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Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, @Gerda Arendt:! Hard to believe it's been 6?!?! years already! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:18, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

July songs

my story today

Let's believe ;) - Thank you today for Mick Jagger, "about Sir Michael Philip Jagger -- most commonly known by his stage name Mick Jagger. While studying to become an economist, he found success in a little known band he co-founded called the Rolling Stones in '62, which went on to be the most commercially successful band in history...with him at the helm. AllMusic and MSN have called him "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll" and Billboard has called him "the rock and roll frontman". He is best known for being the trailblazing lead singer of the Rolling Stones and half of the Jagger–Richards songwriting team, one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in history. According to Steven Van Zandt, Jagger's acceptance on pop radio "was a turning point in rock & roll. He broke open the door for everyone else." - "He received a knighthood in 2003, has been inducted into two music halls of fame (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and UK Music Hall of Fame), and even had a 19-million-year-old species of water nymph named after him. Jagger's style has been studied by academics and his vocal delivery and his sense of pitch and melody have baffled other singers. He has either directly or indirectly (through the Stones) served as inspiration for many artists, including Taylor Swift, Jack White, Steven Tyler, and Iggy Pop; in 2011, Maroon 5 released "Moves like Jagger", a song inspired by his unique dancing style. Despite all this (there is much more I didn't cover) and the immense success he has achieved in life, he didn't let the fame get to his head; the late Charlie Watts described him as "the least egotistical person" who would "do what's right for the band"."! - Do you take flowers also, as kind of "delicacy"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-31

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 Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [1][2]
• The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [3]

Problems

• It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
• Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [5]

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"Ric Heitzman" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Ric Heitzman has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 4 § Ric Heitzman until a consensus is reached. —Danorton (talk) 18:13, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Gurbaksh Chahal

Hello @TheSandDoctor:, I wanted to bring to your attention that @Chisme: is once again engaging in disruptive edits on the Gurbaksh Chahal page. Despite receiving warnings from admins, including yourself in the past, @Chisme: continues to make these edits. The latest edits specifically pertain to adding increased remarks to a Domestic Violence case that occurred more than 10 years ago and are still visible on the page.

@Chisme:'s editorialized version:

Domestic violence and battery conviction Chahal was arrested in 2013 and charged with 45 felonies following an attack on his then-girlfriend. Video footage of the assault, taken by a camera in Chahal's bedroom ceiling, showed Chahal smothering the woman with a pillow and hitting and kicking her 117 times over a half hour period. In August 2013, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office (SFDA) charged Chahal with committing acts of domestic violence against his girlfriend. The video of the incident was ruled inadmissable in the case as there had been no warrant for its seizure. Chahal proclaimed his innocence but nevertheless entered into a no contest plea to one charge of domestic violence battery and one charge of battery. He was sentenced to three years' probation, ordered to pay a fine, and compelled to undergo a 52-week domestic violence training course along with 25 hours of community service. Subsequently, he was fired from his position as CEO of RadiumOne (Chahal alleged that his guilty plea was coerced by the board of RadiumOne). In 2016, after he committed acts of domestic violence against a second woman, the San Francisco County Superior Court found Chahal guilty of violating the terms of his September 2014 probation. The court sentenced him to one year in jail; he resigned from his position as CEO of Gravity4. The California State Appeals Court upheld the verdict in April 2018 and Chahal served six months in San Francisco County Jail.

The most recent version before the edits by @Crystallizedcarbon: at 19:21, July 31, 2022 was the status quo. @Crystallizedcarbon: has restored most of Chisme's disruptive edits, but this specific part still needs to be restored. I'm flagging it to your attention.

Domestic violence and battery conviction In August 2013, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office (SFDA) charged Chahal with committing acts of domestic violence against his girlfriend. Chahal proclaimed his innocence but nevertheless entered into a no contest plea to one charge of domestic violence battery and one charge of battery. He was sentenced to three years' probation, ordered to pay a fine, and compelled to undergo a 52-week domestic violence training course along with 25 hours of community service. Subsequently, he was fired from his position as CEO of RadiumOne (Chahal alleged that his guilty plea was coerced by the board of RadiumOne). In 2016, after he committed acts of domestic violence against a second woman, the San Francisco County Superior Court found Chahal guilty of violating the terms of his September 2014 probation. The court sentenced him to one year in jail; he resigned from his position as CEO of Gravity4. The California State Appeals Court upheld the verdict in April 2018 and Chahal served six months in San Francisco County Jail. 45.64.243.229 (talk) 15:39, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-32

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

• Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [6]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Slowking4

I know this was a long time ago, but would you happen to have a link to the discussion on meta that you referenced in Special:Diff/1061104192? RoySmith (talk) 14:59, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

@RoySmith: Managed to find it. m:Steward_requests/Global/2021-w50#Global_lock_for_Slowking4_sock(s) TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:02, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. RoySmith (talk) 15:04, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

@RoySmith: Any time! I am glad that I was able to find it. I've made it a wikilink on the text for any future Qs about it. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:07, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

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Soft block?

Hi, are you really sure this user Ching chong 8964 (talk · contribs) only need a soft block? This is an offensive username and only used for vandalism. -Lemonaka‎ 07:50, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka: I'm sorry for the delay in responding. I got distracted and this slipped through the cracks until now. I took a look at the account's sole edit and while it was misguided with regard to the purpose of the list, I didn't take it to be "vandalism" so much as just inexperience; I didn't think that it rose to that bar. If another admin disagrees and wants to harden the block, I wouldn't interfere/object. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:37, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sadko

Hello TheSandDoctor, I hope that you are doing well.

Since I know you are an experienced bot operator, I have a request for your help. Namely, some time ago, on Wikipedia in the Serbian language, we replaced the form of the portal exclusively with the form of the portal bar, by wide consensus of Wikipedia editors. We did this work using my colleague's bot. @Milicevic01: However, a new problem arose on one part of the articles. The old form for the portal was massively placed in the wrong part of the article. Which is to say, now we have the portal bar placed in the wrong place, above the categories, instead of at the very bottom of the article. Our editors do not know how to massively, with the help of a bot, move this line of code to the bottom of the article. Could you help us and explain to our colleague how to do the much needed changes? Thanks in advance. — Sadko (words are wind) 01:31, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Sadko: So you're saying that the bot Milicevic01 created is functioning correctly but that the template was misplaced by humans on a number of articles, correct? Working off of that assumption, that is definitely an interesting conundrum. I do not know how this bot is coded, but presumably you could remove the portal's template from those articles and just re-append it after all of the page text/content? This would assume that it does not have any per-page parameters, though those could probably also be copied out -- perhaps with a regular expression. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:07, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

No it cant be re-appended because per-page parameters, regex is probably only option. I use Pywikibot. Examples {{Портал бар|Хемија}}, {{Портал бар|Биологија}} etc.

Regards Milicevic01 (talk) 07:39, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Exactly, human error, and the problem is present on 1/6 of all of our articles. I hope that there is some good way to go forward. Thanks for your comment. — Sadko (words are wind) 17:11, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Milicevic01 and Sadko: you might be able to get some inspiration off of the template work I did with TweetBot; the convert() function probably does something similar to what you're looking at, at least for collecting the parameters/their content and how to remove templates. I would look into using pywikibot in conjunction with mwparserfromhell. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:34, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-33

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 Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [8]

Future changes

• A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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Question from Blue Butterfly Smells Like Cheese (14:53, 16 August 2023)

How can I create a draft? I read the Terms Of Use! --Blue Butterfly Smells Like Cheese (talk) 14:53, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello, @Blue Butterfly Smells Like Cheese! The instructions are at WP:DRAFT. However, please read the concerns raised on your talk page before creating one. Hope this helps! Tails Wx (they/them) ⚧ 16:41, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-34

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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [9]
• From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
  • Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
    • a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [10]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [11]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • Wikifunctions (f:) [12]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [13]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [14]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [15]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [16]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

• There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [18]

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Tech News: 2023-35

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

• As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [19]
• All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [20]
• Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [21]
• Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [22][23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
• New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
• All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [24]

Future changes

• The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
• A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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