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Tech News: 2020-47

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

  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [1][2]

Changes later this week

  • If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [3]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

that vandal from Louisville

DannyS712, I appreciate your zeal, but reverting that editor a dozen times is not helpful at all--it just means that admins have to revdelete more content, and the edit history gets more clogged up with those edits, and they get what they want. Just warn and report, please. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 22:25, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

@Drmies: Sorry, I thought that it warranted reverting given how inappropriate the content was, and they were already reported to AIV - I'll refrain, but I'm sure other editors will revert instead (also for history getting clogged up, deletion and selective undeletion can hide that) DannyS712 (talk) 22:27, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
I have already revdeleted the content, but the entries, with the crossed out bit, are still there. I've been revdeleting this a-hole's vandalism for years now; the less we have to scrub the better. If AIV isn't responding, you can go through Recent changes to see if any admins are at work--that's what I usually do when I'm IP-slumming. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 22:30, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
@Drmies okay, now at Special:Contributions/71.66.32.150 DannyS712 (talk) 22:32, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, and thank you L235. Kevin, they sort of alternate in that border area. Can you maybe place a note on the CU list to see if anyone has any ideas? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 22:40, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
@Drmies: Hey I just emailed you directly re CU action here. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 22:50, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) See my test filter (1013 (hist · log)) for something I came up with to try and prevent this kind of situation. Throttle params will require lots of adjustment, but it might work. I'll agree with Danny also; if it's serious vandalism to a BLP (and not an obscure species of beetle, or a thick-skinned admin's talk page), the WP:READER comes first, and if the history gets clogged, it gets clogged. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:53, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Account creator granted

After reviewing your request for the "accountcreator" permission, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things:

  • The account creator right removes the limit on the maximum number of new accounts that can be created in a 24-hour period.
  • The account creator right is not a status symbol. If it remains unused, it is likely to be removed. Abuse of the account creator right will result in its removal by an administrator.

If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the account creator right. Happy editing! — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:53, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Ignore the incorrect part of the first sentence from the template. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:53, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
@JJMC89: Thanks so much - this also means that I won't run afoul of Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Global rollbackers if I break the ratelimits :) DannyS712 (talk) 04:58, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
Okay.. is now a good time to run for admin?? You have 9 separate permanent user rights. The case for you needing the tools cannot be more strong. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 18:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
No thanks DannyS712 (talk) 02:04, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-November 2020

Hello, DannyS712! Here is the November 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.

To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 02:34, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

  • Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [4]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • 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 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [5]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Selective undeletion script

Hi Danny – hope you're well. You wanted to me to poke you on-wiki about the possibility of a script for Wikipedia:Selective deletion. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 23:07, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. Thinking about it more though, I'm not quite sure it'll work - I'll try to write something up when I get a chance DannyS712 (talk) 20:10, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
@L235 okay, not pretty, but m:User:DannyS712/SelectiveDeleter.js should do what you want - view the page history, select which revisions you want deleted, and click the button - no guarantees made though DannyS712 (talk) 05:45, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-49

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

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

Future changes

  • The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [6][7]
  • Advanced item The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [8]

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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

removed Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

added Izno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Updated scripts Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks
GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper
GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks

Miscellaneous

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for putting this together, DannyS712! —valereee (talk) 19:06, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Possible impostor

https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User_talk:DannyS712 is possibly impersonating you. Please confirm. --a gd fan (talk) 18:01, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Thats not me DannyS712 (talk) 18:04, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Ok then, will remind RhinosF1 --a gd fan (talk) 18:08, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

  • You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [9][10]

Changes later this week

  • Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [11][12]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

human red blood cell

human red blood cells are such a biological cells such all these red blood cells, are about10,000nanometers across. NOTE=1MICROMETER=1,000 NANOMETERS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.134.121.19 (talk) 16:19, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.

                 Current and upcoming events

Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now.

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive.

October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz.

November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests.

Other news

Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above).

Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello DannyS712,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations

Please accept my sincerest congratulations on your honor and Kudos for the hard work you have done. Thank you RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 01:55, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks so much DannyS712 (talk) 02:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Please Review

Hello, Can you kindly review my article Draft:Harry Fear and inform me if it needs any more editing? Thanks in advance. Engy Badawy (talk) 23:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I'm not very familiar with the topic, so I'll leave it for another reviewer, but thanks for asking DannyS712 (talk) 00:15, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

DannyS712 bot doing something odd

Hi Danny the new list of orphans with incoming links (03:01, 13 December 2020) begins with Norway, with 73458 incoming links. I thought someone might have tagged it as an orphan by mistake, but if there’s an orphan tag on that page anywhere, I can’t find it. This is the first time the bot has produced a result that looks to me like a mistake. All the best Mccapra (talk) 05:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

@Mccapra one of my other scripts thought it was an orphan too, because there was an orphan tag transcluded on the page - fixed in Special:Diff/993925585 at Template:Largest cities of Norway DannyS712 (talk) 05:46, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
Ah ok many thanks. Mccapra (talk) 05:47, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Review request

Any chance you could review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/647841 before the train branch is cut today (Mon Dec 14)? This is the last train for the year, and there are some patches on the Parsoid side that are blocked by this getting deployed. (Also, is there a better way to reach you on IRC or slack, etc?) C. Scott Ananian (talk) 17:54, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

@Cscott when I'm around I'm on IRC, but sure, let me take a look DannyS712 (talk) 17:57, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

  • There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [13]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Help creating a Quarry

Can you help me by creating a Quarry with the following parameters?

  • Page ID after 66000000
  • In article namespace
  • Title begins with either "Death" or "Shooting" or "Killing"

Thank you so much! --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 12:41, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: done, see quarry:query/50577. (talk page stalker) Majavah (talk!) 13:14, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Majavah, thank you! --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 13:23, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

Pending requests Pending requests

Miscellaneous

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Against nomination of deletion of

Arundhati Holme Chowdhury . I have seen many articles only with IMDb used as external link. So please review it properly. Thanks Wikifulness (talk) 18:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

It looks like the CSD was declined anyway DannyS712 (talk) 21:29, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Printing

  • Do you know which newsletter/user, was the one that shared that the 'Page for Printing' link would be gone? --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 03:51, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
    Not sure, sorry DannyS712 (talk) 04:39, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

DisamAssist

Hello DannyS712, Do you still use User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist? Jerm (talk) 07:27, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I haven't in a while, no DannyS712 (talk) 07:38, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Ok, I was just wondering because I made the userbox Template:User wikipedia/DisamAssist but didn't know what policy to link in it. Either WP:DAB or Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Links because the main page of DisamAssist states it helps for disambiguating links, but I don't use it so I wouldn't exactly know. Jerm (talk) 07:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

  • The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [14]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

  • You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
  • Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [15]
  • Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [16]

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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-December 2020

Hello, DannyS712! Here is the December 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

  • Here are the events of December 2020

Wikipedia News

  • On the French Wikipedia, the new vector skin design has already been rolled out! Check it out here!
  • Wikipedia will soon celebrate it's 20th Birthday very soon! Go back to 2001 by visiting nostalgia.wikipedia.org !
  • EN Wikipedia has more than 6,200,000 Articles!

Humor

  • Santa is watching you.... Don't vandalise Wikipedia, or he will reward you a block and no presents this year if you do so. (Seriously don't vandalise Wikipedia, even if santa isn't watching)
  • More turkey on Christmas

Notes

  • We are trying out this pilot style newspaper, making it easier for you, and our editors to use. Please let me know what you think about this new 'style' of newspaper!
  • The Wikipedia Ads section will be omitted, to make the flow of this newsletter easier. Discuss this issue here

To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. Enjoy this Issue and stay safe! Happy Holidays --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy holidays

This year, many people had COVID to fear,
The holidays are getting near,
One thing that will be clear,
We will still have holiday cheer,
Happy holidays and happy new year!!
From Interstellarity (talk) 14:14, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

@Interstellarity thanks, and to you as well DannyS712 (talk) 23:20, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho

Donner60 (talk) is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec20}} to your friends' talk pages.

@Donner60: thanks, and to you as well --DannyS712 (talk) 04:03, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

Hello DannyS712, 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 2021.
Happy editing,
RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 03:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

May Jesus Christ bless you and your loved ones on this day. Merry Christmas!RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 03:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

@RAJIVVASUDEV: thanks, and to you as well DannyS712 (talk) 04:04, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

File:Christmas tree in field.jpg Merry Christmas DannyS712

Hi DannyS712, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas
and a very happy and prosperous New Year,
Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia this past year, like this tree, you are a light shining in the darkness.
Onel5969 TT me 12:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

@Onel5969: thanks, and to you as well --DannyS712 (talk) 16:34, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Danny!

Hello DannyS712: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, TheSandDoctor Talk 16:27, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message
@TheSandDoctor: thanks, and to you as well --DannyS712 (talk) 16:34, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

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Happy New Year, DannyS712!

Happy New Year!

DannyS712,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 11:19, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

@1234qwer1234qwer4 thanks, and to you as well DannyS712 (talk) 18:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Empire AS Talk! — is wishing you a Happy New Year! It's the last day of 2020 and tomorrow will be 2025. Hope the coming year brings pleasures for you. Have a prosperous, enjoyable and a productive 2025. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:New Year 2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Empire AS Talk! 17:57, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: thanks, and to you as well --DannyS712 (talk) 18:14, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
thanks. :) Empire AS Talk! 18:19, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year, DannyS712!

Happy New Year!

DannyS712,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 01:40, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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ITN RDs

Hi DannyS712 -- I undid your closures of RDs as stale because we are now posting them from the top, irrespective of date of death, see the discussions on the talk page. They remain open until they physically roll of the bottom of the ITN/C page. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 07:29, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

@Espresso Addict I've seen the talk page discussion already, thanks DannyS712 (talk) 07:30, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Snyder v. Massachusetts

Hey there and Happy New Year. In this article, at least to a layman like myself, it is not clear what the decision is. In the portion which says, "...denying a defendant permission to attend a view..." I think it would help if you let the reader know what "a view" is. Onel5969 TT me 15:12, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

It wasn't really clear to me either, which was one of the reasons I stopped working on the article. I'll try to figure it out DannyS712 (talk) 23:42, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your work in Project Spaceflight

The SPFLT Achievement Patch
Delighted to have your eyes on Proton (satellite program) and to see you around Spaceflight in general! Neopeius (talk) 03:02, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
@Neopeius: thanks --DannyS712 (talk) 03:30, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks again! If you've ever got something to review, feel free to hit me up. :) --Neopeius (talk) 15:21, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
  • Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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

  • You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [17]
  • You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [18]
  • Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
    • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [19]
    • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [20]
    • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
  • Advanced item There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [21]
  • Advanced item Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [22]
  • Advanced item Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [23]
  • Advanced item CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [24]
  • Recurrent item There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

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

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


Bot category tagging request

Please tag the categories listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_January_15#Team_broadcaster_categories Thank you. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 00:32, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

I can do it, but it won't be anytime soon since I don't remember where I put the bot config (or passwords :( ) - sorry. Also, note that some of the categories you listed there don't exist DannyS712 (talk) 00:33, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy 20th anniversary!

Celebration~!
Wikipedia will only ever turn 20 once! Hope you are doing well and have a prosperous onwiki experience in the future.
–MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 01:55, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
@MJL thanks, and you too DannyS712 (talk) 02:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-January 2021

Hello, DannyS712! Here is the January 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

  • Here are the events of January!!

Wikipedia News

  • Wikipedia is now 20 years old!! Notice a different logo?
  • There is now more than 1 billion edits on Wikipedia!
  • The Simple English Wikipedia now has more than 180,000 Articles! So close to 200,000!

Humor

  • Did you realize that the word "Humour" has been spelt wrong? I didn't until now! ;)
  • I hope you didn't edit Wikipedia straight on and Missed Christmas...

Notes

  • We are trying out this pilot style newspaper, making it easier for you, and our editors to use. Please let me know what you think about this new 'style' of newspaper!
  • The Wikipedia Ads section will be omitted, to make the flow of this newsletter easier. Discuss this issue here

To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. Enjoy this Issue and stay safe! Happy New Year! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:18, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

Changes later this week

  • Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [28]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Nice Work Sponsored by Anan (talk) 15:57, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
@Sponsored by Anan: I'm not an admin --DannyS712 (talk) 23:36, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:10, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05

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

Changes later this week

  • You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [30]
  • 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. [31][32]
  • Advanced item Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [33]
  • Recurrent item 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. [34][35]
  • Advanced item 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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22:38, 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:

Open tasks

  • As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. 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 Pending 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)

Scripts++ newsletter duplicate

Hello, The MMS system has been sent twice to myself and other users, however not all have revcieved a duplicate. Not sure if this should be reported / where this should be mentioned. I notice that there is only a single log for the newsletter to be sent. The second time it was sent was at 15:12.

Examples of duplicates: User talk:Terasail, User talk:Path slopu, User talk:ZLEA

Non duplicate: User talk:Chlod

Just a bit strange... Terasail[✉] 16:37, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, this is a bug with the extension as far as I can tell. I'm fairly sure its a known issue on phabricator, will try to find the task DannyS712 (talk) 16:40, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
@DannyS712: Just had a look and it appears it has already been reported, at phab:T270873 & phab:T73548, although the second seems to be a slightly different issue. Terasail[✉] 16:48, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

GA review

Hello! Thanks so much for reviewing my GA nomination for Illinois Public Access Opinion 16-006. I just wanted to let you know that I'm busy in real life (I'm moving to a new home!), therefore my responses to your suggestions may be slightly delayed. I'd appreciate your patience! Edge3 (talk) 03:22, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

@Edge3: Thanks for letting me know. I should be done with my initial pass in under an hour, and then will place it on hold so you can address the issues DannyS712 (talk) 03:25, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

DiscussionCloser question/bug

Hey Danny, hope all is well. Quick question, when using DiscussionCloser, there seems to be added line breaks when {{atop}} is added. See this edit for reference. Is there any way to remove those line breaks when using the script? Thanks. -- LuK3 (Talk) 15:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure - I'm working on rewriting the script, hopefully the new version won't have that issue --DannyS712 (talk) 16:23, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

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. [37]
  • Recurrent item 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. [38][39]
  • 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. [40]
  • Advanced item 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. [41]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks so much DannyS712 (talk) 08:04, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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. [42][43]
  • 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. [44]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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)

TheWikiWizard-February 2021

Hello, DannyS712! Here is the February 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

Wikipedia News

Humour

THESE STATEMENTS ARE NOT TRUE/NOT GOOD ADVICE. ALWAYS FOLLOW THE POLICIES THAT WIKIPEDIA HAS. EVERYTHING LISTED HERE IN THIS SECTION IS SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF HUMOUR

  • If you have a COI, and you don't want to declare it, don't! (For all we know, a dog could be writing [or rather typing] this statement ;) )

Notes

  • We have a new editor on our team! Berrely will be joining the TWW team as a proofreader starting from the next issue onwards! (No more typos now...)
  • The Wikipedia Ads section will be omitted, to make the flow of this newsletter easier. Discuss this issue here

To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. Enjoy this Issue and stay safe! Happy Chinese New Year! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:02, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Barnstar

For your work creating the Global watchlist, which will no doubt be of tremendous help to many users working across multiple wikis. Congratulations, and well done! --Yair rand (talk) 23:38, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

@Yair rand: Thanks so much DannyS712 (talk) 00:28, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Message request.

Hi, I have a small list of userbox ideas that I was going to send out to people who make userboxes on request, and I saw your name on the list, but while I was checking you out, I noticed you also take requests to mass message people, so I was thinking maybe it would be easier if you could just send my small list to everyone who does userbox requests to see if anyone is interested in doing one of the boxes on my list? If someone would be interested in doing one of them all they have to do is contact me about what I would like it to say. Here is my list of ideas to choose from:

@Huggums537 sorry, I'm no longer working with userboxes and have removed myself from that list DannyS712 (talk) 16:29, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi Danny, I was actually just asking if you would send the emails for me. Thanks. Huggums537 (talk) 17:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
@Huggums537 emails? If you mean a mass message, I suggest requesting it at Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders since it may be a bit before I can get to it. But, either way, I would need a mailing list to send it to, a subject line, and the content of the message to include DannyS712 (talk) 18:32, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Ok, nevermind. I didn't realize it was emails. I got in trouble for that sort of thing before, so I'm really surprised to find out they are actually giving people the right to do it after they told me it was the wrong thing to do. I guess they have two sets of rules for people on Wikipedia: Rules for thee, and rules for me. Anyway, thanks for your help. Huggums537 (talk) 23:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
@Huggums537 its not emails - I brought up emails because I was confused by I was actually just asking if you would send the emails for me. It should probably be done onwiki - either posting on users talk pages, or using a mass message to do so if its warranted. DannyS712 (talk) 23:15, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Ok, yeah I mis-spoke there. Pardon me for the confusion. What I meant to say is that I was actually just asking if you would send the talk messages for me. I have know idea why a slip of tongue/keyboard resulted in "email". Anyway, I was just looking at the mass messaging page, and it looks like it applies to talk pages as well as emails for things like newsletters and the like, or people "who are likely to want their attention drawn to the message" I think since the people have put themselves on a list to be contacted, this makes it so. Huggums537 (talk) 23:38, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
DannyS712, if you took your name off the list, you might also want to remove this userbox from your page. {Userbox creator} Huggums537 (talk) 16:02, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 Done DannyS712 (talk) 16:29, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Tagging pages for deletion

Hello, DannyS712,

You are such an experienced editor but I wanted to remind you that when you tag a page for deletion (CSD, PROD, AFD, etc.), could you please post a notice on the talk page of the page creator? I use Twinkle which does this automatically for me so I recommend it. If the page creator doesn't receive a notice, they don't know what happened to the pages they created since they have no access to their deleted contributions. Thank you so much for all of the work you do. Liz Read! Talk! 00:32, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

@Liz as I noted at User talk:DannyS712/Archive 8#Speedy deletions I have Twinkle set up to notify on deletion tags. I assume this is prompted by my G7 tags? I have notifications enabled for *all* CSD tags that Twinkle supports notifications for, which does not appear to include G7. If notifications should be sent for G7 tags too, this should be set up as an option in Twinkle first. DannyS712 (talk) 00:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Script/bot request

Is it possible to develop a script/bot that replaces external diff links with internal ones? For example: replace [45]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steve_M&diff=next&oldid=1006941019&diffmode=source with Special:Diff/1006941019. Is it possible?Steve M (talk) 23:09, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

I'm not really sure how to do that, sorry DannyS712 (talk) 18:58, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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. [46]
  • Advanced item The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [47]

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. [48]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

  • 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)

Mail call

Hello, DannyS712. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Smallbones(smalltalk) 18:39, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

@Smallbones my email doesn't currently work, so I can't see what you sent me. Is this urgent? DannyS712 (talk) 18:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
I found an email from you in my archives and tried sending it there - maybe it's a different address? There are several topics. The only "urgent" one is about publishing The Signpost Sunday (4pm eastern) but there are 2 other possibilities, so let's not say urgent. Smallbones(smalltalk) 19:44, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
@Smallbones the email I use(d) is dannys712.enwiki@gmail.com which isn't working. For this Sunday, if you want me to run the publishing script to carry out the mass messages I can, just let me know. DannyS712 (talk) 19:50, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Eddie871 will be doing the publishing this Sunday. Maybe over the long-run you could check in at the Newsroom talk page, say 10 days before publication, and see if you could fill in if he isn't available. Thanks. Smallbones(smalltalk) 01:45, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
@Smallbones I've created a new email, though for now its only enabled on meta - can you email me if its still relevant? m:Special:EmailUser/DannyS712 DannyS712 (talk) 12:53, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Everything is cool for now. Perhaps today or tomorrow I'll send an email that way, just to see if it works! Smallbones(smalltalk) 14:59, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Possible DiscussionCloser issue

Hi, DannyS712,

A recent close somehow dropped an end-div tag, and an end-italic markup token. DiscussionCloser 1.7.3 was used at this RM, but it's not clear if the script is involved in the problem or not. Prior details and links are given at User talk:Buidhe/Archive 14#Unbalanced div's in RM closure. User:Buidhe fixed part of the problem with the RM closure on the Talk page with this edit (supplying missing </div>), and I fixed the other half of the problem with this edit (supplying missing end-italic markup). Would you mind having a look to see what you can find? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 03:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

@Mathglot I haven't changed anything with the script recently (though I'm slowly working on a rewrite) - were the templates changed? DannyS712 (talk) 06:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I'm unfamiliar with the script or the templates; what templates are used with it? If it's a template problem, I can fix it. Mathglot (talk) 06:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
The {{RM top}} and {{RM bottom}} DannyS712 (talk) 16:35, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. RM Bottom has two changes in the last ten days; will be able to look at it in 2-3 days. Mathglot (talk) 18:20, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:28, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Foreign API

Hello, Danny. If it's possible, could you please to write me down a little example for using Foreign API? It's hard to find it in the script or extension code, because of a lot of variables. Something hardcoded. For example, how to read first 100 new watchlist edits in plwiki from here? Thank you very much in advance. IKhitron (talk) 11:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@IKhitron you can read the documentation at https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.ForeignApi DannyS712 (talk) 13:44, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Great. Thanks a lot. IKhitron (talk) 14:40, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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.

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. [49]
  • Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [50]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

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

Administrator changes

added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • 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).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 March newsletter

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
  • Scotland ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
  • Rwanda Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
  • Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
  • Botswana The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
  • Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
  • Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
  • United States Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
  • England Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

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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.

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. [51]
  • When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [52]

Problems

  • Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [53]

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. [54]

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. [55][56]
  • 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)

Your GA nomination of Reconstruction Amendments

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Reconstruction Amendments you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Extraordinary Writ -- Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:01, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Reconstruction Amendments

The article Reconstruction Amendments you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Reconstruction Amendments for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Extraordinary Writ -- Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:01, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:MonitoredByBot

Template:MonitoredByBot has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know DannyS712 (talk) 16:28, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

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Recent changes

Problems

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

  • You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [58][59]
  • You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
  • Advanced item You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [60]

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Commons issue

Hi, Danny - would you be so kind as to take a look at the discussion I started here? It hasn't gotten any response, and those modifications are desperately needed. I'm of the mind that it will help reduce the workload for Otrs volunteers and improve the upload experience for people who are contributing images for our articles. It seems to me like a simple enough tweak to the generator script that wouldn't require much effort, or would it? I think it will save thousands of hours of repetitive responses by Otrs agents, upload delays and frustration by contributors if they know in advance what OTRS requires. Do you have any pull at all in that area, or can you direct me to someone who does? Atsme 💬 📧 15:25, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

@Atsme I don't know what the release generator is, so I'm not sure, sorry DannyS712 (talk) 16:41, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-March 2021

Hello, DannyS712! Here is the March 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

Humour

This section was written by User:Canadian Otaku, I hope you enjoy it as much as I (Tsugaru) did!

  • If you edit Wikipedia around 1-5 AM, beware, as any admin could block you for being up too late!
  • It's really easy to break Wikipedia, just click here.
  • Ignore people telling you to stop putting "Hrrnngg,,,beans" on the article Bean (film), they don't know what good edits are.
  • Jimbo is god, and can do anything he wants to!

Notes

  • There are 2 new editors now, one of them Berrely, and CanadianOtaku. As mentioned Berrely is our new proofreader (typos beware) and Canadian Otaku is now going to be writing our Humor sections, I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for joining us, and remember, if you want to join, just let me know!


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Page mover/delete-redirect

Hello, I closed the RFC you started: Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect as consensus for the change after reading your points at the bottom of the discussion. However closing clear consensus discussions is not advised and since it was a WP:NAC, it could be reverted, although I don't see any need in this case why that should happen. Terasail[✉] 14:11, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

@Terasail: Thanks, will write the code change DannyS712 (talk) 14:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
@Terasail: Hi. Although closing that RfC is not a problem, it should have been someone who could make the remaining appropriate changes. That is, inclusion of the new user-ability into the user-right page, and updating the {{Proposal}} on Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. And then there are few other things too. —usernamekiran (talk) 14:31, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
@Usernamekiran: Yeah, I have read all that before doing this, and most of that text refers to closing deletion discussions where only Admins can delete the page, however in this case I don't see that as applying since DannyS712 said they would write the code for this change (Bottom of the closed RFC) and the close was just to stop the rfc developing after the system change has been made since it isn't just a policy change. I went to eat so I didn't make a change to the template. (Which was just bad timng on my part) Terasail[✉] 14:42, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
@Terasail @Usernamekiran the actual code change cannot be done by anyone onwiki, but I've submitted a patch that should be deployed in a few hours, and will update the Wikipedia:Page mover page once it is deployed DannyS712 (talk) 15:24, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12

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

  • You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
  • Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [61]

Future changes

  • Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [62][63]
  • Advanced item Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [64]

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16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Reconstruction Amendments

The article Reconstruction Amendments you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Reconstruction Amendments for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Extraordinary Writ -- Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:21, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for what you said on Yoninah's talk! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:45, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: No problem, though I'm sorry to have had to leave such a comment DannyS712 (talk) 17:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
I'd also preferred to write something else. She helped me so much! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:55, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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. [65]
  • Advanced item 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. [66]

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. [67]
  • 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. [68][69]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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

Administrator changes

removed 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

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Tech News: 2021-14

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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. [70]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item 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. [71]
  • Recurrent item 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

  • Advanced item 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)

Template:Samsung-mobile-stub

Hello, DannyS712,

Your bot edited this template and since it can't answer questions, I'm going to ask you. Some parts of this template states it is for Nokia stubs and other parts say Samsung. Is it one or the other? I had to remove a category field that caused an enormous red link category to appear. Thanks for any help you can offer to resolve this. Liz Read! Talk! 02:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

The bot was just fixing the template name, which was broken in Special:Diff/1016263342 by Special:Contributions/182.1.180.184 - that same edit changed it to partially say Nokia. I would just revert to everything being Samsung to align with the title DannyS712 (talk) 03:15, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Tagging request

Hi Danny.

I placed a tagging request for your bot on its talkpage.

I apologise if requesting here is the preferred process. - jc37 19:47, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@Jc37: Hmm, yeah, here would probably be better in the future - I'll redirect the bot talk page at some point DannyS712 (talk) 20:21, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Why?

Why did you blank my entry here? Please restore it. DuncanHill (talk) 17:12, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

As you haven't responded I have restored the page to the state before you blanked my entry. DuncanHill (talk) 17:24, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
@DuncanHill: That was likely an edit conflict, I just added a single comment and didn't change anything (though why did mediawiki not warn me... bug?) Thanks DannyS712 (talk) 18:24, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
I looked my network monitor when using the 2017 editor, and it looks like it's keeping track of the basetimestamp, but not the baserevid. Maybe you clicked "edit" at the same second as Duncan saved. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:47, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
The edits were 33 seconds apart according to popups. Indeed looks like a bug. – SD0001 (talk) 19:23, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Nice work!

I just noticed you haven't even been here three years, yet you have all these excellent bots up and running. Thanks! Thmazing (talk) 18:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

@Thmazing: Thanks. Has it really only been that long? DannyS712 (talk) 18:44, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
It's what your talk page says. I did not do any further research. (But you seem like the kind of guy to have that auto-update.) Thmazing (talk) 18:46, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
@Thmazing: Actually, its been a bit less - 5 September 2018 DannyS712 (talk) 18:48, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Market towns

For WP:CFD#HOWTO could you please tag Category:Market towns and all its sub categories for deletion. I was initially tempted to only list England's ones but the likes of Category:Ottoman market towns doesn't have other settlement categories so I'll just do all of them. Thanks. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:51, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Crouch, Swale can you please tag the main category and start the CFD, so I know where to link to for the other ones? DannyS712 (talk) 18:47, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
@Crouch, Swale Also, do you want the sub categories to be recursive? I.e. do I tag Category:Market towns in Moldavia? What about Category:Chodová Planá? --DannyS712 (talk) 18:47, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Done Category:Market towns at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 April 18#Category:Market towns
Only the set categories namely "Market towns in X" not topic categories like Category:Chodová Planá that are an instance of. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:50, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
@Crouch, Swale:  Done, see reply on cfd DannyS712 (talk) 00:08, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks but as was noted the set categories of Category:Market towns in the United Kingdom haven't been tagged. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:50, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-April 2021

Hello, DannyS712! Here is the April 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

  • MediaWiki has a new logo. Looks great, doesn't it?
  • Did you get to see the April Fools DYK for the Main Page? If not, catch them here (Under April 1)
  • In the Beta Features, try out "Discussion tools" it is a very useful feature for replying to talkpage messages. You will need an account to do so!

Memorials

  • Pi zero has passed away. Our condolences go out for Pi zero and anyone who knew him. Thank you Pi zero for your service here at Wikimedia. We are very sorry to hear this. We will never forget your valuable contributions to Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

Humour

Tsugaru's Humour Section

  • April Showers can't Bring May Flowers, if the Flowers ran away to June!
  • You can't get in trouble, if you don't cause trouble!
  • The May Flowers can't be flowers if they are roses!

Please find CanadianOtaku's Humour Section below

  • Sadly, there was no edit war of 2021, maybe next year.
  • This joke space is up for rent!
  • You too can be a hacker by removing everything in an article!
  • Error 410: I dropped this joke and I can't find it.

Editor's Notes

  • Just a reminder that TWW is delivered between the 16th to the 20th of each month


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Tech News: 2021-16

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Recent changes

  • Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [72][73]
  • If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [74][75][76]
  • Advanced item Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [77]
  • The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:47, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Help with CFD tagging?

I originally applied for help at Bot requests but a friendly reply agreed I'd be better off at CFD. However, the list of categories which would need to be requested is about 100 in number. That friendly reply suggested you had a bot which could help (with creating or formatting nominations?). I've got a poverty of experience at CFD and I want to avoid making a mess. Is this something your bot can help with? BusterD (talk) 22:30, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

@BusterD: sorry, I've been having some issues with that bot task, not at the moment, sorry --DannyS712 (talk) 23:52, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Too good to be true. I hope your bot feels better. Thanks for helping. BusterD (talk) 23:55, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-17

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Recent changes

  • Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [78][79][80]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

  • Botswana The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
  • Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
  • England Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
  • England Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
  • Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
  • Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

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

  • The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [81]
  • Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [82]

Changes later this week

  • Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [83][84]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

  • Advanced item The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [85]

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