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Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Hi again, Timothy, are you just interested in chocolate? what about...(WAIT, I Am going to deliver a knockout blow...)...a ONE METER BIG TASTY CHOCOLATE SUGAR CAKE PARTY WITH ALL OF THE SNACKS IN THE WORLD ??? Okay, Please tell me what is your respond to this blow.Thanks again.Hayden21803 (talk) 09:20, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Whack! Pee-ew, you've been stink bombed! Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly. Sent using {{Stink bomb}}

Hey, I'm checking out the stink bomb

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Proposal at the Village Pump to streamline the welcome template

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to streamline the welcome template. This may be of interest to you as a member of the welcoming committee. Sdkb (talk) 04:56, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-14

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

• The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [1][2][3][4][5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
• Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [6]
• The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [7]
• Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [8]
• You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [9][10][11]

Future changes

• The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Alphabet soup

Could you please write your deletion rationales in English, rather than using the abbreviations that may be known to Wikipedia insiders but are not to the majority of our readers? Or if you must use abbreviations then at least link them so that people can discover what they mean. The discussions that prompted this message were Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international presidential trips made by Dmitry Medvedev and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morad: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 47, but nearly all of your nominations seem to have this flaw. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:51, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 204, April 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Australian War Memorial and the South China Sea raid, Hawkeye7 on the 1999 East Timor intervention

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Film references

Hi, please note that film plots do not need references in most cases as they are sourced to the film itself. Similarly, straightforward film credits are sourced to the credits given on the film itself. This is set out in the appropriate sections of WP:MOSFILM. If you need further clarification you can ask at the WikiProject Film talkpage, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 00:44, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

• For example see Dr No (film) which is a good article. There are no references for the plot, the crew in the infobox and none for the cast except for those that are not credited in the film itself Atlantic306 (talk) 00:52, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

  I'll read WP:MOSFILM. My main concern is the names of living persons in articles that can't be WP:V.  // Timothy :: talk  01:06, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Unprod

Hello, I have removed the PROd tag from Budhiya, which you proposed for deletion. An expert should, in my view, establish if it's really the 1st LF in Bagheli before further action is taken on the page. Best, — MY, OH, MY! 08:49, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2023)

Kayakers on the St. Lawrence River near Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: St. Lawrence River Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) • Offensive backfield Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 10 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Footballer AFDs

Some of your recent AFDs are, at best, questionable, at worst mis-informed. Please take more care. GiantSnowman 11:58, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For diligence at football AfDs and working through the extremely large number of articles on non-notable footballers tirelessly. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 08:25, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement, its enjoyable since I don't have any strong opinions on football (American or otherwise) so I don't take any of the discussions personally (unless someone messes with the Bruins, Beavers, or Cardinals).

I am glad it seems BLP is being taken more seriously now. BLP is something I feel strongly about; a well-meaning but misguided individual attempting to ingratiate themselves with me created a article about me, and I (a good, but decidedly private non notable individual) wasn't pleased at all. It actually caused a brief but quickly dismissed issue with an organization I worked with (which is how I discovered the article). Fortunately, the article has been deleted (btw Timothy is my middle name, Blue is my fav color). Greetings from Los Angeles,  // Timothy :: talk  16:39, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-15

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

• In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [12]
• You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [13]

Problems

• There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [15][16]

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richa Novisha

Hi Timothy - typically, a nominator doesn't include Delete: at the top of their nomination rationale, as it can be confusing. The nomination itself is considered to be sufficient. By adding the !vote, (especially with a bullet), it makes it look like the page was nominated without a rationale and that you're supporting the deletion as a second editor. I recommend removing the bullet and the bolded text. pburka (talk) 16:21, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Timothy, I'm not too bothered about the nomination containing a bolded "delete", as that is only for the closer who should be able to work out what is going on, but I am bothered about half of the first fourteen words of the nomination being unlinked abbreviations. Deletion discussions should be readable by anyone with a reasonable grasp of English, not just regular Wikipedia editors. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:15, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Regarding the Peacock Throne article

Hi, the article on Peacock Throne was created by me which I felt noteworthy when I am recently reading Firishta's Tarik-i-Firishta, a reliable source on the medieval history of India. While I am still editing the article it was found that the article is moved by you into the Bahamani Sultanate page. So, I have restored it again and now adding more content to it. Now, I see that you have suggested removing that article. May I know the valid reason for that? Would you mind providing me with some guidance on how to keep the article? I am opinion that we need more articles that shed light on the history of Deccan region which had its own great share in the heritage of India. I am interested to devote some time to enlarging that article with more informative content. It seems that by the time Firishta mentioned that turquoise throne, it already became part of the Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur. I need more time to gather more information about that and put that on the page. I am very occupied with my daily job and nowadays I seldom contribute to Wikipedia. I wish I could do more in the coming days. I would be grateful if you can help me in improving the quality of that article about the Turquoise throne. Thank you. Have a nice day.Bsskchaitanya (talk) 21:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Sinhalese Revolt (1055 - 1070)

Hello TimothyBlue. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Sinhalese Revolt (1055 - 1070), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A10 only applies to articles which are duplicates of other articles; it does not include articles that are copies of drafts. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:09, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: IProcure

Hello TimothyBlue. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of IProcure, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:17, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Kevin Meyer (singer)

Hello TimothyBlue. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kevin Meyer (singer), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Decline A7/G11: there is a credible claim of significance and the material is not irrecoverably promotional. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:26, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Uncivil AFD

Hello Timothy. I'm sorry to see the treatment you received at WP:Articles for deletion/Your Face Sounds Familiar (Slovenian TV series). The replies to you were not in keeping with WP:CIVIL, especially considering that they were from an administrator. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 01:10, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. It happens so much, I'm almost immune to Admin abuse at this point. I need to do a source eval for that AfD, I'm glad you reminded me. Greetings from Los Angeles,  // Timothy :: talk  01:20, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome, and it's great to hear that it didn't bother you.

It looks to me like you already did an informal source evaluation on 8 April? I'm just mentioning this so that you don't accidentally !vote twice. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 01:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

consumed

You should see what they wrote on IDWIKI. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:22, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

I didn't look, but you'll enjoy this. My partner doesn't edit, but has to endure my stream of consciousness commentary while I do. When I commented on this they said, "An anti-gay soap opera fan? that sounds like something for conflict of interest".  // Timothy :: talk  19:44, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Too true -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

2028 Pacific hurricane season page

Good Evening Timothy, I made a mistake by forgetting to add "#REDIRECT" to the 2028 Pacific hurricane season page, that page was meant to be a redirect to Tropical cyclone naming, will it be fine to take off the speedy deletion?, cheers. Cyclonetracker7586 (talk) 21:58, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Certainly, I thought you were just creating a placeholder. Thanks for responding. Greetings from Los Angeles.  // Timothy :: talk  22:02, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you sir we all make mistakes lol, cheers. Cyclonetracker7586 (talk) 22:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2023)

Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Sankebetsu brown bear incident Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: St. Lawrence River • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2023-16

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Recent changes

• You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [17][18]
• The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [19]

Problems

• At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [20][21]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

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Speedy deletion declined: Micah Ali

Hello TimothyBlue, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Micah Ali, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: G11: may be notable, will move to draft. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 11:50, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2023)

Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Nike sweatshops Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sankebetsu brown bear incident • St. Lawrence River Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Haha

I saw this bit before, and I like it. Drmies (talk) 16:08, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Its good to laugh :)  // Timothy :: talk  16:12, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-17

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 date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [23]

Problems

• Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [24]
• For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [25][26][27]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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Tkwiki

Oops, I deleted your user talk on the Turkmen Wikipedia as vandalism, before I saw your own edit. Do you want it restored? ~Styyx^Talk? 19:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm just trying to get the material off my user pages. Thanks for helping.  // Timothy :: talk  19:25, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I can delete your talk on most of these projects—if you wish so. Or you can keep them with your message. Entirely up to you. ~Styyx^Talk? 19:32, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I was deleting some talk pages but didn't understand your edits! So, can we continue to revert the edits made by the IPs? Superpes15 (talk) 19:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Please delete the pages! Thank you very much. @Superpes15: @Styyx: I've been trying to keep up but if they could all just be deleted (and possibly protected against future abuse) that would be great. Thank you again and greetings from Los Angeles,  // Timothy :: talk  19:39, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

No problem, when you see issue like this, just ask steward and/or global-sysop! A warm regard :) Superpes15 (talk) 19:52, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

@Superpes15:, @Styyx:, Good morning, sorry to drop this on you again, but it looks like the IP is using another image for cross wiki harassment of another editor. Here is the link [29]

Please let me know if I should post to the noticeboard or if this is enough to handle it.

Thank you in advance, greetings from Los Angeles,  // Timothy :: talk  14:26, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the report! I already blocked the IP but I didn't deleted all the stuff (just doing another thing and then will take car of this) :) Superpes15 (talk) 14:32, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2023)

Conifers encroaching on a meadow in Washington state, United States Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Meadow Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Nike sweatshops • Sankebetsu brown bear incident Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 1 May 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

125 feet Ambedkar statue, Hyderabad

Hello, You merged the tallest "Ambedkar Statue" with "B. R. Ambedkar". The total height of this magnificent statue is 175 feet with a 50 feet high pedestal. This is a "notable" statue, and deserves a separate article. Articles on this statue are also available on Telugu and Marathi Wikipedia. There are also many pictures of the statue available on Commons. So please let there be a separate article on this statue of Ambedkar. Thank you. 2402:8100:315B:5ABF:2191:AE13:1E7B:4458 (talk) 16:57, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

This subject does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines and it is a WP:CFORK from the main article. It was merged as an alternative to deletion WP:AtD. You should improve the content in the main article.  // Timothy :: talk  17:02, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-18

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 attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [30][31][32]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [33]
• The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [34]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Letsgomoose

Can you review your delete at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Letsgomoose after I added four references to the article? Thanks, Nfitz (talk) 04:45, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

bump Nfitz (talk) 14:44, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

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

Administrator changes

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• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

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• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the Western Allied invasion of Germany Op-ed: Hawkeye7's tips for writing articles on military logistics

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2023)

Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Tableau vivant Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Meadow • Nike sweatshops Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 8 May 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the Western Allied invasion of Germany Op-ed: Hawkeye7's tips for writing articles on military logistics

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Tech News: 2023-19

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

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [35]
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [36]
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [37]

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [39]

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [40]
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [41][42]
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [43]

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2023)

An audio production facility Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Audio editing software Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Tableau vivant • Meadow Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 15 May 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2023-20

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

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [44]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [45]

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [46]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2023)

Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Vandal Kingdom Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Audio editing software • Tableau vivant Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 22 May 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2023-21

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Recent changes

• The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [47]

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [48]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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Clarifying draftspace move

Hi there @TimothyBlue,

I wanted to ask you about moving my article (Morgenshtern discography) to a draftspace. Was it because of the weird text on top of the "Lead singer" chart or was there something else that needed to be addressed? If that's the only thing, it should be a quick fix. Please let me know if there is anything else I should know about. Thank you in advance. Losipov (talk) 21:05, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, the "»" type characters also need to be cleaned up. In addition some of the entries is unsourced and needs citations. I have tagged the sections.  // Timothy :: talk  21:09, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

@TimothyBlue ok, that makes sense. I fixed that table with the text at the top, but I'm not entirely sure about changing that symbol. I think that's how that style is like for Russian. If those need to be changed that's fine, but again I'm not entirely sure about them. Losipov (talk) 22:14, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I have it on my cleanup list (I'm working on new page patrol right now) and I can take care of that and you can focus on citations. My reading Russian is passable, I will also try to find some citations.  // Timothy :: talk  22:20, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

@TimothyBlue Actually, that probably won't be necessary for citations. I checked the references under the "Apple Music" and "Spotify" sections of that chart, and they do say that the albums charted at those positions stated. Now, the albums you placed citation tags for did not chart at all, but they are part of Morgenshtern's discography. Would his albums in general need sources from, say, Apple Music and Spotify? I'm not entirely sure. But that's certainly plausible. I can definitely try to find some citations. Losipov (talk) 22:28, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

The entries need some kind of independent reliable source. Some sections such as for example, Draft:Morgenshtern discography#Singles I can't verify the entries from the sources provided. Maybe I'm missing something, if I am let me know.  // Timothy :: talk  23:06, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

@TimothyBlue so would an article at least mentioning the singles be considered ok to use? If not Apple Music or Spotify or something like those? Someone could simply look at both streaming services, for example, and see that he has those singles. And yes, those sources that are in the Singles section cover only the ones that charted, not the ones that didn't. I understand that part. But overall are you saying that there needs to be "proof" that those singles exist? Losipov (talk) 04:40, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Somewhere there must be an online non-promotional discography from a reliable independent source and this would be best to use. I checked English sources such as AllMusic and Discogs and they don't list anything but albums. Everything related to biographies of living persons needs reliable sources, WP:BLP.  // Timothy :: talk  04:58, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Sources are lacking in many articles, but that needs cleanup also.  // Timothy :: talk  04:59, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Another option is you can submit this to AfC (see instructions at top of page) and they will provide a second opinion, and maybe better guidance. If they think the sourcing is fine they will move it to main space. Let them know about the conversation here.  // Timothy :: talk  05:46, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

@TimothyBlue Yeah that's what I was planning on doing actually. I might just submit it for review and see if it can be accepted in its current form (I'll do my best to try and improve the article in the meantime). I should say that other articles I translated had considerably fewer sources, and they've been reviewed/accepted (aside from tagging the articles for varying issues).

How would I let them know about our conversation? Is one way like this: the article gets reviewed and denied, and I contact the editor who denied it and point out this conversation? I don't know honestly.

As a side note, I appreciate you trying to help me. Were you able to clean up the article in some way shape or form? Losipov (talk) 10:35, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes I was able to cleanup the formatting. Its always good to have a second opinion, so I would submit to AfC, I included a note on the draft that the AfC reviewers will see.

You're very welcome for any assistance I have been. Greetings from Los Angeles.  // Timothy :: talk  16:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2023)

Popillia japonica, commonly known as the Japanese Beetle Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Japanese beetle Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Vandal Kingdom • Audio editing software Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 May 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Sigma AB

Hi, in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sigma AB you've made a source evaluation which confuses me a bit – among other things I don't understand you call a full-page article (~1000 words) focused on the article topic "brief mention, not SIGCOV". I also disagree that other articles would merely be about company forecasts. Would you mind expanding on how you came to these conclusions in the AfD discussion? /Julle (talk) 21:07, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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

• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [49]
• The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [50]

Problems

• For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [51]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [52]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2023)

The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible (mid-15th century) Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Bible Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Japanese beetle • Vandal Kingdom Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 June 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Tech News: 2023-23

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 RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
• Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [53]
• Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [54]

Problems

• For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [55]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [56]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo. *All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue 206, June 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D review three recent works

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2023)

Four T-72B tanks of the participants, 2013 Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is: Tank biathlon Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Bible • Japanese beetle Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •