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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
Technical news
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Tech News: 2022-32
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [1]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future meetings
- The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!
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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-33
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [2][3][4]
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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
Question from Professor-Andrews (05:31, 22 August 2022)
I'm looking for the donation option. I've used Wikipedia for years and finally joined it recently. --Professor-Andrews (talk) 05:31, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Professor-Andrews! If you want to donate you can do that at donate
.wikimedia .org or in the sidebar where there's a donate option. --Trialpears (talk) 12:19, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-34
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [5][6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [7]
Future changes
- The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [8]
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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Question from Professor-Andrews (17:35, 23 August 2022)
Hi, I got a notification for Request for Admin for a page. I'm interested in becoming more involved with wikipedia articles concerning some of the indigenous communities. I've been making correct edits to Kizh, Tongva and Toypurina. I've been backing up all my edits with sources while removing disinformation and opinion pieces on their culture. --Professor-Andrews (talk) 17:35, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
PearBOT: Updating template caches (for portals) failure
PearBOT's task "Updating template caches (for portals)" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 3 days, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 07:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-35
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
- The Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.
Problems
- In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 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 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
Technical news
- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
- The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
- Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
Question from Nickgmitter (03:00, 3 September 2022)
hello! Glad to see I have a mentor. Nice to meet you. I am nick.
I have a friend who is credited on Post Malone's page's but doesn't have a page. I wrote one up and formatted and had references but I cannot find it anywhere on here in my profile. --Nickgmitter (talk) 03:00, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
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.
Changes later this week
- 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-namespacesshould be updated to use themw.util.addPortletLinkfunction instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting#p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [10][11]
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23:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
The name "Turkey"
Hi! You changed the name "Turkey" to the native Turkish spelling in an article. While it may be the new Turkish-government-endorsed name of Turkey in the English language, it is not the one we use here in the English-language Wikipedia: please see WP:COMMONNAME for the relevant policy. I've fixed your edit; could you please update your table-generation code so that it follows the English Wikipedia convention for this? — The Anome (talk) 10:35, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hey @The Anome! Long time no see! Definitely not intentional, the issue arises from the UN always using the official names (Côte d'Ivoire, Russian Federation, Brunei Darussalam etc) so a good 10% or so needs to be changed manually when importing the data from the new report. Just missed Turkey apparently.
- I didn't know we had an edit filter for this though! If this is successful I feel it may be useful to expand to more country names since there are a lot of them with variants that usually shouldn't be used. --Trialpears (talk) 10:56, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! We probably need a mapping table of official name -> COMMONNAME. Since enwiki country articles use the WP:COMMONNAME, by policy, maybe this mapping could be pulled from Wikidata with a SPARQL query. — The Anome (talk) 11:24, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- I think the following from the HDI article is reasonably comprehensive when talking about only official short names. If we start talking about long names we will get a large majority of countries even if noone uses the long names like Kingdom of Sweden.
- Hong Kong SAR -> Hong Kong (I've seen many variations here and not as official because China)
- Macau SAR -> Macau (same here)
- Republic of China -> Taiwan (also "Chinese Taipei" and the debated status)
- Republic of Korea -> South Korea
- Türkiye -> Turkey
- Brunei Darussalam -> Brunei
- Russian Federation -> Russia
- Islamic Republic of Iran -> Iran
- Republic of Moldova -> Moldova
- State of Palestine -> Palestine
- Viet Nam -> Vietnam
- Plurinational State of Bolivia -> Bolivia
- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela -> Venezuela
- Cabo Verde -> Cape Verde
- Federated States of Micronesia -> Micronesia
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic -> Laos
- Timor-Leste -> East Timor
- Kingdom of Eswatini -> Eswatini (This name change somehow seems to have went smoothly maybe because it's a less well known country)
- Syrian Arab Republic -> Syria
- Côte d’Ivoire -> Ivory Coast
- United Republic of Tanzania -> Tanzania
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea -> North Korea.
- Also gotta mention Congo. Apparently the official short name of Republic of the Congo is simply Congo which will never create confusion while the Democratic Republic of the Congo doesn't have a short name.
- This page seems to be essentially complete with both short and long names (essentially because it looks slightly outdated with Swaziland and no mention of Czechia). www
.un .int /protocol /sites /www .un .int /files /Protocol%20and%20Liaison%20Service /officialnamesofcountries .pdf. --Trialpears (talk) 11:59, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- I think the following from the HDI article is reasonably comprehensive when talking about only official short names. If we start talking about long names we will get a large majority of countries even if noone uses the long names like Kingdom of Sweden.
- Hi! We probably need a mapping table of official name -> COMMONNAME. Since enwiki country articles use the WP:COMMONNAME, by policy, maybe this mapping could be pulled from Wikidata with a SPARQL query. — The Anome (talk) 11:24, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
Question from Professor-Andrews (23:21, 9 September 2022)
Hi, I'm trying to reset my password but it won't send it to my email. I've checked my spam folder and it's not there. Thanks. --Professor-Andrews (talk) 23:21, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- A bit difficult to help you there, but my best guess would be that you've misspelled the email you gave. You can see and change it in the preferences. --Trialpears (talk) 00:28, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Professor-Andrews And a ping. --Trialpears (talk) 00:29, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-37
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
- The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [12]
Changes later this week
- 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. [13]
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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-38
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
- Two database fields in the
templatelinkstable are now being dropped:tl_namespaceandtl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field calledtl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [14][15]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
- In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [16][17]
Future changes
- In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.
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Growth team newsletter #22
Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!
Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available
As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.
- About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
- Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.
We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.
If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.
Ongoing projects and explorations
We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.
We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.
Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).
Experiments analysis
Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:
- Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
- They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
- The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).
Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.
- Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
- Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.
News for mentors
A new system for the mentors list
The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.
At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.
The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [18][19]
Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.
Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.
A tip for mentors
Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.
And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.
Other improvements
Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:
- While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [20]
- Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [21]
- Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [22]
Recent changes and fixed bugs
- We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [23]
- Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. [24]
- Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [25]
- In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [26]
Have a question? A suggestion?
Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.
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17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
PearBOT: Updating template caches (for portals) failure
PearBOT's task "Updating template caches (for portals)" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 3 days, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 07:20, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-39
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
- Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the
relattribute of links. Further details are in T315209.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
- Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [27]
- Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [28] [29]
- In the Module namespace, pages ending with
.jsonwill be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [30]
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
Technical news
- The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
Miscellaneous
- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.
Tech News: 2022-40
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
- Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [31] [32]
- The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
- Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [33] [34]
- The
scribunto-consoleAPI module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5] - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.
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Question from Tumelo tona on Talk:Guardian angel (06:57, 7 October 2022)
Hello Born In 1994 October 28 Friday I celebrate 28 years On 2022 October 28 Friday I want explanation Tumelo Tona
For me by Tumelo Tona me --Tumelo tona (talk) 06:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-41
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
- On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [35][36]
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14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Trouble with pages being drastically modified
Hello,
There seem to be some problems on the List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita and List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita pages. A user called Groverlynn wishes to drastically alter the format of these articles & refuses to have the latest IMF data, for this year, shown -- insisting it is wrong & only previous years should be used instead... other users have objected to these unilateral decisions, but to no avail. Perhaps someone can intervene?
Thank you! Dhyana b (talk) 23:01, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-42
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [37]
- A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
- Lua module authors can use
mw.loadJsonData()to load data from JSON pages. [38] - Lua module authors can enable
require( "strict" )to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [39]
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [40]
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Tech News: 2022-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
- On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.
Problems
- Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [41]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (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 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [42]
- Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [43][44][45]
- Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.
Future changes
- The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [46]
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PearBOT: Updating template caches (for portals) failure
PearBOT's task "Updating template caches (for portals)" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 3 days, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 07:20, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
Question from The Eighth Dimensions (09:49, 29 October 2022)
hello i am interested in speaking about potentailly offering my time to assist with anything cause i would like to get to know some people online and also show some of my skills all self taught and learned free on the internet. --kellyiskey The Eighth Dimensions (talk) 09:49, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @The Eighth Dimensions! I'm happy to hear you want to start editing Wikipedia! There are lots of ways to help out but I would recommend starting out by choosing a subject you're interested in and improve articles about it. As a Swede I found subjects related to my country a great starting point. Some problems you can fix are mentioned in maintenance banners on top of the article or in [citation needed] tags in the text. If you see such message there's usually a link to some instructions. You may also find that something is missing from an article in which case you can look for sources that talk about it and add information based on the sources. If you want to do this or fix [citation needed] tags I would recommend reading our introduction to referencing.
- I also want to say congrats on learning English! It's not easy and I hope you can learn a lot from helping out here. One piece of feedback though: Anything you write in articles should use punctuation marks (mainly .) and capitalization at the start of sentences (A instead of a). It's very possible that you get some comments about your English and if so you should listen to it.
- If you have more questions I'm happy to help out and I suspect that I've been in a similar situation to you with regards to improving my English online even though it was quite some time ago. --Trialpears (talk) 23:40, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
Question from Seth Moorhead (14:11, 29 October 2022)
Hello. I would like to provide you with a new definition of GRAVITY. The current definition should be updated. it is not an attraction of bodies but seems to be. It is the pressure generated by all the rays emitted by all the stars. --Seth Moorhead (talk) 14:11, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hey @Seth Moorhead. I'm not really sure if you're serious or not. In case your not I would recommend leaving Wikipedia, we're not known for being fun to troll and have better stuff to do.
- In case you are serious I can say that your definition isn't the generally accepted explanation. You may have found someone that says something like you claim, but to add new information to Wikipedia you need a reliable source for it and I suspect you do not. As a physics student I feel like I have to add that your definition very much rhymes with some actual well established science such as the pressure generated by gravity is the same as the pressure generated by the light emitted by a star inside of said star and that you can describe stars curving spacetime as them exerting a pressure on said spacetime. --Trialpears (talk) 23:48, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [47]
- In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [48]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
- The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [49]
- It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [50]
- It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [51]
- It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [52]
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
- AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
- Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like
{{rangeblock|create=yes}}or{{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.
Question from Suhail Muhammed k (06:54, 2 November 2022)
hi , how create an article ? --Suhail Muhammed k (talk) 06:54, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Question from 3d.nftart (18:42, 25 October 2022)
Hi @Trialpears
I hope you are good!
A discussion has been created about my article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Karl_Lagasse
I have been working on some points to argue into the discussion the notability of the contemporary artist: Karl Lagasse.
The problem now is that someone has deleted the article and I didn't have the chance to answer the comments on the discussion page.
I would appreciate it if you can provide more information on how to recover the article or if I can still argue my points in order to recover it.
Looking forward to hearing from you, 3d.nftart --3d.nftart (talk) 18:42, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @3d.nftart! I'm sorry that you couldn't make your arguments heard. I can't do much personally, except give you the contents of the page if you want, but you could always hear with the closing admin Premeditated Chaos on her talk page. If she thinks reopening the discussion is warranted she can do that. --Trialpears (talk) 16:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
- I don't. I think the previous discussion was thorough and conclusive. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:38, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Premeditated Chaos
- I am trying to do my best and I would like to ask you the favor of opening again the discussion since I have been preparing some points to argue into it the notability of the artist: Karl Lagasse
- I did not notice when the problem started on Wikipedia, I am not here 24/7 and when I realized the problem I started working on the points to argue, the problem was when I was ready to answer the discussion, it had been already closed and the article eliminated.
- I am trying to improve all the feedback that I received in the article and I would like to have the opportunity to present my points.
- Can you give me some advice on how to resolve this issue in a constructive matter instead of saying nothing can be done?
- If it helps I can share with you additional information and discussion points so you can review them.
- Looking forward from you answer, @3d.nftart 3d.nftart (talk) 18:36, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
- I will not be reopening the discussion. It was extremely thorough and remained open for three weeks, which is more than enough time for a community consensus to form. In particular, the detailed source analysis (at the AfD, click the little "show" button that's under the bold text "Source assessment table" to see it) showed that none of the extant coverage was suitable for supporting a claim to notability, for various reasons.
- You're free to work on a draft of the page in draftspace at Draft:Karl Lagasse if you think you have other sources that support a claim to notability. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:17, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
- I don't. I think the previous discussion was thorough and conclusive. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:38, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-45
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [53]
Problems
- Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Question from Amendialoss (07:10, 10 November 2022)
hi! --Amendialoss (talk) 07:10, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia! If you have any questions I'm happy to help! --Trialpears (talk) 14:42, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Question from Kierkegaardreader (20:41, 10 November 2022)
Hello. I am Dr Michael Carper. I have a very serious and important question for you. --Kierkegaardreader (talk) 20:41, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Kierkegaardreader Go right ahead! If this is related to your Stephen C. Meyer edits edits I doubt I could help you even if I wanted to. There's been several thousands of words of discussion about it at Talk:Stephen C. Meyer and I doubt you will get consensus to change it. --Trialpears (talk) 23:16, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-46
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [54]
- The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [55]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
- There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [56]
Future changes
- Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [57]
- Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.
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Question from Syedafatimabatool (22:17, 18 November 2022)
How to make message blue and click able --Syedafatimabatool (talk) 22:18, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Question from Rahul dharmada kannur (07:57, 20 November 2022)
My name is Rahul IAM from kannur Kerala IAM a YouTuber also actor also model my likes to do anything in youtube --Rahul dharmada kannur (talk) 07:57, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-47
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
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Category:Singlechart usages for Romandy has been nominated for renaming
Category:Singlechart usages for Romandy has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Steel1943 (talk) 22:40, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-48
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [58]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (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 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [59][60][61]
- On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [62]
Future changes
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [63]
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