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Suspected sockpuppets of blocked sockpuppet account Iamfrzu07

• Iamfarzan (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Akevsharma (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

This page Shaiju Damodaran is created by user:Akevsharma ,on checking the pic uploaded in the page, its uploaded by user:Iamfarzan , when clicking the user page link of user:Iamfarzan it redirects to user:Akevshama. He has renamed the user page to hide that same user uploaded the image. Is is COI as well ?

User account created on 14 April 2020 similar to Iamfrzu07 and after block of Iamfrzu07, which was Created on 14 March 2020

user:Akevsharma aka user:Iamfarzan created around 30+ pages and all pages are related to ISL and kerala blasters.

user:Akevsharma aka user:Iamfarzan edited Manjappada as well on 17 December 2020‎.

Its pretty evident its a sock. When I tried to post it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Farzanfa007 this page, someone removed it. Please check this Christopheronthemove (talk) 04:45, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

False report

User:CrashLandingNew after edit warring on various pages, filed a false report of sockpuppetry against me. It has been 5 days since then without any Administrator seeing this. Can you please check it?Sutyarashi (talk) 15:26, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

@Sutyarashi SPI cases get handled whenever a clerk or CU gets to it. Sometimes it takes a while. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:23, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-12

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

Problems

• Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will appear on Special:Contributions — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• The Special:AbuseFilter edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via Special:Unblock and via the API. [2]

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Tech News: 2023-13

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Recent changes

• The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [3]
• Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [4]
• Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [6]
• The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [7]

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