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Tech News: 2022-39 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 Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar). Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [1] Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [2] [3] In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [4] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 30 September 2022 News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab" In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus? Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs Featured content: Farm-fresh content Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2 CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:01, 1 October 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – October 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022). Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare Guideline and policy news Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block. Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use. Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October. Technical news The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box. Arbitration Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion. A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two. The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October. Miscellaneous An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security. Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October. You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process. An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop. Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:43, 1 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-40 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 Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [5] [6] The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar). Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [7] [8] The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5] The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-41 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 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar). On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [9][10] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-42 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 recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [11] A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar). Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [12] Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [13] Future changes The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [14] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-43 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 have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230. On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337. Problems Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [15] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (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 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [16] Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [17][18][19] Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552. The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more. Future changes The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [20] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 31 October 2022 From the team: A new goose on the roost News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors? Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we? Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:43, 31 October 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-44 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 When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [21] In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [22] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar). The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [23] It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [24] It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [25] It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [26] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – November 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022). Administrator changes Isabelle Belato Whpq Atama Astronautics~enwiki Athaenara Eddie891 GraemeL Marianocecowski Natalya Pratyeka SB Johnny Interface administrator changes TheresNoTime Ragesoss CheckUser changes Blablubbs Firefly Joe Roe Oversight changes DGG Guideline and policy news The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November. An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat. Arbitration Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections. The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion. The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage. AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners. Miscellaneous The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers. You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators. Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 1 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-45 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 An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [27] Problems Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon. Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-46 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 At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [28] The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [29] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar). There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [30] Future changes Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [31] Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-47 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 The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661. Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 21 November 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 28 November 2022 News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners" In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet" Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality Book review: Writing the Revolution Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality Essay: The Six Million FP Man Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory" Featured content: A great month for featured articles Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago CommonsComix: Joker's trick * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:41, 28 November 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-48 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 A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [32] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (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 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [33][34][35] On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [36] Future changes How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [37] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 20:01, 28 November 2022 (UTC) ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:28, 29 November 2022 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – December 2022 News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022). Administrator changes Eddie891 Euryalus TheresNoTime Alex.muller Excirial RedWordSmith Ron Ritzman TheresNoTime Stephen Interface administrator changes TheresNoTime TheresNoTime CheckUser changes TheresNoTime Oversight changes TheresNoTime Guideline and policy news Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week. The article creation at scale RfC has been closed. An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed. Technical news A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449) Arbitration Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here. The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open. The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed. The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022. A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop. Miscellaneous Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-49 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [38][39] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-50 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 An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the Reply tool and other features. [40] The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [41] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar). The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [42] Events The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-51 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Tech News Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023. Recent changes On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [43] A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [44] One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [45] Problems Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [46] Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week. The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [47] [48] Future changes Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [49] The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused. Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021. Events You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC) Hello MRD2014: 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, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:55, 24 December 2022 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:55, 24 December 2022 (UTC) The Signpost: 1 January 2023 News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure" Essay: Mobile editing Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022 Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star? Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club! CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:45, 1 January 2023 (UTC) Happy New Year! Hello MRD2014: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – January 2023 News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022). Administrator changes ComplexRational Extraordinary Writ Stephen Andrew Yong Dbenbenn DESiegel GlassCobra Joe Decker Nancy Pathoschild StuffOfInterest William Pietri Wwwwolf Xdamr Interface administrator changes Nihiltres CheckUser changes Moneytrees Ivanvector SilkTork Oversighter changes GeneralNotability Moneytrees Guerillero SilkTork Guideline and policy news Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal. Arbitration Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork. The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month. The arbitration case Stephen has been closed. Miscellaneous Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023. Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2023 (UTC) Tech News: 2023-02 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 use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [50] Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket. You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [51] A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [52] Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [53] You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [54] Changes later this week Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar. Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis). The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar). Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 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