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Tech News: 2021-35

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

Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can checkCategory:Pages with score rendering errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems

Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.[1]

Changes later this week

The parameters for how you obtaintokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You canread more about this.
Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not editCommons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.[2]

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15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

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

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor •Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile →Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Feedback is requested on theUniversal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by theUniversal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
ARfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection onhigh-risk templates.
Adiscussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
ARfC on the next steps after the trial ofpending changes onTFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on themediawiki page.

Arbitration

A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures ofthe Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

The2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

Sent byMediaWiki message delivery (talk)20:44, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 36, 2021)

Thepast is the set of allevents that occurred before a given point in time. Pictured is the oil on canvas painting Everything is in the past, painted byVassily Maximov in 1889.

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

Past

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:Mona Sahlin •Grocery store

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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Tech News: 2021-36

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 wikis that haveGrowth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.[3]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break.[4][5]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. Theimpact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment.Learn more.

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15:18, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 37, 2021)

Thehistory of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form foraesthetic purposes. Pictured ia adun horse from theLascaux cave paintings.

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

History of art

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:Past •Mona Sahlin

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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Tech News: 2021-37

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

45 new Wikipedias now have access to theGrowth features.[6]
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth teamhas published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at14:00 UTC.[7]

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.[8]
You can add language links in the sidebar inthe new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.[9]
Thesyntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally,golang can now be used as an alias for theGo programming language, and a specialoutput mode has been added to show a program's output.[10][11]

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15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

Hello Class455,

Please jointhis discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights includingAutopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves atAfC andNPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detectionhere.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are describedhere.

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourselfhere. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 38, 2021)

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Student exchange program Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:History of art •Past Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBot^talk00:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions

Tech News: 2021-38

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

Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias.For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, totest the features andconfigure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed.[12]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please pingJon (WMF) on wiki or inphabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers.[13]

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
Themeta=proofreadpage API has changed. Thepiprop parameter has been renamed toprpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0.[14]

Future changes

TheReply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" inBeta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off inEditing Preferences.[15]
Thepreviously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can followT291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2021

News and notes:New CEO, new board members, China bans
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In the media:The future of Wikipedia
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Opinion:Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned
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Op-Ed:I've been desysopped
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Disinformation report:Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
Did German Wikipedia love parliaments a little too much? Plus fake-bacon and a ponzi scheme.

Discussion report:Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
Emotional injury and rising standards against a backdrop of a dwindling sysop cadre: the 2021 Requests for adminship review grapples with tough issues.

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 39, 2021)

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

No such thing as a stupid question

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:Student exchange program •History of art

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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Tech News: 2021-39

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

iOS 15 has a new function calledPrivate Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they useSafari browser. This is like using aVPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra foriCloud. It will come to Safari users onOSX later. There is atechnical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to theportlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class.vector-menu-dropdown-noicon.[16]

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
TheGettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developedGrowth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October.[17]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an oldroot certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You canread more.
You canreceive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can findmore information in T282029.

Future changes

TheReply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" inBeta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off inEditing Preferences.See the list of wikis.[18]

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

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

Administrator changes

Blablubbs

Alvestrand •Black Falcon •Deathphoenix •Dppowell •Mark Arsten •JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Mkdw

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

Followingan RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certainhigh-risk templates.
Followinga discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

DiscussionTools has supersededEnterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox underPreferences →Beta features.

Arbitration

Amotion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed inthe Arbitration Committee's procedures.
Following the closure of theIranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctionsare authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
The Arbitration Committeeencourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

Editorshave approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited toadd themselves to the mentor list.
Thecommunity consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 40, 2021)

Ageographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study isgeography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. Pictured isThe Geographer (1668-69), byJohannes Vermeer.

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

Geographer

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:No such thing as a stupid question •Student exchange program

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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Tech News: 2021-40

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

A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you canlet the developers know.

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. Thehidden property will no longer say an entry isimplicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the valuefalse for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.[19]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled forall production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you canlet the developers know.

Future changes

You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in theiOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions.[20]
The JavaScript variableswgExtraSignatureNamespaces,wgLegalTitleChars, andwgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed frommw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.[21]
The JavaScript variableswgCookiePrefix,wgCookieDomain,wgCookiePath, andwgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead usemw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module.[22]

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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 41, 2021)

Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. Pictured is Cambodian sweet fish sauce mixed with chopped chili peppers and slices of garlic.

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

Fish sauce

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:Geographer •No such thing as a stupid question

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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Tech News: 2021-41

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 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

The"auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can readphab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change waspreviously announced.A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings

You can join a meeting about theDesktop Improvements. A demonstration version of thenewest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC.See how to join.

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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 42, 2021)

TheBig Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, forpersonality traits.

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

Personality

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:Fish sauce •Geographer

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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Tech News: 2021-42

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

Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You canread more.

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

The developers of theWikipedia Android app are working oncommunication in the app. You can now answer questions insurvey to help the development.
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to aproxy or aVPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is adiscussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a newAPI for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You canread more. You can also ask the team questionson Zoom on22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 43, 2021)

ThePortland Building (1982) in Portland, Oregon by architectMichael Graves is an example ofPostmodern architecture.

Hello, Class455. Thearticle for improvement of the week is:

Postmodernism

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections:Personality •Fish sauce

Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations

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November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol \|November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, aone-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part?Sign up here.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourselfhere. (t ·c)buidhe01:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-43

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

TheCoolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience.The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax.[23]
The version of theLiberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change.[24]

Meetings

You can join a meeting about theCommunity Wishlist Survey. News about thedisambiguation and thereal-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC.See how to join.

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20:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021

From the editor:Different stories, same place
What Wikipedians can and cannot do.

News and notes:The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
And will the last person to leave the C-Suite please turn off the lights?

In the media:China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?
Beam me up, Scotty – Matt Amodio for sure, and maybe just a few VIPs, billionaires, and Tucker Carlson.

Opinion:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life
Section 230 in practice – this Black life should matter to us.

Discussion report:Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
Proposals to solve eight core problems – what many describe as a broken process – identified in the 2021 RfA review.

Recent research:Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
And other new research results

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 44, 2021)

Isabel Adrian is a Swedish television personality, producer, author and model. Pictured is Adrian in 2013.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

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

Administrator changes

Clpo13

Brian0918 •JDoorjam •Karanacs •MrDarcy •Mindspillage

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Dreamy Jazz •Ferret •GeneralNotability •Girth Summit •RoySmith

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz •LuK3

Guideline and policy news

Phase 2 of the 2021RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issuesfound in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is athttps://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

GeneralNotability,Mz7 andCyberpower678 have been appointed to theElectoral Commission for the2021 Arbitration Committee Elections.Ivanvector andJohn M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to standin the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

The2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Recent changes

There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse.[25]

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 45, 2021)

Hang gliding is an example of anair sport.

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Air sports

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Recent changes

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.[26][27]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.[28]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not theirIP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read thesuggestions for how that identity could work anddiscuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 46, 2021)

Dettifoss, located in northeastIceland, is the largestwaterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m³/s.

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Geography of Iceland

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Recent changes

Mostlarge file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. Anincident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation.[29]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.[30]

Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 47, 2021)

Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is theBirmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM.

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 48, 2021)

ProposedLazarev Sea name(at top-middle of image) as part of theSouthern Ocean

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Lazarev Sea

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In the media:Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
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WikiCup report:The WikiCup 2021
15th annual event closes with hundreds of articles improved

Deletion report:What we lost, what we gained
1,767 nominations in November... AN/Is... DRVs... The largest AfD in history, possibly ever!

From a Wikipedia reader:What's Matt Amodio?
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Arbitration report:ArbCom in 2021
We should have at least one of these every year!

Discussion report:On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
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Serendipity:"Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
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News from Diff:Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
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Changes later this week

Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

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Administrator changes

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The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

Voting in the2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
The already authorized standarddiscretionary sanctions for all pages relating to theHorn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed,have been made permanent.

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 49, 2021)

Bushtits eatingsuet, which is usable as abird food, from a bird feeder

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Problems

MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 50, 2021)

People experiencing anadventure (close-up view)

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Adventure

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There are now defaultshort aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,[[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested viathe usual process.[33]

Changes later this week

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This week'sarticle for improvement (week 51, 2021)

Goat meat being roasted as part of anasado

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Goat meat

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Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.[34]

Changes later this week

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Future changes

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The WikimediaCloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need toclaim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.[35]

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