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44		Davenant Foundation School (talk)	Merge
110		Comparison of raster graphics editors (talk)	Wikify
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2		Infltr (talk)	Orphan
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70		Avetheropoda (talk)	Stub
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2024)

Various pâtés Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Pâté Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Hunger strike • Newton (unit) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 February 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2024-06

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

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
• On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [1][2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [3][4]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [5]

Future changes

• 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [6][7]

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40		Maragoli (talk)	Add sources
238		Slender: The Arrival (talk)	Add sources
28		Quarters of nobility (talk)	Add sources
57		Badan Singh (talk)	Add sources
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321		Warrior (talk)	Cleanup
482		Password strength (talk)	Cleanup
142		Royal descent (talk)	Cleanup
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218		Aqua (user interface) (talk)	Expand
8		2007 Paramount Airlines Mil Mi-8 crash (talk)	Expand
164		Sibling abuse (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
58		History of Scottish Gaelic (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
3,142		Sharia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
87		Emotional competence (talk)	Merge
3,280		Emotional intelligence (talk)	Merge
532		African empires (talk)	Merge
124		Kenya African National Union (talk)	Wikify
15		Khayo (talk)	Wikify
42		Suba people (Kenya) (talk)	Wikify
16		Interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (talk)	Orphan
13		Pan-Africanism in Kenya (talk)	Orphan
12		Balive (talk)	Orphan
1		Charles Van Bree (talk)	Stub
2		Léon Van Aken (talk)	Stub
12		Jumba la Mtwana (talk)	Stub
65		Autofill (talk)	Stub
20		Lakeridge Health (talk)	Stub
97		Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava (talk)	Stub

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A kitten for you...

...for your amazing work at WP:CHU venues.

DreamRimmer (talk) 17:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

I admittedly have not been as active there as I would've liked these days, but back in the 2015-2019 era I was much more active. I remember when we had a backlog of rename requests because of a technical issue that meant we couldn't rename accounts for a period of time. Those were the days! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

I have seen all your work, and I must say, I'm really impressed :) — DreamRimmer (talk) 17:27, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2024)

Uncooked rigatoni Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Rigatoni Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pâté • Hunger strike Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

The Signpost: 13 February 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

• Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

• In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

• Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

• Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

• Crossword: Our crossword to bear

• Comix: Strongly

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Tech News: 2024-07

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

Recent changes

• The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [8][9][10] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [11][12]

Problems

• There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [13][14]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[15] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [16]

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41		Operator (profession) (talk)	Cleanup
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230		Power distance (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
50		Sacramento Northern Railway (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
108		Talent management (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
37		Tokyo Smoke (talk)	Merge
86		National Hockey League rules (talk)	Merge
906		Remote work (talk)	Merge
8		Nevis Historical and Conservation Society (talk)	Wikify
290		Span of control (talk)	Wikify
7		Line 10 (BLT) (talk)	Wikify
5		Stan "Chook" Maxwell (talk)	Orphan
36		Topgrading (talk)	Orphan
10		Moza bint Hilal Al Nahyan (talk)	Orphan
6		Habibollah Peyman (talk)	Stub
6		G. C. Kuhlman Car Company (talk)	Stub
11		Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau (talk)	Stub
5		Eric Bell II (talk)	Stub
5		Lausanne–Bercher line (talk)	Stub
16		Peyman Babaei (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2024)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Foreign policy Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Rigatoni • Pâté Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 February 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2024-08

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Recent changes

• If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [17]
• There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
• Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
• The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [19][20]

• Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
• The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [21]

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689		History of Ethiopia (talk)	Add sources
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124		Incompatibilism (talk)	Cleanup
111		Practical philosophy (talk)	Cleanup
775		James Bourne (talk)	Expand
4,048		Rio de Janeiro (talk)	Expand
4,056		JoJo Siwa (talk)	Expand
376		Meles Zenawi (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
28		Modernization under Haile Selassie (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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524		Ethiopian Civil War (talk)	Merge
352		Foals (band) (talk)	Merge
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18		Fyodor Pirotsky (talk)	Wikify
27		Trams in Asia (talk)	Wikify
6		Amrutvahini College of Engineering (talk)	Orphan
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4		Bohuslav Diviš (talk)	Orphan
41		Phantasiai (talk)	Stub
15		Apollodorus of Seleucia (talk)	Stub
56		Mount Entoto (talk)	Stub
88		Provinces of Eritrea (talk)	Stub
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2024)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Economy of South America Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Foreign policy • Rigatoni Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 26 February 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2024-09

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

Recent changes

• The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [22]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [24][25]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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105		Cornish hurling (talk)	Expand
14		Israeli pita (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
201		Fives (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
654		Angkor (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
92		Ice chips (talk)	Merge
132		Damselfish (talk)	Merge
387		Eurasian carp (talk)	Merge
60		Disinvestment (talk)	Wikify
157		Cathy Overton-Clapham (talk)	Wikify
19		Hostel (2013 film) (talk)	Wikify
2		Nahal Katlav (talk)	Orphan
1		Shambhu Shahi (talk)	Orphan
2		National Circus School of Cambodia (talk)	Orphan
32		Makura-Nage (talk)	Stub
12		Lily Bily (talk)	Stub
60		Derbfine (talk)	Stub
64		Lepontii (talk)	Stub
37		Hushan Great Wall (talk)	Stub
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