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Sanganeri Prints article restore

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Hello,

You have deleted my article Sanganeri prints.

I did not know about copy right issue as i am a new Wikipedia user.

I will change content of the article and will try to write in my own language.

please restore my article so that i can write it according to guidelines.

Thank you.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3ASanganeri_prints&redlink=1&oldid=0&action=edit Hmathur127 (talk) 15:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi User:Hmathur127. Writing in your own language means just that. Not changing a word here and there, but from the start having it be only your own. You are welcome to create a new article at the site of the deleted one. I do not see the need for this old version to be revived as a basis for that. And it would be against copyright policy anyway (we are strictly prohibited from hosting copyvio content, even in visible article history). DMacks (talk) 15:55, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
will try to write it again
Thank you Hmathur127 (talk) 15:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Sudoku, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Brute force.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 17:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 5 • May 2024

In This Issue

My page Inayat Khan (actor)

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Dear @DMacks i am a Pakistani actor my name is Inayat Khan. Please restore my page Inayat Khan (actor) which has been deleted by you. Inayatkhanactor (talk) 13:00, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

@Inayatkhanactor:, the Inayat Khan (actor) page was deleted based on a WP:AFD discussion. I do not see a basis to go against that consensus.
Convenience links:
DMacks (talk) 19:18, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
@DMacks could you please help me out to recover Inayat Khan (actor) ? Inayatkhanactor (talk) 19:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
No. It will not be done. Not by me, not by others. Read what I wrote. DMacks (talk) 19:34, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
The next step for you is WP:Deletion review, but you will have to argue that my handling of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inayat Khan (actor) was improper or that there are multiple major new notable details that have happened in the past month. DMacks (talk) 19:44, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
unfortunately I couldn’t understand the whole conversation. @BeauSuzanne can you leave me a message on my official verified instagram @inayatkhanofficial i want to recover my wiki page Inayat Khan (actor) Inayatkhanactor (talk) 08:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
No. I discuss Wikipedia issues on the Wikipedia site, not on Instagram. No. Your article will not be recovered. DMacks (talk) 11:38, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Inayatkhanactor, How do you know about Draft:Inayat Khan Actor? — Saqib (talk I contribs) 12:07, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
I wrote that "Convenience links" list (I just now re-positioned it to clarify). They have good reason to know about the now-deleted Draft article, since they had created it. Instead, I would ask how they know about Inayat Khan (actor). DMacks (talk) 12:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Obviously i am an actor & i like to type my name on google & i like to know about my self, thats how I found my article (page) InayatKhan (actor) on wikipedia Inayatkhanactor (talk) 12:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Dear @Saqib I have been working in industry for 10 years how could you say i am not a notable actor in Pakistan? Haven’t seen my drama Muqaddar Ka Sitara for ARY Digital on YouTube? Check out views & comments on my character. And i am playing the leading Hero Inayatkhanactor (talk) 12:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Inayatkhanactor, I don't waste my time watching dramas. Sorry! — Saqib (talk I contribs) 12:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
@Saqib
& Hurting people is a waste of life. You can’t drag an horse to the donkeys grave. Inayatkhanactor (talk) 12:59, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
You will accomplish more here by speaking directly rather than in euphemisms that do not make sense to everyone. DMacks (talk) 13:33, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Best wishes for success in your chosen career path. Maybe some day you will meet the threshold to earn an article on Wikipedia. DMacks (talk) 12:41, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

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

Recent changes

  • People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [1]
  • The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [2][3]
  • The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [4]

Problems

  •   Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [5]
  • Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [6]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [7][8]
  • Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [9]
  • Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [10]

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Blocking of 2.101.54.127 for ban evasion

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Hi, I noticed the above IP was blocked for block evasion. It looks like they have a good number of contributions to chemical syntheses. Can you tell me about the reasoning behind this block? If there's some ambiguity about whether or not they were really evading, I'd like to discuss whether the (seemingly) useful contributions make blocking this IP more harmful than beneficial. Thanks for your time. RFZYNSPY talk 22:04, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

It's User:Nuklear. One typical behavior is extensive citing of patents, a type of ref that fails WP:RS. Another typical behavior is extensive uncited lists of related compounds, often that are only redlinks, or even if bluelink are solely listed based on the editor's personal analysis rather than WP:SECONDARY. DMacks (talk) 00:41, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
I see. Wow, that's one dedicated sock puppeteer. Thanks for the answer! RFZYNSPY talk 04:37, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Amaravati

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The user is using different IP addresses and frequently changing the city founder's name. Is it not vandalism? And you will block me for protecting the article from IP disruptions? And I am vandalising and misleading, what non sense are u talking? explain.

With other dubios mobile network IPs that same user made another 100 edits. And you are warning me unecessarily out of personal agenda? Kindly take your word back of final warning. This torture on me from u is not acceptable.Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 02:35, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Ustadeditor2011 has been reverting edits that changed the "founder" field in the infobox to N. Chandrababu Naidu. The following is a list of edits that made that change. Most of these were by IP editors, some of whom may be the same person. Three of the edits were by logged-in editors. The list shows the edit summary given where relevant to that part of the edit made. Ustadeditor2011 has reverted nine out of the ten edits listed.
  1. 04:18, 19 June 2024 (UTC) by Toddy1 Undid revision 1229857721 by Ustadeditor2011 (talk) see talk page
  2. 16:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC) by Toddy1
  3. 01:59, 17 June 2024 (UTC) The founder of Amaravati Capital City was CBN and not Amaravati Village Founder Vasireddy Nayudu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaravathi,_Palnadu_district
  4. 03:31, 12 June 2024 (UTC) updated infobox as founded will be individual and establishment will be government
  5. 12:05, 11 June 2024 (UTC) Changing back to factual content that have sources.
  6. 13:10, 10 June 2024 (UTC) Reverting to Actual Facts that contain sources.(https://crda.ap.gov.in/crda_norifications/NOT04089564/01~Amaravati%20Project%20Report%20Edition%20No3%20Status%20March%202018-compressed.pdf). Again Please understand Amaravati is village please refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaravathi,_Palnadu_district
  7. 09:15, 10 June 2024 (UTC) Old Amaravati is a village the new capital city was founded and incorporated in year 2014. However city was not existed in older times. Undoing baised and nonfactual events
  8. 05:20, 10 June 2024 (UTC) Without founder and planning how can a Green capital city incorporated. Reverting back to factual edits Reference doc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad
  9. 01:31, 10 June 2024 (UTC) Updated and corrected Infobox
  10. 04:35, 8 June 2024 (UTC) by Singhal.sasthry
-- Toddy1 (talk) 05:50, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
​He/she has now reverted edits that changed the "founder" field in the infobox to N. Chandrababu Naidu ten times on the Amaravati page.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:28, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Founder of Amaravati

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Old City, Hyderabad was founded by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (died 1612), not some Chief Minister or Politician, who built a software park 386 years later 35 km away in the city of modern Hyderabad during 1990's. Similarly old city Amaravathi is founded by Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu (died 1816) not some Chief Minister or Politician who is building a government complex 200 years later 35 km away in the city of modern Amaravati, Pls change it in the Amaravati article's infobox. This is applicable to any city of the world, Amaravati is not unique to this. Just because somebody is a fan of N. Chandrababu Naidu, cannot endorse it to the article illogically.Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 05:14, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

This sort of discussion about an article belongs on the article's talk-page. I will not discuss it here at all. DMacks (talk) 05:49, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Also mentioned it in article talk page, pls discuss there. Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 06:36, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

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Recent problematic edits all seemingly by the same editor, slightly different IPs that resolve to the same area. Nikkimaria & I have both removed an unsourced section, that has remained unsourced even though there has been a maintenance template on it since 2022. I've requested page protection but I see that you have edited this article in the past and thought you might be interested in the recent activity. I have posted to article talk page but I doubt the reverting editor will see it. - Shearonink (talk) 17:48, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up...my connectivity is a spotty:( IP range-blocked 1 week, article reverted. Please let me know if other problems arise. DMacks (talk) 17:55, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-26

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

Recent changes

  • Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [11]
  • The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [12]

Problems

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [14][15]
  • Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [16]

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Tech News: 2024-27

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

Recent changes

  • Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [17]
  • Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [18]
  • If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [19][20]
  • Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [21]
  • Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [22]

Problems

  • Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [23]

Future changes

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2.101.54.127

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Hi DMacks. I noticed that this IP has been editing lots of chemistry articles recently and left a message today on their Talk Page to encourage them to create an account and follow our MOS more fully. When I did that, I noticed you had blocked their IP address for a week starting on 17 June for "block evasion". That presumably means you know which account they normally edit from. Do I need to worry about that, or should I just WP:AGF and move on? Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:01, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

... looking further up your Talk Page, I see the answer! What do we do now? Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Indeed a busy bee! The set of the uploads at Commons are being incorporated into articles in a quirky way not in line with MOS:CHEM. That said, a) the diagrams are useful b) the sources are valid (though sometimes too many and mixing primary with secondary and never using our standard citation templates). For example, using this material I was quite quickly able to do something useful with tulobuterol and convert this diff by them into something useful (go to "Next edit" from the diff). I really wish we could get this editor "back into the fold! Meanwhile, I'm getting on with salvage operations (see my contribution history). Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:39, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

@Michael D. Turnbull: I'm not ignoring you, just taking a few days' mostly-offline to recharge. DMacks (talk) 00:13, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

No hurry, it's a somewhat tricky one. I'm continuing the savage work. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I have finally got engagement at commons:User_talk:Nuklear#Droxicam which is minor progress! I know you are an admin on Commons and I'm getting a message on hover-over that link which says the account is infinitely blocked there, which is clearly not the case. Maybe that's what needs to happen next but let's see what response I get in that thread over the next couple of days. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:44, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Question

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Hello. Thanks for the feedback and support. I have a question. So, is it not acceptable to edit someone else's exercise? I think this comes close to vandalism, and do you think there is a protection mechanism in case the said user (User talk:Gonnym) continues such "vandalism"? I hope your engagement and comment was timely. I don't want to cause conflict. I want to wish everyone good luck, but I don't think it's acceptable to edit someone else's exercise... Thank you very much for the feedback. Lasha-george (talk) 17:22, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

It's definitely disruptive, and rude not to explain clearly. It's doubly so when it's something that doesn't actually matter much. Like, I have no qualms removing an "I am an administrator" tag from a non-admin's userpage. But if there is just a syntax error that is flagged on a tracking list, I would instead post a note to their talkpage about it and give them a chance to fix it (or give even a weak reason why it shouldn't be fixed). That way they also learn about the situation, and everyone wins. There's no deadline and things that aren't harmful to others really aren't that important to fix in my view, especially if "fixing" them is itself something that bothers others. DMacks (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
That's your opinion, it obviously isn't the community. Lint errors on any page can and should be fixed. There is no leeway for it being on a user page. Gonnym (talk) 08:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
My WP:CIVIL-based position is that editors should collaborate and explain their actions, regardless of the basis for them, and help newer or unaware editors learn how to improve. I did not say "don't edit another user's page" or "don't improve the wiki", and you can be sure I know the value of fixing linter. Compare your edit-summary of "lint fixes"[24] and your complete lack of summary altogether[25] to those of other third-party edits at [26]. SporkBot explains the specific action not just the high-level goal and Jonesey95 provides a link to learn about it and polite comment. You obviously did ultimately diffuse the friction in the ensuing User talk:Gonnym#By what right?! and I did not support that any of this is "vandalism". DMacks (talk) 08:52, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

 

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Tech News: 2024-28

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Recent changes

Problems

  • A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

  • The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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This Month in Education: June 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 6 • June 2024

In This Issue

Tech News: 2024-29

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Recent changes

  •   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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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

  •   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. [27]
  • 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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Tech News: 2024-30

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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.

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. [28]
  • 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. [29]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia 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. [30]

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

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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.

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:) [31]

Learn more

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Hello.

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I see you have reverted my edit. Visaa11 (talk) 02:06, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

they did so because your edits were not helpful. 750h+ 09:16, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Visaa11, yes I did. Exactly as 750h+ stated. And I already stated those reasons in multiple places. DMacks (talk) 17:22, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

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  •   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. [32][33]
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: 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.
  •   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)

stop following my edits

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h Visaa11 (talk) 14:21, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

This is a collaborative project. Stop making disruptive edits and others won't feel the need to keep correcting you. It seems pretty sensible that when one mistake is noticed to then look if there are other associated problems (tip of the iceberg). See WP:FOLLOWING for how this is explicitly a valid approach. DMacks (talk) 15:03, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

  Administrator changes

  Isabelle Belato
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Izno
 

  CheckUser changes

  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

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Revert changes by you

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Thank you for reverting this edit on the Chemistry of ascorbic acid. It's important to address site-wide issues with a consistent approach rather than implementing one-off fixes. Ensure that all entries adhere to the established infobox syntax guidelines to maintain uniformity and clarity across the site. Consider reviewing the guidelines and updating any problematic entries collectively. Sorry for being mistaken. Best regards. HirowoWiki (talk | contribs) 05:18, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

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

I need help

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It’s been 30 days and I’ve made 658 edits (well over the expected amount) and I still can’t edit extended confirmed articles. What do I do? Hopefulgratitude (talk) 04:44, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

No idea. Maybe give it another day or so? You're right at the 30-day mark less than an hour to spare, so you might have been just under at the time. DMacks (talk) 04:55, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Alrighty, thank you. Hopefulgratitude (talk) 04:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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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.

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. [36]
  •   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. [37][38]

Bugs status

  •   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 Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia 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.

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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.
  • 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)

Talk:Usenet

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[39] Could you lose these edits, thanks. ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 20:34, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

  Done DMacks (talk) 21:30, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
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