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Growth team newsletter #25

Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Celebrations

Leveling up release

• We released Leveling up features to our pilot wikis on March 22 for an initial A/B test.
• In this test, we use post-edit dialogs (pop-ups shown after publishing an edit) and notifications to encourage new editors to try new types of newcomer-friendly suggested edits.
• We are closely monitoring the short term impact of this feature as well as the longer term effect on newcomer productivity and retention. If the experiment shows positive results, we will release this feature to more wikis.

5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February

• In February 2023, 5,035 images were added via the newcomer “add an image” feature (on all wikis where available); 155 were reverted.
• Since the feature “add an image” was launched: 36,803 images have been added; 2,957 images were reverted.

Recent changes

• Add a link
  • Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled. [1][2]
  • We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in Tech News. To know if newcomers at your wiki have access to this feature, please visit your Homepage.
• The Impact module was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published initial findings, and a data scientist is now completing experiment analysis. [3]
• Donor Thank you page experiment – Donors land on a “thank you” page after donation, and that landing page now includes a call to action to try editing: Example Thank you page in French. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias (French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia).
• Growth features are now the default experience on both test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. You can test our features there.

Upcoming work

• Add an image – We plan to offer section-level image suggestions as a structured task for newcomers.
  • We are starting design work. [4]
  • Growth team Ambassadors helped with an initial evaluation of these section-level image suggestions. [5]
  • We will start a community consultation in which we share initial ideas and designs soon. [6]
• IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation – We will support this project for all Growth Team maintained products and extensions that may be affected by IP Masking. [7]

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions

• News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI

• In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing

• Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid

• Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages

• Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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Question regarding usurpation

Hello! I was not allowed usurpation because my account isn't very well established, and so I will not do it again soon and I'm okay with it. However, can you tell me how long I should wait before trying again? 6 months, a year? And also, what should I do different when the time comes? I'm trying really hard to follow the correct processes on WP, and I hope that you can take the time to answer me. Thanks in advance, SwampedEssayist (talk) 14:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

@SwampedEssayist: There's no "fixed" rule for usurpations, but your case is more likely to be accepted if you've been editing here for at least three months and have made some more significant contributions, like creating a new article or having at least 200 edits.

The main reason usurpation isn't granted to new accounts is to prevent brand new users from requesting usurpation, getting the username, and then potentially not editing ever again, which would be a pretty annoying waste of time, especially considering that another user had to lose their username for it. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:20, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

I see, that makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to respond! SwampedEssayist (talk) 19:05, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-14

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 system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [8][9][10][11][12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
• Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [13]
• The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [14]
• Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [15]
• You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [16][17][18]

Future changes

• The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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

Administrator changes

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KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes

Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2023)

Kayakers on the St. Lawrence River near Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: St. Lawrence River Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) • Offensive backfield Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 10 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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2		A v Bottrill (talk)	Orphan
2		Alessandro Arrigoni (talk)	Orphan
2		Albert Kocer (talk)	Orphan
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57		ITunes Connect (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2023-15

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 visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [19]
• You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [20]

Problems

• There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [22][23]

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2023)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Sankebetsu brown bear incident Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: St. Lawrence River • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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68		Concurrent engineering (talk)	Add sources
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144		Jef Raskin (talk)	Cleanup
11		Intercensal estimate (talk)	Expand
7		Ali Hazazi (talk)	Expand
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18		A/ROSE (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
638		Apple Open Collaboration Environment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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208		Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire (talk)	Merge
122		Mathematics and architecture (talk)	Merge
7		National Cooperative Highway Research Program (talk)	Wikify
161		Brad Peyton (talk)	Wikify
80		ES Sétif (talk)	Wikify
3		Ayoub El Yaghlane (talk)	Orphan
2		Baranda, Bilhaur (talk)	Orphan
4		Askar Baitassov (talk)	Orphan
3		Qatar Handball Association (talk)	Stub
6		Saif Ul Haque (talk)	Stub
3		Japan National Route 406 (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2023-16

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Recent changes

• You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [24][25]
• The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [26]

Problems

• At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [27][28]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [29]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2023)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Nike sweatshops Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sankebetsu brown bear incident • St. Lawrence River Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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464		Krang (talk)	Add sources
138		KTVT (talk)	Add sources
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772		Al Sadd SC (talk)	Expand
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82		Road signs in Ireland (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
234		Warning sign (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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109		International reactions to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation (talk)	Merge
11		Kadhaprasangam (talk)	Merge
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359		HIStory World Tour (talk)	Wikify
54		Katsushika (talk)	Wikify
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2		Billi Baraich (talk)	Orphan
6		Baird Jones (talk)	Orphan
13		Otari, Nagano (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2023-17

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

• The date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [30]

Problems

• Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [31]
• For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [32][33][34]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [35]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

• Humour: The law of hats

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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