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Tech News: 2022-36

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

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [1][2]

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23:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Request on 02:12:22, 8 September 2022 for assistance on AfC submission by Marciaheisler

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Hi Rich,

I and the group that I'm working with are new to contributing to Wikipedia, so are muddling through the process a bit. The first article that we drafted and submitted to Wikipedia was not accepted because it was not in an encyclopedic tone of voice. So as to not entirely lose the work we'd put into it, we posted it on our http://GNAG.org/rta/ website. Then we set to work on trying to get the right tone for Wikipedia, which is the document that you reviewed and deleted for the "unambiguous copyright infringement" issue. So as to remove any potential copyright issues, we have removed the document from GNAG.org, as well as updating the document we wish to submit to Wikipedia so that it no longer references that article on the GNAG site. Will this be sufficient in order for us to resubmit our article? If not, please advise other actions we should take.

Kind regards, Marcia Heisler

Marciaheisler (talk) 02:12, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

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• The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [3]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [4]

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! Thanks for letting me know that YouTube and SetList aren't reliable. I thought they were (if it's a notable channel). Obscureonion5 (talk) 14:23, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Konrad Haase mishap

Hi Rich, sorry for being completely incommunicative about that draft (which has now been moved to mainspace). I haven't had the time or motivation to focus on it for a while, although I have read through about eight sources and I still intend to improve it. I didn't approve the draft due to verification issues (specifically about the section on the Dresden police), which still haven't been resolved. However, I'm very hesitant to outright delete content that is probably true but unsupported by the cited source. I still hope to improve the article at some point and I apologize again for the less-than-stellar reviewing decisions. Best, Toadspike (talk) 02:42, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

@Toadspike it's all good, just be careful about leaving stuff on reviewing, the backlog is big enough as it is :) - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 08:34, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Article for Same Brain Podcast

I just want you to delete this article anyway because I feel like it's useless. ChimaTronX (talk) 19:49, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

@Chimatronx: This request needs to go on the AfD discussion. I am not an administrator and cannot delete articles - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 19:56, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Yeah. With two draft rejections, I straight on moved it to the article section. ChimaTronX (talk) 20:24, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

P.S. I didn't mean to request deletion. ChimaTronX (talk) 20:40, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Facepalm 'I just want you to delete this article anyway' - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 20:41, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

What's with the facepalm? ChimaTronX (talk) 22:04, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

You literally said 'I just want you to delete this article anyway', then to say 'I didn't mean to request deletion' - That's the reason for the Facepalm - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 11:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay. ChimaTronX (talk) 02:25, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD. ChimaTronX (talk) 02:26, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

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