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*:You are correct, I just read that whole thread and then spent half of the subsequent shower winning a talk page argument against a couple of shampoo bottles. Honestly, I think Misplaced Pages talk pages are high in the running for the worst possible communication medium on the planet -- maybe "smoke signal" and "message in a bottle" are worse. You can't show people non-CC-licensed images, you can't link to sources if someone thinks the website is bad, you can't categorize the articles in any scheme that has the potential to bother anyone. It's hardly surprising that for twenty years people have been running entire parallel communities on IRC and Discord and Slack and mailing lists: talk pages are borderline unusable. <b style="font-family:monospace;color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 22:03, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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:{{ping|Svampesky}} Are you aware that the ] is a part of the English language? This seems like either an issue with providing metadata in the template or improving accessibility software -- not really a thing that can be fixed at TfD. <b style="font-family:monospace;color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 04:39, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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During what I assume was a script error when moving ], it seems the talk pages have turned into a redirect loop with no significant history under either. Was the actual page potentially accidentally deleted at ] without being moved? or has it ended up somewhere else? ] <sub>(])</sub> 14:19, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

:It looks like JPxG tried moving the pages back, but only moved the articles (not the talk pages), before they deleted both, as you've guessed, yeah. This was posted at ] and appears to have been fixed. &ndash; ] (]) 00:01, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hi there, the article has been restored per consensus at ]. Will leave you to remove the CCI template if that's OK? ] (]) 04:07, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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I've finished my report for the Signpost and I'm adding finishing touches. I joined Quarry, but I'm unsure how to run a query. I need to find the longest-running move discussion based on time duration. What would be the code for that? ] (]) 11:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

:Maybe JPxG has more detailed advice here, but generally speaking ] is always a good place to ask this kind of question. Regards, ] (]) 15:27, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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I reworked this from WikiProject Orphanage. This could be placed on the newsroom talk page. Someone presses it five times, and then by a poll on the newsroom talk page to decide which essay to include in the next issue, to encourage readers to improve it. ] (]) 18:08, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

:It might be a bad idea to direct people to edit vital policy-based essays, so some could have a hatnote 'Essay for improvement'. ] (]) 18:24, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

== Pistol emoji ==

Thanks for catching the unintentional synthesis, but what mistake did I actually make ? It was intended to summarise the body so I may have been misled by existing errors later in the article. ] (]) 08:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

:If you'd asked me a few months ago what the deal was with the pistol emoji, I would have said "it used to be a gun and then some time in the late 2010s a bunch of websites changed it to be a water gun", but when I actually looked into it for this article it turned out the reality was much more complicated and weird. The thing everyone went with was that it got changed everywhere, because this made for an easy story, but half of the vendors never changed anything, and even among the ones who did it was kind of an awkwardly inconsistent back-and-forth changeover. It's kind of interesting, because Elon Musk and all the people who hate Elon Musk seem to agree that everyone had a water gun until he unilaterally decided Twitter should go back to a handgun, but this does not seem to actually be borne out by anything other than that one article from the which seems to have gotten its header image from a Facebook page(?). <b style="font-family:monospace;color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 09:01, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
::That header image does seem to be backed up by what I'm seeing in the sources, that Microsoft adopted the water pistol years ago but caved to cross-platform compatibility and made it a gun, then all the main platforms changed it to a water pistol in 2018.
::I'll see if I can pull together enough sources to recreate a sourced timeline table in the article.
::What's your view on the article drawing a link between the 2018 changes and {{tq|the Parkland high school shooting and subsequent mass demonstrations against gun violence}}, a recent addition which is still in the article body? From what I can see this is an observation that some press sources made, and it seems like a reasonable one, but the actual platform announcements seem deliberately vague and anodyne about there being any social reason behind the change. ] (]) 09:22, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
:::Yeah, the closest the article gets is to say "the move away from the graphic of the weapon to a toy comes after mass demonstrations by students in the United States and globally, demanding tighter gun control laws". It seems pretty plausible to me.
:::On the subject of unciteable original research otherwise left on teh cutting room floor, my friend found which was apparently demanding Apple remove the glyph on a specific, explicit basis that
::::{{tq|We realized that many Americans unknowingly carry a gun with them every day. The one that was given to them without a background check: the gun emoji. We ask that you stand with the American people and remove the gun emoji from all your products as a symbolic gesture to limit gun accessibility. We understand taking the emoji out will not end gun violence, but this act will show Congress that gun-owning and non-owning Americans have come together to demand required background checks for ALL gun sales.}}
:::The funnier outcome, in my opinion (note I've stolen this joke), would have been to cryptographically implement background checks for the gun emoji. <b style="font-family:monospace;color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 08:48, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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:{{ping|Smallbones}} No email on the road but will respond when I get home. <b style="font-family:monospace;color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 05:46, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks for letting me know. Take care of yourself and be safe! ]<sub>(])</sub> 11:23, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

== Care needed ==

In you accidentally removed another editor's comment. Please take more care. I've reinstated it. Thanks. ]] 10:00, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

:I had the edit window open for a while so I refreshed it to load the newest revision prior to submitting the comment. How the hell did it load the thing I had before and then overwrite the subsequent revision? <b style="font-family:monospace;color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 18:08, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
::The whole way it copes with edit conflicts these days is very confusing - it's terribly easy to get in a muddle! These things happen. ]] 19:19, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

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'''Weekly highlight'''
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* 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 ].

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Hi JPxG, While i understand your view for the revert, your edit summary: {{tq|A single sentence of close paraphrasing isn't a "nuke and revdel" issue}} is clearly wrong, as it it was three sentences that were word-for-word copied, not close paraphrased. ] (]) 15:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
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== Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter ==
:Revision deletion is, fundamentally, something which breaches the open-source credo of Misplaced Pages (it takes a page history from a matter of "here are the facts, decide for yourself, you the general public are our proofreader and editor" to a matter of "here are the facts an administrator decided you should have access to"). I see it as a necessary evil, that should only be done on mainspace articles in rare circumstances when absolutely necessary (i.e. when legally required).
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** 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 . 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.
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* View all {{formatnum:22}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:22|task|tasks}} that were ].

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'''Weekly highlight'''
* Communities can now request installation of ] 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 ] for installation and configuration.

'''Updates for editors'''
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* View all {{formatnum:12}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:12|task|tasks}} that were ].

'''Updates for technical contributors'''
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'''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 ], 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'''
* 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.
* ] users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. ] has been fixed.
* ] 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.

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'''Weekly highlight'''
* 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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'''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 ] 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 ].

'''Updates for technical contributors'''
* ] 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'''
* 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.
* The ] is now ] for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

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'''Updates for editors'''
* Two new parser functions were added this week. The <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> function adds an ] and the <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> function adds an ]. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS:</code></bdi> on English 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 ] for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
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* 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 ] and read ] for more details.
* View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.

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* 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 ].

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* 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 .
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* 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.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Misplaced Pages ], covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! ] (]) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

] <small>Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script ]!</small>

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===] Featured script===
:Very useful for changelist patrollers, ''']''', by ''']''', is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from ]'s double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling ].

===] Miscellaneous===
* ], a recent ]/]-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now ]. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF ] (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
* ], our former chief editor, has ascended to ] and the <s>greener</s><!--Yes, the usage of the <s> element to denote "things that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate" here is intentional.--> <ins>purpley</ins> pastures of ] with commits creating ] and the <syntaxhighlight inline lang="wikitext">__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</syntaxhighlight> magic word to exclude a template from ]! I wonder if Misplaced Pages has a templaters' newsletter...

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===] Improve a script===
* Many of our favorite scripts such as ], ], and ] haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
* ] and ] work, yet have alien ]. Someone could improve them...
* ] needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating .

===] Requested scripts===
We need scripts that...
* allow you to edit {{tl|sfn}} references graphically a la ]
* copy specific named references from other pages to help with splitting and whatnot
* make adding icons/links to the top toolbar (or other portlets) much easier
* graphically generate a {{tl|source assess table}}
* award a ]
* ...and many more, all available at ]. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including ], ], ], and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.

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===] Updated scripts===
* ] forks ] to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{tl|unsigned}} template, support for {{tl|undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
* Pour one out: ] forks ] to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).
* ] forks ] to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.
* ] updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.

===] Newly maintained scripts===
* Administrators only! ] forks the now-broken ] to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.

===] New scripts===
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* ]: ] provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, ], which helps de-] articles.
* ]]: ] (''pictured'') generates links to a limited range of ], log items, or page history. You see, it's not just ]!
* ] is a rewrite of ] that makes everything saner to configure.
* When viewing ], ] adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
* To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), ] logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to ].
* ] adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.
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Is there a way to un-thank for an edit? AviationFreak💬 19:20, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

@AviationFreak: I thought this one was for the one that makes the pretentious New Yorker diæresis dots on stuff that I also made today. Oh well!!!! jp×g🗯️ 03:02, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Newyorkerize

Template:Newyorkerize has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Svampesky (talk) 03:22, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

@Svampesky: Are you aware that the diæresis is a part of the English language? This seems like either an issue with providing metadata in the template or improving accessibility software -- not really a thing that can be fixed at TfD. jp×g🗯️ 04:39, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
To be fair, I didn't realize I was nominating it for deletion on a page called 'Templates for discussion'. I thought it functioned to pool editors in one place, especially as templates are more technical. The section header Nomination for deletion of Template:Newyorkerize was a template. I hope the "mods on the Wikimedia discord server" don't find out about this! Svampesky (talk) 13:56, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
I erroneously filed it thinking it was a place to pool editors and discuss. How do I withdraw it and move the discussion to the talk page? Svampesky (talk) 16:48, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

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Talk:Environmental impact of aviation

During what I assume was a script error when moving Environmental effects of aviation, it seems the talk pages have turned into a redirect loop with no significant history under either. Was the actual page potentially accidentally deleted at Talk:Environmental impactEnvironmental effects of aviation without being moved? or has it ended up somewhere else? Aidan9382 (talk) 14:19, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

It looks like JPxG tried moving the pages back, but only moved the articles (not the talk pages), before they deleted both, as you've guessed, yeah. This was posted at WP:ANI#Environmental impact of bitcoin and appears to have been fixed. – 2804:F1...F5:208E (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

It appears your script run broke dozen of talk pages

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See WP:ANI#Environmental impact of bitcoin. Another admin is looking into restoring the broken deleted pages. Raladic (talk) 21:26, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Ramsdell

Hi there, the article has been restored per consensus at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2024 July 27. Will leave you to remove the CCI template if that's OK? Daniel (talk) 04:07, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

"Template:Bruh" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Quarry

I've finished my report for the Signpost and I'm adding finishing touches. I joined Quarry, but I'm unsure how to run a query. I need to find the longest-running move discussion based on time duration. What would be the code for that? Svampesky (talk) 11:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe JPxG has more detailed advice here, but generally speaking WP:QUARRY is always a good place to ask this kind of question. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:27, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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Two articles in the signpost still have the draft template

Hey, I just noticed these two Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2024-08-14/In focus and Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2024-08-14/Opinion still have the draft template at the top, but the newsletter has already gone out to people, so just wanted to let you know :) Raladic (talk) 22:56, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Lots of fiddling with two of your user pages

I hope by this point that you trust my intentions, because I sure had to fiddle with User talk:JPxG/index and related pages a bunch to get the combination of {{database report}}, Linter, and my tribe of Linter-obsessed gnomes to align around the formatting of those pages. I had to hack the table format a bit, so now you have a table within a table (not ideal, but it works). I hope that you don't mind, and sorry for the notifications. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:43, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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Signpost essay column

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I reworked this from WikiProject Orphanage. This could be placed on the newsroom talk page. Someone presses it five times, and then by a poll on the newsroom talk page to decide which essay to include in the next issue, to encourage readers to improve it. Svampesky (talk) 18:08, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

It might be a bad idea to direct people to edit vital policy-based essays, so some could have a hatnote 'Essay for improvement'. Svampesky (talk) 18:24, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Pistol emoji

Thanks for catching the unintentional synthesis, but what mistake did I actually make here? It was intended to summarise the body so I may have been misled by existing errors later in the article. Belbury (talk) 08:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

If you'd asked me a few months ago what the deal was with the pistol emoji, I would have said "it used to be a gun and then some time in the late 2010s a bunch of websites changed it to be a water gun", but when I actually looked into it for this article it turned out the reality was much more complicated and weird. The thing everyone went with was that it got changed everywhere, because this made for an easy story, but half of the vendors never changed anything, and even among the ones who did it was kind of an awkwardly inconsistent back-and-forth changeover. It's kind of interesting, because Elon Musk and all the people who hate Elon Musk seem to agree that everyone had a water gun until he unilaterally decided Twitter should go back to a handgun, but this does not seem to actually be borne out by anything other than that one article from the one abc.net article which seems to have gotten its header image from a Facebook page(?). jp×g🗯️ 09:01, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
That header image does seem to be backed up by what I'm seeing in the sources, that Microsoft adopted the water pistol years ago but caved to cross-platform compatibility and made it a gun, then all the main platforms changed it to a water pistol in 2018.
I'll see if I can pull together enough sources to recreate a sourced timeline table in the article.
What's your view on the article drawing a link between the 2018 changes and the Parkland high school shooting and subsequent mass demonstrations against gun violence, a recent addition which is still in the article body? From what I can see this is an observation that some press sources made, and it seems like a reasonable one, but the actual platform announcements seem deliberately vague and anodyne about there being any social reason behind the change. Belbury (talk) 09:22, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, the closest the article gets is to say "the move away from the graphic of the weapon to a toy comes after mass demonstrations by students in the United States and globally, demanding tighter gun control laws". It seems pretty plausible to me.
On the subject of unciteable original research otherwise left on teh cutting room floor, my friend found this public relations campaign from 2016 which was apparently demanding Apple remove the glyph on a specific, explicit basis that
We realized that many Americans unknowingly carry a gun with them every day. The one that was given to them without a background check: the gun emoji. We ask that you stand with the American people and remove the gun emoji from all your products as a symbolic gesture to limit gun accessibility. We understand taking the emoji out will not end gun violence, but this act will show Congress that gun-owning and non-owning Americans have come together to demand required background checks for ALL gun sales.
The funnier outcome, in my opinion (note I've stolen this joke), would have been to cryptographically implement background checks for the gun emoji. jp×g🗯️ 08:48, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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I had the edit window open for a while so I refreshed it to load the newest revision prior to submitting the comment. How the hell did it load the thing I had before and then overwrite the subsequent revision? jp×g🗯️ 18:08, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
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  • 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.

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Hello! Sorry for bothering you, I just wanted to say that I'm currently copy-editing the "Serendipity" article: I should be done in less than 10 minutes! Oltrepier (talk) 13:06, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-38

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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.
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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:
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Tech News: 2024-39

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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

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  • 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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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

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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.

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why did you choose to respond to my question in full public view of NORN rather than here, where it would seem more appropriate? soibangla (talk) 10:08, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

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  • 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.
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And you said discord is to used and "relevant until it dies". Nice work here.

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You forgot to sign your last ping

Just a heads-up: Your last post at RAFR was a ping to Carrite, but you didn't sign the post so the ping won't work. Softlavender (talk) 11:10, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunate. Well, I am sure someone will post it on WPO (possibly a version of it edited to add a part where I say "I love making out with Joseph Stalin") jp×g🗯️ 18:12, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

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Recent recognized content

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome nom. Femke
Tumor necrosis factor nom. AdeptLearner123, reviewed by IntentionallyDense
Abdominal angina nom. IntentionallyDense, reviewed by Sammi Brie
Adrenal crisis nom. IntentionallyDense, reviewed by DoctorWhoFan91
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia nom. IntentionallyDense, reviewed by Nub098765
Neurocysticercosis nom. IntentionallyDense, reviewed by DoctorWhoFan91
Eilish Cleary nom. B3251, reviewed by Actuall7
Owen O'Shiel nom. SkywalkerEccleston, reviewed by IntentionallyDense
Oladipo Ogunlesi nom. Ibjaja055, reviewed by Vanderwaalforces
Elizabeth Ward (British campaigner) nom. Jonathan Deamer, reviewed by IntentionallyDense
Abortion in Sierra Leone nom. Vigilantcosmicpenguin, reviewed by Chipmunkdavis

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Kawa model nom. Significa liberdade
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Caution regarding Signpost article about ANI vs WMF

Just to bring to your attention, WMF has previously requested that the Signpost not publish any article about a then-ongoing court case. I hope it is all sorted out this time. Regards, ExclusiveEditor Notify Me! 16:07, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

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Have noticed that new editions of The Signpost haven't been publicized/linked on editor's watchlists for many months, leaving many editors unaware of the publication. MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages covers that (I think but not sure), so popping links to new editions onto that list should do the trick. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:49, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I see on my watchlist when a new issue is published, FWIW. Maybe I'm watching different pages from the OP. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:11, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
This pertains to the watchlist messages which appear on top of the watchlist, not a link on one of the watched pages (I usually find out about the Signpost when it comes up on one of my watched pages). Randy Kryn (talk) 14:59, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

How to write to the signpost

I am intrested in writing for the signpost UnsungHistory (Questions or Concerns?) (See how I messed up) 00:16, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Template loop error at Misplaced Pages talk:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Single/2014-07-16

Hey, can you figure out why Misplaced Pages talk:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Single/2014-07-16 has a template error? Gonnym (talk) 00:27, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

It was transcluding Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Series/Bots, which causes the page to completely eat shit and render wrong and also recursively transclude itself for some reason. I don't really know why; at any rate the series templates were only ever meant to be transcluded on articles themselves so I can just remove it. jp×g🗯️ 18:14, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

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Small Request

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Is there a way to be removed form the list of people who receive the Signpost on their talk page? Thanks!

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Thank you so much! I believe that I've been trying to do this for over a year now.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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Press template not displaying all

Hi! The "mentioned by media..." at Talk:Asian News International has 2 items in the wiki-text, 31 and 32, that don't show up in the saved template, and I can't figure out why. Can you? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:00, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

My (admittedly vague) recollection, from when I was poking around with the press template and the high traffic site template, was that they were both implementing the same thing in independent/incompatible ways for no reason, and also that they were written with the dreaded "wall of copypasta" coding style, which I made a note to myself to fix someday, then did something which contributed to making it worse and forgot about it forever. jp×g🗯️ 10:35, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I'll keep asking. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:14, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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  • 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.

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  • 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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Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

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Drive: In our September Backlog Elimination Drive, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

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Progress report: As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles.

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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.

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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.

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Signpost/Crossword across

Hey, I noticed that Template:Signpost/Crossword across (which is empty) and Template:Signpost/Crossword clues/across are unused but there is also {{Signpost/Crossword clues|Across}}. Are the first two old versions that should be deleted? Gonnym (talk) 11:31, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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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.

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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 personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
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  • 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.

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

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RFA

Just as a heads-up, in case you had missed it earlier - I am not actually currently an administrator. I resigned in late 2023 due to IRL issues. Hog Farm Talk 19:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, but you never actually stopped. Several years ago I left a pair of headphones at my friend's house (and a different person later left a sock at mine), but an actual transferral of ownership never took place. I see this as the same general thing. jp×g🗯️ 19:25, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Misplaced Pages Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.

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Misplaced Pages:Red link

Hi. Regarding Misplaced Pages:Red link, you may wish to know that although it states that unlike on the German Misplaced Pages an article for Richard J. Youle has not been created as of August 2024, when you last checked it, User:Bestdragonfuit appears to have translated the German article in 2023 to create Richard Youle. --AdamM (talk) 14:20, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 66

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
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  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
  • One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (w:tig:)
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

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  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

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