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Tech News: 2024-23

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Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [1]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [2]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [4][5]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment

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May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This award is given in recognition to Clearfrienda for accumulating at least 500 points during the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:07, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award

		Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears Award
		This award is given in recognition to Clearfrienda for accumulating at least 50 points during each week of the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:16, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Nomination of FTG Metro for deletion

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Magnolia677 (talk) 12:49, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Re-reviews award

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		This award is given to CFA for doing over 25 re-reviews, in the May 2024 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:46, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-24

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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [6]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [7]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [9][10]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [11]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of TwoTiime for deletion

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💥Casualty ^{• Hop along. •} 04:11, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Article class for Funding of European political parties

Hi @Clearfrienda, thanks for the banner you added to the talk page of Funding of European political parties. However, you wrote that the article is class C, while @Zanahary has indicated a class B on my talk page. Was there a change (and if so, why?) or is this a mistake? Just trying to understand the discrepancy. Thanks! Julius Schwarz (talk) 07:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

@Julius Schwarz: I use a tool called Rater to add/remove WikiProjects and assess/rate. It will automatically rate an article (using AI) when I run it on a page. In this case, I was configuring the banner shell. Per WP:PIQA, most assessments are now done independent of WikiProjects. There are often discrepancies between reviews because, in the end, rating an article is completely subjective and doesn't mean anything. There is no official process — anyone can rate an article. You can read the B-class criteria here. Funding of European political parties is very long (which in itself is not an issue) so I won't do a full review of it. If you think the article meets the B-class criteria, you can change it yourself. You can also request an independent rating at WP:WPWP/ASSESS. Happy editing, C F A 💬 21:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed reply @Clearfrienda. To be honest, I am not really hung up on the rating itself, I was just interested in the two differing assessments in such a short time. More useful would be some of the observations/recommendations that your tool made (if any). Personally, I do not want to be in a position to grade my own work, that's far too subjective; that's why I was happy when the first rating came in. Whatever the actual grade, the point now is to see what can be improved and work on that one bit at a time. Feel free to share anything of use. Julius Schwarz (talk) 06:59, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Jagtai Choudhury zamindar family

Hello, Clearfrienda,

Why do you want to move the main space article back to Draft space? Couldn't you just move it to a different page title in Draft space? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:32, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Cueva Pintada (California)

You have made an error in your comment on Draft:Cueva Pintada (California), that site is not the same as Painted Cave, Galdar which is a completely different site on another continent. Please read both the draft and the article you suggested it be merged to and you will find this is the case. Please strike that comment. I do however agree with you that the draft is not ready for article space and should be declined. Just so you know the editor who created the draft has a long history of errors (see their talk page), so your good-faith but incorrect comment is complicating matters. Netherzone (talk) 04:28, 17 June 2024 (UTC)