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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.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [1]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [2]
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (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
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [3]
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [4]
Changes later this week
- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [5]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [6]
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy Holidays!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020! |
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Hello PaleoNeonate, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
- Many thanks, Noah Kastin, best wishes to you too and happy new year, —PaleoNeonate – 07:28, 24 December 2019 (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.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
- All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can use
setlangin the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [7]
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20:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks
I appreciate the welcome message. Though I’ve been registered for years I have contributed rarely, and I will certainly benefit from the links you sent on how to do so properly.
The cookies may well be warm, but my browser doesn’t let me access third party cookies, so I will have to pass.
Best,
Tangiblethree (talk) 16:45, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Show respect for other editors and in future check sources
Your onslaught editing was uncalled for. Don't use shorthand when making large reversions of other editors work. Next time read the sources to discern why comments are removed and don't take it upon yourself to remove relevant third party sourced material without explanation.--IC (talk) 13:00, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Salviati64: You should really read WP:BRD and WP:CONSENSUS. The article's talk page is where the content discussion should occur. As for the lack of respect accusation, please assume good faith, there's nothing wrong with reverting initial questionable edits. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 16:16, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- Read it. You should read edit summaries before you take a sickle to others work. Btw when i R'd your B why didn't you D? Maybe because WP:BRD includes other available options. --IC (talk) 16:21, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- When you checked the source and realised the education comment wasn't in the provided source and was out of context in a survey about religious belief, why didn't you assume assume good faith? What was questionable about the third party sourced comment you removed? When the edit summary said the text didn't accurately represent the source in other areas besides education did you check it before deleting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salviati64 (talk • contribs) 16:30, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- I did read the edit summary, the new text, checked the sources and even preserved part of your edit while adding an additional link. But consensus isn't a two-editor thing, which is why the discussion should really pursue at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses, ideally with the participation of more editors (assuming you still want to remove the information about education). Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 16:41, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- You thought it was better to retain an inaccurate ungrammatical 90 word sentence, to remove a third party sourced statement? Is that your understanding of wikipedia, talk pages first, consensus then edit? Is that how WP:BRD works? Here I've been under the assumption that editors should edit to improve articles based on reliable sources. You said you read my edit summaries so your last question is redundant. I reverted because your edit was sloppy and ill considered. --IC (talk) 17:28, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- I did read the edit summary, the new text, checked the sources and even preserved part of your edit while adding an additional link. But consensus isn't a two-editor thing, which is why the discussion should really pursue at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses, ideally with the participation of more editors (assuming you still want to remove the information about education). Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 16:41, 4 January 2020 (UTC)