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A barnstar for your patience in helping people

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The Barnstar of Diligence
You have the patience of Job when you help editors with technical problems, and I thought you deserved some formal recognition for it.--Bbb23 (talk)12:29, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you

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The Barnstar of Diligence
I don't remember whether I've ever given you a barnstar before; if not, it's long overdue. Thank you so much for helping me time and time again, as well as helping many other users.--Bbb23 (talk)17:19, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Thank You

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"Appreciation Knucks"
These knucks symbolize my appreciation for the Wiki teamsters, such as yourself, who create pathways to knowledge through their diligent efforts working quietly behind the scenes. As a user I am grateful, now more than ever, so I felt prompted to say hello and show gratitude by saying thanks for setting an example for users, such as myself, to contribute more. Stay blessed,Saint, Stephen Gunning (talk)09:39, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Calendar emojiHappy First Edit Day!
Hi Xaosflux! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you madeyour first edit and became a Wikipedian!CAPTAIN RAJU(T)19:47, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]		Party popper emoji


A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you so much for all your work coordinating the elections. It couldn’t have happened without you. From helping with the guide to posting the final results, you did a great job running a smooth election. Thanks! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆(𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥01:55, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hidden ToC dis-appeares on it's own during scrolling

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Sorry, a little late.

With "Zebra 1" the scrolling is OK, i.e. I can scroll down to the bottom.

Steue (talk)06:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Steue thanks for the update, this should have been rolled out for the fix without having to use the Zebra feature parameter now as well. —xaosfluxTalk11:37, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks for all your work on the election!--AsarteaTalk|Contribs09:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

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~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством!
শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스!
สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete!

Hello, Xaosflux! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU(T)18:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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CAPTAIN RAJU(T)18:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year 2024!

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Happy New Year!
Hello Xaosflux:


Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles withaxes,hammers andchisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessaryblisters.

CAPTAIN RAJU(T)18:56, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

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Sent byMediaWiki message delivery (talk)11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Xaosflux!

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Happy New Year!

Xaosflux,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyableNew Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk)13:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Abishe (talk)13:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Happy New Year!

Xaosflux,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyableNew Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk)14:31, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Tech News: 2024-02

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  • mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you caninstall on your local machine.
  • The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.[2]

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  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).[3][4]

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Transfer of user's right

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Citing you (fromhere) that"There is no technical mechanism to "transfer" access from one account to another. Users with the ability to manage permissions may technically add and remove permissions groups from accounts individually. ..." That's what transfer means to my mind when submitting the question and the possibility of it was what I meant to ask. Thanks for ensuring that this is possible.
Moreover, I asked about that onVillage pump (policy) because I guessed it's part of Wikipedia policy regarding the transfer possibility. It's not like I was asking if there's a magical button to enable instant transfer that could make me asking about this (possibility of right transfer) onVillage pump (Technical) orVillage pump (Idea lab).Natsuikomin (talk)22:12, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 January 2024

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Response about my talk page

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Hey, yeah sorry my talk page is large. I've been waiting on the mediawiki team working on enhancing talk page experience to roll out automated page management which preserved linking to the topic headers. Possibly that is supported now? Seeing now that my talk page can't be saved, I wouldn't mind the help. I still think this should be solved by the Mediawiki configuration and not by ad-hoc user scripts and bots as this is a core function of communication and linking should be preserved. See my previous noteUser talk:Wolfgang8741#Archiving though I'm not opposed to getting some help. I don't have time at the moment to move some of the automated newsletter posts like "Wikidata weekly summary #430" and "This Month in GLAM: September 2020" to their own subpages and probably the largest offenders for space. I don't link to those posts typically, but do reference them and do link to other conversation on and off wiki. I just don't remember where those newsletters are configured to fix where they post and would love if they linked back to manage that so users can find it easier. Sorry for not managing this, I was hoping it would be fixed by the system updating to something that didn't break links and broadly implement pagination.Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk)19:52, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wolfgang8741 it happens, and it isn't a huge deal. I agree that scripts and bots can be problematic in this matter! I can give your page a try to just get it easily usable in the short-term with a one-time archive (and if you don't like it just revert we are a wiki after all! Technically the mass-message newsletters reveal their list, but it is in the form of a hidden comment on the page source (e.g. that one ishere). Hope you don't think I'm singling you out here, someone linked your page in an example of very large pages in another discussion and I thought you could use some help. Things are certainly easier if editors can just worry about making the encyclopedia better and not this technical stuff! —xaosfluxTalk20:06, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-03

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  • Pages that use the JSONcontentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.[5]
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  • Bot passwords andowner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.[7]
  • You can nowthank edits made by bots.[8]
  • An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

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  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).[9][10]
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  • Thejquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with themediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.[12]

Future changes

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Tech News: 2024-04

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Problems

  • A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.[13]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar).[14][15]

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Notification: Feedback request service is down

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Hello, Xaosflux

You may have noticed that you have not received any messages from theWikipedia:Feedback request service for over a month.Yapperbot appears to have stopped delivering messages. Until that can be resolved, pleasewatch pages that interest you, such asWikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

This notification has been sent to you as you are subscribed to theFeedback Request Service. -MediaWiki message delivery (talk)08:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-05

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  • Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this changeon Diff oron Mediawiki.org.[16]
  • There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment onthe task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar).[17][18]
  • On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download aQR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a newSpecial:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the#19 most-voted wish from the2023 Community Wishlist Survey.[19]
  • Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used thetargets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskins option instead.[20]

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You've got mail!

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Hello, Xaosflux. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 15:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You canremove this notice at any time by removing the{{You've got mail}} or{{ygm}} template.

–DreamRimmer (talk)15:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't get an email, however if this is in reference toticket:2024012510010752 - it is open and being discussed still. —xaosfluxTalk16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 January 2024

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Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

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  • AnRfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

  • Following amotion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
  • Community feedback isrequested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section atWP:AE.

Miscellaneous

Sent byMediaWiki message delivery (talk)18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SWMT

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Dear Xaosflux, Hi and can you add myalternative account's name on SWMT Whitelist on per my request.😊~~αvírαm|(tαlk)14:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That seems fine, but I don't normally deal with that - can you link me to the whitelist page you are referencing? —xaosfluxTalk14:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Xaosflux, thanks for reply,I've sending you an screenshort of SWMT whitelist My this account is added by mahler on my request before 1 year. 😊~~αvírαm|(tαlk)14:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I don't understand exactly what you are asking. Is there a page you want me to edit? If so, please provide a link. —xaosfluxTalk14:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Xaosflux,I'm talking about the whitelist thatm:Small Wiki Monitoring Team looks like, which can only be put on the list by stewards, Bureucrats or administrators, you see at the top a picture of a Small Wiki Monitoring Team I see, I understand by giving you an example-On whitelist added by loftyabyss: No reason reason. 😊~~αvírαm|(tαlk)14:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Aviram7 if you don't give me a link to list you want me to edit, I can't do anything for you. If you don't know this, please follow up atmeta:Talk:Small Wiki Monitoring Team. —xaosfluxTalk15:11, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I'm ready to following you as you onmeta:Talk:Small Wiki Monitoring Team. 😊~~αvírαm|(tαlk)15:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I report

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Hi,User:GoutComplex has been reported at AN/Ihere and a month agohere, but neither the user or any admin have responded. I think that the user's continuing use of poor sources is a problem and that they should be encouraged to respond to the advice onUser talk:GoutComplex. I have added some diffs to the latest report. Do you agree or am I expecting too much from them? I posted here because you were on the list of recently active admins.TSventon (talk)15:01, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TSventon I'm not familiar with this issue and don't have time to work on it now. Other patrolling admins at ANI will check on it for you. —xaosfluxTalk15:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I fear that patrolling admins at AN/I have already indicated by their silence that they do not see a major problem. On the other hand, GoutComplex joined the AN/I discussion shortly after I mentioned them on your talk page.TSventon (talk)15:59, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-06

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Latesttech 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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them tothe phabricator task.
  • On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity.Learn more about "action blocks".[21][22]

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  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).[23][24]
  • Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.[25]

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  • 24 Wikipedias withReference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would makeReference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February,unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings.[26][27]

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CSS help - section transclusion

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Hey Xaos! Can you help me with something UI related?

In our Albanian village pump we have these "windows", called "Dritare", which you can check for yourselfhere, just below the main header. The idea is to have our VP act as a central hub where admins/experienced users can quickly check the main pages of our community through the so-called "windows" and interact with them to solve any issues without having to leave the page. This is achieved through section transclusion and it works rather fine on its own. Been using it for quite some months now. I was recently thinking to enhance it by introducing a new feature: "Non-empty" windows will have red backgrounds to indicate their backlog status and hopefully draw the attention of interested volunteers. Is there a way you think this can be achieved using only CSS? The problem lies on the "non-empty" part because they're never empty per se, having HTML tags and Mediawiki templates in them. I mean "non-empty" as in "not having any sections/issues open". I'm not sure how to handle targeting in this case or if it is even possible. Maybe that's not achievable using only CSS? -Klein Muçi (talk)11:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Klein Muçi sorry, can't think of a pure CSS route for that. Also, it looks like you are really transcluding those entire page contents? (e.g.w:sq:Wikipedia:Administrata/Votimet/Kandidatura për administratorë/Kandidatura nga të tjerë not just a section of the page) - so page transclusion may be smoother then section tranclusion (which is known to be buggy). As you have these collapsed, I'm assuming you actually want to color the collapsed titles inw:sq:Wikipedia:Kuvendi/Hyrja? (Because otherwise the user still would have to bother expanding it to see the 'red' - and at that point they would already be seeing the 'empty'. So that means you'd be stuck with some javascript - to check for the presence of some sub.sub element, then have it change the class of the area to recolor. Short answer: CSS can't do complex conditionals. Potential workaround could be procedural, "when clearing this page, uncomment the{{empty}} line" - which could emmit something. —xaosfluxTalk13:27, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The reason I went with sections instead of pages is because in that page you linked (admin-related one) the sections are supposed to always be there and that wouldn't show the usual "empty appearance" in the window while also showing the section titles forever in the VP's TOC. And yes, I want the background of the collapsed titles to be red. That's what I thought. Is there a way to have page-related JS instead of utilizing the common.js page? Similar to using page/styles.css for CSS styling? -Klein Muçi (talk)13:51, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not yet. But if the target for who needs to see that color change is very low, you could use an opt-in gadget. —xaosfluxTalk14:14, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, interesting idea. Hadn't thought of that approach. Well, I guess that answers all my questions. Just one more thing out of personal curiosity: You say "notyet". Am I to understand there are on-going Phab requests about this? Or was it just in the general sense? -Klein Muçi (talk)14:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
phab:T241524 is the closest. If you don't mind a button click, you could make a dashboard that you click a load button on the top of, and it can call a gadget with the load (sort of how this page works:WP:MYIP). —xaosfluxTalk14:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm... This goes a bit heavily on the gadget element. I was hoping for a more direct approach towards scripts in general. While one might argue that there isn't any difference between the two words, I believe in practice there is. For example, some time ago I was forced to use JS to solve an issue on our main page (removing some pipes and parentheses, we've talked about it together too). It would seem a bit weird to call this script "a gadget" and have it stand aside on the Mediawiki NS. It's just a script used to modify a single accompanying page. Anyway, this is just tangentially related to the topic's discussion.
Thank you for your suggestion! Unfortunately, knowing my community, any form of interaction diminishes the chance for help volunteering. The red background thing was thought precisely after the windows themselves still weren't enough to solve some issues which have been left open for years now. Nonetheless thank you for your help! — Klein Muçi (talk)19:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition forKelvin Kiptum

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On 12 February 2024,In the news was updated with an item that involved the articleKelvin Kiptum, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on thecandidates page. —Bagumba (talk)10:43, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • TheWDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels.[28][29][30] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.[31][32]

Problems

  • There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black;this issue is fixed.

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  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).[33][34]
  • As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[35] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.[36]

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Category:Spree killers has been nominated for merging

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Category:Spree killers has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with thecategorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments atthe category's entry on thecategories for discussion page. Thank you.PARAKANYAA (talk)15:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-08

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Recent changes

  • If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.[37]
  • There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects withVector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
  • Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in thetask's description.
  • The maximum file size when usingUpload Wizard is now 5 GiB.[38]

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  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).[39][40]
  • Selected tools on the grid engine have beenstopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to theteam. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
  • The CSSfilter property can now be used in HTMLstyle attributes in wikitext.[41]

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Hey there! Could you help me?

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I have made a phylogeny tree forJaklapallisaurus but I'm facing a couple problems:

1) I've tried SO HARD lol to get the basal most genus to be bagualosaurus but it doesn't show up :/

2) "Massopoda" should be sister to unaysauridae + plateosauridae BUT it doesn't wanna budge :/ it's right now sister to unaysauridae onlyDNB XD (talk)14:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DNB XD I'm not very familiar with that template, however you need to avoid duplicating template variable values inside each template call (the x=y part). For example, you have{{clade}} being used, but have multiple "1=x" on the same entry. —xaosfluxTalk14:42, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, thank you!DNB XD (talk)02:53, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-09

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  • Themobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.[42]
  • Themw.config valuewgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))).[43]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar).[44][45]

Future changes

  • The right to changeedit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate inthis ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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An early congratulations

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Only one hour until the voting portion of the Steward elections end! I wanted to give you an early congratulations for the 100% keep ratio. You did a great job last year and I hope you continue with the amazing work! --Grapefanatic (Talk)13:14, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

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Guideline and policy news

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  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

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A kitten for you...

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...for your wonderful work :)

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

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Plus, the U4C Charter keeps planting seeds, the RfA process is set to become more sustainable, and more news from the Wikimedia ecosystem.
And other new findings
Plus, naughty politicians, Federal judge not a fan, UFOs and beavers.
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Tech News: 2024-10

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Recent changes

  • TheSpecial:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the oldCollection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by theWikisource extension.[46]
  • Wikitech now uses the next-generationParsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on theKnown Issues discussion page. You can use theParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see theParserMigration help documentation for more details.
  • Maintenance onetherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate inthis ticket.
  • Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. TheGadget andGadget_definition namespaces andgadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.[47]
  • A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.[48]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).[49][50]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.[51]
  • The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. SeeHeading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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New message from Aaron Liu

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Hello, Xaosflux. You have new messages atMediaWiki talk:Gadget-watchlist-notice-core.js.
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Editor experience invitation

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Hi Xaosflux :) I'm looking for people to interviewhere. Feel free to pass if you're not interested.Clovermoss🍀(talk)17:15, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-11

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Latesttech 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

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).[52][53]
  • After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on theMinerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.[54]
  • The active link color inMinerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.[55]
  • Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.[56]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.[57][58]

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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

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Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is nowno longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improvingRfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

  • Proposal 2, initiated byHouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box atWikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
  • Proposals 3 and3b, initiated byBarkeep49 andUsedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
  • Proposal 5, initiated bySilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
  • Proposals 6c and6d, initiated byBilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
  • Proposal 7, initiated byLee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
  • Proposal 9b, initiated byReaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
  • Proposals 12c,21, and21b, initiated byCity of Silver,Ritchie333, andHouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
  • Proposal 13, initiated byNovem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
  • Proposal 14, initiated byKusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
  • Proposals 16 and16c, initiated byThebiguglyalien andSoni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at theadministrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
  • Proposal 16e, initiated byBilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
  • Proposal 17, initiated bySchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
  • Proposal 18, initiated bytheleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
  • Proposal 24, initiated bySportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of theoptional candidate poll.
  • Proposal 25, initiated byFemke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
  • Proposal 27, initiated byWereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
  • Proposal 28, initiated byHouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please seeWikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing!theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

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Remove

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@Samral is a sockpuppet pls remove extendedconfirmed rights. @Xaosflux151.135.11.200 (talk)13:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't need to bother removing groups from blocked users. —xaosfluxTalk13:38, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
He annoys me and other users by cursing at you via email. Can you please turn off the email sending feature?176.218.17.226 (talk)14:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As you are not a registered user, you wouldn't be getting email from us and we can't do anything about someone sending you email directly. If a registred user is having an issue, they can post atWP:ANI. —xaosfluxTalk14:09, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't log in so my username wouldn't show up. Pls turn off email sending. He's a sockpuppet and has no place here anymore.176.218.17.226 (talk)14:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not working on this, feel free to report to ANI, a checkuser may need to validate the claim. —xaosfluxTalk14:13, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2024-12

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Latesttech 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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in theVector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.[59]
  • IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.[60]
  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.[61][62][63]
  • Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creatingMediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown.[64]

Problems

  • RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users inright-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.[65]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).[66][67]
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at14:00 UTC.[68][69]

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Tech News: 2024-13

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Recent changes

  • An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS inVector 2022 skin. Achecklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).[70][71]

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User Subpages deletion request.

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Good day @Xaosflux please I would like to delete these redirect pages, some where created unintentionally. PleaseUser:Thisasia/common.js/common.js,User:Thisasia/sandbox/common.jsUser:Thisasia/Status2User:Thisasia/sandbox and these sanebox doc pages,User:Thisasia/sandbox/Doc,User:Thisasia/sandbox/doc and then withUser:Thisasia/StatusChanger.js Thanks very much.
Thisasia (Talk)01:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Thisasia looks like someone already did. —xaosfluxTalk09:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes indeed. An admin has done that few hours ago, thanks very and have a good time.
Thisasia (Talk)09:09, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 March 2024

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Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?
Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners
And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?
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Hello @Xaosflux, no one is interested inmy request. Could you please take a look?Lionel Cristiano?12:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lionel Cristiano someone will get to it, as you can see there are much older requests backlogged on that page right now. —xaosfluxTalk17:36, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited tosign up forThe Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improvevital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
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Tech News: 2024-14

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Users of thereading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.[72]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).[73][74]

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now readthe draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You cancomment on the talk page.

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Moomoo

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About 4 years ago you put protection on this page as a redirect but the notes say it a was removed.. the redirect seems to be active and i was wondering if you could remove the protection? ThanksQuantWiz (talk)18:26, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@QuantWiz I actually lowered the protection, though consider it still a vandalism target. If you have an edit request for the page, please use the talk page. Feel free to appeal atWP:RFUP. —xaosfluxTalk18:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the quick reply.. the talk page mentions putting a page for Moomoo the trading app in there which is what i was considering.QuantWiz (talk)18:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@QuantWiz a good way to do that is to write the page atDraft:Moomoo then ask for it to be moved over when it is ready. —xaosfluxTalk18:36, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-15

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  • Web browsers can use tools calledextensions. There is now a Chrome extension calledCitation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
  • A newEdit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as auser preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on theproject talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
  • Initial results ofEdit check experimentshave been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature atthe wikis that tested it.Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.[75][76]
  • Readers using theMinerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.[77]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).[78][79]
  • New accounts and logged-out users will get thevisual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.[80]

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Follow up from my edit request.

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Could you make a similar adjustment on all of the other padlock pages?Geardona (talk to me?)16:08, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Geardona please drop edit requests so your ask doesn't get lost. You don't have to "sandbox" them for just updating that file description - just put what you want in the ER. —xaosfluxTalk16:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Problems

  • Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis usingFlagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.[81][82]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).[83][84]
  • Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed infootnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).[85]
  • A new variablepage_last_edit_age will be added toabuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.[86]

Future changes

  • Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handletemporary accounts.Learn more.
  • Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (includingQuarry). This affects only theabuse_filter andabuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated.[87]

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Block me

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Hello @Xaosflux, may you do me a favor and block me until May 10th? I have a few real-life obligations that Wikipedia is getting in the way of. Thanks!Bremps...02:21, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —xaosfluxTalk09:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar).[89][90]

Future changes

  • This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents ofSpecial:MyPage/vector.js toSpecial:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There aremore technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.[91]

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CHU help

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Hey, I can't get any answer @ IRC, I'm working thenew request at CHU/S and go aanti-spoof hit, if I had this hit at ACC I'd go ahead and create the account, but here (at rename) it seems different, does this request need to go to CHU/U? -FlightTime(open channel)19:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

looking. —xaosfluxTalk19:39, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@FlightTime 8 year old, never contributed - I'm not worried about the conflict. —xaosfluxTalk19:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great, that was my take also. -FlightTime(open channel)19:52, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
JJMC89 says (via IRC) go ahead and rename. -FlightTime(open channel)19:49, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
so thats +2 :) —xaosfluxTalk19:50, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanx, -FlightTime(open channel)19:52, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sarcasm

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Thank you for your sarcastic response to my mistake. I did not mean to press save on the main page in Rater.Ktkvtsh (talk)22:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ktkvtsh I saw you weren't a newbie so hope that didn't come of BITEy or callous - how about we both split this:
a rainbow trout fish

Whack!

You've beenwhacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.
? —xaosfluxTalk22:47, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Haha sounds good. Just felt the need to explain myself. Glad we can both laugh about it.
have a great evening!Ktkvtsh (talk)22:49, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

Problems

  • Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by usingmapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.[101]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).[102][103]

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

removedGeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks.T280531

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on thevoting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, pleasereview the U4C Charter.

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Help for the lame

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I have a script installed (somewhere) that allows me to click on "rollback all". I just invoked it atSpecial:contributions/GauMutra, and it didn't work. I tried it again in case I misclicked, and it still didn't work. Given that I'm not sure who wrote the script, I'm not sure to whom I should go for help. It might beUser:Gracenotes, but if it is, they haven't edited in over a decade (a shame, it's a pretty username). Can you help? Sorry for my shortcomings in this area.--Bbb23 (talk)13:39, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bbb23: you have 2 rollback related userscripts:
  1. User:Gracenotes/rollback.js viaUser:Bbb23/vector.js (should only load when your skin is set to vector) and
  2. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js viaUser:Bbb23/common.js
The second of those specifically inserts a "rollback all" link, so I'd start with asking Writ Keeper. —xaosfluxTalk15:06, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will do; thanks a lot! --Bbb23 (talk)16:05, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I tried it again just now just in case, and it worked. I don't suppose you know why it didn't work (I use it fairly frequently, so not working is more of an anomaly than working).Writ Keeper?--Bbb23 (talk)16:06, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry no, scripts can be tricky - sometimes they race against each other and can cause oddities, especially if you have many scripts from different places. —xaosfluxTalk00:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Would it be better to remove the Gracenotes script? I don't think it ever runs, it's not supported, and the WK script works anyway.--Bbb23 (talk)01:01, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you're not using vector, it shouldn't run. But I suggest removing any script you are not using. Just put "//" at the front of the line to disable it in case you want to use it again later. —xaosfluxTalk01:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Iam using Vector (Vector Legacy), but I've disabled it anyway. Given that I don't know what it's supposed to do, I can't really know if it ever runs, but if I find I can't rollback the way I wish to, I can always re-enable it. This whole thing makes me tired, but Ido appreciate your help.--Bbb23 (talk)02:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

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Hi there! Phase I of theWikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

See theproject page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II.theleekycauldron (talk), viaMediaWiki message delivery (talk)08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-19

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Recent changes

Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changesonDiff. It is possible to opt-out these changesin user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.[104][105]
  • Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of theSiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be foundat the extension's page.[106]
  • Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.[107]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).[108][109]
  • When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".[110]

Future changes

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Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment

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Tech News: 2024-20

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Recent changes

  • On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.[112]
  • If you use theuser-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page.[113]
  • Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via thealt= attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt= attribute in theimage and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.[114]
  • The oldGuided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.[115]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).[116][117]
  • TheSpecial:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.[118]

Future changes

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.Learn more.[119]
  • Two columns of thepagelinks database table (pl_namespace andpl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktarget table instead (lt_namespace andlt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
    1. ReplaceJOIN pagelinks withJOIN linktarget andpl_ withlt_ in theON statement
    2. Below that addJOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id

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Sorry for bothering you at trwiki

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I felt the need to apologize after i removed your babel.85.99.19.213 (talk)17:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I occasionally make technical edits there but want to be clear I don't understand the language. —xaosfluxTalk18:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About informing people on a RfC

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Hello. I messaged you because you are a steward and thus have more knowledge of policies than me, a commoner. I want to leave a message on a user’s talk page regarding the recent RfC on trwiki as I think he can shed some light to some problems trwiki has. Is such a thing allowed?85.99.19.213 (talk)14:16, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As you are asking this here, on the English Wikipedia, I'm assuming you are talking about edits on this project. Sending a neutral advertisement of an RFC is generally fine here, provided you are not otherwise prevented from editing here (such as by logging out to edit while you are blocked on this project). If you are asking about trwiki, I have no idea what their policies are, I'm not part of that community. —xaosfluxTalk14:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
thank you.85.99.19.213 (talk)09:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Block me forever

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Just block me permanently. I have caused mass destruction in 2021-2022 as 2001:4454:600:0:0:0:0:0/40. Block params: (anon. only, account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page)143.44.165.165 (talk)23:37, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done we don't do self-requested IP address blocks. —xaosfluxTalk00:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-21

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Recent changes

  • TheNuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.[122]
  • New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.[123][124]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).[125][126]
  • The HTML used to render all headingsis being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins andreport any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of aGadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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article-section-source-editor in edit summaries

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Tracked inPhabricator
Task T323875

Hi, rememberWikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)/Archive_77#Why_is_"#article-section-source-editor"_appearing_in_edit_summaries?? The question has come up again atWikipedia:Help_desk#What_does_#article-section-source-editor_mean?.DuncanHill (talk)11:19, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-22

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Recent changes

  • Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, seeT365107 andT365119.
  • In March 2024 a newaddPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it andgive feedback.
  • Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes:.collapsible,.multicol,.reflist,.coordinates,.topicon.Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).[127][128]
  • When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules.[129]

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Langton's ant

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Thank you again for your help in getting the Conway's Game of Life gadget going. I'd also like to add themw:Template:Langton's ant gadget to theLangton's ant article. Do I need a separate edit request for that, or can I just ask you directly? (cc:Pppery.)28bytes (talk)16:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This looks like another basic one. The general workflow for adding a new gadget it to propose it (it can be on the article talk in this case) - then to advertise it atWP:VPT. If the discussion is open for a reasonable period of time with no objection (perhaps a week) activate the edit request and a patrolling intadmin will likely come take care of it. If we run across something that will be complicated (like that xray viewer at VPT right now) or something that will have a large deployment scope (a certain chess game player comes to mind) - it will require more discussion. —xaosfluxTalk16:51, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good, thanks.28bytes (talk)17:17, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another update

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Can we get another update of the CT scan viewer? A number of the requested improvements were made.Doc James (talk ·contribs ·email)15:31, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The JS was done, the CSS was not done. SeeMediaWiki talk:Gadget-ImageStackPopup.css. The best way to request sync updates for these is to file an edit request on the associated talk page. —xaosfluxTalk15:42, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Xaosflux What are next steps to expand use… we have solved the requests.Doc James (talk ·contribs ·email)19:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Doc James hmm, that's a great question. While thiscould be used for anything, I'm assuming your primary concern is on medical articles; and it would probably be a good idea to get some more eyes on the demo from people like you that are familiar with reading those pages. Perhaps bring it up atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, maybe make a small demo page in project space and point people to it with the parameter that will load the gadget when they follow the link? I don't see anything dangerous in this script, so not worried there - but could it hang up certain browsers, or break page layouts somehow - not sure. —xaosfluxTalk20:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-23

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Recent changes

  • It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript.Documentation is available.[130]
  • The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category".[131]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia inKadazandusun (w:dtp:)[132]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar).[133][134]

Future changes

  • Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read.Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery22:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CSS issue

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The right sidebar goes underneath the main content in small screens

Hello Xaos! Hope you're doing okay. It's been a while without talking. Can you help me diagnose a CSS problem I'm having with the "new" Vector theme on my homewiki? As you can see from the image, the right sidebar goes underneath the main content on small screens. The same thing doesn't happen with the left sidebar. This is related to our grid (obviously) because when removing the CSS properties for it is starts behaving normally. Any idea what element do I need to target on the skin to handle this? -Klein Muçi (talk)10:39, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Klein Muçi Are you using a fixed-width (or min-width) element in your localization? If so, take that off, it needs to be able to dynamically adjust. —xaosfluxTalk13:48, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We do have fixed widths but that's not the problem because normally it would just change the layout configuration when it is exceeded. The issue is the way the sidebar is designed to behave, that is, to go underneath the other elements instead of pushing them so the layout changes. The left sidebar does that, the right doesn't. — Klein Muçi (talk)17:21, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest you ask over atmw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements. —xaosfluxTalk18:04, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Just did. — Klein Muçi (talk)08:14, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • TheNuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.T43351

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

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Tech News: 2024-24

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Recent changes

  • The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.[135]
  • The HTML used to render all headingsis being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins andreport any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of aGadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
  • The HTML markup used for citations byParsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added themw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds thereference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser.More details are available.[136]

Problems

  • There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed.[137]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar).[138][139]
  • The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations:Parsoid will now generate a<span> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup.More details are available.[140]
  • On multilingual wikis that use the<translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the communityrequests it.[141]

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Tech News: 2024-25

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Recent changes

Problems

  • Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.[146]
  • Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any,report them here.[147]

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).[148][149]
  • Starting June 18, theReference Edit Check will be deployed toa new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. Duringa test at 11 wikis, the number of citations addedmore than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check iscommunity configurable.[150]
  • Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software.[151]

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MediaWiki message delivery23:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly inactive admin

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Hi. Y in the world isn't this user listed inWikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive?102.159.63.204 (talk)14:18, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 102*, that page is maintained by a bot and is not used for any 'official' processing. You may contact the bot operator here:User talk:Rick Block; it could be missing the account due to the non-English username.
As far asWikipedia:Administrators#Procedural_removal_for_inactive_administrators processing goes:
  • Criteria 1: (SATISIFIED) - there has been an edit in the last 12 months
  • Criteria 2: (SATISIFIED) - there have been over 100 edits in the last 60 months. Additionally they werewarned of low editing averages as recently as Feb this year.
—xaosfluxTalk14:41, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
rick Block, can you make changes toyour bot to insert usernames withdiacritics?102.156.65.169 (talk)11:52, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll look into this. --Rick Block(talk)23:42, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, can you downgrade edit-protection foruser:edit filteruser:edit filter from template to semi? My reason is because the target page is semi-edit-protected, but also admin-move-protected.102.159.8.166 (talk)12:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can request changes atWP:RFPP, also please do not use my talk page to follow up with other users. —xaosfluxTalk13:16, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot access for SodiumBot

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Hi, would it be possible for you to grant bot access toSodiumBot on test.wikipedia.org? I'd like to use it to test some issues surround pywikibot and it's interactions with the bot flag.Sohom (talk)01:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —xaosfluxTalk02:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-26

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Recent changes

  • Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questionson the project talkpage.[152]
  • The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode.[153]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).[155][156]
  • Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this featureon Diff oron Mediawiki.org.[157]

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MediaWiki message delivery22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unsalting ofWikipetan

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You saltedWikipetan way back in 2007 because it was on the protected titles list. It is now mentioned atMoe anthropomorphism § Computers anda redirect was requested at AFCRD. Could you please unsalt it? Cheers,Queen of Hearts talk01:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —xaosfluxTalk09:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-27

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Recent changes

  • Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of thetop-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information inthe latest Web team update.[158]
  • Logged-in users can now setglobal preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.[159]
  • If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use newCSS features and to send less code to all readers.[160][161]
  • Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily usingCommunity Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configureGrowth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months.[162]
  • Editors interested in language issues that are related toUnicode standards, can now discuss those topics ata new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now amember of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia inMandailing (w:btm:)[163]

Problems

  • Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.[164]

Future changes

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

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Unbundling, automation, fighting spirit, and a bot named Reimu Hakurei.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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Request to Unblock a Global block

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i Xaosflux. I recently found myself blocked from editing because of an issue with my IP range (135.226.0.0/16), and it said that you were the blocking admin. I am at a loss at what my options are. I hope you can help me with this problem. I make my edits to Wikipedia from my office at work (I am a disclosed paid editor), and it is my company's policy to use a proxy, and there is no option to disable the proxy when editing Wikipedia. Perhaps you can change the block from a total block to "anonymous only" which would allow me to continue editing in good faith as I have been for the past two years. Alternatively, could you possibly grant an exemption to the block of my IP? I appreciate your attention to this matter. Thank you.Cduffymul (talk)12:27, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your first step should be to contact your network administrator. From your message above it sounds like services (i.e. making contributions to Wikipedia) that your company wants to provide is not working because of configuration that they control. Your network administrator should be able to configure a "split tunnel" for Wikipedia sites. This is a common fix for businesses that need to connect their business networks to restricted external networks. You may also apply for an account exemption from the local checkuser team by following the directions on this page:WP:IPBE. —xaosfluxTalk13:04, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-28

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Latesttech 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

  • A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin,has been fixed.

Future changes

  • The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introducetemporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team hascreated documentation explaining how to do the update.Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery21:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 'crat Anniversary!

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 WishingXaosflux a very happy bureaucratship anniversary on behalf of theBirthday Committee!The Herald (Benison) (talk)10:46, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Testwiki

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Hey, can you restore my +sysop again? I'd like to testphab:T20110#9968717 and a few other things. Thanks!Suffusion of Yellow (talk)00:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, be sure not not leave something like CAPTCHA on for everyone there! —xaosfluxTalk00:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yep. Right now you need to actually say "captcha" in the summary, which I hope shouldn't be too common...Suffusion of Yellow (talk)00:24, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-29

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Tech News survey

Recent changes

  • Advanced item Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use bothGerrit andGitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in theMigration status page.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for theProduct and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects.Please apply here by August 10.
  • Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the newEdit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold,you can contact the team. You canread more about this project on Diff blog.
  • Editors who have access toThe Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundationcontacted them to restore access. You can read more aboutthis and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • Advanced item Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test thetemporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Pleaseshare your opinions and questions on the project talk page.[165]
  • Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary atCommons:Cross-wiki upload anddiscussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

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Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?
Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.
Natalia Tymkiv, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Charter vote results, the resolution, meeting minutes, and proposed next steps.
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Tech News: 2024-30

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Feature News

  • Stewards can nowglobally block accounts. Beforethe change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out.Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to theTemporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface ofFlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface andWikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile andMinerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported toCodex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers.[166]
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests viaGlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.[167]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone?A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using theCommons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.[168]

Project Updates

  • Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopenedCommunity Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

  • Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work onDiff.
  • How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recentblog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of theWMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as aChatGPT plugin andAdd a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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Tech News: 2024-31

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Feature news

  • Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at theproject talkpage.

Bugs status

  • Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week.These errors were mainly due to the addition of newlinter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
  • Editors can use theIP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You canread details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is anupdate on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage inCzech (voy:cs:)[169]

Learn more

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MediaWiki message delivery23:09, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are a nice person

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Hi Xaosflux. I just came to the main Wikipedia page and upon seeing you in it's recent edit history I thought to leave a message for you and luckily got the chance to say something to any known user after really long. I remember you always had been there to answer me whenever I had left some message for you basically my help requests for knowing something from you to get solution in my problems related to Wikipedia editing and blocks and as becoz I always try my best to never forget the names who ever helped me and their kind helpful responses I am expressing my thanks here and say that you are a nice person. May you stay happy always.Bye.😊❤️157.34.6.72 (talk)19:29, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, enjoy the site! —xaosfluxTalk20:43, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-32

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Feature news

  • Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week:{{#dir}} and{{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need forTemplate:Dir andTemplate:BCP47 on Commons and allow us todrop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania.[170][171]
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instanceWikipedia: orWikisource: namespaces) if they understand theknown limitations. For discussions, users can already useDiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension"in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

  • Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill outa brief survey or share your thoughtson the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
  • Advanced item The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage wereswitched to Parsoid last week. For more information, seeParsoid/Parser Unification.

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MediaWiki message delivery20:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readdedIsabelle Belato
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Interface administrator changes

readdedIzno

CheckUser changes

removedBarkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators maylocally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" viaSpecial:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

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question

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Hi, I noticed you usually answer questions at Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features/Mentor list my mentor list is all of the suddenempty?, thanks --Ozzie10aaaa (talk)15:58, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ozzie10aaaa onSpecial:MentorDashboard it will only list mentees that have been "recently active" - do you have reason to think that you have a mentee that is recently active, but not showing? Can you provide an example? —xaosfluxTalk15:57, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
these are just afew that have left questions (there are more) on my talk page that are 'fairly recently active'...additionally there are always brand new editors that are listed (which are currently not) that I place {{Mentor welcome}} on their page?, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk)16:17, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ozzie10aaaa in the mentor dashboard, at the top left, there is a pull down "filter", check that and try increasing the inactivity counter. —xaosfluxTalk19:14, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
[177] yes I had tried that...still blank--Ozzie10aaaa (talk)21:56, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I triggered a refresh, please check again in 3 hours. Make sure in your filters you don't have "only starred" set. —xaosfluxTalk22:44, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
still blank,Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk)13:25, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough privileges for AWB tool after 2 factor authentication

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Hello Xaosflux. I'm a bureaucrat at mk.wiki. I had the same issue describedon this discussion about the AWB given the 2 factor authentication I recently enabled. I have been using the tool for years for that wiki. I've done exactly as described atWikipedia:Using AWB with 2FA, including ticking all the boxes (step no. 4 on the page). The tool still won't let me in, sayingthe user doesn't have enough privileges to make automatic edits. Should I do something on mk.wiki? I have no clue what to do next, but this tool is essential for our wiki. Help would be very much appreciated. --B. Jankuloski (talk)11:42, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bjankuloski06 first, make sure you are running the current release of AWB. Second, are you not able to log on at all, or are you just having a problem using the "bot" page of AWB? —xaosfluxTalk11:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The current release is 6.3.1.1. —xaosfluxTalk11:45, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, on your AWB logon (or more likely on your saved profiles) be sure to change the username, e.g. instead of it says "Fluxbot" on mine, it says "Fluxbot@FluxbotAWB" (my botpasswords names). And the password is the botpassword. —xaosfluxTalk11:47, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much! I was able to log in with the newest version. Perhaps this version has been created, among other things, to accommodate this need for admin authentication. I guess the need to have the latest version should be mentioned on theinstructions page.B. Jankuloski (talk)11:54, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good to hear! This doesn't seem to be a problem with BotPasswords or 2FA themselves, but with AWB. It seems to be somewhat recent and others have reported similar problems. Hopefully the AWB devs can improve error handling there. Best regards, —xaosfluxTalk11:58, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a newsub-referencing feature. You can read moreabout the project andhow to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for:DynamicPageList,Kartographer,Phonos,RSS,Score,WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.[181]
  • Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using thecategories property ofmw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.[182][183]

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  • Advanced item Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start withTalk:WP: so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them toSpecial:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available inphab:P67388.
  • Editors who volunteer asmentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks toa bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

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  • The application deadline for theProduct & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

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Pblock question

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Is it possible to pblock someone fromWP:SPI? In other words, I want to prevent the user from filing or editing any SPIs, likeWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ with a wildcard (like an asterisk), or maybe just blocking them from that page would do it. I don't see anything like that atWP:PBLOCK, but that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't possible. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk)00:00, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bbb23 not currently, though that is an open feature request (T242670). The abusefilter could do this, but it's too expensive to make single user rules. As an softer alternative to a site-wide editing block, you could use a namespace block against the entire "Wikipedia:" namespace to curtail the disruptive behavior of an editor. —xaosfluxTalk00:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I thought about the Wikipedia namespace block, but although the editor has problems with other administrative boards as well as SPI, I don't think it's sufficiently widespread to justify the wider block. Thanks for your quick response.--Bbb23 (talk)00:38, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia:Otrs members" listed atRedirects for discussion

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The redirectWikipedia:Otrs members has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 25 § Wikipedia:Otrs members until a consensus is reached.1234qwer1234qwer417:50, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Advanced item Administrators can now test thetemporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Pleaseshare your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Later this week, editors at wikis that useFlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.[184]

Bugs status

  • Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, willno longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

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  • Wishlist item Please review and vote onFocus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

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  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You canread more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

  • Editors who use theSpecial:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.[185]
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, willnow be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.[186]
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with thenew dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIshas been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome onthe proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

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Request for rollback rights

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I revert vandalism fairly often. Usually undo is enough, but it would be nice to haverollback for those multiple-revision reverts.MP1999❯❯❯Talk16:13, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MP1999 you may request atWP:PERM/R. —xaosfluxTalk16:58, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux But i get declined there everytime.Everyone should get a chance at least once.MP1999❯❯❯Talk17:06, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's the process. If you want to challenge it you can raise a thread atWP:AN. —xaosfluxTalk17:45, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Nicholas Conn

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More IP-edits, I requested protection.Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk)15:59, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned up, one gblock, +prot. —xaosfluxTalk16:21, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! One more edit summary there you should perhaps deal with.Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk)16:26, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. —xaosfluxTalk16:31, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Starting this week, the standardsyntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on thehelp page.[188][189]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functionsentity:getSitelink() andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications frominconsistent sitelinks tracking.[190]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.[191]
  • Contributors of11 Wikipedias, including English will have a newMOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS: (usually shortcuts to theManual of Style) are not broken byMooré Wikipedia (language codemos).[192]

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Tech News: 2024-38

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Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area,Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue addingnew wishes.
  • The new automatedSpecial:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand whichnamespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.[193]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.[194]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so canrequest a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.[195]
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB'spublic databases from bothQuarry andSuperset. Those databases have always been accessible to everyToolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now bequeried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classesmw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use aglobal-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-message group of classes as a replacement (seethe relevant Codex documentation, andan example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.[196]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.[197]

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  • Advanced item The latest monthlyMediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research abouthook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  • Advanced item To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There aremore details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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  • All wikis will beread-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
  • Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see theAlt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback onthe discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. Themost noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  • Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within<syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.[198]
  • Two bugs were fixed in theGlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.[199][200]
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item FromWikimedia Enterprise:
    • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained onthe project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
    • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

  • Advanced item The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of theWDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. Thequery.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please seethe announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery23:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updating

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Can you update the version hereMediaWiki:Gadget-calculator.js

With the version heremdwiki:MediaWiki:Gadget-calculator.js

ThanksDoc James (talk ·contribs ·email)23:08, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —xaosfluxTalk23:18, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I actually just made some additional changes on mdwiki, so it needs to be resynced again, but i think after the most recent change i made the gadget will probably be stable until we get new feedback.Bawolff (talk)06:58, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done —xaosfluxTalk09:28, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We have one in mainspace as a trial atBody roundness index. What are the next steps for getting this turned on by default? Like previously gadget should only load on pages inthis category.Doc James (talk ·contribs ·email)18:15, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest you un-archiveWikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_215#New_gadget_for_doing_user_entered_calculations and place the request there -- assuming nobody objects should be OK. —xaosfluxTalk18:24, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks started the discussion atWikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Turning_on_the_Calculator_gadget_as_defaultDoc James (talk ·contribs ·email)18:33, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 September 2024

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ANI (but probably not the one you're thinking of), bias and bans, crisis and Clover, Engelhorn's euros, and will the zoomers inherit the project?
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RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

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Hi there! The trial of theRfA discussion-only period passed atWP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate atWikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing!MediaWiki message delivery (talk)09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Generating article lists

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Hello, Xaos!

I am trying to generate a list of articles that have less than 1000 bytes of information for the Albanian Wikipedia. Any idea what would be the best approach to handle this?Special:ShortPages doesn't help much in that direction. -Klein Muçi (talk)07:57, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Klein Muçi if you want it to be all inclusive, using a dump or using a replica would probably be the answer here. It looks like ptwiki does this on the tool serverArtigos curtos (maintainer isDanilo.mac). Perhaps they could extend their tool to more projects? This seem possible from a Quarry report as well. An old example Quarry report is linked fromphab:T218350. —xaosfluxTalk09:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I forked this:https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/86676
Not sure if I've done it right but I'm currently running it. -Klein Muçi (talk)10:03, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think it worked. Thank you! :D -Klein Muçi (talk)10:04, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome! —xaosfluxTalk10:10, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-40

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Readers of42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use thenight-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. Therecommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set inyour preferences.[201]
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin.Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences.[202]
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has beenenabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki.Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progresson Spanish Wikipedia andon Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visitthe CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki shouldcheck if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

  • Theserver switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time ofonly 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes.[203]

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

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thank you for deal with my account problem!!!

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thank you for deal with my account problem!!!i could create my wikipedia account because you solved this problem. thank you ;)

I'm sorry about my english is not good.のすけさん (talk)09:18, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. —xaosfluxTalk19:37, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, could you please completethis request? Thanks! –DreamRimmer (talk)18:40, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please help me out?

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Hi. I'm posting here what I posted on FormalDude's page. Please forgive me for not being super Wiki-literate yet. I was just looking for some help and noticed that FormalDude isn't an admin so I found your page, xaosflux:

Hi FormalDude. Could you take a look at the NYU Law Review's page? This user "Randykitty" for some reason feels the need to erroneously remove our logo from our page. You reversed him once already last year but he just removed the logo again (for the same reason you'd reversed him) claiming the logo isn't being used by the Law Review. Here is evidence of the Law Review using the logo that's on the Wiki page (that Randykitty will for some reason try to remove again):https://www.instagram.com/nyulawreview/https://www.linkedin.com/company/nyulr/https://twitter.com/nyulawreviewNyulrlogo (talk)22:05, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator's deal with technical aspects of the site, and enforce certain behavior standards, however we haveno special authority over article content at all. When there is disagreement with the content of an article, the article's talk place is where to start discussing it. SeeWikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle for a way to begin. —xaosfluxTalk22:28, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi @Xaosflux, hope you're doing alright. I have some important tasks coming up and I would sincerely appreciate you blocking me until October 17. Thank you,Bremps...05:00, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —xaosfluxTalk09:49, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding this[213]?Doc James (talk ·contribs ·email)16:56, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Doc James this has been promoted to production, appears to be working on articles now. —xaosfluxTalk20:09, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wonderful thanks as always.Doc James (talk ·contribs ·email)20:40, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Resyncing calculator gadget

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We made some improvements based on feedback to the calculator gadget. Would you be able to resynchttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-calculator.js withhttps://mdwiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-calculator.js? Thanks.Bawolff (talk)17:21, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done please just open edit requests on the associated talk page so these don't get overlooked in the future. —xaosfluxTalk19:58, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to review

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Not sure if you missedthis edit?isaacl (talk)17:26, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, removed. —xaosfluxTalk17:49, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Import request

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Hello, kindly importmw:Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Reporting/en.wikipedia.org toWikipedia:Dark mode/Reporting per my rationale atWikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Implementation. Please use the options "Copy all the revisions for this page" and "Assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally" on the import page. I think there is sufficient consensus. —Matrix(!)ping onewhen replying {user -talk? -uselesscontributions}09:08, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone, that is not you, should close that discussion. No problems doing a transwiki import at that time, though we generally donot do the 'assign edit to local...' setting on purpose (it can confuse people as to why these edits aren't in contributions here, etc.). —xaosfluxTalk10:07, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. I thought the discussion can be closed by the person who started it if there isn't much opposition, but it's fine I can wait. —Matrix(!)ping onewhen replying {user -talk? -uselesscontributions}14:31, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
About your point that we shouldn't do it, we have to or else the automatic archiving will get confused, since there are no signatures. We can add a clarification header at the top. —Matrix(!)ping onewhen replying {user -talk? -uselesscontributions}14:33, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That doesn't make sense, bot archiving works on page text not old revisions authors. Also, if a bot isn't working right, that's a problem for the bot operator - and would have no impact to future edits. —xaosfluxTalk14:45, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
User:ClueBot III/Documentation says inUser:ClueBot III/Documentation#How does ClueBot III know when to archive my page? "ClueBot III works based on the revision history of the page in question". —Matrix(!)ping onewhen replying {user -talk? -uselesscontributions}15:50, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, so no part of that has any reference to the username styling. CBIII can even archive things from IP users, they just look like they dohere. —xaosfluxTalk16:01, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok so maybe the "Assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally" is unnecessary. But the other option still needs to be used for the archiving to work. —Matrix(!)ping onewhen replying {user -talk? -uselesscontributions}11:33, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK. I replied atWikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Implementation. —xaosfluxTalk11:43, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing category on ACE candidate statement template

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Hi Xaosflux! In 2021, you made a series of edits likethis one to fix an issue with theCategory:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021 candidate statements category not appearing on candidate statement pages. The issue has continued throughout the years; do you have any ideas about how{{Arbitration Committee Elections statement}} could be modified to prevent this? I'm not super familiar with noinclude and includeonly.DanCherek (talk)23:21, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DanCherek I made a few tweaks, now using{{subst:Arbitration Committee Elections statement|Xaosflux|Your statement~~~~}} produces this on the page:Special:PermaLink/1250863321. Is that what you are wanting? —xaosfluxTalk00:18, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that looks great. Thank you!!!DanCherek (talk)00:22, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I hope you are doing well. Have you used twinkle's batch delete module on somewhere other than enwiki? TheWikipedia:Twinkle/doc#Modules for administrators is not much helpful. I am not sure if global twinkle supports that either. —usernamekiran(talk)13:17, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran no, I only use TW on enwiki. —xaosfluxTalk14:05, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
thanks. any suggestions/ideas/workaround on how to mass/batch delete pages on somewhere other than enwiki? —usernamekiran(talk)14:13, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
AWB? —usernamekiran(talk)14:16, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It depends on how big of a job it is, and how they were made. If someone is making lots of bad pages,Special:Nuke can be used. —xaosfluxTalk14:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
special:nuke is giving me two options, "Username, IP address or blank", and "SQL LIKE pattern (e.g. %) for the page name:". But I want to delete all the pages from the category "empty mainspace pages". for example, the corresponding page for1940 in film in Marathi —mr:इ.स. १९४० मधील चित्रपट has been empty since 2009. Currently there are ~2,700 pages in that category. Even if we use nuke, it might delete some salvageable articles. AWB seems to be a safer choice, but the "delete" button stays greyed out for me. I tried a few things, cant seem to enable the option. I think I will have to do it manually over the course of couple of months. —usernamekiran(talk)16:45, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, Nuke is not suitable for that purpose. I'm a bit lost on your source, where is the list of all the pages you want to delete? —xaosfluxTalk16:52, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
oh, I didn't think of mentioning the source, it ismr:वर्ग:रिकामी पाने. It is not a maintenance/hidden category, just a plain old regular category. The title literally means "empty pages", but some articles have infoboxes in them, and some other can be expanded/or are of interest of mrwiki. —usernamekiran(talk)22:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You could try getting twinkle going, pywikibot has a module for this as well. For medium-speed batch deletions I've usedmeta:MediaWiki:Gadget-autodel.js before. —xaosfluxTalk23:47, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also regarding AWB "delete" - it isn't a batch tool, you'd have to click on it and give a reason each time. If you don't see it and you aren't using webauth, ensure your grant has delete enabled. —xaosfluxTalk00:20, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I tried to enableWP:Visual editor but it's not working. It said to try it out in my sandbox, but when I went to the sandbox, I gotthis message. Please explain.Atsme💬📧13:20, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To try the current version of VE, it's best to try it with the current skin as well. InSpecial:Preferences pick "Vector (2022)" in the Appearance menu; in the Editing menu enable "Enable the visual editor"; make sure you do not have "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" enabled.
To try it one time only on your sandbox, try usingthis link. —xaosfluxTalk14:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It worked! Thank you!Atsme💬📧15:08, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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When making requests for adminship or for choosing an article as a featured/good article or for flagging a new bot (the list goes on), one has to create a request and then transclude that request on a specific page. In SqWiki this step, being a bit unintuitive, is always forgotten by users which expect to be done with the request once they create the page with all the info for it and then wonder why it is not showing up anywhere. Is there a bot that you use to handle such cases in EnWiki? Maybe I could ask its operator to lend a hand even on our community. -Klein Muçi (talk)09:01, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No we don't. It's sort of a feature, if someone can't follow a simple direction like "transclude your request" - they likely shouldn't be running a bot here or be an admin here. For lightweight requests, perhaps you should have requesters make a new section rather than a new page. If you did want to do it, you could build something to look for, such as have the new page creation workflow inlcudeCategory:OPEN requests for XXXYYYZZZ, then your bot could patrol the listing page for pages missing (and make the request closing process remove that category). We thought about doing that one time, but found that often people would make their requests, but not be finished making them - or just not be ready to fully commit to their request yet. —xaosfluxTalk10:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I see. As always, thank you for your insight! :-) -Klein Muçi (talk)12:50, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2024-47

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create aredirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.[239]
  • View all 42 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example,Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.[240]

Updates for technical contributors

  • On wikis that use theFlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.[241][242]

In depth

  • There is a newDiff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

  • Technical volunteers can now register for the2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open fromNovember 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
  • Join theWikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take placeNovember 21, 2024,8:00 UTC and16:00 UTC.
  • ALanguage community meeting will take placeNovember 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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Tech News: 2024-48

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item A new version of the standard wikitext editor-modesyntax highlighter will be available as abeta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support,template folding,autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on thehelp page.
  • The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts suchCtrl+B for bold andCtrl+I for italics. A fulllist of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.[243]
  • Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:bswiki,elwiki,euwiki,fawiki,fiwiki,frwikiquote,frwikisource,frwikiversity,frwikivoyage,idwiki,lvwiki,plwiki,ptwiki,urwiki,viwikisource,zhwikisource. This is done as part ofStructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contactTrizek (WMF).
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected"if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

  • TheCodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages,now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressingCtrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
  • Advanced item Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can checkthis dashboard and the list in the Description of thetask T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.[244]
  • Advanced item TheNew PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.[245]

Meetings and events

  • ALanguage community meeting will take place November 29 at16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track atWiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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Hi, can you check the edit filter mailing list? You were active recently, so I'm hoping you can just check it out, it's not a filter request it's a semi-urgent (well, depends) concern.
It's currently waiting for moderator approval, mentions DatGuy in the contents. –2804:F1...6D:D079 (::/32) (talk)18:38, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a listmod. —xaosfluxTalk19:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, oh well, it was responded to at some point, thanks anyways. –2804:F1...6D:D079 (::/32) (talk)21:09, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The{{#interwikilink}} function adds aninterwiki link and the{{#interlanguagelink}} function adds aninterlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning withMOS: on English Wikipediaconflict with themos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See theHTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.[246]
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:arwiki,cawiki,frwiki,mediawikiwiki,orwiki,wawiki,wawiktionary,wikidatawiki,zhwiki. This is done as part ofStructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contactTrizek (WMF).[247]
  • This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working versionon Testwiki and readthe November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.[248]

Updates for technical contributors

  • In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them tothis list. In addition, review theupdated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on theproject talk page or in thededicated thread on theWikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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Proposed deletion ofASCII ribbon campaign

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Notice

The articleASCII ribbon campaign has beenproposed for deletion because of the following concern:

FailsWP: GNG. I cannot find sources that would establish the notability of this subject.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may bedeleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the{{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in youredit summary or onthe article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing{{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop theproposed deletion process, but otherdeletion processes exist. In particular, thespeedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, andarticles for deletion allows discussion to reachconsensus for deletion.HyperAccelerated (talk)07:39, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-50

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Weekly highlight

  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at theDocumentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new#wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, pleasecontact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature
  • Later this week,Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people withnew Checks that appearwhile they are typing. Theinitial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working exampleson Testwiki and readthe November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where themobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the<page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer tothe step-by-step guide.[249]
  • TheNuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has amultiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • The Nuke feature also nowprovides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.[250]
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using theCitoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively,archiveUrl andarchiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see anexample of a change in a template, and alist of all relevant templates.[251]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage inIndonesian (voy:id:)[252]
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.[253]
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug in theAdd Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.[254][255]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stageimplementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps throughComposer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available inthe documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.[256]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints ontestwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the relatedPhabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdatedRESTBase system.
  • The2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associatedprivacy statement.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.[257]

Meetings and events

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Global block on ZScaler IP range (165.225.192.0/18)

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I wanted to follow up on the global block that you added recently for the range 165.225.192.0/18. I do see that my account has now been exempted from this (Thanks!), but I'm concerned that we're still blocking all contributions from 16,000 IPs used by several million corporate users. These users likely have little choice about routing their traffic via ZScaler, and I'm unclear on how blocking this range differs functionally from blocking an entire IP pool used by an ISP such as Comcast. What's the best way we can discuss implementing an effective solution for whatever behavior this was intended to address? Many thanks.Rupert Clayton (talk)19:35, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like previous blocks on ZScaler ranges have been "anononly" soft blocks that do not apply to logged in users. If there is any need for a block, it would seem that a soft block is sufficient. Requiring each affected editor to separately submit UTRS tickets to request individual unblocking seems perverse and a waste of admins' time.Rupert Clayton (talk)19:48, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This project may choose to change that block setting. That proxy service is allowing its clients to abuse our services. If you are using someone else's network, and they want their network to be used for this purpose the network administrator may also whitelist our domains (at least some have done so previously). —xaosfluxTalk20:44, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for replying. It's not clear to me what the abusive behavior is, and how you feel ZScaler should address it. Without a little more info, I can't tell whether you're applying the only reasonable protection available, or using a very blunt tool to address a limited issue. Is there an existing discussion you can direct me to?
I suspect that the behavior may originate from compromised systems at a ZScaler customer, which could be any of many organizations from Unilever to the University of South Carolina. Clearly, these are not in the control of ZScaler (and may not be in the immediate control of the customer). When you say "That proxy service is allowing its clients to abuse our services", that may be equivalent to "ZScaler is unwilling to put pressure on its paying customers who have compromised machines that do things we don't like." Depending on the behavior, that seems like something that could be addressed effectively by calling out ZScaler (a security company) for not taking stronger action. Of course, this really depends on the type of abuse you're seeing.
In terms of how innocent Wikimedia users can mitigate this I think you're suggesting a couple of things that don't really address the pervasive impact of the global block:
  • The admins of a particular language instance of Wikipedia could take a decision to only soft-block ZScaler. Great, but without knowledge of the type of abuse that triggered this, it's tough to make the case for why a different approach would be appropriate on say, en or fr.
  • "If you are using someone else's network, and they want their network to be used for this purpose the network administrator may also whitelist our domains (at least some have done so previously)." I think you're saying that particular companies could allow their users' traffic to Wikimedia domains to bypass ZScaler. This seems unlikely to succeed. I've got a pretty good idea what response I would get if I sent my company's security team an email asking "Can you whitelist these domains so that I can use my work computer out of hours to edit Wikipedia articles? I need to do that without my traffic being examined by ZScaler."
I still don't understand why this needs to be a hard block. If Wikimedia blocked unauthenticated edits from this range plus any abusive behavior from authenticated accounts, that would appear to address the issue without the significant harms caused by the current hard block.Rupert Clayton (talk)05:12, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, proxy and VPN companies are very unresponsive to their users disrupting others systems. We are in communication with a resource from this proxy, but not getting very far. Blocks are being monitored and may be adjusted. We haveabsolutely had companies decide to not send traffic to our domains to third party proxies, when they want their networks and computers used in that manner. —xaosfluxTalk12:33, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 December 2024

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New arbs to be seated in January.
Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?
Should old acquaintance be forgot?
An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Wikipedia culture.
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Wikipedia aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world.
Ballooning British bias bombast!
Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.
The importance of feedback.
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Seasons Greetings!

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Hello there, 'tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! A big thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia in 2024! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2025! ♦Dr. Blofeld09:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-51

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? TheCampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit thedeployment status page.

Updates for editors

  • Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see apersonalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
  • Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the newRabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
  • Theglobal reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. Seethe technical details page for more information.
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug wasfixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.[258]

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Happy Holidays

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Xaosflux, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on thisseasonal occasion. Spread theWikiLove by wishing another user aMerry Christmas and aHappy 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 2025.
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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

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What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.
A personal essay.
Explanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it.
Plus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more.
Who's news?
And other new research findings.
Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!
Wicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ!
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Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment

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Opinion on an ECR Request

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Hi @Xaosflux, may I ask for your opinion on an ECR requestWikipedia:Requests for permissions/Extended confirmed#User:Boutboul. Thanks in advance.Michael Boutboul (talk)18:49, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

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  • The Nuke feature also nowprovides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

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Tech News: 2025-03

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. Seethe SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis withPageAssessments installed, you can nowfilter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using theinproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia)[259]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia inTigre (w:tig:)[260]
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.[261]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin reroutingsome page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to theMediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs.Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used forOAuth 1 andOAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in itssub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.[262]
  • Many wikis currently useCite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you tonot clean up yourMediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.[263]

Meetings and events

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

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The 20th anniversary ofThe Signpost.
A lot of psephology!
HUMINT or humbug?
Hallelujah!
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.
The latest crusade?
Our alumni speak!
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.
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Tech News: 2025-04

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address usingExtension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.[264]
  • Onwikis that use thePatrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that usefilters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.[265]
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now beenfixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced byDiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page.The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please pingTrizek (WMF) at your wiki.[266]
  • The latest quarterlyTechnical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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I don't know how well that talk page is watched. But would you happen to know about the anchor(s)? -jc3708:25, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I replied there. —xaosfluxTalk10:25, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you : ) -jc3710:52, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-05

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  • Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

  • iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access apersonalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
  • Wishlist item Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for inSpecial:RecentChanges andSpecial:NewPages.[267]
  • Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (adouble redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.[268]
  • Advanced item Wikimedia wikis allowWebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature isfragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout ofSUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.[269]
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • For developers that use theMediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support theTemporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in themediawiki_user_history dump, theanonymous field will be renamed tois_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.[270]

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Tech News: 2025-06

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Updates for editors

  • Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.[271]
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[272] You can now also insert<code> tags using a new toolbar button.[273] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
  • Help is needed to ensure thecitation generator works properly on each wiki.
    • (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the pageMediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries forpreprint,standard, anddataset; Here are example diffs to replicatefor 'preprint' andfor 'standard' and 'dataset'.
    • (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing,one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updatesfor 'preprint' andfor 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported arearchiveID,identifier,repository,organization,repositoryLocation,committee, andversionNumber.[274]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia inCentral Kanuri (w:knc:)[275]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, theOCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.[276]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

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  • Administrators can nownuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days.T380846
  • A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter inSpecial:RecentChanges andSpecial:NewPages.T56145

Arbitration

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Research Consultation

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Hello xaosflux, I hope all is well. My name is Matt and I'm a graduate student researcher at Northwestern. Recently I've posted to the BAG IRC chat and the User Bots/Scripts Noticeboard soliciting feedback onresearch cases that I have selected for a research project. Given that we are looking at WMF feature deployments' impact on user bots and scripts operation, we really value the bot community's perspectives on how we are thinking about these events.

I'm sure that you're quite busy, and I completely understand if you do not have the time. Given your experience on BAG, I just wanted to reach out and see if you had any thoughts that you may be willing to share on our characterizations of these feature deployments. Any information you share will not be included in any research reports, I'm just curious to know your thoughts on how we are framing these events.

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Updates for editors

  • The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions atT385346.[277]
  • As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check outthe project page for more information.
  • Advanced item Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion,prefers-reduced-transparency,prefers-contrast, andforced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.[278]
  • Recurrent item View all 22 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.[279]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikidatanow supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.[280]
  • The functiongetDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers.[281]
  • As part of the RESTBase deprecationeffort, the/page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, anda migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces teamcan be contacted for any questions.[282]

In depth

  • The latest quarterlyLanguage and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
  • The latestChart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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"Wikipedia:PB" listed atRedirects for discussion

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The redirectWikipedia:PB to the pageWikipedia:Partial blocks has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 11 § Wikipedia:PB until a consensus is reached.67.209.130.146 (talk)03:37, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on theSpecial:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase atSpecial:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please readthe Diff post, have a lookat the documentation, or contactthe Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements
  • Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will geta new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step oftalk pages improvements.[283]
  • You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.[284]
  • When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used,an error message was displayed. As part of the work tomodernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
  • The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators canhelp to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
  • A new filter has been added to theSpecial:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.[285]
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using theSpecial:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.[286]
  • Recurrent item View all 25 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again.[287]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see theParsoid/Parser Unification project page.[288][289]
  • Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note thatmw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiringmw.Uri must explicitly declaremediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser nativeURL API soon.[290]

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MfD nomination ofMediaWiki:Logentry-rights-autopromote

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MediaWiki:Logentry-rights-autopromote, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated fordeletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments atWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Logentry-rights-autopromote and please be sure tosign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content ofMediaWiki:Logentry-rights-autopromote during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.GTrang (talk)03:42, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment

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Tech News: 2025-09

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Updates for editors

  • Administrators can now customize how theBabel feature creates categories usingSpecial:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.[291]
  • Thewikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such aswikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.[292][293][294]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary inSantali (wikt:sat:)[295]
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.[296]

Meetings and events

  • The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simplysign up on the wiki page.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2025

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Tech News: 2025-10

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using theAdvanced mobile contributions setting.[297]
  • Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their localMediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove,can be found with this global search and inthis example, and you can learn more about how to help on theCSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered byParsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
  • When editors embed a file (e.g.[[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[298] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g.{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[299]
  • When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[300] and respects cascading protection.[301]
  • When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.[302]
  • Thepreviously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation onGroup0 wikis this week. Seethe SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
  • Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.[303]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia inSylheti (w:syl:)[304]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.[305]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new filter has been added to theSpecial:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.T378488
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using theSpecial:Nuke tool.T376378

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-11

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of theSUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.[306][307]
  • The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions inAfrika Baraza and the lastESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts?Join the discussion or emailaramadan@wikimedia.org!
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest quarterlyGrowth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
  • An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You canread more details about this change.

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Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment

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Updates for editors

  • Theimproved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipediassoon. Withthe unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-basedarticle suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access theCommunity-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
  • On Wikimedia Commons, anew system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
  • The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for theMultiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on theproject talk page.
  • Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at12 Wikipedias:Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see allReference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documentedon Phabricator.[308]
  • TheGlobal reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see thelisting of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
  • TheGlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.[309]
  • Recurrent item View all 26 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.[310]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issuesplease report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
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Regardingthis comment: did you mean "... they can't force administrators tovolunteer to do something."isaacl (talk)21:22, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note, I just struck the 'not'. I think I rewrote that a bunch of times and left that not behind. My point is that binding remedies can not make any volunteer perform a future action, anyone is free to decide they don't feel like volunteering to work on remedy enforcement. Arcbom can certainly ask their clerks to do something, and they can "fire" their clerks if they don't like them - but no editor is going to get sanctioned for not volunteering to contribute in an area they don't want to contribute in. —xaosfluxTalk22:38, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, that was what I understood. I was going over your statement with the "not" in it to try to make it come out that way, but couldn't, so left the note. Thanks for the change!isaacl (talk)23:46, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Updates for editors

  • TheCampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (seedeployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools:Event Registration,Collaboration List, andInvitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to theextension talk page or in Phabricator (with#campaigns-product-team tag).
  • Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants inEvent Registration, as part of theCampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup byrequesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the#campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
  • Administrators at wikis that have a customizedMediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using* specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.[311]
  • The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.[312]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • VisualEditor has introduced anew client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can beshared in the task.
  • Developers who use themw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with theuserAgent parameter:var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.[313][314]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-14

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • The Editing team is working on a newEdit check:Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input:in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messagingTrizek (WMF).
  • Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience forMediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on theon the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers toshare feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

  • Sometimes a small,one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack servingmaps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform adatacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result ofextensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over tokubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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MediaWiki message delivery00:03, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mobile sidebar

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Hello, Xaos!

Any idea where can one IA change the content for the mobile sidebar? Mediawiki:Sidebar just targets the content of the desktop sidebar. -Klein Muçi (talk)15:31, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can't, stalled by devs for 10+ years inphab:T65459. —xaosfluxTalk15:57, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wow... OK... Thank you for the information nonetheless! -Klein Muçi (talk)16:01, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I was searching a bit more about this... How come my homewiki's mobile sidebar (SqWiki) differs from the one here (which is the one present everywhere else also)? Is that hardcoded somewhere? -Klein Muçi (talk)10:46, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps in Mobile Sidebar, Settings - you have "Advanced" enabled on one project but not another? —xaosfluxTalk13:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that was the reason. Thank you! -Klein Muçi (talk)09:13, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

addedBarkeep49

CheckUser changes

added0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

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Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-15

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such asfont-size,line-height, andsize-icon.
  • The results of theDeveloper Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • The2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for avisa ore-visa to enter the country.

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

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Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?
Defeat, or just a setback?
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!
What is to be done?
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.
Rest in peace.
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.
Gadzooks!
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Tech News: 2025-16

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.[316]
  • File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.[317][318]

Updates for editors

  • The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system calledEdge Uniques which will enableA/B testing, help protect againstDistributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
  • To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time passwordemailed to their account. It is recommended that youcheck that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.[319]
  • "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will beasked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. TheModerator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
  • On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported onquery.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available throughquery-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through thequery.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which wasannounced in September 2024. More information isavailable on Wikidata.
  • The latest quarterlyWikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The latest quarterlyTechnical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery00:22, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Crat chat for EggRoll97

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I have opened up a 'crat chat for EggRoll97, seeWikipedia:Requests for adminship/EggRoll97 2/Bureaucrat chat.Primefac (talk)15:49, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Nomination for merger ofTemplate:Unsigned2

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Template:Unsigned2 has beennominated for merging withTemplate:Unsigned. You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 16:18, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-17

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Wikifunctions is now integrated withDagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to callfunctions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call ofa stable and global function, rather than via a local template.[320]
  • A new type of lint error has been created:Empty headings (documentation). TheLinter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.[321]
  • Recurrent item View all 37 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, isnow also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overallStructured Contents project, and about thefirst release that's freely usable.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings and events

  • The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discussPeacock check, which is the latestEdit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. Themeeting will be on April 28, 2025 at18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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April music

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story ·music ·places

I wrotemy story today and then found it's the person's funeral day. - I havePeter Ablinger marked ready on the last day onWP:ITNN, - could you perhaps help? --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't usually process RD's but it seemed in order and have posted it. —xaosfluxTalk20:22, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't usually request individual admins to work, but pinging all willing to post (by two people, not me) had no result, and I saw you active. Thank you, relief! --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:34, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC,Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to joina discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:33, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Admin

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Can you review this and move to the main spacehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:VastavQewse (talk)20:23, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That does not require an admin. For that draft there is a review waiting, please be patient. —xaosfluxTalk20:29, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing

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I mistakenly posted my question on the admins' notice board. I’m trying to useArchive Bot to automatically archive links and references, but during registration (or after), it said that I need admin permission. Could you please help me? By the way, I'm new to the platform.Arc Rev (talk)11:11, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can get help for using that service by posting on this page:meta:User talk:InternetArchiveBot. —xaosfluxTalk14:03, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-18

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Event organizers who host collaborative activities onmultiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to theCampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events asrequested by a community.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The release of the next major version ofCodex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number ofbreaking changes and minorvisual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented onthis page. Pre-release testing is reported inT386298, with post-release issues tracked inT392379 andT392390.
  • Users ofWiki Replicas will notice that the database views ofipblocks,ipblocks_ipindex, andipblocks_compat arenow deprecated. Users can query theblock andblock_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

UTRS appeal #91406

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It might have been better to restore talk page access and copy this to their talk page to be carried to the community as appellant is 3X banned.-- Deepfriedokra (talk)14:24, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The last notes I saw in UTRS was that there would be a 6-month UTRS block (you are banned from UTRS for six months. After at least six months have passed, you may again request unblocking., so didn't want to drag this back onwiki when that avenue was already in process. I didn't see a ban listed atCategory:Banned Wikipedia users,Category:Wikipedia users banned by the Arbitration Committee,Category:Wikipedia users banned for repeated sockpuppetry, orWikipedia:Long-term abuse. Is this user site banned? (If so, is there a ban discussion you could point me to?). Related, what is the mechanism that users are supposed to use to appeal UTRS "bans"? —xaosfluxTalk15:11, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
His talk page shows appellant to beWP:3X banned. Generally, an indefinite UTRS ban is not apeallable. If you like, I can restore talk page access and I can carry what you posted to UTRS toWP:AN , if you let the appellant know to take part in that discussion onWP:AN.---- Deepfriedokra (talk)17:05, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, missed that there is checkuser blocks involved here. That seems like a fine resolution though. I can reply back to them via VRT (ticket:2025050110003215) that their only appeal would be that way at this time. —xaosfluxTalk17:43, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Great.-- Deepfriedokra (talk)17:47, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Although there is no policy based appeal of an indefinite utrs ban, obviously the way to go is VRT.-- Deepfriedokra (talk)17:48, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And then the agents are supposed to do what with it though?Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System is a bit weak on documentation of dealing with that. UTRS is very useful for avoiding on-wiki drama for sure, but lives in a bit of a grey area. —xaosfluxTalk17:55, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
TPA restored, UTRS closed, VRT noted, user notified via VRT and via talk page. Talk page warning left. Thanks for the notes. —xaosfluxTalk18:01, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2 Gray, and not very helpful. Worked out well I think.-- Deepfriedokra (talk)18:19, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

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As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world
Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?
And other new research findings.
And don't bite those newbies!
And don't bite those newbies!
Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?
Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.
A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).
Hey! At least it is something!
Zounds!
Would a billion articles be a good idea?
There's a lot more to this than you think.
I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.
Just beautiful photos!
Rest in Paradise.
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Self request block

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Hello xaosflux, I recently saw that you were an admin who could handleself requested blocks. I am now requesting a block for about 24 months due to personal issues, and I do not want wikipedia to get in the way of that. I also would like my talk page blocked.TheHighPrinceOfHubris (talk)17:25, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done To "self request" a block, you will need to log on and request it, the request above is notauthenticated. —xaosfluxTalk18:42, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't mind

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Your the best one to ask, I'm not a coder, but I hope there's a way to adjustUser:FlightTime/SortCats.js so it will work globally or at lease on Commons. Thanx for your help in all things here, I'm not that good at writing stuff, but your contributions to this project is unmeasurable. -FlightTime(open channel)22:56, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I don't have time to troubleshoot that script right now, I suggest you ask one of the original coders (Contributions/Epicgenius orContributions/Alex_21. To make something work globally you will load it viameta:Special:Mypage/global.js —xaosfluxTalk23:06, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanx, -FlightTime(open channel)23:09, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-19

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Updates for editors

  • For wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
    • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted forEvent Registration viaCommunity Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
    • Editors can nowtransclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers who use themoment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntl library or the newmediawiki.DateFormatter library. Themoment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, andask related questions in this Phabricator task.
  • Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead.Documentation and related links are available.[322]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latestChart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

addedRusalkii
readdedNaomiAmethyst(overlooked last month)
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Interface administrator changes

removedGalobtter

Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

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May 2025

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Hello there.
There is an editor who was blocked by you for Disruptive editing, but I saw him making another account and further editing again. I believe this comes underWP:SOCK. How do I report it?𝗭𝗲𝗽𝗵𝘆𝗿 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ)09:48, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If there is complete public evidence (such as an account creation log showing the blocked account created another account) you can report toWP:ANI. If this is a suspected case you can report toWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations. —xaosfluxTalk10:54, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The username is same except one letter has been changed. The log is also pretty similar, both of the ids editing same category articles and the second account was created right after the first account getting blocked. Are these enough?𝗭𝗲𝗽𝗵𝘆𝗿 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ)12:18, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just list at SPI, that way the checkusers can also see if there are even more accounts and block them all. —xaosfluxTalk14:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, thanks for the help.𝗭𝗲𝗽𝗵𝘆𝗿 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ)14:04, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question

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Hello, as you are a bureaucrat, can I have a question on you? There is a ruling seen on English Wikipedia,Wikipedia:Inactive administrators. Is this applied to all Wikipedias, or not? Who is overseer of rules accross all Wikimedia Projects and their compatibility? Thank you.ThecentreCZ (talk)06:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The page you mentioned is descriptive of theadministrator policy for the English Wikipedia. In general, each project may choose their own policies for activity requirements for their administrators. For small projects without communities access is managed by the stewards. In that case activity requirements are listed atmeta:Admin activity review. —xaosfluxTalk09:43, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-20

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Weekly highlight

  • The"Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes aQR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

  • The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system calledEdge Uniques, which will enableA/B testing, help protect againstdistributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News haspreviously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on thetalk page.
  • Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with theCampaignEvents extension enabled can useEvent Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces atSpecial:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
  • The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia inNupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute tonew Wikipedia.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through theStructured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
  • The/page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It isscheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

  • TheIPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check outthis blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

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Weekly highlight

  • The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model areinvited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

  • From May 20, 2025,oversighters andcheckusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights.Learn more.
  • Wishlist itemMultiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Pleasecontact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing toSpecial:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionalityon testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See thehelp page for more information.[323]
  • Later this week, theSpecial:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has beenredesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can bepreviewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.[324]
  • TheChart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read thedeployment timeline.
  • Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries:Hausa,Igbo,Bengali,Malayalam, andDhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to callfunctions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call ofa stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
  • Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub forexperiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movementunderstand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples aregenerated video, theWikipedia Roblox speedrun game andthe Discord bot.
  • Recurrent item View all 29 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed.[325]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Gadgets and user scripts that interact withSpecial:Block may need to be updated to work with the newmanage blocks interface. Please review thedeveloper guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on thetalk page.[326]
  • Themw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in theLua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, namedisDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.[327]
  • Advanced item User script developers can use anew reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css fromgitlab.wikimedia.org withmw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review ongitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. SeeTool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • The 12th edition ofWiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers canregister now.

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Please see my message on Phab

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Hi, I added a comment at[328] regarding clearing my history on the Wikipedia app. I was hoping that you could move the Phab ticket along so that we can move to a resolution.Interstellarity (talk)19:50, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a hold on that ticket, it's currently waiting for interested app developers to take it up. —xaosfluxTalk20:54, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Block

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Please remove block on me, or advise if I ned to take steps or actions to get my permission back and resolve the matter.Lizilizard (talk)14:42, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your account is not blocked. If it were, you would not be able to edit this page as you just did. —xaosfluxTalk14:48, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-22

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development ofAbstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 atAbstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

  • Since last week, on all wikis exceptthe largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will haveadditional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new+ toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis isscheduled to happen in June.
  • Advanced item The#ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness ofSpecial:WantedPages, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.[329]
  • This week, the Moderator Tools team will launcha new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
  • Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more.Learn more.
  • Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers,WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
  • TheNewsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation ofvarious newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue.[330]
  • Recurrent item View all 32 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Meetings and events

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Hi! (Not Important!)

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New user here, just wanted to drop by and say hello, as per your user page. I've spent hundreds of hours on Wikipedia, but now that I'm logged in I can see so much cool stuff like this page. Thanks for helping to run this beautiful website!BugetHumanoid (talk)12:01, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome! —xaosfluxTalk13:29, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-23

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Weekly highlight

  • TheChart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacyGraph extension.

Updates for editors

  • It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor'scitation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the_default key in the localMediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations whennew item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.[331]
  • Recurrent item View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in usingaction=login oraction=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots usingbot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such asOAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; usingaction=login without a bot password was deprecatedin 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.[332]
  • From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 isasync/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.[333]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • Scholarship applications to participate in theGLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation canapply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

Administrator changes

removed

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added0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

readdedL235

Oversight changes

readdedL235

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by theWMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case namedIndian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-24

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • TheTrust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll outtemporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project,see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on thetalk page, andjoin a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item Thewatchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. Thepreferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.[334]
Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change,a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changesonDiff. It is possible to opt out of these changesin user preferences ("Show discussion activity").[335][336]
  • Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accountsrevealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.[337]
  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout ofa new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to includethe rest of the Wikipedias in this project.[338]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification areavailable on Phabricator.
  • Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and onsome wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties onmw.title objects, namedpageImage andpageAssessments.[339][340]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-25

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

  • Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You canread more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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Tech News: 2025-26

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout ofa new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to includethe rest of the Wikipedias in this project.[341]

Updates for editors

  • Last week,temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow.Share your thoughts about the project.[342]
  • Later this week, the Editing team will releaseMulti Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multipleReference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test.The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).[343]
  • A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is inthe task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
  • Recurrent item View all 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.[344]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use withExtension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations.Information on how to use transforms is available.[345]
  • Theall_links variable inAbuseFilter is now renamed tonew_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.[346]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest quarterlyGrowth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

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Tech News: 2025-27

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Updates for editors

  • AbuseFilter maintainers can nowmatch against IP reputation data inAbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.[347]
  • Hidden content that is withincollapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.[348][349]
  • Wishlist item A new feature, calledFavourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is acommunity wishlist focus area.
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.[350]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Why did you delete my website

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Why did you want to delete Westland and why did you delete my wikipedia page , it is a dishonor and embarrassment to see that people have said that you help Wikipedia , what , by deleting websites and if you want to delete Westland from the internet you have to delete Michaelbilinski.com my personal website and a-ha! You can’t but you can leave a nasty comment if you want Wikipedia page-delete person and as king Michæl the great I declare war on you in the planet of Wikipedia and maybe in the future Michaelbilinski.com if you think Westland and smiling water bugs and medieval dolphin drawings can be removed from this internet , try your best…MichaelBilinski (talk)16:52, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) He recreated it and I deleted it. Might need suppression. Again. I left him my standard information. Best,-- Deepfriedokra (talk)17:09, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Suppression right deep fried okra ,, an act of dishonour especially deleting my page , for I am the royal Michæl the great king of princess park Manor Park manor
A major showing of dishonesty and fraud because you stop scammers right yes sure I am a scammer major dishonesty ddepfriedokra!!! False, fraud,and threats!!MichaelBilinski (talk)18:20, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete again and no advice!

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I will make a history article about mstislav sviatopolkovich if you question him and cerdic major dishonor deepfriedokra!!!MichaelBilinski (talk)17:28, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Admin policies

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Hello Xaos!I wanted to consult you in your capacity as a Steward regarding a potential policy update in the Albanian Wikipedia (SqWiki). Our community is currently considering a policy change that would result in the removal of advanced user rights (admin, interface admin, and bureaucrat) from users who have not performed a single "admin action" within a 12-month period.The challenge we're facing is that there is no centralized log that clearly defines or tracks "admin actions"—i.e., actions that require advanced rights and cannot be performed by regular users.Given that Stewards already perform global activity checks and notify inactive right holders accordingly, I wanted to ask: would this proposed policy be realistically enforceable by Stewards if approved by our community? Specifically, would it be possible for Stewards to include such local criteria (based on lack of admin actions rather than overall inactivity) in their review and enforcement processes?I'm asking because, while our community supports the proposal in principle, I believe we lack the capacity to carry out this kind of long-term monitoring ourselves. For the policy to be effective in practice, we would be relying on Steward intervention. -Klein Muçi (talk)10:25, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From a stewardly perspective: sqlwiki is an active community - we would expect your community to deal with monitoring yourself, submitting removal requests tometa:Steward_requests/Permissions as needed, after local determination of such a lapse. A suggestion to avoid some semantic issues in the future would be to tie this to non-edit, logged, 'actions', that canonly be performed by administrators. It would still be on you to determine this, but would avoid things such as "edit a protected page" or "make an edit that declines someone's request for something" - that may otherwise be considered administrative "actions". Then have a periodic review (perhaps monthly or quarterly). I'm assuming this is for sqwiki - in which case you only have a few admins, and it's pretty easy to see which ones aren't using their tools - you may not need a formal process, just have a discussion to remove access from those that don't need it. —xaosfluxTalk21:25, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the insight! I understand. In that case I will notify my community that such actions would need to be handled by our side. I don't believe any tool or log of some kind exists that would allow us to track the kind of activity referenced above, no? -Klein Muçi (talk)21:39, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not really, we use a bot on enwiki, but we also have 800+ admins to check against some complicated criteria. —xaosfluxTalk02:28, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Can you tell me which bot this is out of curiosity to see what it deals with? Maybe we can learn something by its workflow. -Klein Muçi (talk)16:41, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We have multiple admin activity criteria, a bot maintains our tracking page here:Wikipedia:Inactive administrators - then our 'crats review that generally on the first day of each month for actions needed. —xaosfluxTalk17:32, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! -Klein Muçi (talk)10:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

  • The 2025Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September.Sign up now!
  • Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative toRFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
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Tech News: 2025-28

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages:Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, andRepository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

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Happy Bureaucratship Anniversary!

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Happy bureaucratship anniversary!
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A barnstar for you!

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For continuing doing what you do around here...two decades later! Have a nice time!Volten001☎10:12, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Featured templates, a new feature related toTemplate Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the communitythrough the Community Wishlist.[354][355]
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CSD U1 request

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Hello Xaosflux, I'm trying to get rid of subpages that I don't need anymore; could you delete (WP:U1) the following subpages for me:

Thank you in advance. Regards, —DVRTed (Talk)18:59, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 All done —xaosfluxTalk19:02, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The Translation Suggestions feature in theContent Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.[357]
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IPBE

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Hi Xaosflux, a while ago you granted me IPBE, thanks again! Could you please extend it? My IPBE is about to expire, but my IP address is part of a very large range that has been blocked until the end of 2027. Thank you!GrammarDamnerhow are things?00:18, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done —xaosfluxTalk00:38, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks!GrammarDamnerhow are things?14:54, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regardingDraft:Claudine Fourie

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  • The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Pleaseread the latest update, and if you have ideas, pleasesubmit a wish on the topic.

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  • The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to blockcross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because ofwidespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating themessage or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.[359]
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  • Editors can now enable theUser Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled inyour global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.[361]
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  • Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page namedMediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined inMediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList.More documentation is available.[363]
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  • Followinga request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion,G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by alarge language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Followinga request for comment, there isa new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses oftemporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors canrequest access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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  • Wikimania 2025 is happening inNairobi,Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years ofWikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You canregister here now.
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  • The WikiEditor toolbar now includesits keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.[368]
  • TheProduct and Technology Advisory Council published a set ofproposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 onthis talk page.
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Request for template editor removal

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Hi Xaosflux. Could you please remove my template editor permission? I haven't worked in the template namespace for a while and I don't think I'll be going back to that anytime soon. — MRD2014 (talk)23:46, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing, if you want to resume in the future start a request atWP:PERM. Best regards, —xaosfluxTalk23:57, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Office blanked talk archives

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HiXaosflux! Long time no chat! I hope you're doing well and that you're having a great day so far! I was going through and updating some protection policy subpages and other pages related to them, and I ran intoCategory:Wikipedia Office-protected pages,Template:Pp-office, and then ran into the talk archive pages ofDerek Smart (listed here:Archive 1,Archive 2,Archive 3,Archive 4,Archive 5,Archive 6, andArchive 7).

I saw that archive page 1 was protected to enforce theoffice action that was performed, so I added {{pp-office}} to this page as well as the others (except for archive page 7). However, the resulting template that is left feels inaccurate because these pages are fully protected in order toenforce an office action; the foundation didn't apply the protection, and these pages are certainly notcurrently under the scrutiny of the Wikimedia Foundation Office, as it says. I should probably go and remove those {{pp-office}} templates, but I'd like to ask what you think I should do first. Only some of these talk archive pages were protected; archive page 4 was left unprotected (I fixed that one), and archive page 7 was protected in 2017, but I noticed that you had removed the protection about a year later citing"old EPROT cleanup" (I couldn't find any information on EPROT when I searched through Wikipedia). You only removed the protection from this archive page, but not the others. Do you remember if there a specific reason for this?

Do you know any more information about these talk archive pages at all? Can I at least have your permission to re-apply the full protection to it and tag it with {{pp-office}} so that they're all consistently protected and tagged, should we remove the protection from each of them, and/or should I just remove the {{pp-office}} templates from each page? My vote would be to have full protection kept on all of the archive pages (and reapplied to archive page 7), since it would prevent users from modifying them or undoing the changes made by theWikimedia Office, and for me to probably go back and remove those templates that I added. Let me know what your thoughts are and what you believe that I should do here. I await your response, and I hope you have a great rest of your day. :-) Best -~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)21:28, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Oshwah Hmm, this is some old stuff. I'm not spending a lot of time on this, feel free to do what you think is correct in reversing any unprotections I may have made. On QUICK review:
  • "OFFICE" courtesy blanked these pages
  • "Office" didn't actually protect these, the community did - but only to enforce the office action, which appears to have become necessary because of subsequent user actions. So, protect away to enforce.
  • I think these are talk page archives related toDerek Smart, notDarek Smart? In which case, they should be kept.
—xaosfluxTalk21:43, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Xaosflux - Correct; I updated the message I left for you above after realizing that I was spelling "Derek" incorrectly. Sorry about that... ;-) Okay, thanks for the input and for your permission; I'll go back and protect archive page 7 and remove the {{pp-office}} template from each one, sincewe (the community) were the ones who applied the protection, not theWikimedia Office. Cheers!~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)21:52, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Derek Smart/Archive3

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@Oshwah: You forgot to remove{{pp-office}} fromTalk:Derek Smart/Archive3.GTrang (talk)04:15, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GTrang - Done. Thanks for letting me know.~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)22:01, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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"Mega Mom" listed atRedirects for discussion

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"Mega mom" listed atRedirects for discussion

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Your draft article,Draft:Claudine Fourie

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Account merging

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Hi, I don't know what the bureaucrat tools are like, so I want to ask: If a user abandons his account because he can't access it anymore, can it be merged to a new account?

I ask becauseUser:Pachiscool11 said inthis edit that he was formerlyUser:Pizza noob 65 but can no longer access it. I wanted to advise him about where to go to merge accounts, but I couldn't find a noticeboard (this is different from changing usernames), so I don't even know if that's possible. ~Anachronist(talk)20:26, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

👋Pachiscool11 (talk)20:49, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Pachiscool11 andAnachronist: merging is not available. Without being able to prove ownership of the "former account" it is generally best to just leave it be and start anew. If someone does have a good claim to the old account, they could redirect the userpages to their new account. —xaosfluxTalk22:11, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that makes sense. ~Anachronist(talk)01:20, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Wishlist itemAdvanced item Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used byTemplateStyles was updated. For example:width: fit-content;ruby-align; relative units such aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are aCommunity Wishlist wish.[381][382][383][384][385][386][387][388][389][390]
  • On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.[391]
  • Administrators can now access theSpecial:BlockedExternalDomains page from theSpecial:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.[392]
  • Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.[393][394]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary inBetawi (wikt:bew:)[395]
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Unprotection request

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Hi, you Template protectedHelp:Starting editing and I wanted to ask if it could be unprotected so it can be blanked and redirected to the updated and maintained tutorial, atHelp:Introduction. The page was last updated 15 years ago, doesn't use the wikipedia design, has oudated links and information, recommends first steps that are not recommended anymore (it recommentds "Joining a WikiProject" as the 2nd thing to do), has a broken link to a video, etc.

You protected it as "this is basically a template, allow TE's" (from full to TP), but it has 0 transcusions and about a dozen incoming links on the Wikipedia namespace.FaviFake (talk)13:21, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@FaviFake I don't think that is the best solution, that page has over 50000 incoming links. That certainly doesn't mean it can't be changed or redirected, but protection is likely still warranted. Open an edit request with your proposed change and a patrolling template editor or administrator should get to it. Best regards, —xaosfluxTalk16:15, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I've started by making an ERhere to change the link in the unrelated template that is causing 99% of incoming links (links from user namespace,links from all) .FaviFake (talk)18:16, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Function to link to certain homologues in Wikidata

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Hello Xaosflux!

In creating a template I stumbled upon a situation where it would be beneficial to link to the English/Italian/etc homologue of an article where the template is put. Is there any way to achieve this? Something like {{EN-PAGENAME}} (pseudo-code to explain what I mean). -Klein Muçi (talk)08:34, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what the best approach to this is, suggest you follow up at:d:Wikidata:Report a technical problem. —xaosfluxTalk16:17, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just did, thanks! -Klein Muçi (talk)21:53, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms inT402601, or to share their list withTrizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.

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  • TheCampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:Event Registration,Collaboration List, andInvitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.[397]
  • The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.[398]
  • On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of ourgroup by toggle experiment of theSpecial:RecentChanges,Special:Watchlist, andSpecial:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.[399][400]
  • Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles.Learn more.
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  • Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here isa newsletter to learn more.
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  • The Editing team is working on a new check:Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, pleasetell us in this task, orcontact the team.

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  • Advanced item Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting"beta feature will be able to use alinting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See thehelp page for more information.[401]
  • Advanced item When browsing a wiki (likeen.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out.Learn more.[402]
  • When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.[403]
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  • Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.[406]
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  • References lists that are made using the<references/>tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width.[407]
  • Starting in the week of October 6, onsmall wikis andmedium wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to useEvent Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made forlarge wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right.Learn more.
  • Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
    • for theintitle: keyword:metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors[408]
    • for bothintitle: andinsource: keywords: shorthandcharacter classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); andescape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g.\uHHHH).[409]
  • When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.[410]
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You canread more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
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  • The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited tojoin an upcoming discovery interview, orleave feedback onwiki.Learn more.
  • Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.Learn more.[412]
  • The newUnicode 17.0 version has been released. Thedatasets on Commons for theModule:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
  • Users of theWikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now accessParsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of theStructured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through theOn-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
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I need help!

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If you have an available moment, would you please look at my proposed color code edit changes for theBaltimore Ravens &Arizona Cardinals over atModule:Gridiron color/data? Also, what sort of helpful edit changes do I need to make in order to be re-granted the template editor right again? I'm desperate to prove that I've changed and that I can be trusted with the template editor right again. Please help me?CharlesEditor23 (talk)01:43, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It appears you already have an edit request open, someone will get to it. The backlog is here:User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable, though you should already know how that works. YourWP:PERM request was recently declined. Perhaps a year of good requests, then try again. —xaosfluxTalk02:26, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A year from today? Really? That's how long I need to wait? Can't I expedite the time frame? I feel like I've met all of the requirements to be re-granted theWP:TPE right again. What can I do to expedite the time frame to be re-granted the right?CharlesEditor23 (talk)03:50, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That was just a suggestion. You could bypassWP:PERM by usingWP:RFA instead if you think the community will support you. —xaosfluxTalk09:26, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Well, thank you for at least being the only other editor I've reached out to to take the time to respond. I left a talk page message on ,Gonzo_fan2007's talk page, but he hasn't responded back to me yet. I'm worried that he's intentionally ignoring me. Also, no one else has responded to my talk page messages over atModule talk:Gridiron color. What gives?CharlesEditor23 (talk)20:34, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As you should be able to see on the chart I linked above, there are about 2 weeks of backlog older than that one. —xaosfluxTalk22:42, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request data transfer

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I would like to receive a copy of the last revisions ofUser:Renamed user e2bceb05e0c43dd19cc50e3291d6fac5's common.js and common.css and sandbox subpages to this account.

Returning Wikipedian, Formerly Qwerty284651, now8rz (talk)00:33, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As far as the scripts go:
  • User:8rz/common.js the old version has been restored to the history of this page, you can retrieve from there
  • User:8rz/common.css has been created, but the code has been commented off, uncomment if you wish
For content pages, please follow up atWikipedia:Requests for undeletion. —xaosfluxTalk01:38, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Correction: I meant my userpage, not the sandbox.
Side note: can't findrestore button in history.8rz (talk)01:44, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Same for that page. To restore an old version, go to history, pick the version you want, go to edit, publish it. —xaosfluxTalk02:12, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Was therestore button sacked from Wiki, or is it inaccessible to brand new accounts until a certain age account/edit count is reached?8rz (talk)02:19, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The mediawiki interface doesn't have a "restore" button for prior revisions. Perhaps you had a script or gadget that added it for you. —xaosfluxTalk02:37, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't there something in the preference menu...now that I think about, it might be a twinkle options thingy..8rz (talk)02:41, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Does vector legacy 2010 skin support twinkle?8rz (talk)03:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduleddatacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the"Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You canread more about the process on the Diff blog.

Updates for editors

  • Editors of60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to callfunctions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
  • A newparser function has been added:{{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of thecontent model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such asMediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page.[413]
  • Adding or editing aDISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the{{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented inthis ticket.
  • Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesignedActivity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
  • Recurrent item View all 12 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

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  • Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involvinggeo-coordinates,quantities andtime values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works inthis video and Wikifunctions'August 1 newsletter (for quantities) andAugust 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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  • A major software upgrade has been made toPhabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.[414]

Updates for editors

  • The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about thisin the latest update or you can consult thecurrent documentation on MediaWiki.
  • As announcedon Diff blog, the production trial of thehCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existingCAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
  • TheCampaignEvents extension has beendeployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have theevent organizer right.
  • Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You cantest the feature on testwiki oron betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts onusing templates in sub-references orvolunteer to become a pilot wiki.
  • On wikis using theMentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship throughSpecial:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship.[415]
  • The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model areinvited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
  • The rollout ofmultiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix,messages prefixed withsp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced withthose prefixed withblocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
  • There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as[ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.[416]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote inMalay (q:ms:)[417]
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, theUser Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.[418]

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  • Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use themw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases theexpensive function count once.
  • A newUnsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to theProduct & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
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Looking into vanished user subpages

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I was wondering if I could get a list of the /subpages on myold vanished account. I am having some trouble with the Minerva skin when in mobile view and wonder if I have a custom skin setting on a subpage somewhere that might resolve my issue.8rz (talk)17:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PrefixIndex doesn't work with deleted pages. You could try going though logs. —xaosfluxTalk19:09, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have access to deletion so that won't help. Found thedeletion ticket, which you handled. Well, you were the one that performed the subpages deletion and the vanishing. I was only able to find 2 pages off of memory: [[419]] and [[420]]. Could you copy paste the last revisions of those 2 pages into namesake subpages on my new account?8rz (talk)20:00, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Special:Logs the page creation and page deletion logs are public. You can ask for restorations atWP:REFUND. —xaosfluxTalk22:02, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October,22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.

Updates for editors

  • Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (likeen.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available.Learn more.[421]
  • Newdate filters,creationdate: andlasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.>2024) and relative dates (e.g.today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.[422]
  • Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created aLatin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see anexample output. If you need any help or have any feedback, pleasecontact the Wikifunctions Team.[423]
  • An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.[424]
  • Recurrent item View all 34 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.[425]

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  • The fieldrev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor ofcontent_sha1 in the content database table. Seethe announcement for more information.
  • TheReader Experience team will roll outDark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged tolearn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support onthis talk page before the enablement.[426]
  • Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under therest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to theService Ops team board.[427]
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2025).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Arbitration

  • Aftera motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections atWP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g.[[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
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Manually duplicating automatic categories

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Hello Xaos!

Sometimes users will manually add up categories in pages which are automatically handled by templates, thus duplicating their functionality. Is there a way to query all pages, independent of the category, that may be suffering from this effect? -Klein Muçi (talk)09:07, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I'm aware of, but it should be transparent to readers and maintainers, as putting the same page in a category twice doesn't list it in the category twice. —xaosfluxTalk23:58, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see. I believe I'll make a tech-wish about this then. Thank you! -Klein Muçi (talk)07:10, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just for reference, I just did that atm:Community Wishlist/W444. -Klein Muçi (talk)07:32, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements forSpecial:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of theAccount Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.

Updates for editors

  • Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access atSpecial:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.[428]
  • This week, users at wikis where talk pageUsability Improvements are already available by default (everywhereexcept the 12 wikis listed inT379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You canlearn more about this change.[429]
  • Users who have notverified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.[430][431]
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.[432]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosenVideo2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.Learn more on Meta.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery18:56, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 20th Wikibirthday!

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Calendar emojiHappy First Edit Day!
Hi Xaosflux! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you madeyour first edit and became a Wikipedian!CREditzWiki (Talk to me!!)00:23, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]		Party popper emoji

CREditzWiki (Talk to me!!)00:23, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Hey,Xaosflux. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of theWikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)03:39, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

🎉 Xaosflux's first edit anniversary!

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HeyXaosflux, Your first edit anniversary on this wikimedia project was 1 day ago. Thank you for your valuable contributions and wishing you many more years of amazing contributions to the Wikimedia community :) -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee❚❙❚❙❙✉22:30, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2025-43

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.[433]
  • Recurrent item View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.[434]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under therest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to theService Ops team board.
  • Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.[435]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery19:33, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.
Who was bumped and why?
...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.
Don't get too excited before you read this.
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Notice of new RfC on aligning community CTOPs with ArbCom CTOPs

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Hi Xaosflux: You previously participated inthis April 2024 RfC on community contentious topics and their relationship with ArbCom's contentious topics. There is now anew RfC on this topic that you may be interested in. Best,KevinL (akaL235·t·c)20:03, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oversight thisdiff

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Oversight it per theruling on it.182.185.42.137 (talk)05:54, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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