put Fungi/Lichen task force for the name, rather than just Lichen task force. I'll change it for next month. MeegsC (talk) 21:45, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi MusikAnimal. Well, the project shows up as expected in the "Project" box on the Page Assessments page, and we have a subsection on the page we've set up for the results. So it appears that things should have worked. Would you mind having a look when you get the chance? MeegsC (talk) 20:43, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- That said, it would be helpful if the bot had a log or something that made it clear why a WikiProject was skipped. That's something I can look into when time allows. — MusikAnimal talk 18:35, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- @MeegsC It's likely something covered by troubleshooting tips. If you or whomever is interested can confirm those tips don't help here, I'm happy to troubleshoot it further. I get these requests very regularly and it's almost always a configuration problem, which I'm hoping the community can learn to fix on their own. — MusikAnimal talk 18:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, I was just about to come back and say it appears to have finished running. But I notice that it's skipped all the "newer" projects – that is, all of us who've added ourselves to the bot's list within the last few months. Is there some problem with those? I'm particularly interested in the report for the lichen task force, but I'm guessing a few other projects have been wondering why they don't get a list either! MeegsC (talk) 18:07, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2022)
.jpg) Christmas market in Red Square in 2017
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Home page • Diego Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-33
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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [105][106][107]
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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
MusikBot clerking on RFP/NPR
I'm a bit confused by this MusikBot edit on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer. The bot is claiming I have zero mainspace edits, which is off by about 27,000. Did I make an error in my application, or is this a bot error? Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:43, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
- Commented there. It was a one-off glitch of some sort. My guess is XTools was overloaded at that moment, which the bot should handle gracefully but it doesn't… I will try to look into it when I have time. For now, I have personally granted you NPR rights. Happy reviewing! :) — MusikAnimal talk 20:08, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking into it, and for the approval! One-off errors are oh so fun to debug. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:42, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
NPP message
Hi MusikAnimal,
- Invitation
For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2022)
.svg) Kyushu, literally "Nine Provinces", is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Christmas in Russia • Home page Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 22 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2022-34
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
- Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [108][109]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [110]
Future changes
- The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [111]
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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)