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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Eejit43,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Tech News: 2024-17

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

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [2][3]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Bad move

You chose a bad move target for Tiden (newspaper, Arendal) because Tiden (newspaper) is also a Norwegian newspaper. Geschichte (talk) 04:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Whoops, thank you! I have no clue how I missed that. I'll fix that later, and likely make a disambiguation. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 11:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Done! Tiden (Arendal newspaper) is the new location, and the other newspaper has been moved to Tiden (Christiania newspaper). Tiden (newspaper) is now a redirect to the Tiden disambiguation page. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 13:30, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Query regarding redirect-helper warning

Hi Eejit43 - and thanks for building redirect-helper :)

I just had a query regarding a warning it gave me -- I was trying to create a redirect from Ffransis (given name) to Ffransis with the rcat {{R from unnecessary disambiguation}} (before I realised that Ffransis G. Payne would be a better target, as the rest of the people listed at Ffransis had it as a surname), and redirect-helper warned me that [t]his page is a redirect to a surname list, but it is not tagged with a correct disambiguation categorization template. I was slightly confused by this - it might be that I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what redirect template the script wanted me to use here!

All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 09:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Ah, now I'm wondering if redirect-helper wanted me to use {{R from incomplete disambiguation}} -- I suppose whether the disambiguation is unnecessary or incomplete depends on whether or not a name list is thought of as more of a stand-alone list or as a tool for disambiguation. ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 10:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

redirect-helper considers valid surname list templates to be {{R from ambiguous sort name}} and {{R from ambiguous term}}. I hadn't thought of {{R from unnecessary disambiguation}} when creating that check.

However, I think using both "R from ambiguous term" and "R from unnecessary disambiguation" would make sense, as the latter doesn't imply that the target is a disambiguation page (or in this case, a surname list).

Does that sound right to you? Thanks! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 11:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

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afcrc-helper feauture request

Hi again - I was just wondering if it might be possible to add the feature to afcrc-helper to be able to accept/decline some requests in a section, and leave the others for another reviewer to respond to? The use case for this in my mind is in case a reviewer feels confident responding to some requests in a section, but perhaps isn't personally sure about accepting or declining the others - which another reviewer might feel more happy to do. (I just attempted to do this myself at WP:AFC/R, but afcrc-helper didn't like that I hadn't selected a response for all the requests made in a given section.)

(I promise I'm still planning on replying in the section I started above about redirect-helper, btw - I'm just very disorganised :P)

All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 12:56, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello!

This is actually something I had considered for a while. However, the implementation of this would be quite difficult, especially considering the script would need to account for actions other scripts take too. Parsing those sections could just lead to too many issues I think. At some point this might be something I look more into, but for the lack of usage I'm not sure it is necessarily worth it.

Probably best just to leave requests open if you are unsure about part of it. Sorry!! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 13:16, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

No problem - that makes sense. Since leaving this message, the potential complexity of implementing this started coming to my mind as well - so I can’t say I blame you for leaving it :) All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 14:07, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [5]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [6]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [7]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [8]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [9]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [10]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [11]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [12]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [13]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [15][16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Courtesy notice of RM

Hi Eejit43 — I noticed that {{R from gender}} is listed in redirect-helper.json, so I just wanted to drop you a courtesy note that I’ve proposed that the template is moved to {{R from gendered term}}: Template talk:R from gender § Requested move 1 May 2024. All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 09:52, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!! I'll monitor the RM and update the script if the template is moved. :D ~ Eejit43 (talk) 12:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Elvis at The Scope

Here is the information on when Elvis played The scope.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28w9DeY5RjE Charliehd29 (talk) 17:47, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! However, YouTube is not a reliable source, see WP:RSPYT. If you do find a reliable source, feel free to add it to the article. However, I would instead say something like The venue has featured artists such as Elvis Presley.... ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [17][18]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [19]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [20]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [21][22]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [23]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [24]

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Tech News: 2024-20

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

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [25]
• If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [26]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [27]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [28]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [29][30]
• The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [31]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [32]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [33][34]

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Possible bug with the RM/TR helper

Hi, just wanted to let you know, I tried to use the helper to handle a move in this revision of the helpdesk, but it threw an error, stating that the draft title for Luke Charlesworth is invalid. It might just be to do with my extensions, but I figured I'd let you know. ASUKITE 15:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Also, if you want to reproduce the bug, feel free to undo this revision where I removed the link. ASUKITE 15:15, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this later, thank you! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Presumably the issue is that the first title was a wikilink rather than just the text of the title (diff). SilverLocust 💬 22:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I've implemented handling for that edge case now. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 00:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21

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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [35]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [36][37]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [38][39]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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