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Tech News: 2024-05
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1]
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [2][3]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [4]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targetsoption to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskinsoption instead. [5]
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Could the bot be set to update Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Report at 01:00 UTC, as it used to, instead of the current 11:08? It is then much easier to update backlog drive statistics. Many thanks, ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 04:50, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Question from Amezie83 (09:04, 31 January 2024)
Hello! Just saw I have a mentor, that's awesome! I got the suggestion to translate, did that with my first article. That's were my questions comes in: I noticed Wikipedia takes the sources from the original language, I can imagine not everybody understands Dutch, lol, would it be worthwhile to search for sources in English to add/exchange the current ones? --Amezie83 (talk) 09:04, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 January 2024
- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
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Yesterday was a friend's birthday, with related music. - I'm on vacation - see places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:54, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Change to the CheckUser team, January 2024
Following a request to the Committee, Wugapodes' CheckUser access has been removed. The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks Wugapodes for their service as a CheckUser and their continuing service as an Oversighter.
On behalf of the Committee, Sdrqaz (talk) 20:35, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for all the work at CheckUser team. ArbCom really appreciates your hard effort at the functionaries that will continue to grow as time flies by. -“Userbase3913” (talk) 01:56, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Question from Smileyreba on Wikipedia:Teahouse (02:48, 5 February 2024)
I am trying to get this to post to the Judge Judy show feedback Thanks to her show she has got me through a 2 year nightmare I could not of done this without all her wonderful wise advice and words. I have been battling a 2 year court with my ex and due to watching her show I knew what information I needed to keep and how to organize and present it I want her to know I named my new kitty Judy after her tell her she is an icon in my eyes --Smileyreba (talk) 02:48, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-06
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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
- On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [6][7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [8][9]
- Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [10]
Future changes
- 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [11][12]
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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer 
Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
voorts (submissions) and 
Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
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- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
Tech News: 2024-07
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [13][14][15] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [16][17]
Problems
- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [18][19]
- As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[20] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [21]
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Question from Turkanet01 (08:29, 28 January 2024)
Dear please help amend TURKEY as TÜRKİYE in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey as agreed on UN article on https://turkiye.un.org/en/184798-turkeys-name-changed-t%C3%BCrkiye --Turkanet01 (talk) 08:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Turkanet01, and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia uses the name most commonly used in English language sources. Most English language sources still refer to the country as Turkey despite the official name change which is why our article does the same. If more sources like the Associated Press or the Los Angeles Times start using the new spelling, then Wikipedia will eventually change the article name but not before. Let me know if you have other questions, and happy editing! — Wug·a·po·des 19:49, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- This is to be far from the official facts. Huge wikipedia must act within official decisions. Most Turkish people still waits Wikipedia's correction for this ugly homophony which makes our country's name discredited. 85.107.84.245 (talk) 18:37, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
- Please use our legal name: Türkiye Turkanet01 (talk) 18:40, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
I have to find a source for my article, but it keeps redirecting and I know its the only source I can get stuff about the article from
I have to find a source for my article, but it keeps redirecting and I know its the only source I can get stuff about the article from — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zackharris1 (talk • contribs) 01:10, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-08
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
- If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [22]
- There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
- Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
- The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [23]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [24][25]
- Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
- The CSS
filterproperty can now be used in HTMLstyleattributes in wikitext. [26]
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Question from Albussius on Indian (1996 film) (18:33, 20 February 2024)
Hey, under 'production' topic there is wrong statement "Another duet between Kamal Haasan and Sridevi" the wiki article mentions actress sridevi as the heroine but it was Manisha Koirala who was cast.She is correctly mentioned in the cast list. --Albussius (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-09
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
- The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [27]
- The mw.config value
wgGlobalGroupsnow only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [28]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [29][30]
Future changes
- The right to change edit tags (
changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Question from OpellaDFlush (15:10, 27 February 2024)
I'm attempting to create a page for musician who died quite recently: Alison Bentley, UK Jazz singer. Someone has already made a German page but this has several errors. --OpellaDFlush (talk) 15:10, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) Question also asked at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Can I write an article about a musician?. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 19:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews- Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
- AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
- Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
- MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
- Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to 
Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
Question from Acnh Player (17:57, 3 March 2024)
Hello, I am Acnh Player. What exactly is a constructive edit? --Acnh Player (talk) 17:57, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-10
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
- The
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [31] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
- Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
GadgetandGadget_definitionnamespaces andgadgets-definition-edituser right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [32] - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [33]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [34][35]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [36]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
?useparsoid=1to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
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The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Listen to music from Ukraine if you like, - I heard it in 2022, and the November concert (at a different church) raised a truckload of winter clothes. My story today is also from my life: I heard the singer in 3 of the 4 mentioned musical items. I sang in yesterday's. - Rinaldo (opera) premiered OTD, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:04, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
kindly look at Vivaldi --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:49, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-11
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [37][38]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [39]
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [40]
- Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [41]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [42][43]
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Question from Hbar663 (04:16, 15 March 2024)
Hi, I just published my first edit on the page for Marjorie Lees at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Lees and I made a note that I am adding a reference. It appears someone else immediately deleted my 1 sentence addition because it did not have a reference. Is this normal? --Hbar663 (talk) 04:16, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Hbar663 and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw your most recent edit has a reference which supports the text, so thank you for your contribution! In general, we have very high standards for articles about people because of the harm incorrect information can cause, so many editors prefer to revert any addition of information that doesn't have a reference. You did the right thing though: you made another edit which fixed the problem the other editor had. It happens pretty often and it doesn't mean you've done something wrong. Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago on an article I was writing, and just like you did, I made another edit to address the original concern. It's how collaboration tends to work around here, and you seem to have a knack for it already! I look forward to more contributions, and let me know if you have other questions. — Wug·a·po·des 19:49, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from K-bots224 (08:23, 9 March 2024)
Hi! Can u tell me how to report IP addresses. A person is continuously making wrong edits on a cricketer --K-bots224 (talk) 08:23, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Editor experience invitation
Hi Wugapodes :) I'm surprised I haven't asked you this before (I've checked three times) but... are you interested in pitching in at User:Clovermoss/Editor reflections? If you're not, feel free to pass. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:12, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Clovermoss, nice to hear from you! I'd seen the page early on in the initiative and thought it was cool, but it's grown a lot since then (an understatement). My first thought just now was "wow, this is a really cool data set", so I'm a bit research-brained at the moment if you can't tell. I do want to contribute, but I need some time to reflect on the answers. They're good questions, so I'd rather give them a good response rather than whatever ticks the box. — Wug·a·po·des 20:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- That's fine, feel free to take your time. I plan on keeping it open pretty much indefinitely so there's no deadline or anything to worry about. People are also welcome to edit their answers after the fact. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:30, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-12
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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [44]
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [45]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [46][47][48]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [49]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [50]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [51][52]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [53][54]
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Happy First Edit Day!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Wugapodes! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:33, 20 March 2024 (UTC) |  |
- Congrats on 9 years of editing! Thank you for all the contributions you've made to the encyclopedia and this community. --ARoseWolf 13:53, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Hermann Collitz
On 21 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hermann Collitz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Woodrow Wilson, Hermann Collitz, and Carey Thomas all taught at Bryn Mawr College before becoming presidents? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hermann Collitz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hermann Collitz), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Question from JoshuaKennethGray (17:48, 22 March 2024)
Thanks so much for reaching out! I am wondering how do I create a page for myself. I am starting to get more recognition in business and want to have a page for people to get basic information on me --JoshuaKennethGray (talk) 17:48, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi JoshuaKennethGray you should not create a page for yourself or your business because it goes against our conflict of interest policy. There are a lot of website builders that would be a more effective way to communicate with potential clients than Wikipedia (I've seen a lot of ads for squarespace recently, but if you search the web you'll probably find others that might fit your needs better). Wikipedia articles aren't controlled by any particular person, so even if an article were created for you, there's no guarantee that it will represent you in the way you would want. — Wug·a·po·des 20:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-13
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
- An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [55][56]
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