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Tech News: 2021-05

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

Problems

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [3][4]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [6][7]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ajbura's anrfc-lister assists with listing discussions at WP:ANRFC to request that they receive a formal close

Bradv's endlesscontribs provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages

Evad37's livenotifications displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen

Terasail's Edit Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests

ToBeFree's clear-watchlist allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods

Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.

Yahya's SNA (Start New Article) allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.

Nardog:

• CatChangeLinker bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
• CatChangesViewer lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
• Consecudiff adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
• DiffFontSwitcher allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
• MoveHistory lists the past moves a page has gone through.

Novem Linguae:

• UserHighlighterSimple is a fork of Chlod's UserHighlighter with a simplified color scheme.
• VisualEditorEverywhere displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.

User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js - no longer tries to load on special pages.

User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.

Wikipedia:XFDcloser - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

Open tasks

• As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

• For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
• A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests

• A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations
• A script to help manage Z number templates
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ajbura's anrfc-lister assists with listing discussions at WP:ANRFC to request that they receive a formal close

Bradv's endlesscontribs provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages

Evad37's livenotifications displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen

Terasail's Edit Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests

ToBeFree's clear-watchlist allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods

Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.

Yahya's SNA (Start New Article) allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.

Nardog:

• CatChangeLinker bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
• CatChangesViewer lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
• Consecudiff adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
• DiffFontSwitcher allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
• MoveHistory lists the past moves a page has gone through.

Novem Linguae:

• UserHighlighterSimple is a fork of Chlod's UserHighlighter with a simplified color scheme.
• VisualEditorEverywhere displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.

User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js - no longer tries to load on special pages.

User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.

Wikipedia:XFDcloser - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

Open tasks

• As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

• For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
• A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests

• A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations
• A script to help manage Z number templates
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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A bit more AFI cleanup

It looks like MusikBot is adding articles to Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/List, which is a redirect to the proper target, Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Articles/List. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:53, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Fixed, I think! Thanks for the heads up. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:50, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

From Jewish space lasers to your talk page!

Hey. Is MusikBot II automatically adding all protection templates now as soon as a page is protected? Please tell me I've copy-pasted my last {{pp-protected|small=yes}}... El_C 19:02, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

@El C: Yes, but only in the mainspace. Manually adding {{pp}} or similar is not necessary. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:11, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Yay! Sweet, sweet progress. Many thanks for making that happen! El_C 19:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot removed sections

I don't know whether it's intentional but MusikBot removed two unsigned sections from Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/AutoWikiBrowser.[8]. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:54, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Not intentional! I'll look into this soon. Which reminds me, I need to tend to Special:Permalink/1004021598#Check Page as well. Thanks for letting me know, — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:39, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2021)

A Television Market Area is an example of a media market. This map depicts Television Market Areas in the United States as of 2013. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Media market Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lumbersexual • Viral phenomenon Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 8 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Twinkle

Actually twinkle is not working on Urwiki since May 2020. Could you help how could I enable twinkle there? Is there any option to enable global twinkle? Any help regarding this, will be appreciated. Hasan (talk) 08:53, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [9]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [11][12]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [13]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [14]

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17:41, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Editing logged out

Hello. I accidently edited logged out and I'm just looking for some advice. Is it possible for my IP to be removed from the history of the article? Is there anything else I can do as I'd rather people couldn't see my IP. Kind regards, Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 11:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Willbb234: send the diff to: Special:EmailUser/Oversight and someone can suppress it. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:02, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Note, on an article this may include reverting your edit as it will have no attribution - but then you can always just make it again logged in. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:03, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Xaosflux thanks for the help. Regards, Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 17:38, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Blibber-Blubber Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Media market • Lumbersexual Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-07

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

Problems

• There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [15][16]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

February 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

February 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month will include a discussion of Black WikiHistory Month in February, plans for WikiWomen's History Month in March, and of course the great work that is being done in these topical areas throughout the year. We will also have a relevant demonstration of the Wikipedia:Did you know process. If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or responding to this message. Wednesday February 17 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Alexplaugh12

I have a wiki break enforcer that I want to end. The username is Alexplaugh12. You can send me an email to confirm the request.41.190.3.93 (talk) 10:54, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

You should be able to get around it by logging in here (which brings you to Special:Preferences, where user JS is ignored), then edit your common.js in safemode to remove the wikibreak enforcer code. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2021)

The Maidi Road pedestrian overcrossing in Huizhou, southeast Guangdong Province, China Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Huizhou Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Blibber-Blubber • Media market Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 22 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Thanks

Why is there no "thank" button on the block log? Anyway, pretend I clicked the button on [18]. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:30, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: Heh, you can find the reasoning in the comments at phab:T60485. There's a newer task at phab:T268701 but I think it's likely to be declined. Anyway, I kinda wish you could be doing some of the blocking, too! We've discussed this before and I never got a hard no from you, so here's a gentle reminder that myself (and I'm pretty sure many others) are eager for you to join the cabal ;-) — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:55, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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

Recent changes

• The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [19]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [20]

Problems

• Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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Thursday Feb 25: ONLINE Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center

Feb 25, 1:30-5pm: Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center

You are invited to join the AfroCROWD and Wikimedia NYC communities for the 7th year of this edit-a-thon, this time being held in a virtual format. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page, and register on the form to get the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Thursday Feb 25 Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center (optional RSVP on-wiki). 1:30pm - 5:30 pm online, register on the form to get the Zoom link

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MusikBot

Small issues with your bot
Which to fix you ought
To take a look at

I don't remember if this is an issue I raised a long while back or not; but anyway, do tell if there's anything that can or can't be done. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 12:48, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Responsehelper bug?

Hey MusikAnimal, I was doing a quick run through UAA earlier and I noticed that when I use response helper to try and add a response / comment it asks for input through the pop-up, generates the edit summary, but doesn't make an actual response on the page itself. Same issue on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Any thoughts? ^{Problem could definitely exist between keyboard and chair on my end...} Thanks, Jack Frost (talk) 10:04, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

@Jack Frost: Was your cursor in the textarea where you wanted to insert the template? This is how it must be done at UAA as well as WP:AIV since the script has no way of knowing which report you're trying to respond to. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

MusikAnimal, yes; cursor definitely in the text area; no luck. Jack Frost (talk) 20:07, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

• News and notes: Maher stepping down

• Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video

• Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction

• In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house

• News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism

• Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day

• Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2021)

Emergency management is the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery). Pictured is a mobile emergency operations center operated by the North Carolina Air National Guard. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Emergency management Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Huizhou • Blibber-Blubber Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-09

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

• Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
• A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

• There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [22]
• Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

A message from Resonant spaces

Hi MusikAnimal, I hope you're well; I've a fairly simple story to tell, but if this message is out form; and not within wikipedia norm, then please disregard it, for I will wait; and leave the matter to time and fate.

In 2018, I gave attention, to a musician who it seemed needed mention; a fixture of New York city clubs, who from his origins in new england pubs; ascended to stages known by all, from the bitter end to carnegie hall.

My research was thorough, though left much room to grow , but what I included is what I came to know; through info gleaned from historical sources, which wikipedia most firmly endorses.

papers of record, like the new york times, and illustrious critics, famed for their lines; mentions in several an academic tome, the washington post; the rolling stone; and other sources, which helped to create, a basic picture of a piano-playing great.

The submission, however, was declined at the time, not because the content was suspect or out of line; but due to the inclusion, within a substantial list, of: "discogs and wikipedia", (whose ban I had missed).

Anyway, in short, I have returned to this at last, and believe as I did, that it's absence has cast; a shadow on the completeness of music wikipedia, for without the inclusion of disparate, curious, masters of sundry musical media; The project will not really fulfill it's destiny, or at least may not be the very best that it can be.

My reason, in closing, for writing you now: Is: would you check out the article, which is under review? and consider whether it seems worthy to you? And if you have some suggestions, or things not quite there, your input, as experienced editor, would be utilized with great appreciation and care!

This is the article in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Norman_Zamcheck

Thank you Musikanimal, for reading this note!

Resonant spaces (talk) 21:35, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello Resonant spaces! In my opinion, your draft looks to be in pretty good shape. Indeed, Discogs and other Wikipedia articles are not good sources, but so lang as you've removed those references, I'm satisfied that your draft is sufficiently sourced. However, I have not been active in reviewing articles in some time, so I would rather someone else handle this. AfC can be a very slow process, but I'm sure someone will get around to reviewing it in due time. Thank you for your patience, and for contributing to Wikipedia! — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

What caused the problems with your edit here...? Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:47, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@RandomCanadian: Ah, you mean this edit. Sorry! My browser actually crashed as I saved that edit (some issue with syntax highlighting + new wikitext editor and my computer being low on RAM, I believe), but when I restarted I saw my comment at the bottom went through correctly. I neglected to review the actual diff for any collateral damage. My apologies, and thanks to you and JohnFromPinckney for fixing it! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:30, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

An automagically updating chart for a given backlog category

Hi there MusikAnimal. I love the automatically updating unpatrolled pages graph at Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Backlog_chart, which it appears you made. I'm wondering if it'd be relatively easy to create a similar graph for the number of pages in Category:All articles lacking sources that updates daily to show the total number of articles in that category? We've been steadily reducing the number of articles in that category by about 1,000 per month since at least early 2018 (when I started penciling down the number periodically). I think having the trend easily visible might help boost morale and drive a few extra editor hours towards helping out. That said, I have no relevant technical know-how, so here I am asking for your time. If there's somewhere else I should go knocking, please let me know. Otherwise thanks for your time! I hope you're staying well. Ajpolino (talk) 17:51, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@Ajpolino: The NPP backlog chart is populated by a bot. We would need a bot to do the same for Category:All articles lacking sources if we wanted it to be automatic. This should be relatively easy to implement, and I'd be happy to help :) I agree a visualization might encourage more editors to help tackle the backlog. What kind of granularity do you think this needs? Is once a week enough? We could offer multiple granularities just like the NPP chart template, but daily or hourly granularity would quickly fill up and need to be purged to ensure the dataset isn't too large. Weekly I think will last for many years before it's ever a problem. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Excellent! Once a week sounds great. I don't think we need anything more frequent than that. Thanks again! Ajpolino (talk) 15:50, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Great, having just one granularity makes this even easier :) I probably won't be able to get to this until tomorrow or later this week. Assuming we want the chart displayed at Category:All articles lacking sources, we'll also need to get bot approval. I'm also assuming no one would oppose this task... so I think we can proceed with a BRFA without broader discussion.

We can add your historical data to the chart too, or we can wait a few weeks for the bot to collect enough data worthy of displaying in a chart. I'll ping you when I get the template and dataset pages set up. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:12, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Super! It looks like archive.org's snapshots of the Category:All articles lacking sources page over the last many years also include the total number of articles in the backlog at the time. So if I get a free moment and have nothing better to do, I'll build a table that goes back at least a few months (I assume this will have to be done manually, so I'll do it after my brain has given out for the day). I'll post that whenever I get to it. Otherwise let me know if you need me. Thanks again! Ajpolino (talk) 05:49, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@Ajpolino: Template has been created at {{articles lacking sources chart}} (it looks weird right because there's only one data point). The dataset is at Template:Articles lacking sources chart/data. If you understand JSON, feel free to add more data to that directly, but it's fine to give me a table or what have you. I've also written the code for the bot and will open a BRFA tomorrow. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:55, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Alright to get us started I've got data going back a few months at User:Ajpolino/Unreferenced article count. I'll admit I don't know what JSON is, but if you toss in a few of the datapoints, maybe the formatting will become clear and I can add more later? Thanks again! Ajpolino (talk) 05:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Ajpolino: BRFA filed. I also added the data you gave me at Template:Articles lacking sources chart/data. The format of how to add new entries in JSON might be a little more understandable now. Anyway, we at least have a visible chart! And it's showing a downward decline, which is good :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:10, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

BRFA trial approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:11, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2021)

Frozen chicken nuggets Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Chicken nugget Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Emergency management • Huizhou Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-10

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

• Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
• Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [24]
• When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [25]

Problems

• Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
• The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [27]

Future changes

• There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
• Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [28][29]
• New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

A message from Ziad Rashad

Hey! I was wondering, since you're the operator of the bot. Is there any way I could find out my numbers of edits made on the mainspace and not the total edit count? I've been looking for a while but I found nothing helpful. - 𓋹 𝓩𝓲𝓪𝓭 𝓡𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓭 𓋹 [user | talk] 13:31, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

@Ziad Rashad: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Ziad_Rashad — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:48, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Sat Mar 13: Asia Art Archive in America: Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2021)

A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time, not professionally and not for pay. An example of a hobby is rail transport modelling (pictured). Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Hobby Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Chicken nugget • Emergency management Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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Tech News: 2021-11

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

• Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
• Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [30]

Problems

• Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [31][32]
• You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
• You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [33]

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23:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Criteria

Hello @MusikBot:, It has been over 3 days that i had requested for New Page Reviewer but still nobody can response my request.Why? If i hadn't completed the criteria then please address that criteria.Thank you !(Fade258 (talk) 17:11, 19 March 2021 (UTC))

@Fade258: Someone will tend to your request soon enough. Please be patient :) Side note, I recommend you remove the parentheses around your signature. I'm not sure if that's why I was unable to use the reply tool here, but it will surely confuse some bots and other scripts that assume the exact text "(UTC)" should be at the end of every signature. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:22, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2021)

Two charts from an Arabic copy of the Secretum Secretorum for determining whether a person will live or die based on the numerical value of the patient's name. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Name Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Hobby • Chicken nugget Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-12

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Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
• The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [34]

Future changes

• Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [35][36]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [37]

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16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot II doesn't want?

Hey. FYI, MusikBot II seems to be on strike. Maybe just let it unionize, I dunno... El_C 01:35, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

@El C: The jobs were stuck on Toolforge (their fault, not MusikBot's!). It should be back to running normally now. By the way, I have been reading your edit summary pings; thank you for pointing those out! I don't know why the bot misses some pages, but I believe I still have a means to fix this issue and will be pushing some updates in the coming days. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:33, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Thanks. Yeah, I closed a few tens of RfPP requests earlier today, so I had to frantically double check em all due to the... non-strike strike. Anyway, I still think MusikBot II at least deserve a dental plan! for its adorable bot kids (LisaBot needs braces!). El_C 07:23, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

PC'd DeepSpeed today, but MusikBot II still didn't want. El_C 14:17, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

@El C The bot runs on a 10-minute schedule, so you'll have to wait at least that long before concluding it missed the page. Anyway I just pushed an update which I think will help. If you happen to spot a page it missed, feel free to ping me again as you have been doing. Thanks, — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I could have swore it was 5-min intervals — my mistake. Anyway, the 2 main problems I noticed are: 1. Protection action that is preceded by an edit from the protecting admin results in an absence; and 2. Any pc-protection combo (disabling one, enabling the other and vice versa) also results in an absence. Many thanks! El_C 21:01, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

The first scenario I think is just circumstance. There is no logic regarding edits made to pages and who made those edits. The bot just looks for pages that were recently protected but are missing any kind of protection template. The fact that it looks for no protection template might explain problem #2. If you removed PC and added semi, the bot will probably remove the {{pp-pc}} and not know to add {{pp-semi}}, or if it does it will do it 10 minutes later. I will try to rework that logic. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:31, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Okay, I'll try to experiment with scenario 1 and will report back once I have an a definitive finding. Scenario 2 isn't really too pressing of an issue due to pc-semi combos being fairly infrequent by comparison. Best, El_C 22:01, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Template:a or an/doc

Hello,

I noticed your bot removed the protection template from the above page. Protection templates shouldn't be removed from template documentations, as they are meant to be transcluded on the template. Is there a way to add the template without it getting removed? Thanks. 54nd60x (talk) 10:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @54nd60x: You refer, I presume, to this edit. The bot was correct to do that, because that doc page is not protected - in fact, it's never been protected: here's the log, which is empty. Very few template doc pages are ever protected, and then it's usually a short-term semi-prot because of vandalism. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. I think in this case the {{documentation}} template itself automatically shows the protection icon. There's no need to manually place a protection template. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:24, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2021)

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Tech News: 2021-13

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

• Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [38]
• IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [39]

Problems

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [40]
• Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [41][42]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Bot failing with "protect-invalidlevel', info 'Invalid protection level "templateeditor""

This seems to be being added to User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector/Error log every two days since February 9. You might want to take a look. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:33, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Might this refer to a page that is move-protected to TE level but edit-protected to a different level, perhaps not edit-protected at all? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:05, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

I did notice this and spent some time debugging it. It's quite a mystery because I've made no code changes whatsoever, and "templateeditor" is most certainly a valid protection level (though it actually gets passed to the API as "edit=templateeditor"). The bot kept failing when trying to protect Template:Centralized discussion/styles.css. I tried protecting it myself using Special:ApiSandbox, using the same parameters the bot used, and that worked. Now suddenly the bot is able to template-protect other templates... I would really like to know why it was failing, but it seems to be resolved for now. Very strange! — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:36, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh, that's why the human and not the bot made that protection. Izno (talk) 19:00, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

About Template:User WP/id

Hi, your bot protected Template:User WP/id, but the custom parameters for a lot of other projects are still being added periodically. As you can read in the template documentation, I should be able to do that. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 23:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

@Est. 2021 I've lowered it to semi-protection so you should be able to edit it now. — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:10, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, thanks! Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 23:12, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

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A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Good job for reverting vandalism and spam on many different articles! Cupcake547 (talk) 17:16, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

A belated thank you! — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:16, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

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• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
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IP block exemption

Greetings -

I opened an OTRS ticket several weeks ago requesting an IP block exemption for my account, but I still have not received a response. I want an IPBE primarily for privacy reasons, as I recently subscribed to a VPN provider. I want to be able to edit without having to turn off the VPN every time I edit, and I would be logged into my account anyway so it’s not like it would be a problem.

I’m a trusted editor here with over 17,000 edits, and I’ve been here for over 7 years. I believe I am a suitable candidate for the exemption.

I am aware that IP block exemptions are generally given to students so that they can edit from educational institutions. However, I noticed that an administrator (User:Deryck Chan) logged another editor’s successful IPBE request for the same reason I want an IPBE (privacy), so I was hoping you could help me out here, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! LJF2019 ^talk 00:29, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm afraid this is outside my area of expertise and I will have to defer to another CheckUser. Sorry! Rest assured, someone will tend to the OTRS ticket in due time. — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:45, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2021)

A recreation room arranged as a children's play area in a Chicago home Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Recreation room Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mixed climbing • Name Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

An issue with an edit made offline.

Hello, MusikAnimal,

I accidentally edited logged out and I'm just looking for some advice. Is it possible for my IP to be removed from the history of the article? Is there anything else I can do as I'd prefer people didn't see the IP. (Even if it is not directly linked to my identity/username)

After making the mistake I tried to find documentation on the matter and stumbled on your user page after checking the list of admins willing to do a revision deletion. I then started out by attempting to email you, but that didn't work since you've disabled that functionality, so I can't really disclose any identifying information on the article I mistakenly edited.

Incidentally, while looking for your email address on your archives (not the correct procedure, i now know), i stumbled on a user that had the same problem, it seems like, and they were pointed to Special:EmailUser/Oversight, i might give that a shot, but i thought to ask you here first.

Is this something you can help me with? Or should I contact another party?

Oh, also:

it has been said - that rhyming requests - are prioritized

a wordsmith - i am - not - for that i truly - apologized

the request remains genuine - and hopefully - optimized

Kind regards, ZenAndroid (talk) 18:57, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @ZenAndroid: dropping a note to Special:EmailUser/Oversight is the BEST way to report this, if you were to put the IP on a talk page like this one - it would draw more attention to the matter, and also require more cleanup. There is a small team of trusted people that will get your request if you send it via that "Oversight" link and are generally very quick to respond. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 19:10, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

@ZenAndroid In this situation we use suppression (also known as oversight), not revision deletion, which I can't help you with since I am not an oversighter. You are correct however that the best way to contact the oversight team is by emailing them at Special:EmailUser/Oversight. Just send them a link to the diff(s) and they will take care of it. I have not disabled email, by the way. Using Special:EmailUser/MusikAnimal should work. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:14, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you @MusikAnimal:, and @Xaosflux:, i have sent an email and am awaiting a response, thank you again for the quick response.

Tech News: 2021-14

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 can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [43]

Changes later this week

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [44]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Same problem

Sorry, I just noticed the same problem happens with the main Template:User WP. I attempted to update the template categorisation and make another minor fix (no visual changes), but unfortunately I currently can't. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 03:18, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Question on NYC Covid Deaths Template

Hi MusikAnimal, I was taking a look at a template you are maintaining that for the NYC covid article and I am seeing some conflicting numbers. On the NYC.gov totals page 31,694 is listed as the total number of NYC deaths to date (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-totals.page) while the NYC template has 96,455 deaths. In addition, the number of deaths for NYC is not consistent with the template for all of NY state which has 41,028 currently. Is there something I am missing?

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States/New York State medical cases chart

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States/New York State/New York City medical cases chart

--Jersey Devil (talk) 02:35, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Taking a deeper dive into the NYC.gov site I see they are storing some datasets on Github; looking at an upload with data thru 4/6 (https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/latest/now-deaths-by-day.csv) I got 26,547 deaths and 5,070 probable deaths for 31,617 total NYC deaths (lining up well with the more up-to-date dashboard that has it at 31,694). Again, it is possible I am missing something here but I am not sure what it would be. --Jersey Devil (talk) 02:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

@Jersey Devil Wow! It looks like this past December nyc.gov added a new column to their data set which broke my script. It was using the hospitalized count instead of the deaths, and all this time has passed without me or anyone noticing! A bit embarrassing... but it's fixed now :) Thank you for letting me know! Note it's showing confirmed deaths, not total deaths. It's also purposefully several days behind because they are slow to update figures. Thanks again, — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:59, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2021)

Thai comics are comics written and produced in Thailand. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Thai comics Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Recreation room • Mixed climbing Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

twinkle

Hi, Does the Twinkle tool automatically patrol reversible edits? LordProfo (talk) 12:07, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@LordProfo I'm not sure what you mean by "reversible edits". Also, patrolled edits is not a thing on English Wikipedia like it is on some other wikis. New pages are patrolled, however, if that's what you mean? Or perhaps you're talking about pending changes? — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:11, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

That's what I meant, thanks LordProfo (talk) 19:02, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@LordProfo Which one? Patrolling new pages, or pending changes? I'm still not clear on what you mean by "reversible" edits, either. Could you give an example?

If you're referring to the Twinkle installed on Persian Wikipedia, I'm afraid we can't help you as that's a customized installation that might differ from the official version. You will need to consult whoever maintains the gadget on Persian Wikipedia. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:53, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

In Persian Wikipedia, if an edit is reverted by Twinkel, the edit that is Reverted needs to be patrol by a Reviewer and it will not be patrolled automatically. I wanted to know if it is the same in English Wikipedia? LordProfo (talk) 21:52, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@LordProfo If you're talking about pages under pending changes protection – then yes, twinkle will try to automatically review the revert – though it works only if the user is a pending changes reviewer or admin. – SD0001 (talk) 12:26, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

RevDel request

Hello, sorry to bother you. Can you please remove the last six edits of IP 31.60.21.237 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)? --Ashleyyoursmile! 19:15, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) done! EvergreenFir (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much, EvergreenFir. Ashleyyoursmile! 06:06, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

One on one Tackle

Can one on one Tackle page be protected Gardner Eli (talk) 02:12, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

It is in the DeKalb Junction Historical Museum I have pictures to prove it Gardner Eli (talk) 02:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

The article has been unprotected since December 2017, and you are the only human to have edited since then, so I see no reason to protect it. You can learn more about our protection policy at Wikipedia:Protection policy. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:28, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Ok can you keep the updates that I have made I want to build on Wikipedia Gardner Eli (talk) 02:30, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

I cleaned up the article a little bit following your edits. Wikipedia is a collaborative platform. There's no need to ask for your edits to be retained :) Just be bold. I left some links on your talk page that might help you get comfortable with Wikipedia. Thanks for contributing, — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:44, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Gardner Eli (talk) 02:52, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

April 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with with Environmental focus

April 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Environmental focus

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! As this WikiWednesday is just the day before Earth Day, we will have an environmental focus. If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday April 21 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2021)

A street performer in New York wearing a do-rag Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Do-rag Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Thai comics • Recreation room Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-16

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

Recent changes

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [45][46]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [47][48][49]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [50]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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A barnstar for you!

		The Userpage Barnstar
		I really liked your userpage, especially the scripts and tools pages! Creamepuff 00:56, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:39, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Huizhou Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Do-rag • Thai comics Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 03:05, 26 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2021-17

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

Recent changes

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [51][52][53]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Musikbot producing redlinks

Hi there, I was just browsing Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Accomplishments and at the bottom of the statistics section it appears that the automatic updates have stopped working correctly. Every article link from mid December 2020 until now is a redlink. I thought that I should bring it to your attention. MidnightMorgan (talk) 13:35, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! This is more fallout from when the project was renamed late last year. Looks like all it took was a simple fix to the template. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:09, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Thank you! — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:59, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2021)

Watches are one type of fashion accessory. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Fashion accessory Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Huizhou • Do-rag Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-18

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

Recent changes

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [54]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [55]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [56][57]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [58]

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2021)

Tattooing among women of the Koita people of Papua New Guinea traditionally began at age five and was added to each year. The V-shaped marks on the chest, with certain others, indicate that the woman is marriageable. Photo taken in 1912. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Tattoo Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fashion accessory • Huizhou Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-19

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Pageviews Analysis – A message from Wurgl

Hello! In deWP we use your tool "pageview analysis" as a standard link at the very end. See, the working example de:Test. At the very botton you see the link "Abrufstatistik", when you click on it, you open https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?pages=Test&project=de.wikipedia.org which redirects to https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-20&pages=Test everything is fine here.

However, at least one page does not work: de:Eureka O’Hara Here the link is https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?pages=Eureka_O%E2%80%99Hara&project=de.wikipedia.org which then redirects to https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-20&pages= The page to view gets lost.

A really strange problem, deWP has a lot of other O'Haras, I checked some of them, they all worked well, just de:Eureka O’Hara fails.

Please take a look at this problem. Thanks. I have reported this in de:Wikipedia:Technik/Werkstatt#Probleme_bei_"Abrufstatistik"_ganz_unten,_vor_dem_Link_zu_den_Autoren too. Wurgl (talk) 13:28, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

This is quite strange, indeed! I'll try to look into this soon. Thanks for the report, — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:37, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

scriptInstaller

Please can you help add my scripts (on my common.js page), because a) it's a mess and b) I find it hard to copy and paste because I'm on mobile. Thanks a lot! ― Qwerfjkl|✉   21:33, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl Apologies for the late reply. Are you referring to Wikipedia:Script Installer? What is it that you need help with, exactly? Or perhaps you trying to use User:MusikAnimal/scriptManager? I'm happy to help you set up the latter, but you'll need to tell me which scripts you want to be handled by scriptManager. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:36, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I am trying to use User:MusikAnimal/scriptManager, and I have just removed all the unnecessary scripts, so please add any that don't have // before them. Thanks! ― Qwerfjkl  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 06:16, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

::@MusikAnimal: I tentatively tried one script, RedWarn, and the section for enabling it hasn't appeared. ― Qwerfjkl  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 20:59, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Nevermind, I've fixed the problem by reordering the scripts. ― Qwerfjkl  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 21:05, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2021)

A computer lab equipped with desktop computers Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Desktop computer Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Tattoo • Fashion accessory Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-20

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

Recent changes

• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [59] [60] [61]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [62][63]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [64]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [65]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

May 19: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

May 19, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday May 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Stale filters report broken due to schema change

Hi :) I noticed that the "stale filters" task operated by MusikBot is currently reporting wrong stats, as it thinks that the last hit of all filters was on April 12th (enwiki, itwiki). Looking at this code, I am fairly sure that this was caused by the schema change afl_filter -> afl_filter_id + afl_global (T220791). Since the bot is only interested in local filters, the solution would be to check for afl_global = 0 and use afl_filter_id instead of afl_filter. I can send a PR on github if you wish. Thank you, --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 13:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! This should be fixed now. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:14, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Yup, thank you! I think ideally it should also check for afl_global = 0 but I'm not sure it would make any difference given the current use case. --Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 09:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Aware of issues with xtools?

Hi, are you aware of issues with xtools plugin and edit counter? I today get the whole day "Unable to fetch revision data" and the EC also does not seem to update for the last hours. CommanderWaterford (talk) 14:04, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

@CommanderWaterford I assume you're talking about the ArticleInfo gadget? It seems to working correctly on my end. Can you give specific examples of pages where it isn't working? "Unable to fetch revision data" usually means the query timed out, which is not unexpected for pages with a very long history such as noticeboards, etc. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:41, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

It did not work for any article in the last 8 hours :) :) Currently (about since an hour or so) it is working again. CommanderWaterford (talk) 16:48, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Have to correct me - still does not work, does not fetch any data, one example: Draft:Gilera_Nexus (but I have 50 others), definitely not lies on connection speed. CommanderWaterford (talk) 20:07, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Other example: Enayat_al-Zayyat, if I ask "See full page statistics" xtools replies "No revisions found for the given date range". CommanderWaterford (talk) 20:09, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

@CommanderWaterford Ah, it's replication lag. Currently the data is 15 hours behind. The XTools interface is supposed to say this; I'll need to check why it isn't detecting the lag, but regardless there's nothing we can do to fix it. I'll poke the database administrators and make sure they're aware of this issue. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:48, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks - 15 hours? What are you guys using? Foxpro on an i386 ?! ;-) CommanderWaterford (talk) 20:50, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Strange, strange, I do see a lag of 0 at s3 for all DBs in your report link but are still getting those issues.... CommanderWaterford (talk) 11:11, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

@CommanderWaterford Hmm I'm not sure; all the links you provided are showing data on my end. If you're still sometimes seeing "Unable to fetch revision data", it could be due to any number of things. I'll need some more technical information in order to help you. See WP:JSERROR for instructions. Thanks! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:46, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2021)

Cooked pork chops on a plate Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Pork chop Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Desktop computer • Tattoo Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-21

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

WP:AWB/CP gnoming

I noticed that your bot has not edited WP:AWB/CP since March. Intentional or did something get switched off? Primefac (talk) 16:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Ahh, the one bot task that made queries to multiple databases... This functionality broke recently due to wikitech:News/Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign. I should be able to push out a fix this week. I see from the error log the bot has been complaining since April 1. I should probably set up some sort of notification system for this! — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:08, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 10:37, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

@Primefac Okay, fixed now :) Sorry for the long downtime! For the record, I hadn't forgot about this since I replied 8 days ago, I was just waiting for the bot to run on its own after I pushed a fix. Of course Thursday went by and it errored out again, and after some debugging the new schedule is around now on Fridays (UTC).

By the way, I am watching phab:T241196 and it seems there's no progress there yet. I'd rather wait until we are fully migrated to the JSON page instead of having the bot monitor two places. I suppose it wouldn't be hard to make the bot sync the contents of the old CheckPage to the new one, though; but that's assuming no one will attempt to edit the new one and not the old one (or else such changes would be lost). If you have any opinions, do share. Otherwise I'll just wait it out, for now. — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:32, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

I should probably set up some sort of notification system for this! See Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor. – SD0001 (talk) 12:40, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2021)

A trench digger being used in Baku, Azerbaijan Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Trench Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pork chop • Desktop computer Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-22

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

Problems

• There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [66]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

New scripts

• Alexander Davronov's HistoryHelper helps to copy diff links from the history display of a page
• Aseleste's Purger makes it easier to purge or null edit a page
• Awesome Aasim:
  • CatMan adds a category manager to simplify interactions for adding and removing the categories of a page
  • redirectcreator allows for easy creation of multiple redirects
• Bop34's EasyDesc adds a link to the top navigation bar which allows you to add a short description without opening the edit menu
• BrandonXLF's NullEdit adds a portlet link to perform a null edit on a page
• Chlod:
  • FoldArchives collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space
  • GoToTitle converts the page title into an input field for navigating to other pages
  • UserHighlighter adds highlighting to links to the userpages, talk pages, and contributions of administrators and other user groups as well as tooltips to indicate which groups a user is in
• GhostInTheMachine:
  • NoEditSummary adds a warning if an edit will be saved without an edit summary
  • SortWhatLinksHere sorts the links shows on Special:WhatLinksHere
  • WatchlistTidy moves the "new updates found" timestamp block from the bottom of the filter block to the top of the filter area on the watchlist
• GorillaWarfare's curlies simplifies converting curly quotes to straight quotes while in the source editing mode
• Nardog:
  • AutoSectionLink corrects the /* section link */ every time you hit "Show changes"
  • AutoTestcases autofills "Preview page with this template/module" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists
  • SortCentralAuthByEditCount sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count
• Novem Linguae:
  • CiteHighlighter highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability.
  • NPPLinks adds WP:BEFORE Google search links, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other links to the left menu.
• Ritenerek's goce_nav adds a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors to the navigation menu
• Suffusion of Yellow:
  • filterDiff: Adds a "Show changes" button to the filter editor.
  • filterNotes: Parses filter notes as wikitext (so links are clickable), and signs and dates new comments for you.
  • filterTest: Adds a "Test changes" button. Opens Special:AbuseFilter/test with what's currently in the edit form, not with what's saved in the database, so you don't have to copy-paste your changes.
• Terasail's COI Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove conflict of interest edit requests

Updated scripts

• Twinkle has a number of improvements, including that most watchlist defaults now make use of the new temporary watchlist feature. Other changes include rollbacks treating consecutive IPv6 editors in the same /64 range as the same user, adding a preview for shared IP tagging, a preference for watching users after CSD notification, and for sysops, the ability to block the /64 and link to a WP:RfPP request, and new copyright blocks default to indefinite.
• Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper now v3.4.17, changes include minor fixes and preventing edits that don't change the description.
• BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker now recognizes WP:CSLSA and WP:CSVAN styles, in addition to WP:CS1 and WP:CS2
• Joeytje50's JWB now version 4.1.0, includes the ability to generate page lists from the search tool, major updates to the handling of regular expressions, the storing of user settings, the addition of upload protection, and an option to skip pages that belong to a specific category, among other changes. See User:Joeytje50/JWB/Changelog for a full list of recent changes.
• User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js – updated to include a link to snippet of deleted content, instead of just metadata.

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia:User scripts/List has been revamped to make it easier to find scripts suited for your needs. If you know of a cool script that is missing on the list, or a script on the list that is no longer working, please edit the list or let us know on the talk page.

Pending requests

• A request for a script to help admins posting "recent death" items to Template:In the news
• A request for a script to warn users about syntax and template errors
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

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Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 27 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 15:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

New message from Qwerfjkl

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation § AFCH script error. (Concerning scriptManager.) ― Qwerfjkl | 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 19:42, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

scriptManager

Please could you allow scriptManager to turn on scripts until they are turned off. For example, you could turn on RedWarn, revert some vandalism, then turn off RedWarn. ― Qwerfjkl | 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 20:36, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl I don't think this would work. By "enabling" a script, you are downloading it and executing it. You can't un-download or programmatically undo whatever the script did. The solution is to simply reload the page. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:59, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: Sorry, to clarify: You load the script on every page until you turn it off. ― Qwerfjkl | 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 21:01, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Ah, I see. That is certainly possible, but scriptManager might as well enable the script via your common.js, much like Script Installer does. I'll try to look into this when time allows. It will require some UI changes. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:26, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! ― Qwerfjkl | 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂  (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 19:43, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2021)

200th Anniversary of Berlin Academy, 1900 Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Learned society Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Trench • Pork chop Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-23

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [67][68][69]
• Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [70]
• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [71][72]

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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Regarding this bug you closed

[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283012] I think there is a misunderstsanding. You are right that examples you cite are fine - but only up to a point. The issue concerns what happens when a redirect is overwritten by a moved-in the article (and hence deleted in the process). The "correct" examples you cite which have two entries on my article creation lists are for articles I created, and for redirects I also created to them, then the article was renamed and moved over my own redirect.

This is a bit different and more confusing for example for entries "Mary Lowell Putnam", "German–Polish declaration of non-aggression" and "Privacy concerns with Facebook" (from my list at [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Piotrus]). What happened is that I created redirects, but not the main articles. Then my redirects were deleted as the main article was moved in their spot. So the current tags deleted/recreated are both correct and not, and the listing is weird - since it shows a blue link to an article that nonetheless has no assessment. In particular, this is an error as it implies I am the creator of those articles (but I am not).

Looking at the top of the tool I see that it states that the results are supposed to "Redirects Exclude redirects" but clearly this fails when we are dealing with former redirects. This results in deleted redirects being listed, either duplicating my own creations or worse, adding entries for articles I DID NOT create.

So solution one would be to exclude them, per the exclude redirects assumption, solution two would be to label this more correctly. I think solution one is what we want here?

Please let me know if I clarified this better? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:52, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

@Piotrus Yes you clarified this better, thank you. However as far as I can tell this is still expected behaviour. The issue is we can't reliably tell if deleted pages were redirects. More info at mw:XTools/Pages Created#Common issues. The relevant bug is phab:T182183, but it probably can't be resolved until MediaWiki has a proper log of the creation of redirects (phab:T240065). We don't show an assessment because these entries refer to a deleted page (even though it has since been recreated) -- and similarly we can't tell what the assessment was of a deleted page. Does that make sense? I realize this isn't ideal; it's just an unfortunate caveat in MediaWiki. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:12, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining this. If it can't be solved reliably given existing infrastructure, oh well. My only idea is to adding a footnote somewhere that due to this bug the list can contain errors and overestimate the number of creations a bit. Speaking as a scholar who sometimes uses such tools to populate data in models, knowing about this error would be useful. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:23, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

@Piotrus It says at the top of the list "Deleted pages may have been redirects." I can add a "Learn more" link that points to mw:XTools/Pages Created#Common issues, if that helps. Note there's a (?) link at the top-right of every page which also goes to the documentation. In addition, I can change the Summary section to read "Redirects: Exclude redirects (does not apply to deleted pages)". Hopefully that will clear things up? — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:27, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

MusikAnimal, I think it would. Thanks! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:01, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

scriptManager

The "Enable scripts" group appears at the bottom of the entire page in responsive Monobook (select the Monobook skin if you haven't already and zoom in until the left toolbar disappears, or load a page with the skin on your phone. Note: the user preference for the responsive skin might not be set; it is selectable in the "appearance" section). It should be displayed in the "tools" section, i.e. the button on the very right of the second line. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:22, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Generating a notification just in case you missed my comment, since you have recently been replying to a section with the same title and by a user with a coincidentally relatively similar username. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:37, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Acknowledged. I'll try to look into this soon but I must admit I'm quite busy at the moment. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:06, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot bug

Any idea what the bot was doing here? (As a sidenote, the nominations page seems more active lately, so hopefully some of the changes we made a little while back are working.) {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:50, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Oh, it seems this wasn't just a one-off. Note [73]. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:23, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Definitely a bug of some sort. I'll try to look into this soon. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:06, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Savoriness Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Learned society • Trench Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

June 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

June 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday June 16 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Tech News: 2021-24

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

Recent changes

• Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [74]
• Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [75]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
• German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [76]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [77][78]

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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

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00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Alida Morberg Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Savoriness • Learned society Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-25

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

Recent changes

• The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [79]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [80]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

AFI nomination clerking

Hmm, it seems like MusikBot hasn't been marking nominations as approved/unapproved at WP:AFIN lately. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:23, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

@Sdkb The auto-unapprove has been disabled per our discussion at User talk:MusikBot/TAFIDaily/config#Further changes. As for auto-approval, WP:AFIN#Review process states there need to be at least three net approvals before the bot will consider it approved, though looking at the code I'm not sure it does that. I think it requires a human to add {{approved}} to the nomination. Do you recall the bot ever auto-approving? Skimming through the revision history, it seems a human always made the call.

Related, I have not forgotten about the issue you raised at User talk:MusikAnimal/Archive 43#MusikBot_bug. Looking into it more, my guess the issue was due to malformed nominations, which JJMC89 fixed with a series of edits a few days later. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:41, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Oh, oops; in the prior discussion, I probably should've specified "turn off time-based auto-unapprove entirely". Personally, I don't have an issue with it auto-approving or auto-declining nominations once they reach the three-vote thresholds (this goes against !vote a bit, but these are pretty simple discussions, so I'm fine with voting if it's more convenient). Based on what the bot seemed to be trying to do in the archive43 bug and the language in the rules (which I recently rewrote, but they said the same thing for a long time before), I think the bot at one point added approved/unapproved. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:57, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 June 2021

• News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more

• In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money

• Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release

• Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report

• Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way

• News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia

• Humour: Wikipedia's best articles on the world's strangest things

• WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview

• Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?

• Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed

• Obituary: SarahSV

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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2021)

A Finnish Christmas ham Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Christmas ham Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Alida Morberg • Savoriness Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Template correction - Anthony DiMaria

Many thanks for that. Didn't catch it. Cheers. - JJmq (talk) 14:29, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

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

Recent changes

• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [81]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [82]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [83][84]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [85][86]

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16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

... for what you said on User talk:SlimVirgin - missing pictured on my talk, with music full of hope and reformation --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:36, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Hugs ♥ — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:44, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

A message from LaceyUF

Hey, I sent you an email 20 minutes ago requesting an IP Block Exception but someone else (maybe it was you?) approved it already! I need no further help at this time, thank you! LaceyUF (talk) 05:16, 29 June 2021 (UTC) LaceyUF (talk) 05:16, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. Welcome back :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:45, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021

Good article nominations | July 2021 Backlog Drive
July 2021 Backlog Drive: This Thursday, July 1, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number, length, and age, of articles reviewed. Interested in taking part? You can sign up here.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes

Trialpears

AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who

Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes

AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Organized religion Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Christmas ham • Alida Morberg Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 July 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-27

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

• AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [87]

Problems

• InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [88]

Changes later this week

• The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [89][90]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [91]

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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello MusikAnimal:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2021)

Participant countries of the 2019 International Army Games.   Participants   First time participants   Previous games participants, but not this time Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: International Army Games Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Organized religion • Christmas ham Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 July 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

July 14: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

July 14, 7pm: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly online gathering (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. Instead of our usual "WikiWednesday" Salon, we'll focus on the WikiProject NYC monthly collaboration and this month's subject of Coney Island. And rather than Zoom, we'll meet on a proximity chat virtual Coney Island beach and share over topical articles and collaborations. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Wednesday July 14 Virtual Coney Island Meetup (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via WikiConey on Gather

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2021)

The Hittite version of the Treaty of Kadesh, among the earliest extant examples of an international agreement Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: International law Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: International Army Games • Organized religion Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 July 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-29

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

Recent changes

• The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [92][93]
• Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [94]

Changes later this week

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ResponseHelper.js: substitute Template:RFPP

Hi MusikAnimal, with huge thanks to Cyberpower678, the redesign of WP:RFPP is now live. {{RFPP}} is now substituted by default, and User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js needs to be updated to substitute it as well. The script already works very nicely on the subpages, as you had already defined for this moment. Thank you very much for this, and thank you very much in advance! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:31, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

 Done — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:01, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot II hiding vandalism

Hello.

This has happened twice recently on pages on my watchlist.

See edit history of Football helmet where an IP added this blatant vandalism and one minute later the bot removes the protection template. The vandalism remained live for over two days before I caught it, only because there happened to be another hit of vandalism.

See Nicole Aniston. The bot removes the template immediately after a string of IP edits that included unsourced changes, broken markup and unreliable external links.

It seems like it waits for an unregistered user to edit the page and uses that event as a trigger to remove the template. Is there some reason why the bot is performing this task at the worst possible moment, on known vandalism targets? Can it not remove protection templates as soon the protection expires?

It's not helping anyone if we have to remember to check behind all these bot's edits.

Thank you for your time and effort. --DB1729 (talk) 06:11, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

@DB1729 It runs on a 10-minute cycle, going by Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. I believe it may sometimes take an edit or purge to a page for the categorization to take effect once the protection expires, hence the subpar timing. So unfortunately there's nothing I can do on my end to improve this behaviour, at least not without rewriting the whole task to keep track of what pages were protected and make note of when they expire. Since on this wiki there are upwards of ~150,000 pages temporarily protected at any given time, that would be bit daunting. It's not impossible, just a lot of work that I'm afraid I don't have time for right now.

However, one simple solution is to hide bot edits from your watchlist. This is the very reason the bot edit flag exists – to remove unwanted noise from watchlists. I am surprised you're not bothered by this already, say from ClueBot NG reverts or the many bots making minor AWB edits. I'll also note that bot operators are able to explicitly not mark edits as bot edits if they feel they need human review. In other words, I think it's safe to assume you're not missing anything important by hiding bot edits. You could also try using the "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" preference, which will surface the edits made before the bot.

Hope this helps, and apologies for the inconvenience! — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:22, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful explanation. I feel a little silly now. Early on, I got into the habit of checking behind ClueBot, thinking that was just the nature of the beast. I guess it just never occurred to me an adjustment to my watchlist settings is the optimal solution. Still, that vandalism to Football helmet escaped everyone's attention, not just mine. So it is, in my opinion, a real concern, but probably not worth redesigning the wheel, given what you've stated above. Thanks again for everything! Have a great day! DB1729 (talk) 16:02, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Minor bot feature request: update obsolete HTML

In this edit, MusikBot inserted obsolete <tt>...</tt> tags that ended up being transcluded into template space. A group of editors has worked diligently to remove every obsolete tag from template space; if the bot could be updated to use {{mono}}, quote marks, or some other non-obsolete syntax, that would be helpful. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:16, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for flagging this!  Done with f054ea8a01. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:26, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Super, thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:38, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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User:MusikAnimal/scriptManager.js

I noticed the action=raw&ctype=text etc.
are moved to just after /index.php?. For example:
loading script: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Script.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
ScriptManager: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=Script.js
Is this necessary for scriptManager to work? ―Qwerfjkltalk 10:08, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl The order of the query string parameters doesn't matter, if that's what you're asking, but they must follow the ?. So the path we're working with here is en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php. Then we use a question mark to indicate the start of the query string. You could also use a path to the page title and then you don't need index.php or the title= parameter. For instance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script.js?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript. Any variation should work with scriptManager. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:37, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

FYI, I was trying to write a simple script for converting scripts to scriptManager: User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/script manager.js ―Qwerfjkltalk 15:58, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Mark Killilea Snr versus Jnr

Hey. It's been a minute since my last MusikBot II potential issue pointer. Thought this one might be of interest to you. Hope all is well. Kind regards, El_C 13:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

rollback rights

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• Hind ji (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}

I am requesting rollback rights after making significant efforts towards combatting vandalism, particularly with revolving IP addresses. Have been using Twinkle for some time now with good success. Hind ji (talk) 20:00, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Third time's a charm? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 20:41, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Organ (anatomy) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Episode • International law Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 August 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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Recent changes

• If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
• Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [95][96]

Changes later this week

• When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [97]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

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A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for making the wonderful AfC backlog chart! Enterprisey (talk!) 07:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

My pleasure. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:17, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot not archiving previous AFI entries, and more

Hi MusikAnimal: It appears that the bot is not archiving entries for AFI that have concluded. At Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule, the Organ (biology) article has been selected yet again. Take a look at Talk:Organ (biology) and uncollapse the "This article has been selected as Today's article for improvement multiple times" box, where you can see that the article has been an AFI six times already. It's very likely that something is wrong, so notifying you of this matter. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:39, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000 I think it's because the bot doesn't handle redirects properly. It's still trying to remove Organ (anatomy). I will try to fix that this week, but if I don't get it to I will at least manually remove the entry from Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Articles/List so that it doesn't get selected again. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:57, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I would remove the organ entry myself, but not sure where it is archived to, without having to research. I am trying to not spend my time maintaining the project at this time, as I have already done a lot for a long time, and want to involve myself in other matters. Seems like no matter how much I try, something comes up, although much lesser after the project renaming fiasco that broke all of the project's templates and other stuff. Your asistance is appreciated! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:22, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Help about facts on Yapperbot redirected

Hello @MusikAnimal:! I have seen your notice that Naypta may be inactive. In that case, I will probably get no reply at User talk:Naypta#Help about facts on Yapperbot. I am wondering if you can provide some input on that question, or refer it to another qualified editor. Thank you very much. Esem0 (talk) 07:42, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Esem0 That was my bot that notified Naypta. I'm sorry I do not know how Yapperbot works, but the source code is public so someone familiar with the Go programming language (not me) might be able to deduce how it works. You could also try emailing Naypta. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:06, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Act (drama) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Episode Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 9 August 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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Problems

• You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [98]

Changes later this week

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
• The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [99]
• Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [100]

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AWB

Looks like the bot isn't checking the right checkpage for clerking WP:PERM/AWB. Primefac (talk) 10:24, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Fixed! Sorry about that. I forgot the PermClerk task had some AWB-specific functionality. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:02, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Excellent. Don't know what this is all about, though I would hazard a guess it's from the full stop in the name. Primefac (talk) 12:05, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hmm that shouldn't still be happening... I'll investigate! — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:16, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/script manager.js

Hi, I made this script for converting common or skin .js pages to use scriptManager. Is it okay if I add it to the documentation? ―Qwerfjkltalk 18:03, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I think something like this is a nice idea, but I'm not a fan of relying on an external script hosted on Toolforge. Eventually this will break when CSP headers are enabled (phab:T135963). — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done It no longer relies on TemplateScript.―Qwerfjkltalk 21:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Pinging @MusikAnimal ― Qwerfjkltalk 11:06, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. I didn't get a chance to try your script but sure, go ahead and feel free to add a note to User:MusikAnimal/scriptManager. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:17, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Crème brûlée Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Act (drama) • Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 August 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Crème brûlée Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Act (drama) • Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:15, 16 August 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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Recent changes

• You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [101]

Problems

• There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [102][103][104]

Changes later this week

• A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [105]
• Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
• In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [106]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For massive protection against mass events. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:41, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Infobox language

Hi MusikAnimal. I was disappointed to see that you've applied template-editor protection to this template, on which I've worked in the past. Kanguole 16:43, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) {{Infobox language}} has over nine thousand transclusions, that is the proper protection settings. - FlightTime Phone (open channel) 16:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Kanguole Sorry :( 9,000 is a lot of transclusions. They are also fairly visible; Combined, pages that transclude this template see about 400,000 pageviews a day. I noticed you have a lot of experience editing templates. Have you considered applying for template editor rights? Reviewing the granting guidelines, it seems you check off most of those boxes. If not, I might be willing to use ECP on {{infobox language}}, but I'd rather avoid that as it's kind of a WP:IAR thing. See also the related discussion at WP:AN#TemplateProtector bot updated; Should we use ECP on templates?. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:44, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Kanguole, you are welcome to make changes to the template's sandbox and propose merging those changes on the template's talk page. If you think that you qualify for the template editor user right, you could also request it for yourself. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:36, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Template protections affecting SuggestBot

Hey MusikAnimal, thanks for doing the work with getting the various templates protected! I'm all in favor of having Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask protected too, but somehow SuggestBot's unable to edit it now. From my reading of Wikipedia:XC, the bot should implicitly be a member of the extended confirmed group since it's a bot. Special:UserRights/SuggestBot only lists it as an implicit member of the autoconfirmed user group, though. I'm not sure what's going on there, is that something you could easily fix? Nettrom (talk) 13:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nettrom I was quite sure the bot was extended confirmed too, not sure why it wasn't, but it is now :) Sorry about that. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:17, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nettrom: check your bot's grant to be sure it has "edit protected pages" added. Manually adding this group shouldn't be needed (and won't actually help if you are using the API and don't have the flag enabled on your grant). Bot accounts shouldn't be in the EC group unless they have to run without the bot flag, as the "bot" group includes the "extendedconfirmed" permission. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:18, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks, Xaosflux! The grant should be simple to update at Special:BotPasswords. If you're using OAuth, I think you need to create a new consumer. I believe if you register the consumer under the bot account, you won't need approval to make use of the grant, but if not I can swiftly approve it for you. Just ping me. Special:ListGroupRights#bot clearly shows bots already have the extendedconfirmed right, so I've gone ahead and revoked the user group from SuggestBot. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:41, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal and @Xaosflux: thank you so much for the help with figuring this out! It was the bot's grant that prevented this, the old grant doesn't have rights to edit protected pages. Created a new one and the bot can now successfully update the list of open tasks. Thanks again! Nettrom (talk) 21:56, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2021)

An employee and customer at a grocery store in The Netherlands, April 1, 1955 Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Grocery store Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Crème brûlée • Act (drama) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 August 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-34

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Recent changes

• The Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

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August 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

August 25, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday August 25 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

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20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Requesting statistics for a list of Wikiversity pages.

Thanks so much for providing the Pageviews Analysis tools. I use them often to assess the impact of the various Wikiversity resources I am creating.

I would greatly appreciate an extension to the existing Pageviews Analysis tools to allow a user to readily obtain statistics on a list of pages. For example, I would be interested to know some simple page usage statistics for each of the pages listed from this page: Affirmations_for_Specific_Goals or from this page: Wisdom/Curriculum Thanks! --Lbeaumont (talk) 15:59, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

@Lbeaumont There are many ways to do this using the Massviews Analysis tool. In your first example, it looks like all the linked pages are in Category:Affirmations so you can go by that using the "Category" option, i.e. [107]. There are several other options as well that might suit your needs; see the FAQ for more information. Hope this helps, — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:32, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks so much! This is very helpful. --Lbeaumont (talk) 20:50, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

A message from Razziabuissa

Hi, just wanted to say your user page is so cool! It's like a full-fledged MusikAnimal app :) Razziabuissa (talk) 15:54, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

A belated thank you! — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:31, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

AWB redux

We're up to 3 now. Doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to the "not in list" though, other than the non-alphanumerics. Primefac (talk) 20:03, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I believe it is fixed now. There was one last spot in the code I neglected to update. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:32, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Looks good, thanks! Primefac (talk) 23:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2021)

Mona Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011. Pictured is Sahlin in 2010. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Mona Sahlin Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Grocery store • Crème brûlée Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 30 August 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-35

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

Recent changes

• Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems

• Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [108]

Changes later this week

• The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [109]

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15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

New York Mets

Add the missing tag protection on the New York Mets article because it came back as indefinitely is not unprotected anymore. 174.197.139.208 (talk) 02:17, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done One of the cases where User:MusikBot II/FixPP failed to tag. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:53, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

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• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2021)

The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. Pictured is the oil on canvas painting Everything is in the past, painted by Vassily Maximov in 1889. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Past Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mona Sahlin • Grocery store Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 September 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-36

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

Recent changes

• The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [110]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [111][112]
• Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing.  The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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A message from Left-Eye-125

Hello, I've been working on a widget that enables a customized dark mode. I don't know java script too well so I figured I'd contact the author of the dark mode extension for some help. The problem I'm having is, I can't figure out how to add an html class, for later css customization, while also having a link that updates it's text depending on the theme. I can only get one or the other to work. And due to the wiki that I'm working on having a custom skin, it's css takes priority over the gadget, and doesn't allow a dark themed skin to be loaded in it's place. Here is the link to my personal js file for context, I don't know if this will require more than one page of js or what but I'm hoping you can help me out: https://mcdiscontinued.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Left-Eye/common.js

Sorry for any inconvenience. Left-Eye-125 (talk) 07:22, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2021)

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes. Pictured ia a dun horse from the Lascaux cave paintings. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: History of art Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Past • Mona Sahlin Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 September 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

R262 (New York City Subway car)

Add the missing tag protection on the R262 (New York City Subway car) article because it has been semi protectied for 3 months. 69.94.56.76 (talk) 01:37, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

 Done — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:15, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

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

Recent changes

• 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [113]
• A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [114]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
• Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [115]
• You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [116]
• The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [117][118]

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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello MusikAnimal,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Student exchange program Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: History of art • Past Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

LTA

Is there any particular reason why you Revision Deleted all of the edits by this LTA (and the second account they created immediately afterwards)? Was that vandalism really that grossly inappropriate? I mean, I've seen much worse than that. If you do want to keep all of those edits hidden though, you might also want to get rid of the user talk page of the second account, and my rollback edit summary of the second account that has the username in it. Finally, for some reason all of the filter log hits from both accounts have mysteriously disappeared, even though I thought that only oversighters could purge filter hits (and you aren't an OS as far as I can tell). Taking Out The Trash (talk) 15:25, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Taking Out The Trash: regarding the filter log hits, simply revdelling an edit (or even its summary) causes any associated filter hit(s) to disappear from "public" view. JavaHurricane 15:42, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Some of this happens with automation I use, but yes, overall I agree this isn't anything that bad. But it doesn't hurt to hide it, either, in this case under WP:RD3. As an additional friendly reminder, this specific LTA monitors my talk page and is likely reading this. — MusikAnimal ^talk 14:13, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

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

Recent changes

• Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
• MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [119]
• A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

• There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [120]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
• The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [121]

Future changes

• The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [122]
• The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

pageviews.toolforge.org

Hello!

I wonder if you can add some kind of filter in "Topviews" to show only "new" articles. "New articles" may mean articles created in the last week.

In deWP on Sep 17th an article was created for on of those people of Inspiration4 and this article had 874 visits on the creation day. This was enormous, but the next day we had even more: now 1366 visits. And on Sep. 19th gigantic 7316 visits with number 89 of the most visited pages in deWP. --Wurgl (talk) 13:05, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2021)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: No such thing as a stupid question Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Student exchange program • History of art Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 September 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-39

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

Recent changes

• iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

• Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [123]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
• The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [124]
• A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
• You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

• The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [125]

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Template:User WP/id

Hi, I've been away for a while due to personal reasons, but now that I'm back at work here I've noticed this change. I'm not a master in protection policies... can I still add projects to the list? I mean, am I still allowed to edit the template? Sorry for my confusion and thanks in advance --Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 01:33, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Est. 2021: yes, you can - it is only protected against newer editors making changes. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Thank you! --Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 01:56, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

September 29: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

September 29, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday September 29 WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes

Blablubbs

Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Mkdw

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
• Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
• The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2021)

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. Pictured is The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Geographer Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: No such thing as a stupid question • Student exchange program Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 4 October 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-40

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

Recent changes

• A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
• Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [126]
• A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

• You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [127]
• The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [128]
• The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [129]

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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Show values as default.

In the settings of the pageviews tool, I wish I could set the "show values" box as a default setting... that would be helpful. Just a suggestion. Thanks. --Bageense^(disc.) 19:18, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Acknowledged. I don't know when I will have time to work on this, but I have filed a Phabricator task at phab:T292461. You can follow it for updates. Thanks for the suggestion, — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:52, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

T288840

Hi, I noticed that you're working on phab:T288840: I can't understand whether if the WMF/Wikimedia Community is going to start working on those APIs or if Gesis will still own/mantain it, would you be so kind to clarify this to me?

Thank you! ValeJappo (talk) 16:23, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

@ValeJappo The plan is to bring in-house. We're not sure how we're going to do it, though, because the hardware needs are quite excessive for what Cloud Services can currently provide us with. We will be sure to keep that task updated, so feel free to follow it. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:34, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm reaching out to you because after writing Gesis an email ,they replied by telling me that "The limitations [on the number of available wikis] were due to the computational power as well as over research interest and further unknown usage scopes.". Do you believe that when it will be hosted by the WMF, if it will, would expanding it at least to the 18 editions of Wikipedia with 1000000+ articles be possible? ValeJappo (talk) 16:40, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

@ValeJappo That's certainly something we aim to do, but it all boils down to acquiring the hardware to support it. I suspect we might first need to find a more efficient way to store the data. Investigation is pending. At minimum though, we aim to keep the existing five languages up and running. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:46, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much!

Will I be updated by subscribing to this task or are there other ones I should consider subscribing to? ValeJappo (talk) 16:49, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

@ValeJappo phab:T288840 is the parent task and we'll be sure to keep it updated. Any associated tasks will be subtasks, so by following T288840 you should be automatically notified about those. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:57, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Bot Guide

hello i need your help with archiving, :) since you're operating a bot that archives Successful and unsuccessful Requests can you please help me in CKB wiki there is no bot to Archive Requests that'd been completed. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 19:56, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal also if Possible can you allow us to have your bot in our wiki? like bring your bot and activate it in there? —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 21:25, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad Right now the bot is fairly hardwired to enwiki's request for permissions process. If you have an identical process at ckbwiki, I may be able to help, but it's still a lot of work on my end as I'd need to make it translatable. I'm not sure I will have time for this is the near future, but I shall try :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:34, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

thank you for Caring about the request, it really made me happy , Please can you explain more about the hardships you will get?, if this is about translation we already had InterArchiveBot for that we did Translation ourselves. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 19:40, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad ckb:ویکیپیدیا:داواکردنی_مافەکان is the page, correct? I'm afraid MusikBot will not work there. It is specifically designed for the system we use at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions here on the English Wikipedia, which is very different than yours. You will need a more generic archiving bot to meet your needs. I'm sorry I don't have to time to work on it right now, but I imagine if you are able to find a willing bot operator, it wouldn't be too difficult for them implement it. Good luck and apologies I cannot help! — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:39, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal ckb:ویکیپیدیا:داواکردنی_مافەکان is the correct page, Don't worry still thank you for replying, i will try to find a bot operator on Wikipedia:Bot_requests, Thank you —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 20:04, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

"Your Mom" vandalism

I had posted this on EFN a while back, but it was archived without a response. Don't remember which specific filter it is, but I know there is a filter that is blocking various additions of "Your Mom" and related vandalism. I think whichever filter does this should be extended to account creations if possible, i.e. in order to prevent usernames like this from being registered (note that this account was my original case example). Taking Out The Trash (talk) 14:35, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

@Taking Out The Trash Sorry for the late reply. I do not have strong feelings about this, but seeing as it increases the scope I'd prefer to have a little more input before implementing the change. I would suggest re-raising at WP:EFN. The filter in question is Special:AbuseFilter/320. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:35, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

As I noted, I did previously raise the issue at EFN, but my thread was archived by the bot without a response. That's why I posted here when I saw another instance of this kind of username vandalism. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 20:27, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Sunday: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference NA, Oct 8-10)

Sunday October 10, 12-5pm: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference North America 2021, Oct 8-10)

WikiConference NA, October 8-10 Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a planned socially-distanced Wiknic ("the picnic anyone can edit") in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, being held at the historic Concert Grove Pavilion to coincide with WikiConference North America 2021, which will run virtually from Friday to Sunday. For this occasion, and to allow more space as desired, we have individually packed lunches provided by the chapter, and attendees are encouraged to RSVP at Eventbrite and give sandwich/entree orders. Sunday October 10 Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm at the Concert Grove Pavilion 40.65934°N 73.96414°W / 40.65934; -73.96414 (Prospect Park, Brooklyn) Concert Grove Pavilion

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New Pages Reviewer Request

Hello sir MusikAnimal, Sir I would like to be a new pages reviewer in Wikipedia. Could you please sir can I know am I ok to have that right, Sir I have done over 500 mainspace edits and been over 90 days,Superatp 01:07, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

@Superatp Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer is the appropriate forum to request this right. Please file a request there and it will be tended to in due time. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:19, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Sir is my edit experience enough to request sir?Superatp 02:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello Sir MusikAnimal, Sir I kindly requested my permission for New Pages Rewiewer. Sir could you please concern it Request Superatp 11:38, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Blocked twice

Hi Musik. You blocked a user on my IP address, causing me to be autoblocked. Another admin unblocked me, but my proxy is enforced by my administrator, and I can't request an IP block exemption because the term "unblock" is blocked by my administrator. Minkai (talk to me)_{(see where I screwed up)} 12:41, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

@JulieMinkai I'm afraid I will have to defer to my colleagues on this one. Please refer to WP:IPECPROXY for instructions on how to request IP block exemption. I'm not sure what you mean when you say your administrator blocked use of the term "unblock", but seeing as you were able to use it here, I assume you have ways around that. — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:01, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

I can't access any page with the word "unblock" in the URL. I can type the word and view pages that use it, so long as the URL doesn't contain the word "unblock." Minkai (talk to me)_{(see where I screwed up)} 14:28, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) That is a silly restriction, so you'll have to be silly to get around it. Try this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%55nblock_Ticket_Request_System in which I replaced the letter "U" with %55, its UTF-8 equivalent. If that works, for any URL that has "unblock" in it, replace "U" with %55 or "u" (lower case) with %75. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:28, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) and the actual unblock form is available here. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:39, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2021)

Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. Pictured is Cambodian sweet fish sauce mixed with chopped chili peppers and slices of garlic. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Fish sauce Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Geographer • No such thing as a stupid question Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 October 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-41

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

• The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings

• You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2021)

The Big Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Personality Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fish sauce • Geographer Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 October 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

RfA protection

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Eostrix just got semi-protected by MusikBot as high-risk (because of userpages transcluding {{RFX report}}, which transcludes all current RfAs). Absent a separate consensus that RfAs should be semi-protected, you should probably unprotect it and exclude the bot. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:22, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Not knowing if MA is currently around, I've done both. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 18:43, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Zzuuzz! Indeed I was away from the wiki. The bot was designed to be customizable by any admin and prevent unwanted protections like this. Zzuuzz's edit at Special:Diff/1050422821 should prevent it from happening moving forward. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 13:14, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

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Recent changes

• Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
• 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
• Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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Broken Infobox: University Rankings

Dear MusikAnimal,

Something seems to be wrong with the Infobox university rankings, which has recently been protected by MusikBot II (Sept 28): It now gives a number of blue lines at the end of the box; see, for instance, Heidelberg University or University of Munich. Can you maybe fix this (I don't know how to do it)? Greez, Cambridge51 (talk) 05:41, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:38, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2021)

The Portland Building (1982) in Portland, Oregon by architect Michael Graves is an example of Postmodern architecture. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Postmodernism Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Personality • Fish sauce Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 October 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Tech News: 2021-43

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Recent changes

• The Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

• Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [130]
• The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [131]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

MoreMenu

The links under the "tools" section of the "Page" bar don't seem to work, except for IA bot's "fix dead links" . ― Qwerfjkltalk 09:31, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed Thanks for letting me know! In the future, I may introduce a new system where the community can maintain the list of links themselves on-wiki, so that things like this can be fixed more easily. — MusikAnimal ^talk 06:07, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2021)

Isabel Adrian is a Swedish television personality, producer, author and model. Pictured is Adrian in 2013. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Isabel Adrian Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Postmodernism • Personality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes

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Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Tech News: 2021-44

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Recent changes

• There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [132]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2021)

Hang gliding is an example of an air sport. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Air sports Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Isabel Adrian • Postmodernism Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •