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Tech News: 2021-08

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  • The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [1]
  • Advanced item The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [2]

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  • Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [3]

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  • Advanced item There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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Another one

The kicker is really shit like this edit: "admin review requested". Well, request granted, I guess. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 02:09, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Drmies, gotta appreciate how accurate the sockmaster's username is... GeneralNotability (talk) 02:19, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
GeneralNotability, keep in mind that "chauvinism" outside North America means "patriotism", albeit a strong version thereof. They probably learned a variety of British English, if indeed they're from over there. Drmies (talk) 14:34, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Huh, I didn't know that meaning. You really do learn something every day here... GeneralNotability (talk) 15:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please have a look at this account

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ImNotAnEntrepreneur. This account was just created like a day. I doubt it was created just to vote as Keep in this [[4]] discussion where lot of socks and IP addresses have been involved. I am not experienced dealing with socks. So please have a look at it. Regards Kichu🐘 Discuss 08:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

what is it man? u r posing baseless allegations on me. pls read wp:npa. u seem to be canvassing people to vote according to ur wish u can visit wp:spi to file the spi investigation, but don’t make rubbish spurious remarks.ImNotAnEntrepreneur (talk) 09:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ImNotAnEntrepreneur (talk · contribs) I havent canvassed anyone in this AFD. And I did not accuse you for socketpuppetry. I just want this admin to have a look at it. Because that AFD have been involved by lot of socketpuppets. Did I opened any spi against you.? I just want this experienced admin to have a look at yours. Because some 1 day old accont like yours have previously voted at this AFD for vote sacking. Thats all. Regards Kichu🐘 Discuss 09:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

i know u did not open spi, but that is the right place not this or anywhere else if u feel that i am suspicious. i know this afd is very messy, but i saw it on india article for deletion, so thought of voting to it because i think it meets the creiteria and because mostly India articles get deleted because of less people on afd voting who can give real remark abt indian people. so if u think i made a wrong vote u could have talked to me, i have no issues in changing my vote if u feel im wrong. ImNotAnEntrepreneur (talk) 09:57, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ImNotAnEntrepreneur (talk · contribs), that is a very complex and messy AFD like you said. Let me tell you a thing. In that AFD, some new accounts have been already found as socks. So a new account of just 1 days suddenly showed up there, I felt something wrong. And believe me, I have nothing against you or anyone. One thing I agree with you, I should have told you first. And I apologise if I am wrong in that aspect. Let Generalnotability decides what to do next. Regards. And please keep this discussion out from this talk page. Kichu🐘 Discuss 10:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kashmorwiki, ImNotAnEntrepreneur, hello to both of you. I agree that a lot of socks have been involved in that AfD, but I don't see anything to definitively tie ImNotAnEntrepreneur to any of the others, nor do I see enough evidence to ask a checkuser to look into them at this time, so I'm going to exercise some WP:AGF here. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:47, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah thanks, even I couldn’t understand why he blamed me. That AfD was pretty messy. And to prevent socks from commenting you should’ve protected it to avoid socking comment issues. ImNotAnEntrepreneur (talk) 22:32, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Tech News: 2021-09

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

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  • Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
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  • There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [5]
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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

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  • A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
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  • A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
  • There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

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  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

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Re: Wikipedia:Advice for prospective SPI clerks

Had a look through this and I think it's solid advice but thought I'd drop my two cents on the entire concept on clerkship - I feel that more and more often clerkship is being seen as a stepping stone to adminship, which in itself is not a bad thing but it gives me (and probably a few others) the aura that this is an exclusive club that someone needs to get into. This is also a problem with adminship itself, where candidates might tend to tailor their profile for the highest chance of success, which again is probably not a bad thing, in moderation. I feel that we tend to overdo things with advice columns ("advice for RfA candidates", so on and so forth) so as to most effectively meet the goal. In the midst of all of this, I think we lose the point of what Wikipedia is all about, and why we should probably leave editors to their own devices. Apologies in advance for the long ramble, especially when most of this is regarding advice columns in general and not yours specifically. I came across this when you added it to the SPI clerk noticeboard and realized that it's probably a more existing concept than it should be, especially for closed structures like SPI. --qedk (t 愛 c) 18:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

QEDK, yeah, I get what you're saying. My main aim with that essay was to demystify the clerk selection process - let's be honest, it's almost entirely opaque to non-SPI folks. Also to prompt a bit of self-reflection from, let's say, the overly-enthusiastic editors who have no business anywhere near SPI. I'm definitely not in favor of SPI clerking as a stepping stone to adminship. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:34, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ARCA archives

I'm cannot find a link at WP:A/I or anywhere else. Do you know where they are? It's not just in the page history is it? Levivich harass/hound 02:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Levivich, ...yup, it's the page history. Don't look at me, I didn't make the system. Individual C/A requests are archived to the most relevant talk page (for cases, that's going to be the case talk page) but there isn't a centralized repository of all requests. SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 16:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
OK but can we add ARCA index to the revolutionary platform?
In other news, I know you just did one for Obamacare, but I can't help but think of Green Eggs and Ham when I read DESYSOP2021: They will not support it at 60 percent, they do not see an elephant. They will not support it with a trial, they will not support it by a mile.
Thirdly, whenever you have some time, your reactions, please, to: User:Levivich/Help and User:Levivich/sandbox2, both of which should be self-explanatory (I hope). Spanks a bunch! Levivich harass/hound 08:46, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Levivich, I'll put it on the platform (and ask team clerk what they think). The sandboxes look good! Is this intended to replace WP:Help? GeneralNotability (talk) 00:51, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's one possibility. Help:Contents should probably stay where it is, but this could be a replacement for the redirect WP:Help. (I just added Help:Contents button to the alternate layout, thanks for the idea.) Levivich harass/hound 05:43, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
BTW thanks for asking team clerk, and aside from an ARCA index, just adding what you told me (Individual C/A requests are archived to the most relevant talk page (for cases, that's going to be the case talk page)) to WP:ARCA would be helpful. I was able to find the drones ARCA I was looking for with your tip but it never occurred to me that there would be archived ARCA's on a case page's talk page and I see now it says that at WP:A/I, but I missed that earlier. Levivich harass/hound 23:38, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MaranoFan

Remember when MaranoFan accused me of being a sock puppet of youcancallmejimmy? The latter turned out to be a sock puppet of BillieKhalidFan. Does MaranoFan just get to get away with reporting me for no reason? The Ultimate Boss (talk) 09:15, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Ultimate Boss, unless an SPI report was clearly made in bad faith or an editor has a history of bad reports, we don't take action against someone for an incorrect report. SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 18:13, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Arbcom clerk skills

Hi GN - I'm considering asking for clarification from Arbcom of a piece of wording at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland#Article sourcing expectations; specifically, how we are to interpret the phrase 'academically focused'. There is a looooooooong discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#The_Volunteer_(book), with quite a lot of back and forth, but it all boils down to the question of what that phrase actually means. I don't want to drag you into the discussion, I'm just looking for guidance on whether this is something that the Arbs could look at, and if so, how I would go about filling in the paperwork to raise a clarification request. I've looked at those pages, and 'daunted' would be an decent descriptor of how they made me feel, but 'shit scared of making an idiot of myself by screwing them up' would probably be closer the mark. GirthSummit (blether) 12:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Girth Summit I don't know either, let's find out! So the correct venue is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment. I don't think ArbCom wants to rule on a specific source, but if you can summarize what exactly is being debated, the arbs would probably have something useful to add. There's a link near the top of the page, "Click here to file a request for clarification". I suspect you will need to name a lot of people as parties here, but I'm not experienced enough to give you a definite answer here; I believe Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Clerks#Noticeboard is the appropriate place to ask for help with that. I suspect that parties should include Buidhe and Volunteer Marek, but this is not in any way authoritative. GeneralNotability (talk) 04:18, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks GN; I've been having a chat about it with DGG on his talk page as well, going to think about it a bit more before doing anything. GirthSummit (blether) 13:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

That was some mass attack. Even cluebot was confused. Cheers, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:29, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-10

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

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  • Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
  • Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [7]
  • When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [8]

Problems

  • Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [9]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
  • The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [10]

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  • There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
  • Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [11][12]
  • New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for all the help, support and guidance you provided here — Amkgp 💬 04:37, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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