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Tech News: 2021-44

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  • There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [1]

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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

PF-07321332

Hi Anome

I note that you have been thinking today whether the article PF-07321332 should be moved to Paxlovid. I think you did the right thing by leaving it where it is for now. Paxlovid is definitely a Pfizer trademark and as far as I can determine they have not yet announced a proper "common name" for the compound. Pharma and AgChem companies are increasingly trying to avoid using common names, much preferring to get customers to only use their trademark. I think that Wikipedia should resist that pressure. When PF-07321332 is assigned a common name, we should move to using that but meanwhile leave well alone (although redirects are fine, of course). Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:05, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

I think you're right; that's exactly my reasoning for moving it back after the initial move. -- The Anome (talk) 17:22, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society

Dear The Anome/Archive 14,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty years or more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weaveravel (talk • contribs) 10:19, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Twenty years?! Absolutely impressive. One of the few, if not the only legitimate Ultimate Vanguard Editor (or Cardinal Gom, the August Togneme of the Encyclopedia)! Congrats, and keep it up! ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:27, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

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  • There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [6]

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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Perth Savings Bank

The article is copy and paste but from my Word document which I use to prepare the text. It is not copy and paste from any other source, though obviously heavily dependent on the official history. Bebington (talk) 15:21, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey

...you blocked User:Kamen rider saber is back! a while back--thanks. Turns out, they tried to create a whole bunch of impersonation accounts (you know, Drm.ies and variations like that), and they are clearly the same person as User:Cum deep 125, who did the same kind of stupid stuff. Looking at these edits, the gorilla thing jogs my memory but I can't remember who that was--but I suspect you do. Is there an SPI? I dropped some blocks, but there's not very much I can do. Thanks for your help, Drmies (talk) 16:26, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@Drmies: Hi. I'm afraid I wasn't aware of the context; unfortunately, nothing jogs my memory either, so I can't be much help here. "Is back!" accounts are certainly usually signs of a long-term abuser, but I can't pin it down to any particular SPI. -- The Anome (talk) 12:38, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2021

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Sorry and thank you

@The Anome I did not see that you had added a citation in Zipper BDSM, and the latest diff I saw was that, you had removed the the maintenance tag, so I thought it to be a vandalism, and reverted it. But when I saw that you had already added a citation, I reverted my edits, and I also reverted the warning that I left on your talk page.

And thanks a bunch for giving me a thank, for my edit. It is the second thank that I received. The first one was from @Th78blue Your thanks means a lot to me. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 14:48, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

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21:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

"Robert George Adams" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Robert George Adams. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 30#Robert George Adams until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Leschnei (talk) 14:03, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

COVID-19 Barnstar
Awarded for significant contribution to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant page. SpookiePuppy (talk) 22:05, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! The Anome (talk) 10:50, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chasey Lain

I was perfectly entitled to put that redirect back as the page was deleted at AFD and the ip created one with no sources at all. Spartaz Humbug! 21:24, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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Johann Biacsics

I just had an edit clash with some of your changes to this article. I did my best to rebuild a version with both of our changes, but if I missed anything please don't take it personally: it was an accident, not deliberate.--Gronk Oz (talk) 13:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Johann Biacsics for deletion

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HouseOfChange (talk) 04:53, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Participation in a signpost interview

Hi The Anome, hope that you're well. I was wondering if you'd be able to participate in a Signpost interview in your capacity as a contributor to WP:COVID19? I am enthusiastic about these interviews because they help remind other Wikipedians about the passionate and diverse group of volunteers that edit Wikipedia, and into the many discussions and editors that inhabit our space, nooks and crannies. If you had time to even answer a few questions here (User:Tom (LT)/sandbox/WikiProject COVID19 interview draft) I'd be very grateful :). Tom (LT) (talk) 22:43, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a survey about medical topics on Wikipedia

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Hey, Anome,

I was just stumbling around, looking at various bot reports and found Wikipedia:Database reports/Active editors with the longest-established accounts which states you have been editing Wikipedia for over 20 years! There should be a special barnstar, badge or something but there are only about two dozen recipients who could receive it so maybe it'll take a while to be created.

Congratulations on your longevity! I'm glad Wikipedia has kept your interest. We all benefit from you and your bots' editing. Liz Read! Talk! 00:34, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

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  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

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  • Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [10]

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  • The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [11]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Am caught up in an Anonymous Block

Hello the Anome, I think my IP is caught up in an anonymous block. While am able to edit on normal wiki interface I can't use any tools such as SW viewer or JWB that I often use daily. What can I do to fix this?--Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 11:20, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

I've added you to the IP Block Exempt group. Please let me know if this helps. -- The Anome (talk) 11:29, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
It's now working. Thank you Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 11:39, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I would like my IPBE to be removed since the IP block on my range has expired. I hope I can request it again when needed. Cheers Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 20:23, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

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Happy New Year The Anome!

Happy New Year The Anome!
I am grateful for our interactions this year. I am wishing you a happy and prosperous new year. Cheers Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 17:12, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

A t-shirt!
A token of thanks
Hi The Anome! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
A snowflake!

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Wishing you a happy 2022! Happy holidays

Happy New Year!
The Anome,
Have a great 2022 and thanks for your continued contributions to Wikipedia.

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– North America1000 17:42, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Austrian anti-vaccination activists

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19:54, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Hana Horka

I redirected her bio to Asonance as I couldn't find any coverage of her other than about her death from COVID-19. Per BLP1E, we shouldn't have a separate article on her as her death was in itself not a major event. You can add more info to the band's article. Fences&Windows 23:32, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

@Fences and windows: I've reverted your edit; please see Wikipedia:What BLP1E is not. She is known for two things: her membership of a well-known Czech musical group, and dying for her anti-vax beliefs, something which has achieved global notoriety and world-wide media coverage. I'm really tired of BLP1E being used as a blanket policy to delete articles on anti-vax deaths. Please take it to AFD if you want to delete it. -- The Anome (talk) 07:23, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
Sure thing: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hana Horka. I don't know of other cases of anti-vax deaths having articles, I just saw this one and thought it was inappropriate. An analogous list was deleted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of gender reveal party accidents. Fences&Windows 13:29, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Malfunctioning bot

Anomebot2 seems to be malfunctioning; it's adding coordinates with both negative longitudes and "W" longitudes, causing a spurt of entries in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags. I don't want to shut dowm the bot without giving you a chance to fix this. Deor (talk) 19:28, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@Deor: Oh no! Thanks for the heads-up: this is a silly programming error on my part. I have stopped that bot run, and will set the bot to fix all those errors tomorrow morning, so there should be no need to fix them by hand. Fortunately, it looks like only 157 have slipped through so far. -- The Anome (talk) 19:43, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
OK. You'll have to unblock the bot, which I blocked, since it was continuing with similar edits. (It's also adding overprecise coordinates, apparently getting them from Wikidata, and not adding region codes or location types. I consider that less than optimal) Deor (talk) 19:47, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
I will unblock the bot, and also roll back the contentious edits, hopefully by tomorrow morning, and I will not add them again until I've got consensus. -- The Anome (talk) 20:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
@Deor:I've removed the tags, thus clearing out Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags; this is not a perfect fix because doing this will have messed with stub notice formatting in some cases, but I will go back and fix that in a separate pass later once I've fixed the tag-remover code. Once that's done, everything should have been restored to its pristine state. -- The Anome (talk) 13:17, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

@Deor: I've fixed the formatting glitches now, and also reinstated as many of the coord missing tags as I could easily find. I'll take a deeper look later for any remaining data loss from these edits, and either write some code or hand-fix the last of it. -- The Anome (talk) 20:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

OK, thanks for your attention to this. Deor (talk) 20:02, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
After that I can revisit the new Wikidata coordinate extraction code, and address the issues you've raised regarding precision, type and region tagging. I'll put it up for review before running it again. Sorry about the incovenience, and thanks again for catching the problem before the bot made even more of a mess. -- The Anome (talk) 20:06, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Christians.

Lammas is a PAGAN FESTIVAL STOP LYING TO URSELF 105.213.145.58 (talk) 12:20, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

"Bhadravati(Chandrapur)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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  • If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [22]

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Jimmy Savile

Hi The Anome. I wonder could you please restore my recent comment, which seems to have been unwittingly trampled? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:17, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@Martinevans123: I've restored it. Apologies. The edit conflict handling in Mediawiki leaves much to be desired, and sometimes even trashes things when I use the back button to back out of the edit and explicitly ask to make a new edit, instead of preserving the old one. -- The Anome (talk) 12:31, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks for your quick response! Yes, I know what you mean. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:32, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

"Acmegenesis" listed at Redirects for discussion

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21:15, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bust of Leopold II of Belgium, Ghent

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Tech News: 2022-07

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Recent changes

  • Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [24]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [25]

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Bust of Leopold II of Belgium, Ghent for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bust of Leopold II of Belgium, Ghent is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bust of Leopold II of Belgium, Ghent until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Tech News: 2022-08

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Recent changes

  • Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [26]
  • At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [27]
  • You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [28]
  • There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [29][30]
  • Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [31]
  • Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Unmerge of Mbah Gotho

Would you mind explaining why you split this article out from Longevity myths? It was merged a couple of years ago (see discussion) for good reason. Cheers! -- Pingumeister(talk) 12:34, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

It seemed like a good idea, but I failed to read the talk page. Apologies. I've reverted my edits. -- The Anome (talk) 16:56, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of KAT Hospital for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article KAT Hospital is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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EBotsEleẞotstalks 03:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-09

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Recent changes

  • When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [32]
  • Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [33][34]
  • The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

  • The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [35]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

  • Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
  • If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais

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Tech News: 2022-10

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Problems

  • There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [36]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

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Recent changes

  • In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [37][38]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
  • There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [39]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [40]
  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [41]
  • On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [42]

Future changes

Events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

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New code release schedule for this week

  • There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

Future changes

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16:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Robert Bishop

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Tech News: 2022-13

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Recent changes

  • There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [47][48]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

"Transcendental Meditation® program" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Transcendental Meditation® program and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 28#Transcendental Meditation® program until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Wali (sniper) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Wali (sniper) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Renat 16:38, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14

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Problems

  • For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [49]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

"Sedan(car)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Sedan(car) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 6#Sedan(car) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 19:12, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

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Tagged for notability since 2011. Very promotional. Zero sources found

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Tech News: 2022-15

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Recent changes

  • There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
  • On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [51][52]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

"Lucky Charms® (cereal)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Lucky Charms® (cereal) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#Lucky Charms® (cereal) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 04:59, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

"Osho®" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Osho® and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#Osho® until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 05:07, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
  • On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [53]
  • Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Lubianka in Ukraine

Hi, Lubianka, Borodianka Raion... An obvious name change is: Lubianka, Bucha Raion, but I am wondering why not the name is not in the format: name, raion, oblast, so it should be: Lubianka, Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast. ThWiki1910 (talk) 08:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

 Done, to follow the pattern given in the disambiguation page Lubianka. — The Anome (talk) 08:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Malcolm Sargent Primary School

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Tech News: 2022-17

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Recent changes

  • On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [58][59]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [60]

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Malcolm Sargent Primary School for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Malcolm Sargent Primary School is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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AusLondonder (talk) 16:17, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18

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Recent changes

  • On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [61][62]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

"Lucky Charms® (cereal)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Lucky Charms® (cereal) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 3#Lucky Charms® (cereal) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 00:36, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

Problems

  • Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [67]
  • Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [68]

Changes later this week

Future meetings

  • The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

"Illegal drug" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Illegal drugs" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Tech News: 2022-20

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

  • Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [70]
  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

  • You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [71]

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Daman and Diu articles missing geocoordinate data

A tag has been placed on Category:Daman and Diu articles missing geocoordinate data indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 22:02, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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Recent changes

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [72]
  • The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [73]

Problems

  • The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [74]
  • Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [75]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

  • Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [76]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease

These's a request about a template you just created. Fullprot seems excessive, especially considering none of the other uw templates are full protected. I think Template protection or semi protection should be enough. 67.21.154.193 (talk) 15:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Hi Octane

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The article Hi Octane has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Sources are primary or not about the show. Given its extremely short life, it likely attracted no attention from media

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@TenPoundHammer: It most certainly has attracted press attention, to the point where people have recently written retrospectives about it, over 25 years after its broadcast. I've added three more WP:RS, and removed the PROD notice. — The Anome (talk) 08:20, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [77]
  • The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
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  • The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [78][79]
  • Advanced item The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [80]
  • A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [81]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing newsletter 2022 – #1

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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

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23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Category:Battle of Kyiv (2022) has been nominated for merging

Category:Battle of Kyiv (2022) has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

What's a reliable source for a movies director then, if Wikipedia isn't either?

Honest query, pal. 49.184.175.53 (talk) 16:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

The more reputable parts of the mainstream press (see WP:RELIABLE), books published by reputable publishers, and film industry magazines that meet WP:RS: see Category:Film magazines by country for an extensive list of film magazines. — The Anome (talk) 16:29, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

request about filter 1168

I made a list of characters to possibly add or test there or changes to make. see here. 67.21.154.193 (talk) 12:46, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll look into it. — The Anome (talk) 16:37, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [85]
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [86]
  • The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [87][88]

Future meetings

  • The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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