User talk:TheImaCow/Archive/2021/February
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What are you doing? Did you even read the content you restored? It's completely unsourced, and the content would not be appropriate even if it were sourced. Wikipedia doesn't cover students' complaining about how they don't like the results of the student council election. Meters (talk) 06:15, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Meters: No, I haven't. It happens quite often that I see such removals of the "controversy section", and so far it has always been unjustified. Here I only saw the "Controversies" heading and then immediately reverted - my mistake. I will now look more carefully, thanks for pointing it out! --TheImaCow (talk) 06:31, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Prodding images that were wikilinked from archived discussions
Hi, you recently prodded File:Horizontal list in IE6.png. This image was part of an archived discussion from 2007 about updating the CSS code that powers Wikpiedia (we wanted to make sure that it would work correctly on IE6, which was commonly used at the time). I've edited that information onto the image description page.
I'm not sure what the policy is (or if there even is a policy) about whether images used by old archived discussions should be deleted, but because we're preserving the discussions from 2007 themselves, my guess is that we should probably be preserving the images that are part of them too.
My main concern, though, is that the image seems to have been incorrectly detected as unused when it wasn't. The issue is that the image was linked from the discussion using a wikilink (like the one in the first paragraph of this message), rather than a file link (which would embed the image directly onto the page). I'm not sure whether it's a human or bot that's making this error, but it's something that probably ought to be checked before deleting images. (You can see the list of incoming wikilinks, as opposed to file links, via the "what links here" option on the page tools; many of them will be discussions about the image, such as this one, but some of them may be uses of the image which linked rather than thumbnailed them in order to save space.) My main worry is that blindly deleting this sort of image is likely to lead to link rot in the archives of project pages and project discussion pages, because whatever tools are detecting unused images seem to have false positives in this respect. --ais523 22:13, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- It looks like the other image of mine you prodded is also being used via wikilink: User:Penubag/optimum toolsets#monobook (I missed this first time I checked). This is being used in someone else's userspace, so I don't personally have any opinion on what to do about it; maybe it would make sense to notify them (or just remove the prod). --ais523 22:19, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- Oh. That's not good. I went through the category and decided for each image: Move to Commons or Delete? The tag {{Orphan image}}, which adds images to the category, is mostly placed by bots, and I thought that if there are any links, the tag will not be added. I already assumed that the image was once used in a discussion, which was then deleted. I did not expect that there may still be links to the images, however. I also de-prod'ded the other image. Thanks for pointing this out! --TheImaCow (talk) 07:24, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
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- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [1][2]
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- Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [3]
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18:30, 25 January 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.
Problems
- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [5]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [6][7]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55as well as the1.2.3.4/27syntax for IP ranges. [8]- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [9][10]
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
please go back to my page. dont know why you deleted my content. not enough detail, thank you JayDub (talk) 01:11, 8 February 2021 (UTC)