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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

 

  Administrator changes

  Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

  Technical news

  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

  Arbitration

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The Downlink – April 2021

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  The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 March 2021 — 31 March 2021

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Tech News: 2021-14

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

  • Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [1]

Changes later this week

  •   The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [2]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

  •   PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Starting a revolution

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Removing all visible lock images from protected pages ( ). if u are with me, will u create a bot which do this task? Brainfrogk4mon (talk) 16:55, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Brainfrogk4mon As I told you on your talk page, you need to stop doing this as there is absolutely no consensus and it's completely disruptive. EGGIDICAE🥚 16:57, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
We don't need to download that lock images. Lots of pages are protected and don't display it. Brainfrogk4mon (talk) 17:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Nothing requires you to download it. If you think they should all be removed, go start an RFC and get consensus but if you continue to disruptively remove them for no reason, I will request a block of your account. EGGIDICAE🥚 17:01, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Brainfrogk4mon. No, I will not create a bot to edit against consensus. If you want to remove the locks, go ahead and get consensus. Generally, a Request for Comment is the way to go. ~ Matthewrbowker Comments · Changes 17:08, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

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Formatting of changes I made to my Wikipedia page: William H Sewell, Jr.

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A couple of months ago I made a few changes and added a number of publications to my Wikipedia page. The formatting of some of the added publications doesn't fit the formatting of previous publication entries. Is there some way that you or I can fix the formatting? I should add that I've never attempted editing on Wikipedia before. Obviously, I didn't know what I was doing.

Hello, @73.246.85.114:. I've fixed the issue on the page, Wikipedia formatting can be weird like that. ~ Matthewrbowker Comments · Changes 21:31, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

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