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Tech News: 2024-12

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

Recent changes

• The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [1]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [2]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3][4][5]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [6]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [8][9]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [10][11]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13

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

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [12][13]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2024

• Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

• Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

• Humour: Letters from the editors

• Comix: Layout issue

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Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [15][16]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello MPGuy2824,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

• You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Pages Patrol Discord.
• Consider adding the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of List of constituencies of the Mizoram Legislative Assembly

Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, List of constituencies of the Mizoram Legislative Assembly, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

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

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [17][18]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [20][21]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [22]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Add Map

Please add a results and seat sharing map in 1999 Indian general election in West Bengal Pappu RaGa (talk) 17:44, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

The WB elections' parliamentary diagrams are next after i finish the last TN one. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:11, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, MPGuy2824. I'm just posting to let you know that List of constituencies of the Tripura Legislative Assembly – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 13. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-16

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

Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [23][24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [25][26]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [27]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [28]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [29]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, MPGuy2824. Thank you for your work on Mexicans in Oklahoma. North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

IMO this "intersection topic" is not wp:notable per se. (no GNG source coverage) Looks like a good paragraph of material for an article somewhere; suggest merging into another article.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|North8000}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

North8000 (talk) 17:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [30]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [31][32]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [33]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2024

• In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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Draft: List of siblings of presidents of the United States

I and JimmyCarterLover1 have finished a large chunk of this draft (I am aware that you know of said draft because you were responsible for converting the initial page into one). However, it would be suitable to have help from other editors considering the collaborative nature of Wikipedia. I also anticipate work on this draft stalling without the support of more people as one person cannot simply draft an entire article by themselves (and, not to discount the contributions of JimmyCarterLover1, I feel as if this draft has turned into my personal project because I have been responsible for so much of it). In short: help is needed, and I encourage you to help us with this. ApplePieGuy95 (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

The subject of this list isn't a particular interest of mine, but looking at the draft, I'd suggest the following:

1. Write up a two-three sentence lead paragraph for the list. Find and add enough references that talk about the list as a whole and not just individual people in the list. Read and make sure that the list meets WP:NLIST. Do this before improving other aspects of the draft.
2. Merge the individual tables for each president into one large table.
3. Many of the entries in the "Notes" cell can be made into notes that will be shown at the end of the list. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:59, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [34]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [35]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [36]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [37]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [38]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [39]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [40]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [41]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [42]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [43]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [44][45]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from ViennaMoka (09:54, 1 May 2024)

Hello there! How do I publish edits to an ECP page on behalf of the concerned person? (Craig Mokhiber) Thank you. --ViennaMoka (talk) 09:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

@ViennaMoka: I assume you mean that someone has asked you to do a few changes to an edit-confirmed protected page. The problem is that you haven't got that right (yet). You can use Template:Edit extended-protected to post a message to the talk page of the relevant article. Hope this helps. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [46][47]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [48]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [49]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [50][51]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [52]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [53]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Turing Award

Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, Turing Award, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, MPGuy2824. I'm just posting to let you know that Turing Award – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 3. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 01:34, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Bettertv5 (19:26, 11 May 2024)

I need to do a new page --Bettertv5 (talk) 19:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bettertv5: you should visit Wikipedia:Articles for creation which explains a lot about the process of starting a new article. I see that you've started an article in your sandbox. I've watchlisted it to see what improvements you make. I suggest that you start with finding reliable, independent sources that talk about the tv station in depth. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:16, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of List of constituencies of Gujarat for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of constituencies of Gujarat is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of constituencies of Gujarat until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Notifying you as you converted the redirect to a disambiguation page, and you don’t appear to have been notified yet of this discussion. All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 08:54, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For all the good work on the Featured List of constituencies of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. :) Ashwin147 (talk) 05:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Ashwin. Front page! Woot! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-20

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

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [54]
• If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [55]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [56]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [57]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [58][59]
• The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [60]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [61]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [62][63]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:~delta submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate MPGuy2824 to be Editor of the Week. MPGuy is a multitalented editor working in several areas such as New Pages Patrol, content work and script development. His MoveToDraft script has helped many editors during their NPP work - it made easier work of the repetitive process of draftifying, tagging the redirect to the draft for R2 CSD and then notifying the user whose page was draftified. He also does helpful wikignoming here and there on articles about Indian constituencies and has 1 GA, 1 DYK and 1 FL credit with another FLC "in the works". A talented technical editor and friend that is always there to lend a hand and treat everyone with kindness and respect. Seconded by User:Novem Linguae, User:Hey man im josh and User:DreamRimmer.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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MPGuy2824

Editor of the Week for the week beginning May 15, 2024

A multi-talented editor working in New Pages Patrol, content work and script development. His MoveToDraft script helps many do their NPP work making easier work of the repetitive process of draftifying, tagging the redirect and then notifying the user whose page was draftified. A wikignome here and there on articles about Indian constituencies and has 1 GA, 1 DYK and 1 FL credit with another FLC "in the works".

Recognized for

treating everyone with kindness and respect

Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 13:46, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Wow!. Thanks for the nominating and the seconding statements. Looking at the citations for other folks on that list is quite humbling. I don't know most of them, but I wish I did. Its quite a good feeling receiving this and I have watchlisted the EotW nom page, so that I can at least start seconding deserving nominations. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 May 2024

• News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

• Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

• Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

• In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

• Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

• Comix: Generations

• Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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Plants

	Nephelium of approval
	You have helped a lot with my 2 articles and I am grateful! Minor edits mean a lot to me. Nephellium (talk) 20:05, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the wikilove. It always means a bit extra when a non-standard image is used for these. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Awais mastoi (12:21, 20 May 2024)

Hacking kar ni hy sir --Awais mastoi (talk) 12:21, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

@Awais mastoi: I think you misunderstand what Wikipedia is for. I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Please go through them and continue with editing Wikipedia only if you think it is still for you. If you are more comfortable contributing in Hindi, then the Hindi Wikipedia would be happy to accept you as an editor. Cheers! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:25, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21

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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [64]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [65][66]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [67][68]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Review

Please can you help review my article 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 Mnationonly (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mnationonly: The article that you started, Goya Menor, is a musician's biography. I'm not an expert at those and will be leaving it for another reviewer to handle. That said, I've left you a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Please go through them when you get the time. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 14:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thanks and I really appreciate. Please can you refer my article to another reviewer 🙏🏿 Mnationonly (talk) 14:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

I really appreciate the edits you did on the article, Thanks a lot 🙌🏿❤️ Mnationonly (talk) 14:29, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

please I'm sorry for disturbing you🙏🏿

No patroller has come to review my article Mnationonly (talk) 18:35, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Mnationonly, if you see the top of Wikipedia:New pages patrol, you'll notice that our backlog is over 9500 articles. We are running a backlog drive right now, and there is a good chance that a reviewer will get to the article before the drive ends. Please be patient. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:05, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay thanks. I understand. Mnationonly (talk) 07:11, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Kabogo mouse shrew

You recently created this article and included the {{taxonbar}} template. However, you didn't provide it with a "from" parameter. If the "from" parameter is not present, the template attempts to look up the appropriate QID using the article's title. If there is no match, then it fails and the taxonbar isn't displayed, like in this case. The Wikidata item is named with the scientific name, which is not how the article is titled. So, the from field is required to make it work. (Frankly, you should always use the "from" fields, even if the bar finds the right item, as it helps prevent disconnects.) Anyway, just thought I'd share that bit of knowledge for your future endeavors. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I do occasionally create species articles, so this is useful. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:42, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Priyamvada Rajan (06:20, 24 May 2024)

Hello! I want to change the name of an article about my organisation. how can I do this? --Priyamvada Rajan (talk) 06:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@Priyamvada Rajan: Could you link the article that you are talking about? In any case, you should look at Help:How to move a page. In this case, since you are a new editor, you'll have to use Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. Hope this helps. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:09, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

YRG Care This is the article. The officially accepted name according to our brand guidelines is YRGCARE, so I want to change the title, that's why I am requesting your help. I will go through the page you asked me to check out. Thank you! Priyamvada Rajan (talk) 10:12, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of List of chief justices of India

Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, List of chief justices of India, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:25, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi

Is there any Indian admin on EnWiki? My question is because it would be helpful to explain any India-related matters to him and get good replies, as an Indian would better understand Indian-related issues. I am not saying that other admins don’t understand, but it would be better. GrabUp - Talk 10:46, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

I checked a few people who are active on the India noticeboard who I thought were admins. Sadly, they aren't (yet). Let me research and get back to you. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:58, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I think DreamRrimmer is Indian! If so, he would be the first Indian admin. 🫡| GrabUp - Talk 11:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Titodutta became an admin in 2015, and there may be others. But more competent admins (of any region) is a good thing. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Sure, Thanks for the information. GrabUp - Talk 11:09, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Admins Vanamonde93 and Tinucherian are also in Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:11, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

I am looking for an Indian admin because I tagged other admins, but they didn’t respond. I am unable to give the user sufficient reasons for this on Wikipedia nor I found sufficient reason. I mentioned Dutta there. GrabUp - Talk 11:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think this requires an admin (even an Indian one). You can just list it at Wikipedia:Third opinion. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:21, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

There is no disagreement between us. I just want to know and share with the editor, from some more experienced editors like admins, the reason they didn’t count it as per the Government of India. Maybe there was some discussion. GrabUp - Talk 11:25, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Green Bay Packers draft picks (1970–present)

Hi MPGuy2824, you reviewed Green Bay Packers draft picks (1936–1969) at WP:FLC a little while back. If you have the time and interest, I have its companion article at FLC too (Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Green Bay Packers draft picks (1970–present)/archive1). No pressure, just thought I would bring it to your attention if you are interested. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 19:44, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think you have a problem here. The nom has 2 supports (+PresN's support since you've fixed the issues that he's pointed out). It also has a source review support. The list should get promoted in the next round (whenever the coords get to it). If it doesn't, I'm happy to take a look at it. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Svana Svana (01:18, 1 June 2024)

What can I do to speed up my entry? x --Svana Svana (talk) 01:18, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

@Svana Svana: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Go through them when you get the time. To start with, I'd suggest TWA. It should teach you the basics for Wikipedia collaboration. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2024 (UTC)