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Tech News: 2023-50
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
- On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [1][2]
Problems
- There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [5][6]
Future changes
The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.
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MediaWiki message delivery 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations JPxG on your recent RfA candidacy and subsequent admin rights change. I'm sorry that I missed my opportunity to participate, would have unequivocally supported your bid if I had not, and am glad that the community vetted you fairly in my stead. Best regards and be well. --John Cline (talk) 05:45, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Signpost publishing script error
I just did a publishing script dry-run and got an error: Editing issue page... Failed (API error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')). Thought you'd want to know. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:50, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Which script? I forked mine off of Evad37's version and there have been a lot of changes to the publishing flow and the templates etc since then -- my current ver at User:JPxG/SPS.js is workinjg okay I think. Probably some documentation needs to be updated. jp×g🗯️ 19:52, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
I also...
love to sew my pants. Making things is a good time. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:36, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:X53
Template:X53 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
Bad boy
new parser for metadata is going fine except for:
- wtfever this was in 2008 index
- uhh ok i guess (2009)
- oh dope it actually fixed the thing (2011)
- same (2013)
- another fix in 2015
- fixes for 2018 after i fixed info in articles
- actual mistakes in 2019 -- adding line returns, not good. also for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-01-31/In the media it is bungling the author parses. also for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-10-31/Essay
- mistakes in 2020, also dropping authors in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-06-28/Humour and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/Traffic report disease the and cherchez
no change for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, -- that seems like a p dece endorsement of the parser's ability jp×g🗯️ 12:35, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- btw the f'ups in 2019, 2020 where it futzes up author links seems like a classique case of it not doing interwiki links very well -- hrrmery jp×g🗯️ 12:53, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- except for this, bizarre... i am p sure what happened was there was a "bold tag" with the signpost apostrophe s and this made the parser choke and die lol. when i fixed it and ran again it worked fine.... jp×g🗯️ 12:54, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- thats really weird tho bc this diff shows interwiki links working fine on my little goofy test thing at [[7]]... jp×g🗯️ 12:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- By JPxG, JPyG, JPzG, JPaG, JPbG, and JPcG
- which is
- By [[User:JPxG|JPxG]], [[:en:User:JPxG|JPyG]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JPxG JPzG], [[bugzilla:JPxG|JPaG]], {{u|JPbG}}, and JPcG
- renders as
- authors = {"JPxG", "JPyG", "JPzG", "JPaG", "none", "JPcG"},
- so we're missing JPbG jp×g🗯️ 12:58, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
oh, jeez louise, it's {{noping|Mangoe}}, of course it doesn't work. wtf. that should just not be in a byline. come on. jp×g🗯️ 12:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
should be noted that the mwparserfromhell, since it uses the revisions endpoint rather than html, allows me to get around 50 articles per request, meaning that metadata parsing goes almost literally fifty times as fast... sick. jp×g🗯️ 12:47, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy Holidays
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| Hello, I wanted to be the first to wish you the best during the holidays. The project needs you to clone yourself. You have always been a beacon in the darkness. I hope we can count on your reasoned approach to administration for many years. Lightburst (talk) 15:41, 16 December 2023 (UTC) |
Do we really not want to support basic-ass formatting like italics? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:36, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-51
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
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [9][10]
- Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [11]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [12]
Future changes
- The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
- The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Sarah R. Nagy / Sarah Nagy
Hello. I am the author of the Sarah R. Nagy page that you deleted (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=156628336). I completely understand your reasons. I should have submitted the page through AFC because I have a conflict of interest; I am an inexperienced Wikipedia editor and this is my mistake. However, I believe this page should be given a chance to be approved by an administrator. As you noticed, there was a page Sarah Nagy that was once taken down and protected as spam. However, that page was created and taken down in 2008, fifteen years ago. Sarah Nagy is now a female founder working in AI who has been featured in the New York Times and TechCrunch. I believe that in 2008 she was a teenager messing around with Wikipedia as teenagers do. The new article about Sarah was well-cited and informative. I don't know what the original article looked like, but information about Sarah Nagy is relevant today and looks very different than it did in 2008. I appreciate you taking the time to consider this. Thank you. Paigerank (talk) 20:20, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Wikipedia Day soon
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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Request
Hello, would you mind just removing (not revdelling) the blank file revision at File:Ignatyevo.jpg? The file seems to have gone missing (I replaced it with the thumbnail, see this) and I can't move it to Commons without getting rid of the old revision. Cheers, — MATRIX! (a good person!)[citation unneeded] 16:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy holidays!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024! |
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The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1(The Garage) 16:08, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
mail call
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Smallbones(smalltalk) 02:06, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
A solstice greeting
❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️
Hi JPxG! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. (The AI had a bit of trouble understanding gravity in this one...) I'm always looking forward to your Signpost coverage every issue. Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers,{{u|Sdkb}} talk
Merry Christmas!
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Hello JPxG: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —Ganesha811 (talk) 06:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 24 December 2023
- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
- In the media: Consider the humble fork
- Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
- In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
- Technology report: Dark mode is coming
- Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
- Crossword: when the crossword is sus
- Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
- From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
- Humour: Guess the joke contest
Happy holidays!
— mw (talk) (contribs) is wishing you Happy Holidays! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user Happy Holidays, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
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Seasonal greetings!!
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The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:10, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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Happy New Year, JPxG!
JPxG,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 20:56, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Your draft article, User:JPxG/LLM dungeon/Social Security in the United States of America (USA)
Hello, JPxG. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "LLM dungeon/Social Security in the United States of America (USA)".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:43, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
Bri (talk) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the New Year cheer by adding a WikiLove New Year's template (or your own) to their talk page with a friendly message.
Merry Christmas!
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством!
শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스!
สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete!
Hello, JPxG! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Chris Troutman (talk) 23:18, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
- RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".
Updated scripts
- Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
- User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
- User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
- User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
- Wikipedia:AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.
Improve a script
- Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
- We want...
- ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work
Requested scripts
- A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
- A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
- A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
- Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests
New scripts
- Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
- Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
- User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
- Chlod:
- Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
- Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than {{copied}} ones.
- Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Wikipedia:Copyright problems noticeboard.
- Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
- User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
- Enterprisey
- diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
- archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
- /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
- User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
- User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
- User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
- User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
- Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
- User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
- Nardog
- /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
- /RCMuter: Hide specific users, perhaps User:MediaWiki message delivery, from the Watchlist and Recent Changes.
- /VitalTopicon makes you see the vital article topicon on WP:vital articles.
- m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
- Novem Linguae
- DraftCleaner fixes formatting of new articles.
- GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
- ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
- SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
- User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
- User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages adds a button to highlight all unreferenced paragraphs in reds, and can even do it automatically.
- Still hate Vector 2022's floating TOC? User:Phlsph7/UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022) might make you give it a try.
- Quite a bit of pages at Special:WantedCategories either exist now or got removed. User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/hideUnwantedCategories automatically hides those.
- User:SuperHamster's Wikipedia:Tools/View it! generates a gallery of images for a given subject on any Wikimedia project utilizing Structured Data on Commons. Images can then be added as needed.
- Terasail
- ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
- /HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
- ...and any more, all available at WP:US/L.
Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu (talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)