User talk:Legoktm/December 2021
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Nomination for deletion of Template:File with non-existent templates
Template:File with non-existent templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 11:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:File with non-existent categories
Template:File with non-existent categories has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 11:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Nomination of Libera Chat for deletion
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RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 19:04, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Legobot Index Errors
Hey Legoktm. I've been trying to set up both lowercase sigmabot III and Legobot on my talk page. While I've got lowercase sigmabot archiving now, with it creating a new archive per year, Legobot seems to not want to index it. According to the index error log, I'm missing the first_archive= parameter, however I cannot find anything in the instructions, linked from Help:Archiving a talk page#Archive indexing, for what that parameter does or what format it takes. I also can't see any newer documentation linked on Legobot's user page which might give me a hint. I've tried to take a look at the underlying Rust code on Gitlab for some hints, but I can't tell if first_archive is a parameter the bot reads from the page, or if it's a parameter it creates internally.
Do I just need to set first_archive in the template string as 2020, as that is the first year of the archive? If so, can we add that to the documentation? There seems to be 19 other talk pages, 20 total, that are spitting out the same error as mine. Sideswipe9th (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
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
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project. 
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]- An old ResourceLoader module,
jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch tomediawiki.storageinstead. [2]
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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall
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In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) | ||
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
- There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
[[WB:]]will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]]namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [3]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Legobot behaviour
Hi, have you altered Legobot recently? It made this edit, and the lack of content for the |text= parameter usually means one of three things - (i) missing timestamp; (ii) timetamp present but not in the format produced by WP:4TILDES; (iii) too much text between the {{rfc}} tag and the timestamp. Problem (i) is clearly not the case, and problem (ii) isn't either. I've never established the limit for (iii) accurately, but it's in the region of 2,000 bytes, and this RfC statement is clearly much shorter than that. So I'm stumped as to why Legobot has rejected the statement. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: the last change I made to rfcbot.php was 3 months ago. And I just checked on Toolforge itself, there are no changes outside of the Git repo. So I'd say I have no clue, I'm pretty sure you're more knowledgeable than me at this point about how it works... Legoktm (talk) 21:32, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [4]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [5]
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
DYK for Tokio (software)
On 31 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tokio (software), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Tokio platform for the Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tokio (software). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tokio (software)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.