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Tech News: 2020-03

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

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [1]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [2]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [4]
• You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [5]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

New message from Target Barsado

Hello, Cassiopeia. You have new messages at [[User talk:Target Barsado#Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit|Target Barsado's talk page]].
Message added 16:17, 20 January 2020 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hello, I would like to join and learn from you Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit, how to fight vandal and create good edit Target Barsado (talk) 16:17, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) This user has asked me for CVUA training as well. Interstellarity (talk) 00:22, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@Target Barsado and Interstellarity:, Target Barsado, Good day. When you ask for enrollment, make sure you only ask from one trainer and if the trainer could not train you in any reason, they usually will refer you to another available trainer. I will let Interstellarity to handle your request here.

Interstellarity, I am still waiting for you answer on AfC sub page (Draft:Gil Z. Hochberg- contrary to Wikipedia purpose). Pls reply me on the AfC sub page. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 02:30, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@CASSIOPEIA and Interstellarity:, Good day , to you both. I want to learn how to contribute and so I replied to you both, because you two are giving training and slot were limited so. I'm sorry if I did wrong something. I respect that work are important and I should be patience and wait until approaching other. Thanks Target Barsado (talk) 02:39, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@Target Barsado: No, you didnt do anything wrong. I just inform you the normal way we do things here. By the way if you have not read Help:Wikitext pls do as it would help your editing in Wikipedia. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 02:48, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@CASSIOPEIA: I have gone through it. But wouldn't mind reading once again. And as I'm gonna learn either from you or @Interstellarity:, So I would to inform I did a mistake regarding copyright in the article Jamtara - Sabka Number Ayega and the error was removed, but I never intended to do so. So could you please check the article Delhi Crime, as I tried to rectify a mistake. Thanks Target Barsado (talk) 03:05, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #399

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
  • Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [6]
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Contributors to Jacob Heyblocqs vriendenboek and their occupations (source)
    • Number of Co-Authors by Country using ORCID to identify the "searched author" (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
  • Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
  • Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
  • Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
  • Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
  • Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
  • Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
  • Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2020-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [7]
• The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [8]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Dawn Smith Jordan article / request for resubmission

Hi, I have continued to add to the article since it first was rejected but I don't know how to get it reconsidered. I've also posted to another location that popped up while I was researching how to get it resubmitted and I posted a question there which does not appear in my history or alerts, so I don't know how to get back to that post. The stated reason for rejection within the article was "not sufficiently notable" yet there is another Miss South Carolina who also was a runner-up to Miss America (Ali Rogers) who had no other items cited which was approved. I have included numerous other details on Jordan's proposed page which include numerous references outside of her own page, which I cannot list as I understand it. So, I've gone well beyond what Ali Rogers has on her page and I don't understand why this is not enough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dlee1964 (talk • contribs) 00:08, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Dlee1964 Good day. You could place {{subst:submit}} on top of the draft page. However, I dont think the subject is notable to have Wikipedia page. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 02:45, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

How to get permissions to Wiki for Photos to add to page...I find editing these pages very frustrating with all the rules...even when you get permission for use of photos

I'm trying to upload photos to a page, the page I've made has been helped if you want to call it that.

I have photos from the Daughter of the person the page is for, but have had the photos taken down. She has the physical photos and is the holder of these images of the deceased person who is an important person in the growers community. It's only right this person have a rightful spot on this page.

How do I get the photos that belong to the daughter of a deceased person on a Wiki Page?????

Why is this so hard? Why can't a person get permissions from the family and then have them posted?

What works? What is the work around to get this happening? I'm not an academic and this frustrates me to no end! All these bright and smart ppl adding to this but it's been made unreachable to someone like myself that is trying to make a page.

It's certainly making my monthly contribution something I question and if I should be a loyal contributor to a site that is made for elitists that control it?

You've made it so unreachable, this shouldn't be this hard to contribute!