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Hello page watchers Hello everyone, I'm back from an extended absence which was due to off-wiki personal reasons. I've archived my old messages. If there's something you needed and it's still relevant, please leave me a new message. Thanks Steve --kingboyk (talk) 08:54, 18 April 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-16 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [1] Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News. Future changes Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [2] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [3] [4] [5] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC) Userfy request Hello Kingboyk, could I request a userfy of Draft:Salal Credit Union which you deleted as G13: Abandoned? I'd like to pick it back up. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:37, 21 April 2022 (UTC) Hi @Bri: I'd love to help but unfortunately I'm without the admin bit at the moment as I was desysopped due to inactivity. Would you mind trying Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion/G13? kingboyk (talk) 16:27, 21 April 2022 (UTC) Oops, thanks, will do. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:36, 21 April 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 24 April 2022 News and notes: Double trouble In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2) Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners Interview: On a war and a map Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act? Essay: The problem with elegant variation Humour: Really huge message boxes From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-17 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 On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [6][7] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [8] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-18 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 On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [9][10] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar). Future changes The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese. Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [11] [12] If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [13] Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-19 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 You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [14] Problems Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [15] Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [16] Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [17] Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24. The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022). Future meetings The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – May 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022). Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm Guideline and policy news Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity. Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy. Technical news The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable. Arbitration Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-20 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [18] The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar). Future changes You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [19] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-21 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 Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [20] The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [21] Problems The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [22] Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [23] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar). Future changes Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [24] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 29 May 2022 From the team: A changing of the guard News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war In focus: Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis Featured content: Featured content of April Interview: Wikipedia's pride Serendipity: Those thieving image farms Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal? Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing Gallery: Diving under the sea for World Oceans Day From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia Essay: How not to write a Wikipedia article Humour: A new crossword * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:46, 29 May 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-22 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 AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [25] The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [26][27] The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [28] A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [29] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC) Merger discussion for Water (Water Saigon Kick album) An article that you have been involved in editing—Water (Water Saigon Kick album)—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Paul McDonald (talk) 13:36, 2 June 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – June 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022). Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir CheckUser changes Ivanvector Guideline and policy news Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas. Technical news Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341) The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location. Arbitration Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy. An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-23 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar). A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [30] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-24 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 All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [31][32] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [33] Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [34] The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [35][36] Future meetings The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July. Future changes By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-25 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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [37] Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more. A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [38] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar). Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [39] Future changes The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [40] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 26 June 2022 News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"? Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy? Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer? News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:31, 26 June 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-26 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 Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues. All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [41] Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [42] Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [43] Future meetings The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-27 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [44] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC) All You Need Is Love (JAMs song) Featured article review I have nominated All You Need Is Love (JAMs song) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:15, 5 July 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – July 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022). Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski Interface administrator changes Nihiltres Technical news user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439) Arbitration An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened. Miscellaneous The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:29, 10 July 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-28 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, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [45] It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [46] The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself. Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Future changes The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-29 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 The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [47] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar). Future changes The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC) You have been pruned from a list Hi Kingboyk! You're receiving this notification because you were previously listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members, but you haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 3 months. Because of your inactivity, you have been removed from the list. If you would like to resubscribe, you can do so at any time by visiting Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members. Thank you! Message delivered to you with love by Yapperbot :) | Is this wrong? Contact my bot operator. | Sent at 18:01, 25 July 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-30 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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [48] Problems Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [49] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar). The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [50] Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [51] Future meetings The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 1 August 2022 From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something News and notes: Information considered harmful In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap Op-Ed: The "recession" affair Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3) Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections Community view: Youth culture and notability Opinion: Criminals among us Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories Essay: How to research an image Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia Gallery: A backstage pass From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road? * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-31 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 Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar). The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Future changes The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. Future meetings This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – August 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022). Administrator changes Valereee Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara Guideline and policy news An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices. An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable. Technical news The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570) Arbitration The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case. Miscellaneous You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election. Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world. Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-32 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 GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [52] Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Future meetings The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome! Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-33 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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Future changes The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [53][54][55] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-34 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 Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [56][57] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [58] Future changes The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [59] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-35 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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets. Problems In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [60] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Future changes The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 31 August 2022 News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up? In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me In focus: Thinking inside the box Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations... Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta. Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come Essay: Delete the junk! Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year) Humour: CommonsComix No. 1 From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 31 August 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – September 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022). Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius Guideline and policy news A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users. An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics. Technical news The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released. The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana. Arbitration An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD). The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case. Miscellaneous The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice. Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:12, 1 September 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-36 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [61][62] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-37 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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [63] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar). Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [64] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-38 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 Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [65][66] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [67][68] Future changes In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-39 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 Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar). Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [69] Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [70] [71] In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [72] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 30 September 2022 News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab" In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus? Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs Featured content: Farm-fresh content Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2 CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:01, 1 October 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – October 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022). Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare Guideline and policy news Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block. Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use. Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October. Technical news The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box. Arbitration Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion. A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two. The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October. Miscellaneous An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security. Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October. You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process. An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop. Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:43, 1 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-40 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 Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [73] [74] The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar). Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [75] [76] The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5] The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-41 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar). On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [77][78] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-42 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 recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [79] A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar). Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [80] Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [81] Future changes The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [82] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-43 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 have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230. On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337. Problems Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [83] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [84] Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [85][86][87] Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552. The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more. Future changes The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [88] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 31 October 2022 From the team: A new goose on the roost News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors? Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we? Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:43, 31 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-44 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 When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [89] In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [90] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar). The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [91] It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [92] It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [93] It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [94] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – November 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022). Administrator changes Isabelle Belato Whpq Atama Astronautics~enwiki Athaenara Eddie891 GraemeL Marianocecowski Natalya Pratyeka SB Johnny Interface administrator changes TheresNoTime Ragesoss CheckUser changes Blablubbs Firefly Joe Roe Oversight changes DGG Guideline and policy news The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November. An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat. Arbitration Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections. The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion. The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage. AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners. Miscellaneous The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers. You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators. Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 1 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-45 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 An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [95] Problems Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon. Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-46 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 At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [96] The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [97] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar). There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [98] Future changes Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [99] Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-47 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 display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661. Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 21 November 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 28 November 2022 News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners" In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet" Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality Book review: Writing the Revolution Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality Essay: The Six Million FP Man Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory" Featured content: A great month for featured articles Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago CommonsComix: Joker's trick * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:41, 28 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-48 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 A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [100] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar). Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [101][102][103] On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [104] Future changes How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [105] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 20:01, 28 November 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – December 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022). Administrator changes Eddie891 Euryalus TheresNoTime Alex.muller Excirial RedWordSmith Ron Ritzman TheresNoTime Stephen Interface administrator changes TheresNoTime TheresNoTime CheckUser changes TheresNoTime Oversight changes TheresNoTime Guideline and policy news Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week. The article creation at scale RfC has been closed. An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed. Technical news A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449) Arbitration Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here. The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open. The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed. The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022. A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop. Miscellaneous Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-49 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 Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [106][107] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Songs about Wales A tag has been placed on Category:Songs about Wales indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 02:08, 7 December 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-50 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 An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the Reply tool and other features. [108] The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [109] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar). The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [110] Events The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-51 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 9 January 2023. Recent changes On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [111] A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [112] One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [113] Problems Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [114] Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week. The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [115] [116] Future changes Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [117] The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused. Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021. Events You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 1 January 2023 News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure" Essay: Mobile editing Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022 Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star? Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club! CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:45, 1 January 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – January 2023 News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022). Administrator changes ComplexRational Extraordinary Writ Stephen Andrew Yong Dbenbenn DESiegel GlassCobra Joe Decker Nancy Pathoschild StuffOfInterest William Pietri Wwwwolf Xdamr Interface administrator changes Nihiltres CheckUser changes Moneytrees Ivanvector SilkTork Oversighter changes GeneralNotability Moneytrees Guerillero SilkTork Guideline and policy news Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal. Arbitration Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork. The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month. The arbitration case Stephen has been closed. Miscellaneous Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023. Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:08, 6 January 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-02 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 You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [118] Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket. You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [119] A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [120] Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [121] You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [122] Changes later this week Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar. Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 16 January 2023 From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020 News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery In focus: Busting into Grand Central Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100 Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images? Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany Featured content: Flip your lid Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022 From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:13, 16 January 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-03 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 The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [123] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar). Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [124] On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [125] The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more. Future changes The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-04 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, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [126] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar). If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [127][128] The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-05 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, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [129] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar). Future changes Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – February 2023 News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023). Administrator changes Gimmetrow Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins CheckUser changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal Oversighter changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim 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. Miscellaneous 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. Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:38, 2 February 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 4 February 2023 From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2023 (UTC) 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. [130] 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. [131] 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. [132] 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 10:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Album articles by importance A tag has been placed on Category:Album articles by importance indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:24, 13 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. [133] 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. [134] 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. [135][136][137] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 20 February 2023 News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"? Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK Featured content: Eden, lost. Gallery: Love is in the air Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page! Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:02, 20 February 2023 (UTC) 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. [138] 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. [139][140][141] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC) 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. [142][143] 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. [144] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – March 2023 News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023). Administrator changes The Wordsmith Fuhghettaboutit Spinningspark (deceased) CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc Guideline and policy news Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated. Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated. A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline. Technical news The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted. Arbitration Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded. The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023. A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon. Miscellaneous The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members. Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux. The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:19, 1 March 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-10 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 Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023. On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [145] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar). A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [146] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 9 March 2023 News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment? Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently? Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:41, 9 March 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-11 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar). Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [147][148] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 20 March 2023 News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences Featured content: Way too many featured articles Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost? * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:16, 20 March 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-12 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, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [149] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar). A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will appear on Special:Contributions — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. The Special:AbuseFilter edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via Special:Unblock and via the API. [150] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-13 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 AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [151] Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [152] Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [153] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar). Future changes You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [154] The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [155] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC) 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 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 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. [156][157][158][159][160] 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. [161] 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. [162] 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. [163] 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. [164][165][166] 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – April 2023 News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023). Administrator changes Aoidh 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. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC) 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. [167] 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. [168] 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. [169] 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. [170][171] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 20:03, 10 April 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-16 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. 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. [172][173] 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. [174] 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. [175][176] For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [177] 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). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:52, 18 April 2023 (UTC) 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. [178] 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. [179] 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. [180][181][182] Changes later this week All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [183] 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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC) 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 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:17, 26 April 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-18 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 The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [184][185][186] The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [187] The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [188] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – May 2023 News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023). Administrator changes Spicy Ale jrb Dbachmann DGG (deceased) Jimbo Wales CheckUser changes Jimbo Wales Oversighter changes Jimbo Wales Guideline and policy news A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback. Technical news Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool. Arbitration The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023. Miscellaneous The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 3 May 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 8 May 2023 News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists! Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:24, 8 May 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-19 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 Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made. When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [189] The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [190] Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [191] Problems Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [192] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar). Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [193] Future changes During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [194] There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [195][196] jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [197] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC) AWB graphical change proposal Hi Kingboyk ! I saw that you are an AWB developer. I left a message in Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev for a logo proposal and loading page proposal. The original message : "Hi, I wish do a proposal for a new logo for AWB. Here's my icons and images: icon proposal for Wikipedia-use Software icon proposal Wordmark Loading screen manȷıro💬 17:19, 19 April 2023 (UTC)" What do you think ? Regards manȷıro💬 19:51, 9 May 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-20 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Problems Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [198] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar). Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [199] Future changes There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects. Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [200] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 22 May 2023 News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation In the media: History, propaganda and censorship Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:39, 22 May 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-21 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 "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [201] Changes later this week An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [202] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Arts Version 0.7 articles A tag has been placed on Category:Arts Version 0.7 articles indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Oberheim OB8.jpg ⚠ Thanks for uploading File:Oberheim OB8.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Release Version articles by importance A tag has been placed on Category:Release Version articles by importance indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:32, 27 December 2023 (UTC) Image source problem with File:Kingbotk plugin in Object Browser.png Image Copyright problem Thank you for uploading File:Kingbotk plugin in Object Browser.png. This image is a derivative work, containing an "image within an image". Examples of such images would include a photograph of a sculpture, a scan of a magazine cover, or a screenshot of a computer game or movie. In each of these cases, the rights of the creator of the original image must be considered, as well as those of the creator of the derivative work. While the description page states who made this derivative work, it currently doesn't specify who created the original work, so the overall copyright status is unclear. If you did not create the original work depicted in this image, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you have uploaded other derivative works, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F4 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 18:16, 3 February 2024 (UTC). If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Matrix(!) (a good person!)[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much] 18:16, 3 February 2024 (UTC)