User talk:Stwalkerster/Archive April 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
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-redirectuserright, 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
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
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-XXinstead of2010-12for dates with a month but no days. This is because2010-12could be confused with2010-2012instead ofDecember 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
JOINSwill 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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19:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Βlock editing
This user wants to delete this article, because thinks that: No claim or evidence of notability for this minor direct-to-video movie. The article has been unsourced for more than twelve years, so it seems unlikely that it will ever meet WP:GNG. This user has a war to me and I want to request the block editing.— Preceding unsigned comment added by General electric p30ch (talk • contribs) 2021-04-14T07:14:23 (UTC)
- @General electric p30ch: you can report edit warring to WP:ANEW. stwalkerster (talk) 17:39, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi! AWB and help
Hi Stwalkerster. Forgive me if I disturb you. I've seen that you own a bot and have knowledge of bot C modules and use AWB. I am an administrator in vec.wiki (here), the Wikipedia in the Venetian language (Venice). I've been using AWB a lot lately and we're looking for help fixing bugs on pages, to uncover secrets on how to make the most of this technology and find a way to welcome new users who make their first edit and register. Could you give me a hand? Thank you very much in advance for your reply, I hope it is positive. Again sorry for the disturb! A big hello from Venice! --Fierodelveneto (talk) 19:16, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Fierodelveneto: I very rarely use AWB these days, and I haven't actually looked at the source code for it in a very long time. While I probably could help you (if I had time!), there are definitely others who both have more experience and more knowledge about AWB who would be much better suited to helping you out. As I've just alluded to, I'm also lacking available time to devote to the Wikimedia projects at the moment in a meaningful way - also a reason I'd prefer to hand off to someone with more experience! Sorry for not being as much help as I want to be, but it's not fair on you to be waiting for my schedule to clear somewhat. stwalkerster (talk) 17:45, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hello, in the meantime, thank you for your kind reply. However, if you can point me to someone who can help me in this, I would be very grateful, because I can't find serious people who can help us and who are available! Thank you very much again. A big hello.--Fierodelveneto (talk) 18:03, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- I don't have anyone specific in mind, but it might be worth putting a note on WT:AWB, WP:VPT, or WP:BOTN. stwalkerster (talk) 11:50, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hello, in the meantime, thank you for your kind reply. However, if you can point me to someone who can help me in this, I would be very grateful, because I can't find serious people who can help us and who are available! Thank you very much again. A big hello.--Fierodelveneto (talk) 18:03, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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
- Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [3][4]
- If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [5][6][7]
- Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use
mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles')to go back to how they looked before. [8] - The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
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16:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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
- Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [9][10][11]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).
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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)