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Rosalind Franklin

Hi DMacks.

A newly-created account has altered the Rosalind Franklin page in its lede section in what MAY hsve been five good-faith edits but has left it in a bit of a mess, with the first "minor" edit in particular repeating what is already in a later part of the lede (and less accurate). I'm not confident I know how to revert back to your last good version, so could you do that, please? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. DMacks (talk) 15:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A cupcake topped with nontoxic long-chain alcohol compounds for you!

Noticed you had fixed some things on 1-Pentadecanol, specifically some weird infobox parameters I didn't even know existed. It looks great now -- thanks! jp×g 04:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delicious (thank goodness it's non-toxic). Thanks for writing a nice chemistry article. I think the scientific term for the infoboxes is "deep magic":) DMacks (talk) 05:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

chemistry

wishing you a very good afternoon sir! my topic of discussion is regarding the wikipedia page "atomic radius data page". would like to know if I want to study the trends of radius in periodic table, should i refer to the data given under "empirical" section or under "calculated" section? Vanshita poddar (talk) 07:50, 25 March 2021 (UTC) vanshita poddar[reply]

please respond sir. Vanshita poddar (talk) 18:30, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: March 2021

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Tech News: 2021-13

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

Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [1]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [2]

Problems

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [3]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [4][5]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Moving request

Hello. Probably easier to ask here: Please move 2-aminoacetanilide to the correct name 2-Aminoacetanilide. (You have already moved the para isomer). Thanks. Christian75 (talk) 11:35, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Probably not hard to pull a list of all chem/drug articles whose first letter isn't a capital. I can try to work on that in the next day or three. DMacks (talk) 13:52, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are no mainspace articles containing drugbox or chembox whose title does not contain any capital letters. DMacks (talk) 05:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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Tech News: 2021-14

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

Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [6]

Changes later this week

The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [7]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)