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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [1]
Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [2]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [3]
Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [4]
Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).
Events
Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.
Kaungkinlay, welcome again, for you to get an email confirmation, your account must be connected to a valid functional email address, you can check your Preferences here to see what email is connected to your account and you can change it if it wasn't the one you are currently using. User:Em-mustaphatalk20:09, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, a reviewer will review it shortly. It's just because we are having a backlog at the AFC but we will come to it. Are you the original creator of this draft? User:Em-mustaphatalk15:53, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nafiu Bala Rabiu article
Hello sir, I saw your nomination for deletion on an article Nafiu Bala Rabiu that I created. Thank you very much for your contribution even though you said delete. Please can you help guide me on how to improve the article to avoid deletion? Also, how can I be a member of the Hausa wikipedian? I am also from the North, Taraba State. I speak and write in hausa too. Moshswacide (talk) 12:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Moshswacide, thanks for reaching out and I'm glad to see you here. I wasn't the nominator of the article but I supported it be deleted because the article subject is not notable and does not satisfies Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines, this is the basic criteria we follow to identify notable topics that are worthy of inclusion on Wikipedia. You can always use it whenever you want to start a new article. And regarding the Hausa Wikipedia, it's a free project as this one, you can take a look here Babban shafi and start contributing rightaway. You can also join us at Hausa Wikimedians User Group. User:Em-mustaphatalk17:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Recent changes
When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).
Events
Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.
Hi
I'm trying to draft my first Wikipedia page. Some blocks of my text are green hatched out in the Visual Editing mode. The error is "Sorry, this element can only be edited in source mode."
Can you tell me how to remove this please?
I have had a look around Google & Wiki help pages but not found the solution.
Regards & thanks
Hi WozzaHoad, welcome to Wikipedia. I just placed a welcome message on your talk which may help you understand more about the project, please get time to go through them. And regarding your question, yes you should change the editor to Source edit or read This page to know more about the editors and how you can switch from one to another. User:Em-mustaphatalk01:27, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [10]
Events
You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
Hi, Thanks for reaching out. I have read your question and I think the following will be helpful for you to read: As Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REQ>, or if you wish to write your own, you can visit the Article Wizard at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIZ>. If you already have content written that you would like to submit for a review you may want to try Articles for Creation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AFC> where you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Wikipedia's styles, policies, and guidelines for inclusion. Please note that although Wikipedia has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTDIR>. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability> (for the general guidelines), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CORP> (for organizations), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WEB> (for websites), or <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MUSIC> (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.). You should also be aware that the Wikipedia community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI>, and about autobiography rules here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AUTO>. Thank you again for contacting us with your question, and feel free to contact me if you have any additional concerns that you believe I may be able to answer. Good luck!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [11]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).
Future changes
A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.
Hi, Thanks for reaching out. I have read your question and I think the following will be helpful for you to read: As Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REQ>, or if you wish to write your own, you can visit the Article Wizard at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIZ>. If you already have content written that you would like to submit for a review you may want to try Articles for Creation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AFC> where you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Wikipedia's styles, policies, and guidelines for inclusion. Please note that although Wikipedia has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTDIR>. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability> (for the general guidelines), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CORP> (for organizations), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WEB> (for websites), or <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MUSIC> (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.). You should also be aware that the Wikipedia community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI>, and about autobiography rules here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AUTO>. Thank you again for contacting us with your question, and feel free to contact me if you have any additional concerns that you believe I may be able to answer. Good luck! User:Em-mustaphatalk04:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [12]
Problems
A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).
درود بر Em-mustapha، به ویکیپدیا خوشامدید! ما همواره مشارکت مفید کاربران را تحسین میکنیم اما مشارکتهای شما به زبان انگلیسی نیست. به نظر میرسد شما به زبان فارسی آشنایی دارید، آیا ویکیپدیای فارسی را دیدهاید؟ شاید ترجیح دهید آنجا فعالیت کنید. در هر حال به ویکیپدیا خوشآمدید، از تلاشهایتان متشکریم!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [13]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [14]
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [16]
You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [17]
There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).
Future changes
The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [18][19]
Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [20]
I swear to god i want a username, We appreciate your kind words and thrilled that you come to Wikipedia. We hope to continue to live up to your expectations and that you continue to find the site a useful resource.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [22][23]
The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.
Problems
The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [24]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).
Future changes
Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.
@Gaiacono I noticed your question to your mentor has not yet been answered for a couple of days, so I thought I'd drop by and help you out. Right now, User:Gaiacono/sandbox would be rejected as you have not included any references to help a reviewer assess whether this person meets our Notability criteria - especially this one on artists or this one on academics.
If you either are, or know, Francine Harris, then you need to declare your WP:COI. If they gave you the image to uplpoad and are remunerating you to create this article, you are obliged to declare that on your userpage under WP:PAID.
Oh dear - in trying to helpfully answer your question, I have just spotted that you simply pasted in copyrighted content from this page. Doing this is a very serious breach of our rules (see WP:COPYVIO, and I will now have to spend time deleting it from Wikipedia. In future, you must always write in your own words. Or, if these are your words and that that is your website, then you must ensure that website contains an appropriate Creative Commons licence allowing commercial re-use. It does not at this time, so must be removed. Hope this helps, and I'm sorry your first outing on Wikipedia has not gone as smoothly as you'd hoped. Nick Moyes (talk) 12:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Problems
There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [25]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
Hi,
I really appreciate your attention to this article. I'm really at lost that the sources and citations provided where not considered by you to be *Reliable sources". The citations provided were in accordance with what the Reliable source page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
If M.G. Smith, H.A.S. Johnston, and J. N. Paden are not reliable sources when it comes 19th-20th century history of Northern Nigeria I can't see any other sources that are more reliable. You may be weary of the Hausa sources provided because may be you can't have means to verify them but still Wikipedia said they accept sources in other Language.That said, I would like you guide me as to the sources that are not reliable so that I can try my best to effect correction. Only then I would know that according to your perspective my sources are not reliable, hence I would gladly delete my draft knowing well that my article is not good enough to feature on the Wikipedia mainspace.
Thanks. Baaballiyo (talk) 22:03, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Baaballiyo, I'm not saying the sources you provided aren't reliable but they are inadequate to verify many contents from the article. So to keep Wikipedia safe from promotion and to make sure articles are written in a neutral point of view, that's why I declined your submission requiring more reliable sources as a prior search on Google of the article subject return no or very less coverage. Thank you for following up. User:Em-mustaphatalk11:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Recent changes
In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [26][27]
Problems
There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [28]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [30]
On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [31]
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.
Hi Athadus, Thanks for reaching out. I have read your question and I think the following will be helpful for you to read: As Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REQ>, or if you wish to write your own, you can visit the Article Wizard at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIZ>. If you already have content written that you would like to submit for a review you may want to try Articles for Creation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AFC> where you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Wikipedia's styles, policies, and guidelines for inclusion. Please note that although Wikipedia has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTDIR>. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability> (for the general guidelines), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CORP> (for organizations), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WEB> (for websites), or <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MUSIC> (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.). You should also be aware that the Wikipedia community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI>, and about autobiography rules here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AUTO>. Thank you again for contacting us with your question, and feel free to contact me if you have any additional concerns that you believe I may be able to answer. User:Em-mustaphatalk14:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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New code release schedule for this week
There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.
The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [34]
Future changes
Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [35]
Hello, I see on your user page that you use JSTOR and I'd like to know more about your experience. By my calculations, a good 70 % of the main JSTOR content is now available for everyone at Internet Archive Scholar, with full text search provided e.g. at https://scholar.archive.org/ . The service is still in beta, but I've used it for some source-finding and it seems quite usable to me; I wonder whether that's just my experience. If you have a chance, the next time you'd be looking for a source on Google Scholar or JSTOR or similar, to perform the same search on IA scholar instead, I'd be curious to hear how it ends up. Thanks, Nemo19:06, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Commonedits, thank you for your interest in getting an article published on Wikipedia.
I would like to let you know that after you submit your draft articles for review by other editors as a part of the "Articles for Creation" project (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AFC>). The members of this project are experienced editors, though there is much greater demand for their services than there is supply, so you may need to wait a while before your draft is reviewed.
Once you submit your draft, it will be placed into a category where it will be open for review by anyone who reviews submissions. If your submission is approved (which may take more than a month because of the current backlog) then an editor will accept it and you will be notified of the article's creation. If your submission is not accepted, a note will be left on the page describing what can be improved, and you will be notified of this via a message on your "Talk" page.
Note that if you are interested in the publication of an article to which you are very close (e.g., an article about a member of your family, your business, your club/organization/ school, or yourself) you probably have a conflict of interest: if so, it will be absolutely critical that you disclose this when you create the article. Please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest> for information about doing so properly. If you do not do this, your user account may become permanently blocked and the article may be deleted.
Em-mustapha Thank you so much Sir for your detailed information!!! ❤️😍💝 I am basically an Indian television addict who creates and edits pages of actors, actresses, shows associated with Indian tv shows. Honestly, I would love to work in the industry but right now I am just a "commoner" or rather a "fan" who watches tv shows and writes subjects related to them. Good luck to you too Sir!!! My friend said you are one of the most kindest individuals in Wikipedia.😊😊Commonedits (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Haha no problem. I also wanted to ask you, can you teach me how to design userboxes. I requested an idea at Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Ideas but received no response, and there are other people waiting too, so if I can learn how to design one, I can help them too. Can you teach me please? Emir Shane (talk) 18:09, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I see you have reverted my message towards the user Sergecross73. I get that my edit towards the Walking with Dinosaurs article was really unnecessary and not very useful (in fact it was unsourced but originated from a particular dub of the show), but I don't understand how bad my question was in regards to asking about account creation was? I have been meaning to have sent that for a while and I completely understand if you thought it was in reaction to that poor edit, but I can assure you that there was no relation towards that poor edit aside from the timing.
I had just reminded myself about what my question, and for some reason it kind of just sparked out of nowhere. And no, it wasn't out of retaliation or anything, it's a lot more simpler than it sounds or how I'm describing it.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [36][37]
You’re so rude. You just revert edits with no explanation. I literally just made something consistent with all other suburbs in the Ku-ring-Gai region and here you are trying to make out Pymble isn’t in that region but whatever…. 58.110.245.204 (talk) 13:35, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please see WP:PROD, in particular the portion in the lead section I actually quoted directly in my "unexplained AFD template removal", and WP:DEPROD. The difference between AfD and PROD is key here. Might you revert your edit, please? Thanks. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 12:50, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [38]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [39]
Hi Malcom Yakka, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your interest in uploading files with descriptions on Wikipedia. You should first keep in mind that images and media must be licensed under a free content license of some kind. Acceptable licenses are discussed at <Commons Licensing >; images and media without source information or clear license status will be deleted.
To upload a picture:
1. Login (or create a username if you don't have one) 2. Click on "upload file" in the sidebar (Upload Wizard ) 3. Select the file from your computer that you want to upload 4. Select the appropriate license for the file 5. Enter a descriptive name for the image
To add the picture to a page:
1. Edit the page you want the image to appear on, and include in the place you want the image to appear:
File:(Filename you chose in step 4).(extension of file, case sensitive)
Caption text
2. Save the page with an edit summary that describes what you did (e.g. "added image")
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [40][41]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [42]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.
Hi! I don't know how to add a lead to the page I created, and everywhere I look is showing me how to add "lead missing" to a page. How can I add a lead to the page I made so that it can be published? --Priypjs (talk) 22:39, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Priypjs, welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for reaching out on this! First of all, the lead section of a Wikipedia article is the section that serves as an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents. It's usually in the first paragraph, you just need to click on the edit button and briefly summarise the whole page, that's the Lead. You can find more information about it here LEAD SECTION. I hope this helps. User:Em-mustaphatalk23:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As you may already know, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers. The subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. While there is a venue where you can request articles, a request for an article creation on oneself is likely to be declined. You can visit our 'requests for articles' page at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles>.
It's also important to realise that Wikipedia strongly discourages articles written by the subjects themselves or by others close to a subject because of the difficulty in writing objectively about yourself, your family, or your work. Please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography> for our guidelines on writing about yourself or topics you are personally involved with. While keeping in mind conflict of interest issues, please note that if someone does create an article about you, you should feel more than welcome to edit the article to ensure that each piece of information is factual and complying with our "Biography of Living Persons" policy. This policy can be viewed at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons>.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [47][48]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [49]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [50][51]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).
Future changes
The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.
It has come to the notice of the Central Bank of Nigeria that you created a wikipedia page for eNaira (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENaira) and we would like to have your email address or phone number so we can reach out appropriately. Thank you 11:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)11:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Central Bank of Nigeria (talk • contribs)
Yes, I did create it but I can't give out my contact because I don't own the page or can do anything about it here. All the information provided on the page are secondary no original research etc, you can go through the sources at the reference section to verify for yourself. And still reminding you to change your username as it's a misleading name which goes contrary to Wikipedia's username policy. User:Em-mustaphatalk15:00, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [56]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [57]
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).
Future meetings
The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.
Hi Mohammed, welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for asking me about this. As you may already know, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers. The subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. While there is a venue where you can request articles, a request for an article creation on oneself is likely to be declined. You can visit our 'requests for articles' page at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles>.
It's also important to realise that Wikipedia strongly discourages articles written by the subjects themselves or by others close to a subject because of the difficulty in writing objectively about yourself, your family, or your work. Please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography> for our guidelines on writing about yourself or topics you are personally involved with. While keeping in mind conflict of interest issues, please note that if someone does create an article about you, you should feel more than welcome to edit the article to ensure that each piece of information is factual and complying with our "Biography of Living Persons" policy. This policy can be viewed at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons>.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).
Future changes
You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [60]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [61]
The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [63]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [64]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Future changes
Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [65]
Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
Overall winner
1st - $500
2nd - $200
3rd - $100
Diversity winner - $100
Gender-gap fillers - $100
Language Winners - up to $100*
We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)
Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list
Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
Overall winner
1st - $500
2nd - $200
3rd - $100
Diversity winner - $100
Gender-gap fillers - $100
Language Winners - up to $100*
We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)
Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list
Vandalism and deletion of extended revisions on the Morchella dunalii page without any justification whatsoever.
Excuse me, but why have you deleted all the extended additions and revisions to the Morchella dunalii page?
I have been working on this page for over two days now to bring it up to a good standard which you have all deleted without any reason whatsoever. Why? Are you an idiot?
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [66]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [67][68]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [69]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [70]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [74]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [75]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [76][77]
Future meetings
The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.
Future changes
By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.