User talk:JPxG/Archive13

DYK for Joice Island

On 4 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joice Island, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Joice Island was the location of a "web of intrigue" in 1890, a failed asparagus farm in 1905, a wildlife refuge in 1950, a hunting preserve in 1965, and a pig hunt in 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joice Island. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Joice Island), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Schwede66 00:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Empire Tract

On 5 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Empire Tract, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Herbert Hoover once farmed sugar beets on the Empire Tract? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Empire Tract. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Empire Tract), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Atlas Tract

On 5 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Atlas Tract, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Atlas Tract is farmland with a population of 0, but is expected to have a population of 42,000 by 2045? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Atlas Tract. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Atlas Tract), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 7,724 views (643.7 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2021 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she?) 03:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Brewer Island

On 6 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Brewer Island, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island, unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brewer Island. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Brewer Island), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Distributed via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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

Problems

• MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
• At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
• The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]
• An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2]

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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Randomly destroying Julius Evola content on caste

Excuse me, I'm writing to tell you that you randomly removed the item section on caste and class despite the fact this is directly mentioned in Julius Evola's own writings.

Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AverroesII (talk • contribs) 13:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

@AverroesII: This diff seems to have removed a bunch of content, and this one added a bunch (but with all of the formatting and metadata stripped, i.e. the citations were all just bare text [1] and [2]). I don't know exactly what happened, but I don't think it was supposed to. jp×g 19:13, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

M 2018 films

Hi, thanks for reviewing my split of the M (2018 film) into the two films made that year with that name:

• M (2018 Finnish film)
• M (2018 Israeli film)

You edited it while I was trying to edit it - is there a way to see what links to M (2018 film) so I can link those pages to the correct films? When I try to go to M (2018 film) it now takes me to M (disambiguation).

Respectstherights (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

@Respectstherights: I believe what you're looking for is Special:Whatlinkshere/M (2018 film). I think there is also some database report of page links that go to disambiguations, if you're interested in that kind of thing generally. jp×g 23:58, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Perfect, the Special:Whatlinkshere page was what I wanted to clean up the links. --Respectstherights (talk) 00:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Tinsley Island

On 8 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tinsley Island, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an all-male boating event on Tinsley Island was called the "Bohemian Grove of yachting"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tinsley Island. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tinsley Island), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Absolutely love your visualizations of AfD submissions with your Oracle; keep up the awesome work!!! Yitz (talk) 01:01, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Looking through my subpages I see.

Hey why did you mark my subpage User:CycoMa1/ delete this as reviewed?CycoMa1 (talk) 03:24, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

@CycoMa1: I was going through the backlog of unpatrolled userpage redirects -- I took a little bit to decide whether I should nominate that one for speedy deletion (because you did blank it and move it to "delete this"). If you want, I can {{U1}} it. jp×g 03:29, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of First Wikipedia edit

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article First Wikipedia edit you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ProcrastinatingReader -- ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

YG mail

Hello, JPxG. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Test title, test date

Test

— Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 04:23, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

NPP for User:Haleth/Ichiban Kasuga

Hi JPxG, I noticed that you marked a userspace redirect to a mainspace article as reviewed. Thank you for your time and effort in doing NPP work, although I am unaware that userspace or draftspace articles are meant to be reviewed as part of the NPP scope of work. I originally moved the contents of the userspace page to Ichiban Kasuga in mainspace, which to my knowledge still has not been reviewed by any NPP editors 1 month after it has been moved there. Would you mind taking a look at this page and assess it? Haleth (talk) 02:05, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

That article looks fine to me (the references check out, it's written well enough, etc) so I've marked it as patrolled. jp×g 02:24, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! It is unusual that it's taken such a long time before it is reviewed. I have written a few other articles more then a month ago and none of them have been reviewed yet. I assume that there is a big backlog on the NPP queue for the time being? Haleth (talk) 02:59, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

• Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

• Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
• TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
• Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

• Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5
• Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"
  

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

• Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT
• Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

• Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8
• Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.
• 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies.

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

• What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
• What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
• Will reFill ever get fixed?
• What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
• Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hi there! Could you please help me understand why this 2021 newsletter features info from 2019? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: I wrote up a newsletter covering everything from August 2019 to the present, but this ended up being enormous; general consensus was that it should be broken up into a few separate issues and released one at a time (as to avoid spamming the hell out of everyone's talk pages). jp×g 04:35, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks - sorry for not reading the newsletter carefully enough. GoingBatty (talk) 04:45, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Lol what? Consensus was that bot maintainers would be interested in a detailed update on approved bot tasks from 2.5 years ago, 90% of which are probably irrelevant already? Where was that consensus discussion? I just want to read it for my own entertainment. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 15:54, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@Scottywong: Discussion was at Wikipedia talk:Bots/News. Two years of dormancy posed some interesting problems; including everything through the end of 2021 would have resulted in a newsletter so large it triggered talk page archivers on its own (yikes). Of course, it would have been possible to just skip 2019/2020 entirely, which didn't seem reasonable. I made a spreadsheet to plot out a release schedule and everything; the only thing that didn't result in massive newsletters ended up being somewhere between 6 and 8 months per edition; this one was a little under 10 kilobytes since it only had 4 months in it, but Jan - Jun 2020 is about 20kb. Currently, I am planning for the next five editions to cover six months each, after which point we'll be caught up completely; it would also be possible to cover a full year in each issue (2020 in January and 2021 in February) although this would be somewhere around 40kb. jp×g 23:28, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

I guess I don't understand who the audience is. What is the set of Wikipedia editors who would be interested in a summary of bot activity from late 2019 or early 2020? Who would consider that information valuable? What type of actions do you think someone would take after learning this information, or how would it influence their future decisions? Don't get me wrong, I applaud the work you've done. I don't doubt that it was a substantial amount of work, and you seem to have done a very good job. But I don't see the value in this information.

Anyway, on an unrelated topic, I was snooping around your user page and came across WP:OFD. Pretty cool stuff. I made something like that once with the bot that I ran way back in the day, so I know what it takes to put something like that together. Nice work! I'll bet your mind was spinning with all the regex. Cheers. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 06:34, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Kimball Island

On 11 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kimball Island, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2000, the Sacramento County Policy Planning Commission decided that humans would never be allowed to live on Kimball Island again? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kimball Island. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kimball Island), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM  01:25, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 5,392 views (449.3 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2021 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:31, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Chain Island

On 11 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chain Island, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the U.S. government wanted to remove Chain Island, a group of "California capitalists" offered to do it for free, recouping expenses by mining it for gold? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chain Island. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chain Island), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 13:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 7,046 views (656.5 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2021 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:31, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tinsley Island

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tinsley Island you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 22:41, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tinsley Island

The article Tinsley Island you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tinsley Island for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 00:41, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50

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

• There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for First Wikipedia edit

On 13 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article First Wikipedia edit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first Wikipedia edit was made on 15 January 2001? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/First Wikipedia edit. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, First Wikipedia edit), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:13, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 7,620 views (643.9 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2021 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 02:54, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Bull Island (California)

On 14 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bull Island (California), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bull Island (California). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bull Island (California)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 6,242 views (520.2 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2021 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 02:17, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Island No. 2

On 16 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Island No. 2, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1908, Island No. 2 in California was simultaneously deeded to two different people? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Island No. 2. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Island No. 2), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 6,951 views (662.6 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2021 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Russ Island

Hello! Your submission of Russ Island at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 23:06, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Powder House Island

At Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Powder House Island/archive1, you replied to Sdkb, saying that you had messaged Nailhed to see if he "has anything to say about it or if he's interested in releasing photos at all". Its been over two weeks now, so I would like to know if he has/has not responded. Realmaxxver (talk) 22:03, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Replied at FAC. jp×g 22:32, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

• Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [4]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [5]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)