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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes

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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

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• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Throast

You deleted this investigation request. Please tell me why you feel it doesn't warrant a response? I did this research in good faith, and you didn't bother to look at the editor overlap on all these relevant pages. It has taken me many many hours and my finding would prove that there is some Sock/Meat puppetry and WP:NPOV issues. Please check these overlaps in edits and this and also Heavy interactions between Throast and Popoki35. Chessterb (talk) 23:12, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I'm another SPI clerk and I was about to tag the page for deletion before GeneralNotability beat me to it. Your filing was a ludicrous pile of unsupported accusations that accused numerous long-term editors of sockpuppetry with no valid evidence. You did not create it "in good faith" - you created it because someone paid you to do so. You are lucky that you weren't blocked for this. Spicy (talk) 23:20, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

It's impossible that either of you read my complete complaint and checked my provided evidence in such a short time. It was deleted within 5 minutes. I realize that some of the mentioned users were long time editors and maybe I should not have included them (so that was my bad). The main issues that I found were with 3 editors, but because of incident in the TALK page where everyone of of these editors supported each other in removing Ryan's title from being a "PRODUCER" which cannot be disputed based on various citations and the movie credits themselves, my conclusion was that these editors must be fans of the Youtube channel H3H3Productions, where Ethan Klein posted a 33 minute video talking about Ryan's Wiki page. It was viewed by 38,000+ people. so chances are some of his fans were Wiki editors and came to the page after to make negative edits. I simply included all the editors involved so you guys could make that decision as to who could be involved.

Why was this request deleted immediately without any consideration rather than replied to and closed? maybe a few admins could have commented and then declined it. I made some very valid arguments and provided evidence per Wiki policies. There were some obvious violations, specifically with WP:NPOV and also potentially at least 1-2 UPE's or socks involved. Chessterb (talk) 01:13, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Chessterb, Spicy summarized my thoughts on it well. No, I did not read every diff you provided, but I've seen plenty of filings like this one. The connections you drew between the accounts were tenuous at best ("both used the word 'lyfe'"? "both used words like 'unsourced' and 'paraphrased' in their edit summaries"? If you actually think those are distinguishing features, then your employer should ask for their money back!). Bluntly, it looks like you were throwing accusations at a bunch of people who don't like the guy paying you, hoping that some of them stick (yes, that isn't assuming good faith...but you quite clearly disclosed that you were being paid to do this investigation, and I have a hard time imagining that they were paying you to be fair and evenhanded). You are using SPI as a weapon to further your employer's interests, and I will not tolerate that, nor will I look through your wide range of poorly-supported accusations in hopes that maybe something is actionable. In closing, I would like to direct your attention to something you just said: so chances are some of his fans were Wiki editors and came to the page after to make negative edits. That is entirely possible, and that is neither sockpuppetry nor meatpuppetry. Multiple fans (or detractors) making independent edits to a topic of interest does not make them sockpuppets/meatpuppets. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:30, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

So there is an obvious bias against paid editors. It seems that they are not taken seriously even if they have a valid claim! Even tough I got paid, all my research and findings were based on Wikipedia policies, but you didn't even bother to check. Regarding the sockpuppets /meatpuppets you may have a point with some of these users, but there was an obvious interaction with at least with 2 editors and the common edits they have done. Check this.

Is that just a coincidence that they both edited 22 pages in common usually within minutes or days of each other?

They both edited List of Relativity Media films, Relativity Media and Triller (app) which are Ryan Kavanaugh's company pages. H3h3Productions by both and is possibly their employer.

Also check the common edits by Pabsoluterince. Him and Throast both edited Hila Klein's page (She is wife of Ethan Klein and H3H3 owner) and many more.

Can you please open investigation only on these 4 particular users, since there is compelling evidence? Chessterb (talk) 03:10, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Why also there are edits to Andrew Tate's page by 2 of these editors when Ethan Klein reveals Andrew Tate sent him a cease and desist letter Coincidence again or were they paid by Ethan to make edits. There is enough here for an investigation. Chessterb (talk) 03:15, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

If there are multiple people interested in a topic, then no, it's not coincidence, it's people sharing an interest. That's still not sockpuppetry. And "editing within minutes or days of each other" isn't proof of anything; the Editor Interaction Analyzer is giving you the smallest gap between edits of one editor and of another, so it's certainly plausible that at some point two people edited very close to one another (particularly if there was some news story or other that they were editing about). And to top it off, Luna Bars 4 Lyfe hasn't edited in a decade. You had your chance to present a case based on "compelling evidence," but you've shown me nothing of the sort, just a few editors who don't like Kavanaugh. I will not be wasting any further time on this misguided effort of yours. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:24, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-06

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

• In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
• Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [2]
• Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [3]
• Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

• Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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Wikidata weekly summary #558

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BiodiversityBot 3 Task/s: TreatmentBank (Q54857867) is a CC0 resource that contains data on taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, figures, tables, material citations and bibliographic reference. It contains valuables links mapping scholarly articles, taxa and taxonomic treatments. This bot task involves linking research papers on taxa to taxa and related taxonomic treatments.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot 4 Task/s: Add Springer Nature person ID and Springer Nature article ID by moving from exact match property.
    • Cmtqwikibot Task/s: Adds country of origin (P495) Canada (Q16), with qualifier located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Quebec (Q176) and reference stated in (P248) CineTV (Q41001657) to works in Quebec.
    • SakuraBot Task/s: interwiki maintenance
    • JhsBot 7 Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 7, 2023: We thought we'd try something different next week, in honor of Valentine's Day month: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
    • Wiki for Refugees Editathons on the 4th and 11th of February 2023 (Wikimedia Uganda)
    • Black History Month 2023: University of Toronto (February 8th)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #79, Archaeology (see previous challenges: Random concepts #2, Spices)
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live Sessions (2023.01.26)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Diff blog: Summary of the results of a recent survey on Wikimedia content partnerships tools by WMSE. The detailed report is available on meta.wikimedia.org and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons.
    • A Game of Data
    • 'wikishootme' Is Like a Real World Version of Pokémon Go
    • Turn the AC on, by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Unsupervised Entity Linking with Guided Summarization and Multiple-Choice Selection (Uses GPT-3 and Wikidata)
    • Visibility Matters: Giving Credit Where It's Due in Natural History Collections, Siobhan Leachman, The Linnean, December 2022
    • Falcon 2.0: An Entity and Relation Linking Tool over Wikidata
    • The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers
    • From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
  • Videos
    • Wikimentor Africa - Creating a website based on Wikidata, without development skills day two (in French) - Part1, Part 2
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, FOSDEM 2023 - YouTube
    • Etymology and Wikidata on OpenStreetMap -YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing: #103, #104
    • Working with ISBNs (in Italian) - 3 part YouTube playlist
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Managing Wikimedia Projects through Wikidata: Geert Van Pamel- Wikimedia Belgium - YouTube
    • SEMIC Talks: Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach - YouTube
  • observablehq
    • Garden Phylogeny - NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca
  • other
    • One way to design a system to be a good external identifier in Wikidata by Salgo60

• Tool of the week
  • Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
  • User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
  • Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023, open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023.
  • Maintenance on ElasticSearch. As part of this, some Wikibase.Cloud functionality might be disrupted.
  • Reminder that the deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata is approaching (but extended)! Get your journal papers ready for the 14.02.23
  • Wikidata surpassed 1 million Lexemes with the addition of etymologi (L1000000)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Happy Planet Index score (The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), digital equivalent of (the subject is the digital equivalent of what?)
    • External identifiers: Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Roblox experience ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), RISM siglum, N-Anime anime ID, N-Anime seiyū ID, Livres Hebdo author ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID, Artlog institution ID, Barcelona City Council Heritage Catalog identifier, TikTok place ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, AllMovie genre ID, authors.gr ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature), footnote (for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question), agent of action (thing that does the action), natural enemy (One of the causes of death of this living creatures referred to in this item, which is eaten by that creature), change of (property this process changes), object of action (thing an action is done to), variety of sense (dialect, variety or register of language that the sense applies to), bust/waist/hip measurements (chest measurement; aliases: bust measurement), usage label (list of sets of context label property (Q116547761) (language style (P6191), field of usage (P9488), has quality (P1552), variety of form (P7481), location of sense usage (P6084)). Other individual context label property (Q116547761) statement will be treated as and with this statement.), thesaurus' properties (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
    • External identifiers: Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, The Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, Iowa legislator ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Museu Paulista objects ID, Facebook numeric ID, Qobuz album ID (Feb 2023), Patreon user numeric ID, Kulturenvanteri.com, beniculturali.it place ID, Russian Second League player ID, TVer IDs, NPD field-ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of disasters by type (source)
    • Maps of museums in Malaysia (source)
    • Map with place names that gave names to places in Riga (source)
    • Area of sovereign states without a river (source)
    • Wikidata properties whose URL format matches some format (source)
    • People born in the Vatican (https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1613861217440866306 source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
    • Memes (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 4, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
  • Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
  • Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
  • Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
  • Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
  • Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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The Bugle: Issue 202, February 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on translation and Eisenhower's armies Review essay: Catlemur on military museums in Athens

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:27, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Possible Sockpuppet

Hello, hope you're doing well. I recieved an email from User:Arrbgtjai9, they were looking for help to create articles for these two subjects Sheikh Asif and Syed Shahriyar. Looking at the history of Asif, It maybe a hunch but I think this one's a sockpuppet.

They have even created a draft of the latter; Draft:Syed Shahriyar. Also a thing I noticed that they seemed to be aware of most of the basic Wikipedia functions, which made me feel like they've been here before too. Would you mind running a check on this user? Thanks. ✠ Rejoy2003 ✠ (contact) 07:58, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Rejoy2003, thanks, I'll have a look. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:29, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Fake doppleganger

I'm going to assume that GennralNotabitly ‎is not actually a doppleganger created by you. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 18:50, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Good assumption. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:29, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Alright. I figured if it were a doppleganger then you would create the userpage marking it as a doppleganger yourself. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 02:30, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-07

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

Problems

• On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
• The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [5]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [6][7][8]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Arbitration case notification

I am not allowed to discuss such matters. Xx236 (talk) 07:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Okay Xx236, we can't exactly compel your participation. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:24, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Hey GN - I suspect that what Xx236 means is that they are TBanned from the subject area 'Poland' (recorded at WP:EDRC). Perhaps you might be able to advise them on the extent to which engaging with the Arb case would be a violation of that ban. Girth Summit _(blether) 14:18, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Ah, thank you Girth Summit, I wasn't aware of that. Xx236, I'll discuss this situation with the other arbs - it might be a straightforward application of WP:BANEX, or maybe we need some sort of official pronouncement. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Xx236, I've talked it over with a couple other arbs, and we're fine saying that your participation in this case is allowed per WP:BANEX. I will make a comment on the case to make that explicit. Speaking only for myself, I do suggest that you be on your best behavior - it is likely that your comments will be subject to more scrutiny than usual because of your topic ban. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:17, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Deletion of Page

Hi, On Jan 31st you deleted the page Ridge Cloud that you said was created by a blocked user (Cyrus watson), but I have been watching this page, and I know that it was not created by that person and there was no reason for it to be deleted. It had good content and was related to other pages. Can you restore it? Rgrand123 (talk) 13:57, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Rgrand123, it was not created by the Cyrus watson account itself, but by an account operated by the same person (or group of people) after the original Cyrus watson account was blocked, which made it eligible for deletion under speedy deletion criterion WP:G5 (block/ban evasion). Moreover, it is pretty obvious that the Cyrus watson group of accounts was editing for pay without disclosure, which leads me to a question of my own: what is your connection to Ridge Cloud? GeneralNotability (talk) 17:13, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

RPP

Can you protect this page Desire, I Want to Turn Into You edited many times in last 24 hours. Tswiter (talk) 11:12, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

No, but I can block you...Blogs19. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:49, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

I am not a monster

Two editors describe me in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case as a "monster", even if I am a victim of François Robere, who topic banned me after a dispute. If someone claims that Icewhiz was a good boy and I have demoralized him, please reference such statement. To make the discussion more crazy I do belong allegedly to one party with Icewhiz. I demand removal of the word monster. Please be serious. Xx236 (talk) 07:42, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Xx236, I believe they are quoting Nietszche - see this quote. I do not believe their intent is to literally call anyone a monster. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:10, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps said users could be asked to refactor the statements to make it clear they are not referring to any editor as a monster? I also noticed this term being used, and I don't think it's very helpful without a clarification or such. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

COI

Hi GeneralNotability! I'm writing to tip you off to a COI that I disclosed via email a few days ago but haven't heard back on. Could you have a look and let me know how to proceed please? TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 22:46, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

TheTranarchist, email seen, haven't had a chance to reply yet but there has been some internal discussion. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:14, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the update! No worries, I was just worried it got buried or put on a spam list or something, protonmail can be kinda weird like that. Also, I'm currently stuck in an ANI case, and the editor in question's accusations of "tendentious editing" were used as evidence so I'd been hoping I could provide receipts for them having the COI when I left this original comment. TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:41, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan

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Tech News: 2023-08

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

Problems

• Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
• The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10][11][12]

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Tech News: 2023-09

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

Problems

• Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [13][14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [15]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)