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== Ruth Railton and Jessica Corner ==


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:You had added unsourced information, that is why I reverted it. ]<sup>]</sup> 03:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)


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:: Nothing unsourced. Railton's married name (King) and Corner's middle name (Lois) are included in their articles. No reason not to include in Infobox or lead. ] (]) 04:02, 26 February 2022 (UTC)


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'''Recent changes''' '''Recent changes'''
* ] Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both ] and ], due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the ] page.
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== Thanks for your help == == Needing answers ==


Are you ever going to explain why you thought that me trying to change the tense on the article of the discontinued One Chip Challenge was "inserting humor" into the article? I'm glad another editor with sense realized and put in the past tense but your behavior has persistently bothered me every time I think about it. I think you fail to read the contents of edits before you remove them. I don't understand why people give you awards for this. ] (]) 13:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, thanks for preventing the vandalism of articles that I have edited to add Indigenous placenames in Australia. It's a lot of work doing the research and digging through the citations, and then politically motivated individuals can run through and delete it in seconds. It means a lot to me that you prevented that. ] (]) 01:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


:And the fact that you removed multiple sourced edits of mine, including to the New Hampshire Institute of Art article, practically proves you are simply removing edits in the same manner as a machine gun. ] (]) 13:35, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
:Thanks {{u|Poketama}} for your comment. I am really sorry for answering this late. I was actually on a wiki break. I actually revert a huge amount of vandalism, and so I don't remember which australian article you are taking about. Would you mind telling me the specified articles? It would help me in reverting more vandalism. Regards. ]<sup>]</sup> 12:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)


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No worries, you're not late at all! You reverted all these edits by an Anonymous user, which would have wiped alot of my work within a 30 minute period. https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/220.244.117.3 Thanks. ] (]) 05:13, 4 March 2022 (UTC)


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:@] Thanks. I remember about those now. ]<sup>]</sup> 12:03, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
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* Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of ] (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and ]. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and ] was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to ] by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers.
* Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via ]. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.
* Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Misplaced Pages using your phone? highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
* Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.


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The Growth team released ] at all Wikipedias. You can access it at <code>Special:CommunityConfiguration</code>.

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We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test at ] using the new ]. We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at ].

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* Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance ''Misplaced Pages:'' or ''Wikisource:'' namespaces) if they understand the ]. For discussions, users can already use ] in these namespaces.
* The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" . Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

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== AWB == == Tech News: 2024-33 ==


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I saw your question on the Teahouse regarding AWB. I use it alot so if you have any questions do let me know. ] (]) 19:51, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
* ] editors and maintainers can now ]. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots.
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:Hi {{u|Rlink2}} Thanks for showing your interest to answer my question. Can you answer the same question that I asked at Teahouse. Also, what do you do using AWB? What type of edits do you make, and what parameters do you use for making a list? ]<sup>]</sup> 05:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
* ] for new members to refresh the ]. The committee oversees the Toolforge ] and ] among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
::AWB is a powerful tool that allows you to make mass edits across articles. For example, if you wanted to add a template to a bunch of articles, or remove an template, AWB could help you with that. It can also help fix typos, as you have discovered. AWB also has search and replace, so you can replace any given text with another one across all articles. I used this in Novemember to do some link repair regarding the web archiving service ]. While archive.today is one website, they have mulitple domains, but the one Misplaced Pages should link to is "archive.today". Therefore, I used AWB to get all articles with the other domains of the same service, and replaced them with "archive.today". I also converted insecure HTTP to secure HTTPS links for two other web archiving services, ] and ghostarchive.org. Such tasks would be hard to do without AWB since the browser interface does not make it easy for mass edits like this. I mostly use AWB for preventing ].
* One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in ] (])
::Another popular use of AWB is ] and filling in short descriptions for articles. I have not done this before with AWB, so if this is what you want to do you are better off asking someone experienced with AWB categorization.
::You can also customize AWB with a script to do something custom that AWB isn't able to do on its own. If you know what you want to do, you can easily create a script. Some might already have scripts they are willing to share.
::The way you make lists depend on what you want to do. If you are looking for all articles with something specific (for example: all articles with a lowercase "youtube" instead of YouTube), then create a search term and/or "regex" to find those articles. If you want to get all articles in a certain category (actual category or maintenance category), AWB can do that. if you want to find newly created articles, AWB can also do that. I really only use the search term functionality though, along with the data dumps (that's a slightly more advanced topic)
::If you want to get some practice with AWB and don't know what to do, there is plenty to do. I would recommend sticking with simple stuff (like the typo fixes) first just so you can get a hang of the tool. If you don't know what you are doing, the cleanup can be massive. So best to ease in to AWB usage with small steps.
::Hope that helps. ] (]) 05:37, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
:::@] Thanks man for such a detailed explanation. I never imagined you would be giving me such a detailed explanation.
:::Ok, but for the time being, tell me something. Recently I have discovered ]. I want to remove the name parameter from all such articles. I can make a list from a category. But how do I remove the name parameter from articles using AWB. I think that can be done as you said {{tq| For example, if you wanted to add a template to a bunch of articles, or remove an template, AWB could help you with that.}} Can you tell me the procedure. ]<sup>]</sup> 05:43, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
::::Yes, that is possible. You would need to create something known as a ]. If you don't know how, there are some good tutorials. Maybe I can find some I like and share it with you. Otherwise, search up tutorials Google or DuckDuckGo. My favorite website for experimenting with regex is https://regexr.com/, you can paste the text and see if the regex matches it. An regex to remove the "name" parameter would be <code><nowiki>"\|*name=*"</nowiki></code>. You can find an explaination of the regex along with an example on https://regexr.com/6gq1i . To use this in AWB, you would put this in search and replace, and set it to replace any text in this format with a blank space. Note that the regex would remove this "name" parameter from any template, and not necessarily just the Television template, so just be careful that it doesnt remove a name template from a non-television infobox. If you see something like that in AWB, just double click on the wrong one on the top window and it will revert that one. I don't think the "name" parameter is used anywhere else other than TV infoboxes, so I don't think you will have to worry about it. ] (]) 15:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::@] Ok thanks. But what will I replace with what? I mean what parameter should I put in find and what parameter should I put in replace with? ]<sup>]</sup> 15:10, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::Since you want to remove the name parmeter, you would replace it with nothing. The regex will find the parameter, that's the whole point. See ] for how to actually put this in.
::::::If you still need help, I can send you a config file that has everthing placed in, so you can learn by example ] (]) 15:20, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::@] Yes, I know how to do find and replace, but should I tick the box labelled as regex? ]<sup>]</sup> 15:23, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::Yes, i think. ] (]) 15:51, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::@] You can also send me the config file for AWB. How do you want to send it? ]<sup>]</sup> 15:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::I can email you ] (]) 15:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::@] Then please do so. ]<sup>]</sup> 16:22, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::Just sent it to you ] (]) 19:13, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::@] Thanks a lot. I almost made 1000 edits today. ]<sup>]</sup> 12:17, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::@] Can you tell me something more. I wanted to change http in pages to https. So in the normal settings, I set change http to https. But it ran into a lot of error. Http was being changed to https, but the https was being changed httpss. Can you tell me what to do? Also what was the need to use regex? We could have changed |name to a dash or blank space. How can I figure out what regex value to use. Lots of questions. Please answer them when you get time. ]<sup>]</sup> 12:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::{{tq|Http was being changed to https, but the https was being changed httpss. Can you tell me what to do?}} you need to make sure you replace http: (with the colon) with https: (with the colon) to avoid that issue. "http" is in "https" so if you dont add the colon that will happen. Keep in mind we should not be changing all websites to https, since some websites are still http only. I changed http to https for sites that I knew had an https <b>and</b> http connection avaliable (archive.org and ghostarchive.org). 99% of sites with HTTPS only offer HTTPS and HTTP will automatically redirect to the HTTPS version, so for most sites the change is not necessary.
::::::::::::{{tq|Also what was the need to use regex?}} Well, if you just did "|name" without the regex, it wouldn't work when there are spaces in between (like " | name=TV show", or "| name = TV show". The regex has the capability to replace the name parameter even when there is spaces in between the parameter name, equal sign, and value of the parameter.
::::::::::::{{tq| How can I figure out what regex value to use.}} There are good tutorials out there, but I can also find some and share them with you if you wish. Once you know the basics you can create a value that suits your operation. This link , https://regexr.com/6gs7g, explains what the regex I gave you does in detail (under the "explain" tab) ] (]) 15:29, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::@] Ok, I got what you said. Now can you provide me with some good tutorials? Also I can I use regexr.com to compute a regex value? Can you tell me the way? I am trying since the day. ]<sup>]</sup> 14:25, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::http://regextutorials.com looks like a good resource to get started.
::::::::::::::{{tq|Also I can I use regexr.com to compute a regex value?}} yes, once you know how to "compute a regex value". It's what I use to test the regex I made before putting it in AWB. ] (]) 14:44, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::@] Sorry, in my hurry I wrote in a wrong manner. I wanted to mean {{tq|Also how can I use regexr.com to computer or find a regex value.}} Please answer it this way. ]<sup>]</sup> 16:11, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::Well you need to make the regex first. Once you do that, you can paste that into regexr.com along with the sample text (in this case, wikicode) and see if the match is correct. ] (]) 17:48, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::::{{outdent}} Ok and what and how do you do to fill in bare urls. 95% of your contributions are in for bare ref fixing. Is that also automatic? If yes, then how does AWB automatically find the archived urls? And how many config files do you own? ]<sup>]</sup> 01:59, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::::I have a config file for each editing task I do. So one for bare refs, and a couple for archiving/verifiability (since there are multiple types of those runs). So it adds up to being quite a few files.
::::::::::::::::::Yes, I used AWB to fill bare refs, and while I still could, I am choosing not to because there is a bot request for approval and I have other stuff to do. If I finish the other stuff, and the bot still isn't approved, maybe I could go back to filling refs. We'll see. Right now I'm working on some other tasks related to linkrot and ] with AWB.
::::::::::::::::::{{tq| Is that also automatic? }} Well it fills in the bare refs automatically, but you still need to look at all your edits before submitting them to make sure its right.
::::::::::::::::::Did you want to help with ]? There is alot of stuff to do. ] (]) 03:51, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::::::@] Ok. But how do you add the archives of urls using AWB.
:::::::::::::::::::No, I am presently thinking of clearing the maintenance category that I am currently working on. I will think about working on linkrot later. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::::::{{tq|But how do you add the archives of urls using AWB?}} Using a more complicated regex.
::::::::::::::::::::{{tq| I am presently thinking of clearing the maintenance category that I am currently working on.}} Keep up the good work, I saw you were doing some of that. ] (]) 14:00, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::::{{u|Rlink2}} Oops, forgot to ping you. ]<sup>]</sup> 02:00, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


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:@] I actually meant they will leave the general remarks on the talk page of the author as to why the draft wasn't accepted. It is always written like your submission xxx was not accepted this time, and then the reason is written. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:55, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
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:::@] But he was asking for his draft to be reviewed. ]<sup>]</sup> 14:20, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
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:::::@] And what about that leaving remarks thing. For example see my talk page archive for draft declined messages. ]<sup>]</sup> 14:52, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


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Hi! You removed the name parameters from infoboxes in ], which is fine for the first infobox, but leaves the second infobox (which should be "The Legacy of Reginald Perrin") with the wrong name. Do you have any checks as to whether the name parameter you remove is the same as the article title? - ] (]) 14:29, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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:@] Oops, my first AWB mistake noted by someone else. Whenever I used to make mistakes, I used to undo it myself. But somehow this slipped from my eye. Thanks for bringing it on. For the first case, actually I have nothing to do. I removed the name parameter from articles with infobox television. So when I see an article having a name parameter and a television infobox, I remove the name parameter. But there are some cases which are rare and unexceptional like this. The second infobox has a different name. So, when the infobox takes the name from {{tlx|PAGENAMEBASE}}, it is the one which is needed. So to avoid this kind of error, I think I should be careful when I see two television infoboxes, and remove one manually. But the fun part is that I remember in maybe 5 or 6 articles there were two television infoboxes, and I had removed that swiftly without thinking about what problem would happen. So just waiting for more issues on to come up.
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:For the second case, it was my mistake. I didn't see in that I had removed the name paramter from infobox album parameter, which generally I manually undo, but this slipped from my eyes.
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Since you are , I can make an argument that reflecting the correct number of episodes is more useful for an encyclopedia than a purely cosmetic change like removing an unnecessary infobox parameter. I'm not interested in ''making'' that argument, I'm just pointing out that what's useful and useless is something that community decides and if you think something is useless, instead of badgering editors with such strongly worded comments, go start an RfC to make up consensus or work on a script/template-based solution or something else along those lines. ] (]) 03:58, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


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:@] Well yes, I could have done many things. But you know what, I wanted to make this as simple as possible and go step wise to solve the problem. Things like this are ought to be sorted out on user talk pages and not some discussion board or RFC. I could have put this up at the DRN or ANI, but always it is said to try and clear out the problem at the base. If not, then gradually steps can be taken, and finally the ArbCom is there to solve everything out here. So there is literally no need to create an RfC for this problem. You can ask anyone who is experienced in this matter. If aren't interested in this, then you can start an RfC yourself. And if you thing my contributions are not in favour of building up an encyclopedia, then sorry to say, you are highly wrong. I am working on a maintenance category, and there is a need to clear out the maintenance category. If my edits are 'purely cosmetic' then gosh!, so many editors edits will also be regarded as 'purely cosmetic' according to you. I hate to think the number of editors who regularly use AWB to do maintenance job and here you are saying those edits are ''purely cosmetic''. And neither did I make any harsh comment, nor did I badger them with anything. If you see the first message that I wrote, it was just a general message and not something really rough. I told him not to update episode counts everyday, but never told him ''don't you ever update episode counts''. And I linked him to the task center so that he knows what else he can do, if he doesn't already know about it. Which one do you think are ''strongly worded comments''? And if you still regard these as strong comments, then you might want to know that, many editors made stronger comments on my talk page at the beginning of my career, but I didn't complain about those. In comparison with those, the comments I made are really simple and civil. As a matter of fact, you showed that you are botherless in this matter by telling Pri2000 to freely remove the discussion from his talk page. Now I can call this as uncivil and say ''you, of all the people, are no one to ask someone to remove a discussion from their talk page or call the whole discussion '''irrelevant''' especially when consensus is yet to be reached'', since it looks like you didn't pay any heed to my words, and instead tried to encourage Pri2000 in whatever he is trying to do.
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:I am also requesting comments from all talk page watchers, both mine and Pri2000's. Also pinging {{u|Nick Moyes}}, {{u|Bonadea}}, {{u|FormalDude}}, {{u|David Biddulph}}, {{u|ClaudineChionh}}, {{u|Primefac}}, {{u|DanCherek}}, {{u|Rlink2}}, {{u|JBW}}, {{u|Girth Summit}} for commenting regarding this matter. Regards. ]<sup>]</sup> 04:59, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
::The amount of mischaracterisation, in what little I read, of my fairly small and neutral post shows that this discussion isn't productive. I'll only say that if I see something like that original post again from you, I'll revert and if continued, report you to appropriate boards for assumption of bad faith and ]. ] (]) 05:12, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


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::::Hmm? What am I dragging further? Since my first post, ''I'' was asking ICBP to drop this, but he's continued his baseless claims of "useless" and "not improving articles" more and more vocally. Your own contribution there wasn't as helpful as you'd think and shows your comment here in poor, partisan light. ] (]) 05:55, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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:::Ok, so the comment that you made on my talk page was really nice and civil, and the comment that I made on Pri2000's talk was really bad? Now let me make something straight Hemanta. I am really at a fail to understand what you are trying to do, but whatever you are doing or saying is not in the right way. You must understand how the community works, instead of just taking things in your own way. You are a lot senior to me, but still I have to say that any further unruly comment made by you in this regard would leave me no option except to open a case against you at ANI. I really don't want to go that way for I respect both you and your presence here. I really don't see why you would want to get into trouble. The discussion was going between me and Pri2000, and suddenly you came in and now we are fighting, and the funny thing is that this case has nothing to do with you. So now you can choose your own path. Regards, ]<sup>]</sup> 12:17, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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{{outdent}} Sorry for pinging so many editors. {{U|FormalDude}} has informed me off-wiki that I am making a bigger deal of this than is necessary, and I've decided to let it go. ]<sup>]</sup> 17:09, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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:Yes, this was the right choice. I had a detailed response typed up but the best option is to let this go and any further commmentary may rekindle this unnecessary debate.
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:Thanks to @] for also helping to deflate the situation. ] (]) 17:33, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
::Just for the record, you don't have to ping a {{tps}} ;-) ] (]) 14:42, 21 March 2022 (UTC)


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* 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. ] has been a beta feature for over four years.
* ] Later this month, ] will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on ], and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. ].
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Hi, we are having trouble everything we list gets deleted ? What do we need to do get get even the most basic details listed. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 10:43, 12 April 2022 (UTC)</span> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
* The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by ], which is used on any regular talk page. ] are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode.
* WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A ] on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">''hastemplate''</bdi> and <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">''incategory''</bdi> keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available.
* View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, ] was installed at Russian Misplaced Pages, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.


'''Updates for technical contributors'''
:@] Hi, could I know what you are talking about here? ]<sup>]</sup> 10:47, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
* Editors who use the Toolforge tool ] will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements.
::Hi,
* ] users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. ] has been fixed.
::We've been trying to submit a page about established trade bank "Euro Exim Bank" (EEB) however it is always flagged as advertorial. We've used sources that reference EEB such as Forbes, and simply stated the year it was established and the location of head office. What is the issue here? Do we need more sources? ] (]) 10:03, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
* ] Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <code><nowiki><bdi></nowiki></code> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is ] and might break at any time.
:::@] Good evening! I totally understand what you are saying. I problem here is that your draft or what you are creating looks like you are advertising about the bank. Sources doesn't always contribute to improving the article. You have to write in a ]. A more detailed help can be got at the ]. Just click on the {{button|Ask a question}} button and state your problem. Experienced users out there can help you out in this situation. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:32, 19 April 2022 (UTC)


'''In depth'''
== April 2022 ==
* The latest monthly ] is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
* The latest quarterly ] is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.


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:I think the message on your talk page replies your comment. I didn't want to do that, but for continuation of discussion had to revert it. ]<sup>]</sup> 11:11, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
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'''Weekly highlight'''
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* The Mobile Apps team has released an ] to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned ] to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
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* Misplaced Pages readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's ] and ].
* Later this month, logged-out editors of ] will start to have ] created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new ]. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. ]. Read more about the ].
* View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, the ], ], ], ] and ] Misplaced Pages languages were created last week.
* It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new ] launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in ].


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* ] Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new <code dir="ltr">{{]:…}}</code> parser function. For example, <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{#timef:now|date|en}}</nowiki></code> will show as "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">{{#timef:now|date|en}}</bdi>". Previously, <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{#time:…}}</nowiki></code> could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. <code dir="ltr">#timef</code> (or <code dir="ltr">#timefl</code> for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta.
* ] Commons and Meta users can now efficiently ] using <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{USERLANGUAGE}}</nowiki></code> instead of using <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{int:lang}}</nowiki></code>.
* The ] (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the ] initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform.


'''In depth'''
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* The latest quarterly ] is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
* The Wikimedia Foundation is ], which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish ] (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">]</bdi> 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
:Thanks a lot {{u|Atlantic306}} for reviewing my article. I have always been mesmerized by your great page reviewing work. On so many talk pages, I see your messages about improving articles and from that I have known you since. I really appreciate your work. But here, would you please spend your valuable time in explaining what you meant by {{tq|Please add details of reviews of the series in reliable sources}}. What reviews do you want me to add? For example, my other TV articles like ], ], ] or ] are like the subject article. So could you please elaborate on what you said. I can start working on it. Yours sincerely, ]<sup>]</sup> 04:38, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
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:: Hi thankyou for your kind words and great content work. By reviews I mean a critical reception section such as you would see in a film article that summarises reviews of the show in reliable sources such as The Hindu, New Indian Express and other newspapers and magazines (non-English sources are ok as well). If your articles have such a section they are more likely to survive an AfD discussion than they would without it because critical reception is given a higer value than general news stories, regards ] (]) 22:22, 15 April 2022 (UTC)


== Tech News: 2022-16 == == Growth News, October 2024 ==


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We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on ]. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn ], or share your thoughts on ].
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* ] The ] of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-04-19|en}}. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-04-20|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-04-21|en}} (]).
* ] Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-04-19|en}} at 07:00 UTC () and on {{#time:j xg|2022-04-21|en}} at 7:00 UTC ().
* Administrators will now have ] when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the ].
* On ], 50% of logged-in users will see the new ]. 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 ] project.
* ] Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: <code dir=ltr>successbox</code>, <code dir=ltr>errorbox</code>, <code dir=ltr>warningbox</code>. The styles for those classes and <code dir=ltr>messagebox</code> will 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 ].


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'''Future changes'''
* ] will become compatible with ]. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with ]. The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated.


After showcasing at Wikimania, we conducted ]. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.
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== IAbot stuck ==
* The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for ]. (])
* Certain ] extension settings will be configurable soon. (])


=== Future work ===
Sorry for this as well as the pings, I just want to make sure you see this even if you have pings turned off. On ] I have raised an issue with IABot being stuck. Of course, you aren't a maintainer of IABot, but you do have the ability to "kill" the job, as you had created the job (for fixing up ]). If you could please try to do so, it may get the bot unstuck, as it has been stuck for more than two weeks now. I don't think that you particularly caused this issue, but you may be able to help fix it nonetheless. ]]] 🇺🇦 02:40, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


As part of the ], we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the ].
:@] No problem, I have already killed the bot job. I have not turned pings off. I was just on a break. I saw the pings and acted instantly. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:21, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
::@]: All good, I figured that, but wanted to make sure anyway. Thanks. ]]] 🇺🇦 15:00, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
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== Tech News: 2022-17 == === Community events ===
* Growth team members presented ''Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together'' at Wikimania (). The . This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's ] and ] answered audience questions.
* ] gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. ].


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Growth team weekly updates ] (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
'''Recent changes'''
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* On (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. ] has been a beta feature for over four years.


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* Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read ] and see the .
* View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, ], an external service that creates books from Misplaced Pages, can now use ] to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Misplaced Pages.


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Hi—I am in the process of building out the Hattar page. I saw you nominated it for deletion. Online there are many reputable sources discussing his activism. I will add them over the next few days, so I would very much appreciate if the page was not deleted before then, as he is certainly a person notable enough as a public figure to have one. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 06:55, 29 April 2022 (UTC)</span> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
* Wikis can use ] to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with ]. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set <code>emitTransitionOnStep</code> to <code>true</code> to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag <code>allowAutomaticBack</code> to avoid back-buttons they don't want.
* Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the ] will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.


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:@] Sorry, but you have misunderstood something. I did not nominate it for deletion. {{u|Agtx}} nominated the page for deletion, in ]. So you have to talk about this to that specified user. You can also voice your opinion, on the ]. You can also write on ] telling him to close the AFD. I have also ] him to this page. Lets see what he replies. When he replies, I will also send a ping to you to initiate to you that he has replied. For the time, you tell all this on the AFD page. ]<sup>]</sup> 08:34, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">]</bdi> 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
::{{replyto|VoicesofSyria}} My research didn't turn up such sources. The deletion discussion will remain open for a week, so if you're able to update the page and say you did so on the ] in the next few days, then we can discuss them. ] 11:42, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
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:::Great! I will be sure to add the information and applicable sources asap. Thanks so much. ] (]) 18:24, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


== Administrators' newsletter – November 2024 ==
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{{ping|Itcouldbepossible}} In the draft ] hoax actor Ayan or ] both are same person and he is don't even in the movie, remain that hoax name,Please remove that hoax. for more information see ]. ] (]) 18:42, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


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:Time to protect my talk page again {{u|Primefac}}. ]<sup>]</sup> 03:25, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
::{{tps}} {{reply|Primefac|Girth Summit}} please make 2409:4060:2... To stop harassing editors with w.r.t ] ] (]) 04:20, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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:{{tps}} {{reply|Primefac|Girth Summit|Ohnoitsjamie}} In continuation of ], the IP 2409:4060... has again started trolling and harassing the user in connection of ]. Please have a look ] (]) 17:12, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
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::I've blocked that particular /64 range; if they persist, let me know and I'll look at a wider block. ]] 17:16, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
:::Thanks {{u|Girth Summit}}, I will surely let you know if I see them again. ] (]) 17:19, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
:::@] I knew this was to be coming up. They would surely get behind the person who initiated their blocking process. Will the /64 block stop them? ]<sup>]</sup> 05:11, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
::::I expect they would be able to get around it if they wanted; it's a starting point, and if they persist we can look at wider blocks. ]] 11:17, 8 May 2022 (UTC)


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== Tech News: 2022-19 ==
* Stewards can now make ] cause global ]. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the ] project. You can read more about the ].
* Wikis that have the ] can now use the ] feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of ]. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can ] or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
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Dear Itcouldbepossible, I was surprised by your templating of my talk page. Please read ], ], and ] very carefully. Yes, I removed additions by the sock such as . The sock did not fix vandalism, but added various new materials to the page. This falls squarely within BANREVERT. Reverting sock additions is standard practice. Please read PROXYING extremely carefully, among other things you take fully responsiblity for the sock's content you place back in and if any of it is bad, has copyright problem, or does not match up with sources, you are entirely responsible for it as if you made it yourself. --<span style="font-family:Cursive">''']''']</span> 15:52, 12 May 2022 (UTC)


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Hi - I recognise that you reverted yourself, but just to be clear, please do not archive SPI cases. Don't attempt to do any maintenance or clerking at SPI - only SPI clerks and checkusers are authorised to do stuff like that. ]] 12:22, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
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:@] Yes, yes, I understand that totally. I didn't know that the spihelper would instantly do the task. Like, I tried watching how the spihelper works in SPI cases, so I clicked 'spihelper' from the more tab. There I saw many actions, satisfied myself a bit, and then clicked cancel. I wanted to the same thing here too. I thought there would be some option to 'save' the archive, and didn't at the least know that it would be a on click action. I am really sorry for what I have done. I even couldn't clearly write the edit summary, as I had clicked the 'enter' key by mistake. Sorry about that too. And to avoid myself from indulging in such action again, I am uninstalling spihelper so that I don't have the urge to act like a clerk at SPI. Thanks for telling me about this. Regards, ]<sup>]</sup> 12:52, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
* The ], which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, ] live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>,</code></bdi> and un-selecting "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">Live Autocompletion</bdi>".
::Actually you know what, I am burning to be an SPI clerk. I know that maybe what I have said something really funny, but still I cannot stop myself from wondering how I can be one. I even posted a message regarding it the SPI clerk noticeboard to know how one can prepare to be a SPI clerk. Now, naturally, the question that would arise, why me out of so many out here? And that is what I also want to know. I how can I prove that I deserve to be an SPI clerk, how can I bring myself to such a position that people wouldn't question, why is he wanting to be an SPI clerk? And in all that desires and wishes, I thought of seeing how spihelper works, and that brought me in doing that archiving edit. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:01, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
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:::It's not really about 'deserving' to be an SPI clerk, it's about demonstrating a sufficient level of knowledge and judgment. It's not something that you should try to rush into - read the advice that MarioGom pointed you towards, and then contribute towards SPI by making concise and well-evidenced reports as and when you come across sockpuppetry.
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:::Thanks for uninstalling that script - there really isn't any point in anyone having it installed aside from the three classes of users noted in the documentation - SPI clerks, patrolling admins and checkusers. I can't think of any actions the script performs that a regular editor would be permitted to carry out. ]] 13:09, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::::@] Yes, I am going to read what MarioGom has asked me to read. I always on the watch for sockpuppets, but as you know, my area of interest is really limited, but still there are bunches of socks and LTAs, as you might know. But I try and guess for any sockpuppetry and file them at once. Well, is there any way by which I can find all the SPI cases I have I filed? Is there any way, I can link them all up to a subpage of my userpage, to keep a track of all SPI cases that I have started? And what are 'patrolling admins'? ]<sup>]</sup> 13:21, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::::: is a list of all the project space pages you have edited - it can be sorted alphabetically, so you can see all the SPI cases you've edited. Patrolling admins are just that - admins who patrol SPI and take action based on the filings. ]] 13:41, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::@] Thanks for the page. But I cannot figure out how I can sort the page? I don't see a sort option. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:59, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::Just click at the top of one of the columns, an option to sort by that column should appear. ]] 14:04, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::Thanks for the additional help. ]<sup>]</sup> 14:11, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
{{outdent}} {{ping|Girth Summit}} Recently I saw many new cases being open against the LTA Blogs19 by you. Is there a specific way you find about them? Does those account make edits on pages that you watch, and they get caught? Or how do you find accounts that edit in the same way as the previous socks edit? Is there a specific algorithm that you follow? ]<sup>]</sup> 14:19, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
:See ]. I'm not at liberty to go into the specifics I'm afraid. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) </span>
::{{u|Girth Summit}} Well, if you don't want to discuss this matter, there must be a specific reason, and you are totally free to. Thanks for all the help and support you provided to me. Best, ]<sup>]</sup> 15:03, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::It's not about not wanting to discuss it. If you read that link, you'll see that I'm not able to disclose information I can see with the CU tool to anyone who isn't another CU - policy means that I ''can't'' discuss it with you. ]] 15:06, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
:::@] Ok, after reading all that, I can know understand why you cannot talk about it with me. Thanks for pointing me to that policy, lest I was thinking that I was not experienced enough to understand the facts. Now it is clear to me. Thanks again for removing doubts from my mind. ]<sup>]</sup> 15:29, 14 May 2022 (UTC)


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:I put that article to draftspace, because they meet ]. If you want a more detailed explanation, then here it goes. Your article maybe notable, but to be an article is has to meet the basic quality standards that are expected here on Misplaced Pages. Secondly your article is way behind in 'being an article'. The topic of the article cannot be determined as well. And using only book as sources won't do the work. The sources must be ]. How can we verify the sources? And moreover, if it would have stayed in mainspace, it would have been ]. I moved it to draftspace, so that you could work on it without any one interfering you in between. Your article literally doesn't convey anything. Can you explain me what the article is on? Also a minimum amount of content is required to qualify itself as an article. Your article must also show some ] or it would be CSDed under the ] criteria. Does these clear all your doubts? Please don't hesitate to ask me if something is unclear to you. Best, ]<sup>]</sup> 11:17, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
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::Hello Itcouldbepossible, Thank you for reaching out to me and clarifying why the article was moved to draftspace.
::About your questions;
::Well the topic is about a Montenegrin Warlord in the 19th century. I will work on improving the sources by using websites and other sorts of references. This article is about a warrior as I stated here and I will be adding to his military career and other sorts of things. I've already improved it but will work more.
::Furthermore I will message you when I have recompleted this article.
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'''Recent changes'''
Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available.
* Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
* The <span class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"></span> portal page now uses an automated update system. Other ] will be updated over the next few months.


'''Problems''' '''Weekly highlight'''
* Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the ] on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">#wikimedia-techdocs</bdi> IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please ].
* 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.
* 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.


'''Changes later this week''' '''Updates for editors'''
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* ] The ] of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-24|en}}. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-25|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-26|en}} (]).
* Later this week, ] will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with ] that appear ''while'' they are typing. The ] show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
* The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples ] and read ] for more details.
* Translators in wikis where the ], can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <code dir=ltr><nowiki><page-collection> </page-collection></nowiki></code> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to ].
* The ] feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a ]. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
* The Nuke feature also now ] to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
* The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the ] tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, <code dir=ltr>archiveUrl</code> and <code dir=ltr>archiveDate</code>, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an , and a .
* One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikivoyage}} in ] (])
* Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
* ] View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a bug in the ] feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.


'''Updates for technical contributors'''
'''Future changes'''
* ], the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage ]. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through , with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in ]. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
* ] Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a ] aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers.
* users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on ] from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related ] before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated ] system.
* The is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated ].
* There is no new MediaWiki version this week.


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''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ].''
* The next meeting in the series of ] will take place on ] and ]. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.
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Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available.


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* Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The ] offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the ].
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* Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a ] with insights based on their reading and editing history.
* Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new ] feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
* The ] is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See ] for more information.
* The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
* ] View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a bug was ] in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.


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:Thanks {{u|Zippybonzo}} for this offer. But at this moment, I am not prepared for this right. I would like to gain more experience working at this project, then surely, at some point of time, I would request to be a new page reviewer. For the time, I would like to continue reviewing new pages without this right, just like a normal user. Because, you know, with more user rights, comes more responsibility, which I think, I will not be able to handle at this moment. Thanks for asking me about this. You are also a good and experienced user, and I try to follow you always. I am currently under a mentorship, and am currently being trained to be a AFC reviewer and New Page Reviewer. After the mentoring finishes, and I gain some experience with all the guidelines and policies, and after I have participated in quite a few number of AFDs, I am going to request for that right. Best, ]<sup>]</sup> 08:43, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-29

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

Tech News survey

Recent changes

  • Advanced item Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
  • Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Misplaced Pages App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
  • Editors who have access to The Misplaced Pages Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • Advanced item Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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Needing answers

Are you ever going to explain why you thought that me trying to change the tense on the article of the discontinued One Chip Challenge was "inserting humor" into the article? I'm glad another editor with sense realized and put in the past tense but your behavior has persistently bothered me every time I think about it. I think you fail to read the contents of edits before you remove them. I don't understand why people give you awards for this. 2604:2D80:D504:2700:CFBD:F0D6:4A96:5D30 (talk) 13:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

And the fact that you removed multiple sourced edits of mine, including to the New Hampshire Institute of Art article, practically proves you are simply removing edits in the same manner as a machine gun. 2604:2D80:D504:2700:CFBD:F0D6:4A96:5D30 (talk) 13:35, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-30

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

Feature News

  • Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers.
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Misplaced Pages using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.

Project Updates

  • Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

  • Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
  • How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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Tech News: 2024-31

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

Feature news

  • Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

  • Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
  • Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:)

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Growth News, July 2024

Community Configuration

The Growth team released Community Configuration at all Wikipedias. You can access it at Special:CommunityConfiguration.

This new special page replaces Special:EditGrowthConfig. For now, all Growth features can be configured using Community Configuration. Configuration for AutoModerator (T365046) and other features will be available in the future.

You can help with translations. The interface translation is done at Translatewiki.net. You can also help translate the documentation.

If you attend Wikimania 2024, please join us for the session about Community configuration's future!

Current work

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test at our pilot wikis using the new Metrics Platform. We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.

Future work

Increase constructive activation on mobile

As part of the Growth team 2024/2025 Annual Plan, the Growth team will explore various ways to increase the percentage of newcomers who successfully start editing.

Editing a Misplaced Pages page requires too much context and patience. It means many trial and error for newcomers to contribute, meaning a steeper learning curve and potential discouraging reverts. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller, structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g. Edit Check and Structured Tasks). The Growth team will primarily focus on Structured Tasks, while working closely with the Editing team to ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.

Stay informed

Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

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Tech News: 2024-32

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

Feature news

  • Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania.
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Misplaced Pages: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

  • Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
  • Advanced item The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

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Tech News: 2024-33

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

Feature news

Project updates

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.
  • Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.

Bugs status

  • Advanced item Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Misplaced Pages start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Misplaced Pages talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
  • Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

  • The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
  • The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 September 2024, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Each article review will earn 1 point, and each redirect review will earn 0.2 points.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:09, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

  • Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.

Bugs status

  • Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • Wishlist item Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
  • Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Misplaced Pages. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

  • Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

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

Feature news

  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page.
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking.

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Misplaced Pages (language code mos).

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-38

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

Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Misplaced Pages article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.

Tech in depth

  • Advanced item The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  • Advanced item To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

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

Weekly highlight

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
  • Editors who use the iOS Misplaced Pages app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Misplaced Pages articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  • Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item From Wikimedia Enterprise:
    • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
    • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Misplaced Pages) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

  • Advanced item The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-40

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

Updates for editors

  • Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences.
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences.
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Misplaced Pages, Igbo Misplaced Pages, Swahili Misplaced Pages, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Misplaced Pages has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Misplaced Pages and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

  • The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes.

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

added
removed

CheckUser changes

readded
removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-41

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

Weekly highlight

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration.

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-42

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

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode.
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available.
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Misplaced Pages, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements.
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed.
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time.

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-43

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

Weekly highlight

  • The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
iOS Misplaced Pages App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

  • Misplaced Pages readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
  • Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
  • View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Misplaced Pages languages were created last week.
  • It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "6 January 2025". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta.
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}.
  • The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform.

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
  • The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

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Growth News, October 2024

Current work

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.

One design concept aimed to increase constructive activation

Constructive activation experimentation

After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.

Community Configuration

This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:

  • The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
  • Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)

Future work

As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.

Community events

  • Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
  • Habib Mhenni gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available.

Stay informed

Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

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Tech News: 2024-44

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

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want.
  • Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

removed Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2024-45

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

Updates for editors

  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts.
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode.
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated.

In depth

  • Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-46

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

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

  • Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work.

Meetings and events

  • 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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Tech News: 2024-47

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

Updates for editors

  • Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.
  • View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.

Updates for technical contributors

  • On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.

In depth

  • There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

  • Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
  • Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

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

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
  • The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.
  • Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
  • Advanced item Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.
  • Advanced item The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.

Meetings and events

  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Misplaced Pages, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-49

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

Updates for editors

  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Misplaced Pages conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Misplaced Pages.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

added
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Interface administrator changes

added
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CheckUser changes

readded

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Tech News: 2024-50

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

Weekly highlight

  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature
  • Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.
  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:)
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
  • The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings and events

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Tech News: 2024-51

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

Weekly highlight

  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

  • Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
  • Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
  • The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
  • On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled.
  • Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points.
  • Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
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Overgrown newsletter

User talk:Itcouldbepossible/Wikidata Weekly Summary has hit the maximum page size so no more newsletters can be sent. You should probably clean it out. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery It would be great if you could send the messages to User talk:Itcouldbepossible/Wikidata Weekly Summary 2 instead of the one previously stated. PLease do tell me if that would be possible. Thanking you in advance. Itcouldbepossible 12:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Done. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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