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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
- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [3][4]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55as well as the1.2.3.4/27syntax for IP ranges. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [6][7]
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Open tasks
- As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing
wgPageNamewithout first assigning it a value or usingmw.config.get('wgPageName')instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to usemw.configinstead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.
Miscellaneous
- For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
- A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.
Pending requests
- A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations
- A script to help manage Z number templates
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Resubmission of draft
Hello, *:Amkgp, A few days ago you reviewed the Chani Nattan. According to the helpful suggestions of you and a few other users and administrators, I've updated the page since. Will you please take a look. Thanks. HisVic (talk) 17:56, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- HisVic, I do not find it notable enough to pass through WP:AFC. YouTube, Spotify, IMDb etc. as references should be avoided as they are generally not considered WP:RS. Please be patient. If you want further help post your query either at Teahouse or Articles for creation help desk — Amkgp 💬 18:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Re-submission of a declined draft for re-reviewing
Hello there, I wanted to know where I am going wrong. I worked on the citations part and was able to find some of them from old papers and references. What else can be included in them for a stronger draft? Thanking you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siddharthpetare (talk • contribs) 07:25, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [8]
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [9]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [10][11]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [12]
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [13]
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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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
- There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [14][15]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
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17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Deletion Of Darts Players
Hi, Could you please stop suggesting that darts players I have put up basic info for on here are suggestions for deletion, please? These players have participated in major tournaments in their sport and deserve to have their (in most cases, limited) profiles mentioned on here. That's Wikipedia is for, highlighting players that not many people will have heard about. Darts might not be a massive sport compared to others, but these players have earned their pages by right, and shouldn't be deleted.
If you're such a senior editor as you say you are, you should update the rules so that everyone who has appeared in a major tournament, or who has won a PDC Tour Card. It's very embarrassing that these pages keep on being deleted, when they shouldn't be.JRRobinson (talk) 15:46, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- JRRobinson If they are notable per WP:SPORTSPERSON and passes WP:GNG then it will survive at the WP:AFD otherwise, they will be removed. Wikipedia is not a WP:WEBHOST or a platform for WP:PROMOTION. Rules and policy are not decided by a single person here. Thank you. — Amkgp 💬 15:53, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Amkgp There's no section for darts players in that bit, so all these deletions aren't valid. There needs to be a darts area on that section of WP:SPORTSPERSON.
Thank you
Hi Amkgp, I hope you are well. I wanted to let you know that Beryl May Dent passed GA today - easily - as you said it would! I am really pleased :) I wanted to thank you for giving me the encouragement to nominate it in the first place and for telling how to do it (I didn't know). I am thinking of nominating Jane Ingham as well - I wouldn't mind your considered opinion on whether it would be worth nominating it for GA. I am also considering of nominating Beryl for featured article status given the reviewers comments - but I might have a week off Wikipedia before I do that. Anyway, thanks again, much appreciated, and have a great evening. Gricharduk (talk) 17:27, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Gricharduk congratulations on getting the article passed to GA. I think it is of FA standard and should pass FA. You may nominate it after you come back from break. For now nominate it for DYK. Regarding Jane Ingham you may proceed for GA as well. — Amkgp 💬 22:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Sidney Hill
On 20 February 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sidney Hill, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized shorthorn cattle? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sidney Hill. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sidney Hill), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
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 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. [17]
- The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [18]
Problems
- 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. [19]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).
Future changes
- 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)
Need help for moving draft
Hello respected, Amkgp I have created a draft about Draft:Sandy Saha (actor).The page Sandy Saha has been deleted three times . So I have created a draft about Sandy Saha and I need an editor or admin to review this draft and move it to the article space. So please review this draft and if you think this should be in article space then move it to the article . Thank you Batamore (talk) 07:00, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
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
- 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.
- A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.
Problems
- 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. [20]
- Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).
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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
important
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_I_Hate_Speedy_Deleters
It would be nice to allow a business to actually finish their page before you try to jump on the bandwagon of being a hater — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimi.link (talk • contribs) 20:18, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Mimi.link, Please note, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place for WP:PROMOTION. — Amkgp 💬 20:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
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
- 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. [22]
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [23]
Problems
- Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [24]
Changes later this week
- 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. [25]
Future changes
- 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. [26][27]
- 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)
Too much, too early, too fast
Hi Amkgp,
I had previously recommended WP:AN, but I take the suggestion back; the situation looks different than when I looked at it the first time.
My current recommended approach is instead:
- Sleep
- Look at the situation again
- If still completely upset, give it another day
- When not upset anymore, continue editing as if nothing had happened.
Because that's, in the end, all that matters. The encyclopedia doesn't care about the drama, it cares about article contributions. The community serves the encyclopedia. Everyone does.
Enjoy editing and don't let this stress you out.
Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Final Words
Thank you Nick Birse for being punitive and harsh enough so that I don't survive in this space and not able to contribute here any further by portraying as an untrusted user and a WP:HATSHOP. You ignored all the large contributions of 35,000+ I made as an AFC reviewer, NPP reviewer, file mover, page mover, rollbacker and pending changes reviewer. In fact I was a regular editor who would catch people violating copyright (both in article space and file space) and engaging in sockpuppeting, vandalism or subject to WP:UAA apart from creating quality articles be it biographical or COVID-19 vaccine related. My contribution page was always available to verify and even looking atleast a month old contributions would have made it clear. But you did not bother and pretended to be ready in reversing your action both at your talk-page here and WP:AN discussion. — Amkgp 💬 04:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)