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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2024)

Gabin in The Little Rebels (1955) Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Jean Gabin Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Abdalá Bucaram • Natural resource Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [2][3]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Josh Aloiai

Hi! Did you see this? Doctorhawkes (talk) 08:17, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Doctorhawkes: Not until you pinged me; I was asleep. I put that image on the bad image list so it can't be added again. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:07, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-15

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

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [4][5]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [7][8]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [9]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive IP

I noticed you reverted an edit of 2605:8d80:13bc:131c:9917:6bac:cc7e:4dae, they have been extremely disruptive towards any of Sokolov's work and on the Battle of Kursk page, and continue to do so, as you can check the Battle of Kursk page and see that the IPs are in the same location of Toronto. Reaper1945 (talk) 15:36, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4 macOS Big Sur.png

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• This has been addressed. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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Renamed account

Hi K6ka :) I was randomly scrolling through edit filter hits & I came across this note you left on Draddex’s talk. I just thought I should leave you a message; as you mentioned in that diff that you’d lifted the block on the account, but it still appears to be blocked.

Apologies if I’ve missed anything. All the best. ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 12:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@A smart kitten: Oops! Thanks for catching that; I have now actually unblocked the user. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 13:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

About your block of 148.69.166.217

Their two edits at Niggerhead need revision delete for hate speech.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@Skywatcher68:  Done —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:54, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2024)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Antarctic Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fire safety • Jean Gabin Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2024-16

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

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [10][11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [12][13]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [14]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [15]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Besins healthcare page

Hello,

I noticed you reverted the changes I made on the Besins Healthcare page, citing a lack of adherence to Wikipedia's tone guidelines. While I understand the importance of maintaining a consistent tone, I believe the revisions I made were in line with improving the article's accuracy and relevance.

I'm open to constructive feedback and suggestions on how to better align with Wikipedia's standards, I would appreciate to not see my work be cancelled instead have some suggestion to make it fit the tone.

Best regards,

Vic01toire

Vic01toire (talk) 07:28, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Vic01toire, your work is not "cancelled"; it was reverted because it was not written in the encyclopedic tone that Wikipedia is written in. Reverting an edit does not mean "cancellation", it means someone else disagrees with it and feels the article was better before. Please see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for guidance on this; Wikipedia is written by many people who will all eventually disagree with something at some point, and Wikipedia is built as a result of people with differences working to resolve disputes. Using terms such as "cancelled" is simply not correct and may inhibit your ability to resolve disputes, because it implies that you believe other people have an agenda to silence you.

Your edit here looks like something found on the company's "About Us" page, not something in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written in the style of an academic paper, so it presents the facts "with a straight face", not with the perspective of an employee at the company. For an example of encyclopedic tone, see a featured article and take note of the way it is written. It also removed a lot of sourced material, particularly those in the "Controversy" section; Wikipedia is about verifiability, not truth. Information that is well supported by reliable sources is what's reported on Wikipedia, not material that something believes to be truthful. Even if you think something isn't true based on your own perspective, that's not justification to remove it from Wikipedia if it's been supported by reliable sources. Wikipedia is a reflection of what reliable sources report on a topic, not an independent curator of information.

You may find it difficult to write about Wikipedia on these terms because you're receiving payment for these contributions; as such, you have a conflict of interest. Most Wikipedia editors are impartial to the topics they write about, which makes it easier to write in an encyclopedic tone. You'll need to keep your own biases in mind when drafting content about this company.

I've provided you with a lot of links to policy pages above. You may also be interested in the Teahouse, an environment for newcomers to ask questions; help on writing your first article; and the Five Pillars of Wikipedia, which summarize the core principles.

—k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:32, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2024)

Full rack of fifteen balls, ready for the break shot Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Pool (cue sports) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Antarctic • Fire safety Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2024-17

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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. [17]
• 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). [18][19]

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. [20]

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Growth News, April 2024

The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.

If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

Community Configuration

Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.

In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

Experiment Results

Add a Image experiment analysis results

The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:

• The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
• The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
• The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
• A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

Personalized praise experiment results

This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)

English donors encouraged to try editing

As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)

Future work

Annual Plan

The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2024)

A crewed submersible used for underwater exploration Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Exploration Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pool (cue sports) • Antarctic Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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. [21]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [22]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [23]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [24]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [25]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [26]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [27]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [28]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [29]
• 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. [30]

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). [31][32]

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